The Healthtech Podcast

This week's Sunday Session is all about AI in healthcare. James talks about NHSX's AI Lab and its projects, particularly the The Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award, which, excitingly, just issued £50M to 42 AI projects... Get all the updates you need from the 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

Nicholas Kelly is the chairman of Axela group, which was set up to deliver on the vision of changing the way people view healthcare by supporting the care lifecycle and making care accessible to all. He has over 12 years experience in social care having set up his first domiciliary care agency in 2006, which has grown to be a corner stone of the Axela group. Nicholas has over 10 years leadership experience working in a tech and health environment having previously had senior involvement with Apple and LinkedIn application developments teams. Axela Innovations, launched in 2017, designs systems and products for the health and social care sector. The business has a simple focus of improving the current model of healthcare through the innovative use of technology, particularly employing artificial intelligence (AI), to support, develop, & change how health & social care is delivered. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickolaskelly | http://axela.co.uk/ Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk Sign up to the Healthtech Pigeon newsletter 🐦 https://somx.substack.com/p/004-healthtech-pigeon-

This week's Sunday session features some tips for entrepreneurs from Joseph Mossel, CEO of Ibex Medial Analytics, info on an upcoming digital health event and info on Healthtech Pigeon 🐦 a newsletter you can sign up to which summarises what James has been reading and listening to in the healthtech world. It's all you need in a 1 minute read! Get discounted tickets for Digital Primary Care 2020: https://hopin.to/events/digital-primary-care-20?code=d20aa6a5-6c8f-439a-8b0f-893e76abe9da Free sign up to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: https://somx.substack.com/p/004-healthtech-pigeon- Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Joseph Mossel is CEO and Co-Founder of Ibex Medical Analytics, a next generation cancer diagnostics startup aiming to reduce diagnostic error and improve patient care. Over his career he served as a software engineer, product manager and in leadership roles in startups, corporates and non-profits, and has taken products from inception to multi-million dollar businesses. He holds a MSc in computer science from Tel Aviv University, and a MSc in environmental science from VU Amsterdam. Ibex Medical Analytics are a multidisciplinary team of entrepreneurs, data scientists, software engineers and medical experts, working together to realise their vision: Transforming cancer diagnostics with AI and improving patient care. Pathologists are challenged to provide accurate and timely analysis as the number of tests increases every year - Ibex uses artificial intelligence (AI) to develop clinical-grade solutions that help detect cancer as accurately as a human pathologist. Their Galen Platform uses algorithms to analyse images, detect and grade cancer in biopsies and point to other findings with high clinical importance, helping pathologists reduce diagnostic error rates. and enable a more efficient workflow. https://ibex-ai.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/yossimossel/ Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

For this week's Sunday Session, James chats to Prof Sultan Mahmud, Director of Innovation, Integration and Research at Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK. From the humblest of beginnings, 'Sul' as he likes to be known rose the ranks through the NHS via jobs in big pharma and is now involved at the coalface of healthtech, helping his Trust bring in technologies like Zesty (you can hear Lloyd Price, cofounder of Zesty a few episodes ago). Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week, James is joined by Graeme Cox, cofounder and CEO of emteq labs. Graeme has led multiple startup companies from initiation to exit, acting both as CEO and CTO with a 25-year track record in AI, software development, client engagement, problem solving and organisational development. His latest company, emteq labs, uses VR, multiple biometrics and machine learning to quantify human emotion. Their integrated system is the most ecologically valid and user-friendly solution on the market and by allowing researchers to harness more accurate data, they enable better research into how humans experience emotions. Listen to the Emotion Lab podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/emotion-lab/id1527627404 Get in touch with Graeme or emteq: https://emteqlabs.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/graemercox/ Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week's Sunday Session features some bonus content from a conversation between James and Amer Fasihi, cofounder and CEO of healthtech company, Kraydel. The full episode will be out in a couple of weeks, but you'll hear a chat between James and Amer from before they officially started recording the episode. They chat about identity and how it changes as you move careers and companies, the opportunity that comes with first-mover-advantage and entrepreneurs' self confessed affinity to high-risk scenarios. Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Lord Victor Adebowale is an influential and high profile healthtech leader who combines commercial acumen with a commitment to social responsibility and personal values. He is the founder and chair of healthtech company Visionable and was previously Chief Executive of the social care enterprise Turning Point. Lord Adebowale was one of the first to become a People's Peer and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to the New Deal, the unemployed, and homeless young people. In 2009 he was listed as one of the 25 most influential people in housing policy over the past 25 years by the housing professionals magazine Inside Housing and was reckoned by the Health Service Journal to be the 97th most influential person in the English NHS in 2015. Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk 

For this week's Sunday Session, James is joined by Dr Mala Mawkin, award winning doctor, speaker and writer. Mala is featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, Vogue 10 Rising Female Stars and UK Women of the Future Awards Finalist. She is the Host of the Digital Health Podcast for The Royal Society of Medicine Digital Health Council and is an advocate for women in science & medicine. She is now working at UK healthtech startup, Cellen.   https://www.malamawkin.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/malamawkin/ Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Dr Mark Jenkins is Co-Founder and Medical Director at Oviva UK Ltd, a company digitising behaviour change therapy for lifestyle conditions such as Type 2 diabetes and obesity. Mark trained as a doctor at Guy’s & St Thomas Hospitals in London, where he also completed an academic foundation programme specialising in nephrology and then worked at the Boston Consulting Group. Mark is Oviva's UK Managing Director and leads Oviva’s research strategy and partnerships with the NHS. Get in touch: www.somx.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com