The Healthtech Podcast

Thomas Vande Casteele, CEO and co-founder at Awell Health, discusses optimizing patient journeys and care pathways in healthcare. He shares his transition from architecture to entrepreneurship and the challenges of implementing value-based healthcare. Awell Health's platform automates processes, offers Covid-19 pathways, and provides a fresh perspective in the industry.

Erin McEachren is Regional Vice President for Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, EMEA, leading the team to address the unmet needs of patients and eye care professionals around the world. Erin was previously a top level skier and after suffering injury, has a deep connection to medical devices, in which, she now excels. She is an exceptional leader with a  track record and breadth of experience in commercial leadership, franchise development and sales execution across Medical Devices and in growth areas, such as robotics. Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦 https://somx.substack.com/p/-006-telehealth-cyberattacks-and Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week, James is joined again by Graeme from emteq labs who told us his story a few weeks ago. emteq labs have just released a whitepaper: "Measuring what Matters in Immersive Environments," which explains how the technology behind emteq labs’ VR headset builds on over 40 years of research into the relationship between facial expression and emotions to unveil a new paradigm in understanding of mental health and behavioural science. Download the emteq labs whitepaper: https://www.emteqlabs-whitepapers.com/ Check out this week's Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: https://somx.substack.com/p/-009-nhs-pilots-lung-cancer-ai Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Alex is Head of Corporate Finance at OSI and a former physician. Alex was a medical student and junior doctor in the Oxford training deanery before transitioning to investment banking. He has over 12 years’ experience in the healthcare and other investment banking sectors, including equity and debt capital raisings, mergers and acquisitions as well as licensing transactions gained at UBS and Lazard. Alex holds a BA in Physiological Sciences and a BM BCh from Oxford University. Oxford Sciences Innovation is the world’s largest university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦 https://somx.substack.com/p/-006-telehealth-cyberattacks-and Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

For this week's Sunday Session, we have a clip of James on the Virti Human Performance Podcast talking about what he and the team at somX do to build brand for healthtech companies, get their messaging on-point and how they think about content generation to specific audiences in healthcare. Whether you're building your personal brand or your healthtech company's brand, this one is worth a listen! Listen to the full episode on the Virti Human Performance Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-human-performance-podcast/id1498467993?i=1000493127643 Join the waiting list for somX: www.somx.co.uk Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com

Neelam is MedCity’s CEO, responsible for leading the team and operations, driving the strategy and relationships with key stakeholders and funders. She is also the lead for clinical trials, supporting companies seeking clinical and research expertise and collaborations. Neelam has extensive experience in Pharma, R&D, NIHR service improvement & strategy. MedCity is the cluster organisation for the world-leading health and life sciences sector in London and the Greater South East of England. We were set up in 2014 by the Mayor of London and the region’s Academic Health Science Centres to drive growth and investment in the sector for the health and wealth of the population. They act as a convener, connector and catalyst – identifying opportunities and pathways for businesses and researchers to work together to develop and commercialise the best innovations. MedCity is a not-for-profit organisation funded by the Greater London Authority and Research England. Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦 https://somx.substack.com/publish?utm_source=menu Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

In this week's Sunday Session, James gives you a couple of tips for getting a job in healthtech, outlines a few jobs available at some of the best healthtech organisations and ends with some bonus content from last week's discussion with Lissy Hu, who gives us her top tip for healthtech entrepreneurs. Read this week's Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: https://somx.substack.com/p/-007-death-tech-and-awell-health Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Lissy Hu is the founder and CEO of Careport and came up with the concept while she was getting her MD and MBA at Harvard. She entered and won a Harvard business plan competition in 2012. That same year, she got additional funding, $3.8 million, through the Techstars Boston accelerator program, allowing her to launch CarePort in 2013. The company built out its software, which patients use to find a post-acute provider and hospitals use to track patient outcomes. In 2016, national healthcare IT company Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) acquired CarePort. CarePort’s software is now available both as a standalone product and integrated into Allscript’s platform, which is used by 1,000 hospitals and 20,000 post-acute care facilities. Lissy runs both the CarePort business unit and the larger Allscripts care coordination unit, which were rolled under the CarePort name this year. Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦 https://somx.substack.com/p/-006-telehealth-cyberattacks-and Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

On this week's Sunday session, James drops a clip from the Scrubbed In podcast. He was on that podcast last week discussing personal branding, healthtech and giving his advice to young medics and entrepreneurs. You can catch the full episode at the link below! Scrubbed In with Dr James Somauroo: https://open.spotify.com/episode/24l3QO7zZj6g8pHNnvQcG3?si=7q7fppxbQZSF9xr0AjXIag Read the latest Healthtech Pigeon newsletter 🐦 https://somx.substack.com/p/-006-telehealth-cyberattacks-and Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week, James is joined by Dr Fiona Pathiraja, a consultant radiologist by background and now Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, a brand-new healthtech-specific VC fund investing pan-Europe into companies building the future. James and Fiona discuss her background through clinical medicine, management consulting, and MBA and now founding her own fund. They also discuss the vision for Crista Galli Ventures and Fiona's passion for diversity in both the healthtech and investing spaces. To learn more about Crista Galli Ventures and Dr Fiona Pathiraja: https://www.cristagalli.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionapathiraja/ Subscribe to James' Healthtech Pigeon newsletter 🐦: https://somx.substack.com/p/-005-nhsx-awards-50m-and-theres-a Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk