The Healthtech Podcast

Dilraj is a Doctor, Academic and Entrepreneur. He trained at the University of Oxford, where he continues to publish with colleagues about Patient Empowerment. He is a Lecturer in Digital Health at the University of Warwick and uses Lifestyle Medicine to help patients reverse disease in his online clinic - Hippocrates Lounge. Shocked that 80% of health outcomes are due to health behaviours, socioeconomic background and physical environment, Dilraj is focused on Health at Work. Time and again, he has found that wellbeing programs lack the outcome metrics expected in the medical and business worlds. Using lifestyle, behavioural and digital health, he is ushering in a new era of Preventative Health Care. Get in touch with Dilraj: https://www.hippocrateslounge.com/dilraj Read the latest Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/ Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: https://www.jamessomauroo.com | https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week, James is joined by Nader Alaghband, the founder and CEO of Ampersand Health, which creates clinically-validated, behavioural science-based digital therapeutics for complex long term conditions, including IMIDs and rare diseases. Ampersand Health is a social purpose company. Their primary objective is to improve the health and quality of life of patients with inflammatory conditions like Crohn's, Colitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Atopic Dermatitis. They work with other subject matter experts, including leading clinicians, patient groups and industry to develop unique therapeutic programmes focused on lifestyle and their apps use behavioural- and data-science to support improvements in sleep, mental health and adherence for people living with an inflammatory condition. They also work with the NHS, helping clinicians keep tabs on patients remotely, avoiding unnecessary hospital appointments and reducing the overall cost of care. Ampersand Health is recognised in the Digital Health Global 100, and has won an HSJ Award, the NHS Ideas Lab, the NHS Hackfest and competitive grants from government and industry. The company was selected for the 2018/19 PWC Scale Health programme, the NHS’s 2019/20 DigitalHealth.London accelerator and Techforce 19. https://www.ampersandhealth.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nader0102/ Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: www.jamessomauroo.com

For this week's Sunday Session, James discusses the state of AI in the UK healthcare, naming a few examples of the startups deploying and developing the technology right now The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning: https://ethical.institute/ The Topol review: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2019/02/11/nhs-announces-workforce-plan-for-genomics-ai-and-digital-medicine/ emteq labs: www.emteqlabs.com Feebris: www.feebris..com Tympahealth: www.tympahealth.com Ampersand: www.ampersandhealth.co.uk Mendelian: www.mendelian.co Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Jason Foster is the CEO of OriBiotech and has held leading roles in consulting, healthcare and technology companies for nearly 20 years in the US, UK and Europe. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of Health Equity Consulting, a healthcare growth consultancy, a Venture Partner and/or mentor at a number of funds and accelerators in the healthtech space and a member of the Tech London Advocates healthtech working group. Ori Biotech is a London and New Jersey-based innovator changing the game in cell and gene therapy manufacturing. They've developed a proprietary, bespoke and flexible manufacturing platform, enabling patient access to a new generation of personalised, lifesaving treatments. Ori offers therapeutics developers the opportunity to seamlessly scale from pre-clinical process development to commercial scale manufacturing. Get in touch with Ori: https://oribiotech.com/ Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

On this week's Sunday Session, James has a chat with Dr Gyles Morrison about the value of good UX in healthtech. Dr Gyles Morrison is a Clinical User Experience (UX) Specialist and Digital Health Consultant, improving the usability, accessibility and fun people have with healthcare technology. He uses knowledge and experience of behaviour change to improve the way technology is successfully used in healthcare. He has worked with the NHS and a variety of healthcare companies in the UK, South Africa and America on digital healthcare products including Electronic Patient Record systems, remote monitoring tools and digital therapeutics. He speaks internationally on the topic of UX and design thinking in healthcare. He also has three years of experience working as a junior doctor in the NHS. Through his company Dr-Hyphen, he provides a variety of services in digital health, service design, training and event hosting. To learn more about Gyles' Clinical UX course, visit www.clinicalux.org 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

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