Healthtech Pigeon

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Nov 11, 2022 • 47min

A Healthtech Bond Villain

Join James, Jessica, Jess, Henry and Credentially's Dr Kit Latham, for another week of healthtech news and views. This week: Murder, M&A, and October's hottest seeds.[02:51] - Biotech co-founder, facing murder-for-hire charges, accused of fabricating data[06:40] - Exploring 2022 digital health M&A trends[12:42] - Leva Clinic fundraises £3m for UK’s first digital chronic pain platform[20:45] - The 50 most active early-stage healthtech investors[28:03] - October's hottest seeds🗞️ 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 Jess on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Kit on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn
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Nov 6, 2022 • 36min

Pumpkin-Spiced Pathways 🧋

Join James, Jessica, Henry and special guest Dr Maslah Amin, for another week of healthtech news and views.This week: The metaverse and patient care, AI training for NHS staff, and investors not yet willing to splash the cash.[01:08] - NHS report calls for artificial intelligence training for all staff[05:27] - Biotech IPOs are strange, even in a down market[09:25] - YouTube will let doctors and nurses apply to be labelled as reliable[22:50] - The top 3 cyberthreats facing healthcare organisations today[29:25] - Peachy's Patel gives his view on Apple's latest healthtech move🗞️ 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 Maslah on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn
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Oct 28, 2022 • 42min

The Return Of Theranos? 🩸

Join James & Henry and SomX's PR lead, Jess Farmery, for another week of healthtech news and views.This week: Daye raise €11.5 for vaginal microbiome testing, the problems with voice biomarkers, and is military metaphor appropriate for talking healthcare?[00:55] - Healthtech-specific risks for medical malpractice liability[07:56] - "Voice biomarker" tech analyses your voice for signs of depression[12:16] - UK-based gynae health startup Daye raises €11.5 million to launch at-home screening kit and bridge the gender health gap[16:27] - From ‘war rooms’ to ‘cancer battles’: history shows military metaphors are detrimental to the NHS[23:30] - xWave partners with Royal College of Radiologists to tackle backlog🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest at this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Jess on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn
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Oct 21, 2022 • 43min

Spicy Goggles = Less Drugs 🌶

Join James & Henry and special guest Professor Andrew Farmery, who, amongst many other things, heads up the undergraduate programme at Wadham Colllege, Oxford.This week: A sensible article about the state of the market, healthtech amasses more unicorns than any other tech, and people in nerd goggles need less drugs.[06:05] - Mid and South Essex ICS create a single waiting list for all elective[12:26] - Study finds patients immersed in VR could need less anaesthetic during surgery[22:28] - The future of augmented reality in four charts[31:20] - After two exuberant years, health innovation funding recalibrates to pre-pandemic levels🗞️ 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 Henry on LinkedIn
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Oct 14, 2022 • 47min

Aussies, AI & A Worrying Trend 🇦🇺

Join James & Henry and special guest Peter Birch, founder of Talking Healthtech, Australia's biggest and best healthtech community, for another week of healthtech news and views.This week: A well-being invasion, period apps continue to fail privacy tests, and definitely-not-a-metal-band Malware as a Service comes to the fore.[01:38] - WHO launches the world's most extensive freely accessible AI health worker[6:48] - September's hottest seeds[12:34] - Wellbeing startup banks $35 million[19:06] - Declining VC investment in digital health[24:47] - Malware as a Service emerging in healthcare🗞 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com✍️ Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🖇 Connect with James on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Peter on LinkedIn🖇 Connect with Henry on LinkedIn
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Oct 7, 2022 • 29min

Healthtech User's Biggest Turnoffs 👋

This week: Why users stop using health apps, Rock Health’s Q3 funding review and VR renders Plymouth more palatable.[1:50] - Why healthcare organisations should adopt modern data platforms[4:16] - Q3 2022 digital health funding: The market isn’t the same as it was[7:54] - Virtual wards are failing patients and clinicians[15:05] - University Hospitals Plymouth introduces virtual reality for new emergency centre[18:18] - What makes users stop using their mobile health apps?🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🔗 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🔗 Connect with Belle on Linkedin🔗 Connect with Huw on Linkedin
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Sep 30, 2022 • 27min

Sailing The High(Er) SEIS 🌊

This week: A Peachy raise, techbio/biotech ones to watch, and more interoperability than you can shake a stick at.[1:31] -  11 VC investors behind the hottest healthtech deals[3:21] - HEE CEO discusses digital workforce issues[7:14] - Health insurtech startup Peachy raises £1.5m[17:45] - 18 European techbio startups to watch - according to investors[21:43] - Interoperable digital care can only be achieved with an open technology approach🐦 Grab the newsletter at healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health 🤳Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn 🤳Connect with Henry on LinkedIn 🤳Connect with Huw on LinkedIn 
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Sep 24, 2022 • 26min

Stuck in limbo

This week: Google’s health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache, and a modern day “David vs Goliath” story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in 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 Jess on Linkedin
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Sep 16, 2022 • 32min

Arms Race 💪🏻

This week: Google’s health-conscious sibling Verily secures pocket money from the parents, health apps are giving us a stonking headache and a modern day “David vs Goliath” story or shall we say Hippocrates vs Dr Google. 1:35 - Google’s Verily secures $1B to bolster armoury3:30 - Health apps are a headache and how to fix them 8:30 - Redesign Health bags $65M to incubate more tech-enabled healthcare businesses13:00 - ⏩ Digital health trends coming in 202319:35 - 🤖 Dotplot wins UK Dyson award 25:45 - Creating a digital Hippocratic Oath for the 21st century🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health👩🏻 Connect with Belle on Linkedin 💃🏻 Connect with Indigo on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jess on Linkedin
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Sep 3, 2022 • 27min

The Biotech Bee Gees 🕺

This week: Triage accuracy of symptoms checkers low, why the Bee Gees are popular with biotech investors, and llongyfarchiadau i Diurnal.🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com🥸 Apply to be a guest by filling in this form🚀 Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health🙋🏻‍♂️ Connect with James on Linkedin🕺🏻 Connect with Henry on Linkedin🤦🏼‍♀️ Connect with Jessica on Linkedin 👩🏻 Connect with Belle on Linkedin

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