Healthtech Pigeon

Belle and Elin dive into this week's healthtech headlines: Time's Top 500 Healthtech Companies list, Sword Health's discount buyout of Headspace, why cycle syncing workouts have women split, and what's at stake as the FDA weighs approval for the first psychedelic medicine.00:00 - Intro 02:58 - Time's Top 500 Healthtech Companies & Headspace's $300m Sale to Sword Health 16:37 - Menstrual Fitness: Why Some Women Are Cycle Syncing Their Workouts 30:27 - FDA Hearing Weighs Access and Safety for Psychedelic Medicine 39:50 - Outro

Jessica and James sit down with pharmacist and NHS non-exec director Mark Duman to talk wearables, patient data, and why AI scribes might be missing the bits that matter most.00:00 - Intro04:04 - Wearables Recap13:33 - AI Scribes May Fail to Capture Patients' Experiences32:52 - IPremom Raise 15M to Help Pregnancy Care

James and Jack Needham break down last night's Health Tech Talks panel with Rt Hon Sir Jeremy Hunt MP and Tara Donnelly — including the parts that didn't make it into anyone's LinkedIn post. 00:00 - Post-Event Debrief: Behind the Scenes with Jeremy Hunt & Tara Donnelly13:00 - AI in the NHS: Adoption, Procurement Red Tape & AI Sovereignty37:00 - Craft Over AI Slop: Why Doing Hard Things Matters

Jessica and James from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week.00:00 - Intro: This Week's AI Health Tech Roundup 01:00 - Are Wearables Lying to You About Sleep?15:00 - NHS Rolls Out At-Home Cervical Screening21:00 - Brain Surgery, Therapy Bots & Life-Saving Drones34:00 - Jeremy Hunt Showdown

Jessica and Jessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with help from Barlett Data's Tom Bartlett.00:00 – Intro & setup06:38 – Why Tom spoke out35:15 – A coordinated campaign?50:49 – Where FDP falls short

Jessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with help from Aahuti Rai.Mental Health Innovation Showcase, Hale House — 15 September, London https://harleystreethealthdistrict.com/event/mental-health-innovation-showcase-returns-to-harley-street-health-district/

James is joined by Dr Tommy Perkins, co-founder of Medics' Money, days after he and co-founder Dr Ed Cantelo sold the business outright to Pastest. Tommy tells the whole story: founding Medics' Money on the day his first daughter was born, the free tax rebate guide that has now saved doctors close to £80m, and the deliberate decision to bet on email and podcasting long before either was fashionable. It is a masterclass in leading with value, building a genuine community rather than a mailing list to sell to, and earning the trust of a hard to reach audience.Then they get into the exit itself. Why sell a profitable, bootstrapped, 100% owned business at all, why Pastest (a family business that has supported doctors through exams since 1972), and what the next two years look like for Tommy inside a bigger company. Tommy also gives a refreshingly candid, practical walkthrough of how anyone can estimate a private company's sale price using Companies House data, typical industry margins and EBITDA multiples. James returns the favour with the real numbers behind Healthtech Pigeon and where SomX is placing its bets.Along the way: the doctor creator economy and the four levels of monetisation, why vertically integrated creators win, how AI now lets a two person team do the work of ten, the death of legacy media and the rise of niche distribution, the case for building in public (and why Tommy didn't), and why he is still practising medicine two and a half days a week through all of it.Connect with Tommy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommy-perkins-138864149Learn more about Medics' Money: https://medicsmoney.co.ukMedics' Money x Pastest: https://www.pastest.com/pages/medics-moneyApply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.comSubscribe to Healthtech Pigeon: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.comThis podcast was brought to you by SomX - https://somx.healthResources:Medics' Money - https://medicsmoney.co.ukPastest acquires Medics' Money (BusinessCloud) - https://businesscloud.co.uk/news/edtech-pastest-acquires-financial-platform-medics-money/Pastest - https://www.pastest.comCompanies House - https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.ukGP Bullhound - https://www.gpbullhound.com

James and Jessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with help from Dr Mustafa Ghafouri, creator of https://hospitalwaits.co.uk/

Jessica and Anna from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week.

Jessica and James from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week.00:00 - Intro01:49 - A doctor built the NHS waiting-times comparison the e-RS dashboard won't give you14:03 - Pastest buys Medics' Money, and the “doctor life-admin” stack quietly consolidates21:02 -Meanwhile, the NHS throws £8m at AI to shrink those same waiting lists

James from SomX chatted through all the best news from HLTH 2026, with Motic's Harvinder Power.

Jessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with Heather Cook, Fiona McCormick and Toby Croft.

Jessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with Coulter Partners' Ian Coyne.

James from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with Freyr Health and Panio's Dr Tomasz George00:00 - Intro05:08 - The Enhanced Games are real, and they're equal parts entertaining and concerning

James from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with Patchwork's Dr Anas Nader

Jess and James are back from a brief hiatus to break down three of the biggest stories shaping healthtech right now.First, Whoop hires its first in-app doctor and Google launches the Fitbit Air - signalling that consumer wearables and primary care are converging faster than anyone expected. They get into what happens when your health data lives across competing ecosystems, the case for portability standards, and a viral TikTok in which a Whoop user catches her boyfriend cheating via Strava kudos.Then: the Palantir saga rumbles on. A leaked memo published by the FT and the Guardian confirms that contractors were granted access to identifiable patient data on the Federated Data Platform before pseudonymisation. James and Jess disagree - loudly - on how to read it.Finally, Berlin-based Ditto raises €7.6M from Heal Capital to build the patient-side equivalent of an ambient AI scribe: record your appointment, get a plain-language summary, share it with the people who matter. Plus a kicker: Wes Streeting resigned as we were recording.

Belle and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week.Stories:Palantir's NHS break clause is suddenly very much on the tableOpenAI launches ChatGPT for Clinicians, a free AI tool for physicians, NPs and pharmacistsThe Women's Health Strategy arrived with a £1.5m FemTech fund and a very quotable Streeting line

Jessica and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Dr Jing Ouyang CGO and Co-Founder of Patchwork Health.00:00 - Intro09:10 - FDP: An Insider's Perspective28:21 - WHOOP affiliate selected for CMS innovation programStories:https://www.bartlettdata.co.uk/post/blog-coming-soonhttps://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/whoop-affiliate-selected-for-cms-innovation-program-to-expand-tech-enabled-care-for-medicare-patients

Jessica and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Hardian Health's Dr Hugh Harvey. 

Jessica and Belle from SomX chat through all the best news from this week.31:04 - Introducing Perplexity Health35:48 - How AI is Giving Back Time to NHS Healthcare Teams48:11 - Under 50% of NHS staff receive basic EPR training

Jessica and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week.04:14 - Google wants Fitbit to know your medical history. Sure, why not?12:24 - Clinicians are using AI, but would prefer patients not to23:45 - The therapy gap is 1.6 billion people. Limbic wants AI to help

Jessica and Belle from SomX chat through all the best news from this week.The conversation PR isn't having about motherhoodHertility Preventative Healthcare Report 2026

James from SomX chats through all the best news from this week with Sarah Ticho from The XR Health Alliance

Jessica from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Christoph Ruedig from Albion VC and Celestin de Wergifosse from Signatur Bio.

Jessica from SomX chats through all the best news from this week with Hansen Tsui from Sanome.

Jessica and Harry from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Niki Loboda from Whereby and Carlo Alberto Gaetaniello from Serenis.

Jessica and Harry from SomX explore three stories from the latest edition of the Healthtech Pigeon Newsletter.

Belle from SomX is joined by Jess Heck and Katrina Baxter-Moore from Jane App, and Andreas Bovens from Whereby. In this episode they delve into this weeks top news picks from the Healthtech Pigeon newsletter.

James, Jess, and Harry are joined by Patrick Beldon, CEO and Co-Founder at Cortirio, to delve into this weeks neuroscience news and talk about how Cortirio are working on portable brain imaging!Learn more about Cortirio: https://cortirio.com/

Jessica welcomes Andreas Bovens and Calvin Bowen from whereby to discuss the evolving landscape of Telehealth and the integration of technology in healthcare.Learn more about Whereby: https://whereby.com/

SomX's James Somauroo, Jess Somauroo, and Harry Salt dive into a week of big news from OpenAI with Dr Harvinder Power, Co-Founder and CEO at Motics.Join us to unpack ChatGPT Health. The good, the bad, and the ugly.00:00 - Intro01:32 - OpenAI Report: AI as a Healthcare Ally + ChatGPT Health

SomX's Belle Taylor and Harry Salt dive into this week's healthtech news with Prof. Susan Shelmerdine, Associate Professor of Radiology / AI at UCL Great Ormond St Hospital.

SomX's Jessica Somauroo interviews Healthtech VC Andrew Elder.

SomX's Jessica Somauroo and Harry Salt dive into this week's healthtech news. 00:00 - Intro01:52 - Forbes 30 Under 3013:20 - Forbes 30 Under 30 Alumnus Develops Diagnostic Tool for Menopause 24:20 - 2025 Wrapped

SomX's James Somauroo and Harry Salt dive into this week's healthtech news with Ross O'Brien from The XR Health Alliance. 00:00 - Intro01:11 - Major Report Maps UK's Extended Reality (XR) Health Market 

SomX's Jessica Somauroo and Belle Taylor dive into this week's healthtech news.00:00 - Intro12:16 - MANUAL Is In The MONEY16:10 - Got a Clue? Well Yes, Since You Asked…

SomX's Jessica Somauroo and Harry Salt dive into this week's healthtech news with help from Numan's Grace Hatton and SomX's James Somauroo.00:00 - Intro03:02 - NHS Job Cuts: The £1 Billion Bureaucracy Bonfire 12:12 - Women's Health Being Shadow Banned?27:05 - OpenAI Wants To Push Beyond a Core AI Offering

SomX's James Somauroo and Curistica's Dr Keith Grimes dive into this week's healthtech news.00:00 - Intro01:02 - The NHS's “Wild West” of 10,000 Unchecked Health Apps

SomX's Jessica Somauroo and James Somauroo dive into this week's healthtech news.00:00 - Intro02:26 - NHS launches AI-powered tool to speed up prostate cancer diagnosis16:38 - Do we need AI guardians to protect us from health information overload? // The anatomy of a personal health agentDo you have a project that tackles an urgent priority in women's health? Ripple Women's Digital Health Challenge 2025 invites innovators worldwide to join a proven 12-month programme to turn proposals into pilot-ready, patient-facing apps on the Cogniss no-code platform, with expert support. Delivered by Cogniss, the Health Innovation Network (HIN), AWS and SomX, the programme offers clear pathways to piloting and adoption. Applications close on Wed 5 Nov 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time, with judging on Thurs 4 Dec 2025

SomX's Belle Taylor and The BMJ's Helen Surana, dive into this week's healthtech news.00:00 - Intro02:35 - Government announces Women's Health Strategy to be renewed19:40 - Cyclana Bio raises £5m to boost women's health29:09 - Scientists develop breakthrough approach to detecting endometriosis in menstrual blood

SomX's Belle Taylor and Harry Salt, dive into this week's healthtech news.00:00 - Intro01:50 - Oura hits $11bn valuation after $900m Series E18:41 -First look at Hello Heart's AI assistant for medication management:

SomX's Jessica Somauroo and Nick Prentice, healthcare strategist, dive into this week's healthtech news.00:00 - Intro05:40 - NHS launches virtual hospital23:05 - Lauxera Capital closes €400M health tech fund, bets big on European innovation going global35:00 - Fast-growing healthtech platform Heidi raises $65m and boosts valuation to $465m

SomX's Jessica Somauroo and James Somauroo dive into this week's healthtech news.00:00 - Intro18:40 - NHS launches virtual hospital

SomX's Jessica Somauroo and Belle Taylor dive into this week's healthtech news with help from Whereby's Niki Loboda and Hannah Jelliman00:00 - Intro02:44 - The State of Virtual Care33:43 - World's Top HealthTech Companies of 2025

SomX's Jessica Somauroo and James Somauroo dive into this week's healthtech news with help from BoobyBiome's Lydia Mapstone. 00:00 - Intro02:08 - British startup BoobyBiome raises €2.8 million for infant health with breast milk microbiome breakthrough

SomX's Jessica Somauroo and James Somauroo dive into this week's healthtech news with help from BoobyBiome's Lydia Mapstone. 00:00 - Intro02:08 - British startup BoobyBiome raises €2.8 million for infant health with breast milk microbiome breakthrough

SomX's Jessica Somauroo and DNV's Stephen McAdam dive into this week's healthtech news. 00:00 - Intro03:53 - Digital Health Gains Still Out of Reach, BMJ Commission Finds21:12 - Accelerating Digital Health: DNV Ventures invests in Patients Know Best`s global expansion of personal health records

SomX's Jessica Somauroo and Belle Taylor dive into this week's healthtech news. 00:00 - Intro01:48 - Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt 18:25 - Soul Machines unveils empathetic AI ‘Digital Workforce' for healthcare

SomX's Jessica Somauroo and Amy Thomas dive into this week's healthtech news. 00:00 - Intro02:10 - Are AI Chatbots Making Mental Health Crises Worse? // Parents of teenager who took his own life sue OpenAI30:40 - Mounjaro price inequality in full play

SomX's Jessica Somauroo, Amy Thomas and Taffy Kahari dive into this week's healthtech news. 00:00 - Intro01:40 - The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst18:36 - MND left her without a voice. Eight seconds of scratchy audio gave it back to her

SomX's Jessica Somauroo, Amy Thomas and Hollie Ruda are joined dive into this week's healthtech news. 00:00 - Intro02:34 - Beyond the AI buzz: Nina Capital's critical view on healthtech hype19:45 - 9 out of 10 Brits changed their lifestyle after clinically-guided at-home blood tests, new study finds