Podcast · 65 episodes
The Healthtech Podcast, page 3
by Dr. James Somauroo · English
The Healthtech Podcast covers the latest in health and technology through interviews with disruptive healthtech startups and leaders. Whether you’re a patient, founder, investor or simply interested in healthtech, The Healthtech Podcast has it covered. 🌍 Listeners in over 150 countries. 🎙 New episode every week. 🗣 Hosted by Dr James Somauroo. www.thehealthtechpodcast.com | www.somx.health | www.jamessomauroo.com
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#417 Tomasz George from Freyr Health: What Does Real Longevity Science Look Like?What Does Real Longevity Science Look Like?1 Oct 2025 · 1 h 30 min
#416 Steve Roest from PocDoc: Is Point-of-Care Testing the Future of Preventative Health?Steve Roest, founder of PocDoc, argues that point-of-care testing can enable preventative health by combining a rapid physical blood test with smartphone-based image analysis and real-time…26 Sep 2025 · 1 h 16 min · 26 chapters
#415 Rachel Murphy from The Grafter: How Founders Can Grow, Raise, and Exit The Smart WayRachel Murphy (The Grafter) explains how healthcare founders can grow revenue and operational value, prepare for “grow, raise, exit,” and choose among exit routes (competitor sale, strategic sale,…17 Sep 2025 · 56 min · 20 chapters
#414 Olivia Burns from Hypoplas: What Startups Get So Wrong About ‘Patient-Centric’ DesignPatient-centric design in health tech, and why startups struggle to build ROI for dignity and lived-experience improvements; also how to make patient voice meaningful in commercialization,…10 Sep 2025 · 1 h 8 min · 24 chapters
#413 James O’ Donovan from CHIC: Why the Future of Healthcare Starts with Community Health WorkersCommunity health workers (CHWs) as the foundation of primary healthcare and global health impact, and why better data systems and communication are essential for policy, funding, and outcomes…3 Sep 2025 · 1 h 8 min · 28 chapters
#412 Aashima Gupta from Google Cloud: Can AI fix healthcare? Unpacking tech change at scaleCan AI—especially generative AI and multimodal frontier models—fix healthcare?27 Aug 2025 · 1 h 15 min · 30 chapters
#411 Dr Ross Harper from Limbic: Is It Unethical Not to Use AI in Mental Health Care? (Part 1)Ross Harper (CEO/founder of Limbic) argues it can be ethical to use clinical AI in mental health care because it expands access to scarce therapists, improves diagnostic triage, and reduces delays…20 Aug 2025 · 49 min · 13 chapters
#410 Lara Lewington from the BBC: How is AI Shaping the Future of Medicine?Lara Lewington (BBC) discusses how AI is shaping the future of medicine, arguing for optimism grounded in ethics and regulation.15 Aug 2025 · 1 h 10 min · 24 chapters
#409 Charles Nduka from Emteq: How Can Health Wearables Reconnect Us With Ourselves?Charles Nduka (Emteq/EmTech) explains how health wearables can measure facial muscle movement to quantify emotion and improve care, arguing that emotions and clinician empathy are core to…13 Aug 2025 · 1 h 2 min · 22 chapters
#408 First Look: Open AI cuts diagnostic errors by 16%. Or does it?A “first look” at an OpenAI preprint with Penda Health claiming diagnostic errors fell 16% (and treatment errors 13%) across ~40,000 patient visits in Kenya, and a critique of how such medical AI…30 Jul 2025 · 52 min · 17 chapters
#407 Christoph Lippuner from Semble: What does it Really Take to Build Healthcare Software That Works?Christoph Lippuner (Semble co-founder) explains how to build healthcare software that actually works for clinicians: reduce daily administrative burden, structure medical data, and enable…30 Jul 2025 · 1 h 6 min · 21 chapters
#7 How to Get Into Healthtech: Dr James Somauroo - CEO, Podcaster, Healthcare CommunicationsHow to get into healthtech, challenging the idea there’s one path or that you must be an entrepreneur; argues technology enables healthcare impact at scale, but the NHS lacks internal career tracks…23 Jul 2025 · 35 min · 13 chapters
#6 How to Get Into Healthtech: Dr Dave Triska - GP Partner, Digital Care Expert, Clinical ConsultantHow Dr Dave Triska moved from clinician to healthtech GP partner and digital care consultant, and what skills matter to enter healthtech (especially safe implementation, data security, and clinician…16 Jul 2025 · 48 min · 22 chapters
#5 How to Get Into Healthtech: Dr Josh Au Yeung - Neurology Registrar, Clinical Lead, Dev&Doc Podcast HostHow Dr Josh Au Yeung moved from medicine into healthtech/AI, and what it takes to learn and apply AI in clinical settings.9 Jul 2025 · 58 min · 21 chapters
#406 First Look: Voyagers launches UK healthtech festival 'THE FIX'First look at Voyagers’ new UK healthtech festival “THE FIX” (18 Sept) at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, plus its format and NHS “reverse pitch” segment.8 Jul 2025 · 20 min · 10 chapters
#405: First Look: 'NHS 10 Year Plan' goes big on AIA “first look” at NHS England’s 10-year plan “Fit to the Future,” focusing on three shifts (hospital to community, analogue to digital, sickness to prevention) and how it signals major health-tech…3 Jul 2025 · 55 min · 18 chapters
#404 David Buller from KELES: How to Achieve Successful NHS ProcurementDavid Buller (healthcare VC) explains how to achieve successful NHS procurement and scale a healthcare technology business, then transitions to how he and co-managing partner Laurent van der Berg are…2 Jul 2025 · 1 h 6 min · 32 chapters