The Healthtech Podcast

This week's Sunday Session is about health economics and features a preview to next week's episode, where our guest is solving the $1 trillion mental health problem. Mentioned this week: London School of Economics Health: http://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-health HS. Health-Tech Talks, March 2020: https://bit.ly/2PiNMDc Episode 11: The Story of Healthtech Entrepreneurship to Venture Capital: https://apple.co/2w0FfxH 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

This week, James is joined by Bertrand Bodson, who has been Chief Digital Officer of Novartis since 2018 and is a member of the Executive Committee. From 2013 to 2017, Bertrand served as chief digital and marketing officer of Sainsbury's Argos, where he led Argos’ successful transformation from a traditional catalogue business to the third-largest online retailer in the United Kingdom. Prior to that, he was executive vice president of the global digital business at EMI Music from 2010 to 2013. He co-founded Bragster.com, a social networking and content sharing website, and served as CEO from 2006 to 2010. Additionally, he was senior group product manager at Amazon Inc. from 2003 to 2006. Bertrand earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in the United States, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a master’s degree in commercial engineering from the Solvay Business School (Belgium)/McGill University (Canada). He is a member of the board of directors of Electrocomponents PLC and a member of the supervisory board of Wolters Kluwer NV. www.twitter.com/bbod | www.linkedin.com/in/bodson/ | www.novartis.com/our-science/novartis-biome For more information and content, check out: www.hs.ventures Twitter @HSVenture Instagram @hs.ventures, Linkedin HS. email us at info@hs.live  You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at: www.jamessomauroo.com Twitter @jamessomauroo Instagram @j_soms Linkedin james-somauroo

Stay true to yourself, study something with a path to commercial value, make sure it could actually change the world, get out and meet some entrepreneurs... Plenty of advice coming to you this week from Jud Brewer, founder of MindSciences Inc developing digital therapeutics in the area of addiction, director of research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center, associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University and research affiliate at MIT. He also holds the position of 4th most watched TED talk in 2016, with 12 million views. Mentioned on this week's Sunday Session: Episode 37: The Story of Jud Brewer, Digital Therapeutics and Mindful Tech 📱: https://apple.co/2HpokaN HS. Health-Tech Talks, March 2020: https://apple.co/2HpokaN ML6: www.ml6.eu Acibadem: www.acibadem.com/en/ www.hs.ventures info@hs.live Twitter @HSVenture Instagram @hs.ventures Linkedin at HS.  You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com Twitter @jamessomauroo Instagram @j_soms Linkedin james-somauroo

James' guest this week defines his career as covering sex, drugs and rock n' roll. It's definitely close! Mark Livingstone became Pharmacy2U’s CEO following a merger with ChemistDirect.co.uk in July 2016. He's an entrepreneurial business leader who has held many senior positions across retail and technology. Roles include co-founder and CEO of LOVEFiLM (bought by Amazon), worldwide Managing Director of Lego Interactive and one of the people behind the startup, Graze.com. James and Mark discuss Mark's epic career, how to grow businesses as a CEO, why you should double down on your strengths, how and why Mark moved into healthtech, the future of the pharmacy sector and loads more. www.pharmacy2u.co.uk | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-livingstone-3b60848 For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live  You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo

Do what you love, don't apologise for ambition and definitely make progress before saying you're an AI company! Mentioned on this week's Sunday Session: Episode 43: The Story of Ieso Digital Health and NLP: https://apple.co/2SctrkX Kaggle: Your Machine Learning and Data Science Community: https://www.kaggle.com/ If you want to suggest a guest or appear on the podcast, email James a pitch at james@hs.live or if you want a question answered on one of the Sunday Sessions, send it to that email too or message him on his socials (below). If you’re interested in sponsoring the podcast, email us at info@hs.live to ask for our sponsorship brochure. If you want to pitch James a Forbes article or send him a press release, email him at js@somx.co.uk For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo

If you want to know what Prince Charles says to you as you're appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE), how a liver surgeon and a paediatrician put an ear on a mouse’s back with a 3D cell 'car park,' or what the future of precision medicine and genomics might be... then incredibly, you're in the right place. This week, James is joined by the inimitable Vivienna Parry OBE. Vivienne is a writer and broadcaster. A scientist by training, Vivienne hosts medical programmes for BBC Radio 4, writes widely on health, presents films, facilitates many high level conferences and trains young researchers.  She has a part time role as Head of Engagement at Genomics England which delivered the 100,000 Genomes Project. She also sits on the board of UK Research & Innovation which is responsible for the strategic spend of the UK’s £7 billion research budget. Many will remember Vivienne from her role as presenter of the BBC TV science programme Tomorrow's World between 1994 and 1997 when she was part of iconic technology breakthroughs that were displayed all around the world. Not short of an anecdote or two, James and Vivienne discuss Vivienne's career, from breaking thousands of pounds worth of equipment at UCL, through learning her trade women's health organisations, changing tack to broadcasting (blagging an interview with zero experience) and now into precision medicine and genetics. This episode is a must-listen! For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live  You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo

This week's Sunday Session - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. Mentioned this week: Episode 34: The Story of BIOS and Hacking The Human Brain: https://apple.co/2RPllyj The Health Foundry: http://www.healthfoundry.org/ If you want to suggest a guest or appear on the podcast, email James a pitch at james@hs.live or if you want a question answered on one of the Sunday Sessions, send it to that email too or message him on his socials (below). If you’re interested in sponsoring the podcast, email us at info@hs.live to ask for our sponsorship brochure. If you want to pitch James a Forbes article or send him a press release, email him at js@somx.co.uk For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo

How do you go from building apps for refugees to avoid snipers to building a digital agency designing and commercialising healthtech products? This week, James is joined by Lee Omar, founder and CEO of Red Ninja Studios, a Liverpool-based, design-led technology company making products that impact people and patients. Before working in technology, Lee worked in Human Rights sector. He ran a diverse range of businesses ranging from a Sony Award winning radio show, importing vegetables, exporting cream and organising over a thousand concerts, nightclub events and festivals. Lee has been involved in smart city design and he’s particularly interested in the intersection where our online world meets the 'real’ world. He works with the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government as part of Government Office for Science Future Cities Foresight Project advising government on what cities will look like in 2065 and 2040 to enable policy change now to achieve growth for UK Economy. He's been a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities since 2014 and is a founding member of The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence (APPG AI) which was set up in January 2017 with the aim to explore the impact and implications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. James and Lee talk through Lee’s background from helping refugees to entrepreneur, how the desire to scale himself led him to technology, how Red Ninja approach design-thinking to build products, how to generate ideas, testing assumptions in new ideas and much more. www.redninja.co.uk | @leeomar | lomar@redninja.co.uk | safesteps.tech For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live  You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo

This week's Sunday Session - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. Mentioned this week: Episode 36: The Story of Dexcom and Diabetes-Tech: https://apple.co/2Gh4zld The Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation, 23rd January 2020: https://bit.ly/38hifIR PapsAI: http://digitalhealth.globalautosystems.co.ug/ If you want to suggest a guest or appear on the podcast, email James a pitch at james@hs.live or if you want a question answered on one of the Sunday Sessions, send it to that email too or message him on his socials (below). If you’re interested in sponsoring the podcast, email us at info@hs.live to ask for our sponsorship brochure. If you want to pitch James a Forbes article or send him a press release, email him at js@somx.co.uk For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo

This week, James is joined by Neil Laycock, Managing Director of technology giant Servelec's healthcare division - one of the largest providers of healthcare systems in the UK. Typically this is its Rio electronic patient record (EPR), but it also extends to bed management solutions, designing interfaces for other healthcare systems and mobile solutions for clinicians - but by far at the top of the agenda for Servelec is interoperability. The ability for healthcare systems to be able to share data, information and be able to 'talk' to each other, is one of the primary concerns for NHSX, and will greatly improve patient care and experience, yet it still hasn't been widely adopted - data protection makes it extremely difficult. Servelec are working hard to tackle this and it has an interoperability platform, but there is still much work to do for them and for the sector as a whole, in order for easy sharing of patient data across more than one system. James and Neil talk about Neil’s 15 years as a leader in technology, the origins of their Rio EPR, moving up in corporates, how startups can engage with big tech companies, plenty of insights about careers, scaling tech products in healthcare and as a CEO, how still being passionate about spending time with customers to find out how to solve their problems in the best way to keep a business on top. https://www.servelec.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/neillaycock/ For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live  You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo