The Healthtech Podcast

This week James is joined by Paul Tunnah, founder of pharmaphorum, which combines industry leading publications with a specialist strategy and creative consultancy. Paul is an experienced pharmaceutical industry thought leader and adviser, with a specialist focus on cross-stakeholder communication, digital / social media engagement and collaborative innovation.  James and Paul cover all things healthcare and communication and there's a lot of lessons for entrepreneurs looking to communicate what they do in this space! https://www.linkedin.com/in/paultunnah/ | https://pharmaphorum.com/ Get in touch: js@som.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

For this week's session, I'm giving you my take on the brand new AI checklist which has been issued here in the UK for health and care organisations by NHSx. It's an incredibly succinct document outlining a bunch of simple questions for organisations to ask AI companies if they want to procure them. Loads to learn for startups, investors and healthcare organisations both in the UK and abroad. There's also some info on somX... www.somx.co.uk Grab the AI guidance here: https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/media/documents/A_Buyers_Checklist_for_AI_in_Health_and_Care.pdf Get in touch! www.jamessomauroo.com | www.linkedin.com/in/james-somauroo | js@somx.co.uk

Can you actually be a doctor and run successful, scaling medical device startup at the same time? This week I'm joined by Krishan Ramdoo, founder and CEO of TympaHealth Technologies - a team of doctors and technology experts united by a vision of helping the world to hear. They've built 'the world’s first all-in-one hearing health assessment system' and they're doing incredible partnerships all over the healthtech space. www.tympahealth.com | www.linkedin.com/in/krishan-ramdoo-10086979 | krishan@tympahealth.com www.jamessomauroo.com | js@somx.co.uk | www.linkedin.com/in/james-somauroo

Hit this amazing milestone this week! Thanks to everyone that listens around the world 🌍🎙🙏🏼  Special thanks to those of you that have been in touch - love hearing from you if you're finding it valuable - especially with the tough things going on around COVID-19.  Do you want to be on the show? If you've got a good story to tell and you want to inspire people, make sure you email or DM me. Founders are ideal, no matter what stage you're at 👍🏼 Also mentioned this week - Sleepio and Daylight are now free! -  https://www.bighealth.com/ Have a listen to Peter Hames, founder of Big Health on Episode 20: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-20-the-story-of-sleepio-and-scaling-into-the-usa/id1438968893?i=1000436563711 Get in touch with me: js@somx.co.uk | www.linkedin.com/in/james-somauroo/ | www.jamessomauroo.com

This week, James is Joined by Alex Menys, CEO and founder of Motilent. Motilent’s mission is to change the way we see the gut. We have spent the last 5 years developing new imaging technology that is helping researchers and clinicians understand how the digestive tract works. Our key clinical focus area is Crohn’s Disease, a debilitating inflammatory condition affecting people of all ages and our first product GIQuant aims to help clinicians to identify earlier when patients stop responding to immunotherapy. Alex founded Motilent in 2013 to expedite collaborative research in his field of medical image analysis for gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. Since then, Motilent has grown to working across a range of GI specialties in research and has produced it's first clinically available product for Crohn's disease monitoring - GIQuant. Alex holds master degrees in Biochemistry and Medical Physics, a PhD in MRI imaging and spent 2 years on the board of an AIM listed UK medical device company. https://www.motilent.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-menys-83675b75/ js@somx.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com

This week's Sunday Session is all about AI in radiology and the announcement that Qure.ai, a healthtech company specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) has deployed its COVID-19 progression monitoring software in a UK hospital. This is a big moment for AI in radiology in the UK and could be a pivotal moment for the adoption of AI in healthcare. Read the article in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2020/04/27/qureai-deploys-ai-radiology-software-in-the-fight-against-covid-19/ js@somx.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com www.qure.ai

This week, James is joined by Dr. Harpreet Sood, an NHS GP with a lot of special interests! Harpreet has collaborated with organisations on healthcare projects internationally - in the US, France, Israel and Asia. Early in his career he has also founded two healthcare startups. Harpreet is currently a practicing primary care doctor in London at University College Hospital. He is also Co-Founder and strategic advisor to the NHS Digital Academy, a £6m programme to develop a cadre of digital leaders in the NHS. He served as the first national Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer at NHS England and prior to this was Senior Fellow to the CEO of NHS England where he advised and led on health innovation and technology policy including advising the Secretary State for Health on NHS digitisation. Harpreet is a board member of Health Education England and Digital Health.London. Harpreet sits on the editorial board of the British Medical Journal Health and Care Informatics and has written on health policy for the BMJ, The Lancet and Guardian. Harpreet is an advisor, speaker and consultant on digital health, clinical application of AI and the future of work in healthcare. www.jamessomauroo.com | js@somx.co.uk | https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-somauroo/

This week, I heard that a previous colleague tragically lost his life to COVID-19. I saw all the tributes to him on social media and hope that his family and friends are doing as best they can. Beyond the statistics are real people with families who are having their lives turned upside down by this and frontline NHS workers are literally giving their lives to serve the public. Please stay at home and stop the spread 🙏🏼💙 NHSx have released extremely helpful guidance for healthtech companies, talking about how they are assessing healthtech relevant to COVID-19 right now. So wherever you are in the world and you want to get your COVID-19 solution into the UK system to help, what you need to know is in 8 simple points in this episode. In summary: If you have a product or service that you would like the NHS to consider as part of our COVID response, or your app is ready for review against the standards, please email dnhsx@nhsx.nhs.uk where the team will review your submission. You can read the full blog from NHSx here: https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/blogs/how-we-are-assessing-covid-19-apps/

This week, James is joined by Tobias Alpsten, an international health tech executive and entrepreneur focusing on transforming patient care globally. He founded iPLATO in 2000 and is now the company’s Chief Executive. As iPLATO’s CEO, Tobias is responsible for setting overall strategy and for leading marketing, support, product management and engineering. Committed to evidence based interventions in healthcare, Tobias works with leading institutions including UCL, Imperial College, the Department of Health and Public Health England on increasing the evidence base for Health Tech through research. After studies in Stockholm and Paris, Tobias earned an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 1996. He joined Accenture’s Paris office before founding iPLATO in London in 2000. Tobias has worked in Sweden, France, Ireland, Singapore, Japan, the US, and now the UK. https://www.iplato.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobias-alpsten-b95141/ www.hs.ventures Twitter @HSVenture Instagram @hs.ventures Linkedin at HS. email us at info@hs.live Your can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo at: www.jamessomauroo.com Twitter @jamessomauroo Instagram @j_soms Linkedin james-somauroo

Hiring is hard. In healthtech it's even harder. But right now, it's needed more than ever with so many people out of work. The expertise is pretty niche, it's tough finding people that 'get it' in healthtech with public/private sector and clinical/managerial/business nuances, there's specific sales and marketing knowledge, there's no one place to go to find jobs/hires and recruiters still face the same issues. At HS., we've already solved the problem more times than we can count through the podcast and our events and now we've built something very exciting... We've officially launched our HS. Recruit Area 🚀 to help those out of work! Head to www.hs.ventures and click on HS.Recruit to sign up, whether you're a company or a candidate! To really get in our good books, fill out this survey to help us fine-tune the platform: https://hs18.typeform.com/to/bjdkoU If you have any suggestions or questions, email us at info@hs.live!