

Healthtech Pigeon
SomX
Like normal healthtech news but, you know, not boring.
The team at SomX bring you the audio version of the weekly Healthtech Pigeon newsletter - a panel show with journalists, VCs, podcasters, entrepreneurs, execs and those with a strong opinion to make things interesting. Regular hosts and guests are Dr James Somauroo, Jessica Smith, Belle Taylor, Huw Penson, Jess Farmery from the SomX team.
🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com
🚀 Learn how SomX can help your healthtech company at www.somx.health
The team at SomX bring you the audio version of the weekly Healthtech Pigeon newsletter - a panel show with journalists, VCs, podcasters, entrepreneurs, execs and those with a strong opinion to make things interesting. Regular hosts and guests are Dr James Somauroo, Jessica Smith, Belle Taylor, Huw Penson, Jess Farmery from the SomX team.
🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com
🚀 Learn how SomX can help your healthtech company at www.somx.health
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Feb 5, 2023 • 54min
The Jargon Carousel 🎠
This week: Can Apple and Google continue as health app gatekeepers as well as distributors and developers?[1:55] 📱Can Apple and Google continue as health app gatekeepers as well as distributors and developers?[24:35] 🏥 Smart hospitals are the key to unlocking the next era of healthcare[35:50] 🎧 Spotify founder Daniel Ek takes on healthcare🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Hollie on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Hugh on LinkedIn and Twitter

Jan 27, 2023 • 44min
Anyone for Oregon? 🇺🇸
This week: December's biggest seeds, Microsoft is aggressively investing in healthcare AI, and psychedelic therapy is now legal in Oregon. Are investors and startups ready?[04:05] 📹 YouTube Health Showcases U.K. Strategy: 5 Things We Learned[16:50] 🍄Psychedelic therapy is now legal in Oregon. Are investors and startups ready?[24:25] 🌱December's biggest seeds[28:45] ☕️ Connecting clinicians over coffee [38:20] 💸 Microsoft is aggressively investing in healthcare AI🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Jan 22, 2023 • 31min
Why investors love healthtech 💌
This week: Researchers develop AI tool Sybil to predict lung cancer risk, how technology will shape healthcare in 2023, and biotech start-up announces first patient enrolled in endometriosis clinical trial.[01:35] 💁 Researchers develop AI tool Sybil to predict lung cancer risk [04:30] 𑗊 How technology will shape healthcare in 2023[11:35] 💊HealthTech nets £7.5m to tackle drug overdoses [18:45] 🧬 Biotech start-up announces first patient enrolled in endometriosis clinical trial[22:40] 🫁 Organs on demand: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023[26:00] 🏇The jockey, not the horse🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Grant on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Adama on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Jan 14, 2023 • 38min
Of eternal mice and men 🐭
This week: Eternal mice, the expansion of US expansion, and top tips for getting into healthtech.📝 7 tips for breaking into Healthtech - [02:50]❓ 5 questions facing emerging biotech in 2023 - [11:50]📬 NHS ‘must speed up move to digital communication’ after patients miss letters due to Royal Mail strike - [17:15]🐭 Biotech startup says mice live longer after genetic reprogramming - [22:20]🚀 One in five UK HealthTech SMEs head to US for product launch - [28:25]🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Nick on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Belle on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Indi on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Jan 7, 2023 • 1h 5min
New year, same ol' Pigeon. 🐣
Join Jessica, James and Dr Joel Brown for another week of healthtech news and views. Joel is an NHS GP and Chief Clinical Officer and Medical Director of Bionabu, a virtual “Knowledge-Marketplace." This week: 2023 AI predictions and is ‘smart toilet’ the worst combination of words ever?[04:05] Global collaboration is the answer to Medtech and Biotech’s biggest challenges[13:30] 6 healthcare AI predictions for 2023[31:50] We need to stop junior doctors leaving the NHS[49:25] Withings unveils urine analysis device that sits in your toilet bowl🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Joel on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn

Dec 18, 2022 • 55min
A Healthtech Pigeon Christmas Bonanza
Join Henry, Jess, Huw, Belle & Dr Steve for the inaugural Healthtech Pigeon Christmas Quiz.A slightly different format this week - we'll be taking a look back at the last 12 months in healthtech.With three of our regular panellists joined by Dr Steve Cross & special guest Business Insider's Riddhi Kanetkar.🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn🖇Connect with Belle on LinkedIn🖇Connect with Riddhi on LinkedIn🖇Connect with Steve on Twitter

Dec 9, 2022 • 30min
Is healthtech recession-proof? 📉
Join Henry, Jess, and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: AI, IVF, and a robotic NHS.[01:08] - 🦯 WeWalk raises for smart cane for visually impaired people - GPS enabled walking sticks could be the future for visually impaired people.[02:44] -🚨 Healthcare may be a recession-proof field, but healthtech is not[08:32] - 🏙 First four regional secure data environments confirmed- Beneath the dull title, this is a real step forward for the data saves lives policy being implemented.[13:11] - 🧑💼How an ageing population will change health care[19:30] -🤖 Sunak tells NHS to embrace robots as it prepares to sack staff🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Dec 3, 2022 • 38min
WHOOP, there it is!
Join James, Jessica, and Henry for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: McKinsey Biotech reports, Anne Hathaway turns LP, and NHS data guardian says suppliers must share core values.[01:17] -🧪 WHOOP identifies a novel pregnancy digital biomarker for premature birth[11:15] - Switzerland to accept medical devices with FDA approval[27:44] - Switzerland to accept medical devices with FDA approval[34:10] - 🎬 Anne Hathaway backs Pact, an all-women-led VC for mission-driven startups🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn

Nov 26, 2022 • 27min
The Inappropriate Joke Robot
Join Henry, Jessica, and Huw for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Theranos sentencing, nurses go to prison in VR, and long COVID startups.[01:33] - Joke-telling vacuum robot under-fire at Darent Valley Hospital[06:53] - New device measures haemoglobin more accurately in dark skin[10:42] - Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes jailed for fraud[17:15] - HEE launches VR app for nurses to experience prison healthcare settings[23:06] - Long Covid may affect 100m people — meet one of the first startups looking to help them🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Huw on LinkedIn

Nov 18, 2022 • 37min
$7 short of an $8 blue tick
Join Henry, Indigo, and healthcare whirlwind Rachel Murphy for another week of healthtech news and views. Rachel is raising money to support families in Ukraine - you can help out here.This week: Men's health, the NHS' agency crisis, and biotech's ethical conundrum.[02:03] - The digital future of men's health[06:30] - NHS forking out £2,500 a shift to agency nurses to stop staffing crisis - The NHS spends[14:00] - Twitter changes cost big pharma $15bn [19:04] - Biotechnology is creating ethical worries—and we’ve been here before[24:32] - How Apple is empowering people with their health information 🗞️ Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling out this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Indigo on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Rachel on LinkedIn