Podcast appearances and mentions of james somauroo

In this episode James Somauroo, Host of The Healthtech Podcast and CEO of SomX, a PR and content agency specializing in healthcare and biotech. They dive into the challenges healthcare companies face in public relations, the role of content marketing, and actionable advice for founders and organizations at different stages of growth. From crafting a messaging house to building trust with clinicians, James shares his expert insights on navigating the complex world of healthcare marketing. Key Discussion Points: Evolution of PR in Healthcare Strategic Marketing Tips for Startups The importance of a "messaging house" (vision, key messages, proof points). Mapping audiences, their pain points, and the channels they use. When to Outsource Marketing Personal Branding for Leadership: Why personal content from founders and leaders often outperforms company content. The challenges of incentivizing employees to engage in content creation on platforms like LinkedIn. Trends and Predictions for 2025: A shift away from generic "AI" branding to more specific terms like computational pathology. The rise of co-pilots in healthcare for reducing administrative burdens. www.facesofdigitalhealth.com Newsletter: https://fodh.substack.com/

It's our 300th episode of The Business of Healthcare podcast !  To mark this special occasion, Tara reflects on a journey of growth, learning, passion and the power of staying true to oneself in the complex world of healthcare with co-founder and SomX CEO (and host of the Health Tech podcast) Dr James Somauroo. Listen as James turns the tables and interviews Tara, providing listeners with an intimate look at the woman behind the mic, covering: Tara's personal and professional evolution Her insights into the nuances of primary care networks The importance of asking simple yet profound questions The courage it takes to embrace one's identity in a space where diversity is still a work in progress. From her accidental foray into healthcare consultancy to her aspirations of authoring a modern management healthcare book and potentially partnering in a general practice, as well as her very personal take on the transformative impact of health technology Tara's story is one of seizing opportunities and daring to dream big. Whether you're a long-time listener or new to the podcast, this episode is a must-listen, offering inspiration, honesty, and a reminder of why we're all in the business of healthcare. Work with THC Primary Care I'm Tara Humphrey and I'm the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads.  To date, I've worked with 11 Training Hubs and supported over 120 Primary Care Networks and 3 GP Federations.  I understand and appreciate the complexity of healthcare and what it takes to deliver projects across multiple practices. I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I'm also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 250 blogs. For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter. Improving the Business of Healthcare – One episode at a time… Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media.  Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website: THC Primary Care.

Dr James Somauroo shares his journey from being an anaesthetics and ICU doctor to becoming a health tech innovator. James's story is an excellent example of how to have a successful career by being adaptable and flexible, and he proves the power of using personal dissatisfaction to drive change in the healthcare industry.During our conversation, we delve into transitioning from conventional medical careers to the world of health tech. James shares his emotional rollercoaster, including the internal struggle with societal expectations and the guilt that often comes with leaving traditional roles in the caring professions.We discuss the integration of AI in healthcare and the evolution of medical education to keep up with technological advancements. We explore AI's philosophical difficulties in health management and the delicate balance between automation and the human touch. Together, we brainstorm an ideal curriculum in a tech-forward healthcare landscape, envisioning a new breed of healthcare professionals equipped with a diverse skill set for tackling tomorrow's healthcare challenges.Connect with Dr James Somauroo:WebsiteLinkedIn Learn more about SomXListen to the HealthTech podcastSubscribe to the Healthtech Pidgeon NewsletterConnect with Rolake Ojo:LinkedInInstagramWebsiteBrand New Dr. is produced and managed by Urban Podcasts.

Anaesthetics and ICU doctor by training, CEO of SomX (a healthtech and biotech-specific communications group) and host of the Healthtech Podcast, Dr James Somauroo had a lot to share on the future of AI in the Healthcare & Healthtech space. While most talk about their fascination with AI and how it can revolutionalise the way things are done from using ChatGPT to plan your holiday, getting that school essay written for you or sensor-driven production improvement, we attempted to explore how AI can risk disrupting the Healthcare space if its application is banalised. #AI#chatGPT#Healthcare#artificialintelligence#telemedicine Thanks for listening! Connect with me here on:

MYCIN. This is the name of the very first AI program developed in the medical field at Stanford University in the 1970s. Its goal was to recommend treatments to physicians for certain infectious diseases. Although this program was only live for a couple of years, it opened the door to greater innovations and breakthroughs.  Today, AI helps doctors make diagnoses, it aids surgeons in defining the “next best step” for their patients and it assists researchers when screening new drugs. But the road to a fully AI-driven healthcare system is still long and tortuous. The MYCIN program was dropped because of low acceptability by physicians and poor integration into their daily practice. Sound familiar? If it does, that's because these challenges still exist today, over 50 years later. In today's episode, you can expect some turbulence, because there is no such thing as disruption without some friction. Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seat, fasten your seat belts and prepare for take-off.  We have the pleasure of welcoming on the podcast James Somauroo, CEO at SomX and fellow podcast host of the HealthTech Podcast and HealthTech Pigeon. What this episode contains: AI anecdotes  Barrier to AI adoption  Evolving AI conversation  What you will learn in this episode:  Artificial intelligence was created in the 1950s One of the pioneers in this field was mathematician Alan Turing.  the “Turing test” to assess a machine's ability to act “smart”.  The idea was for a human examiner to evaluate the discussion between a human and a machine without knowing which was which.  Two main movements emerged after the creation of the test: those advocating for a strong artificial intelligence, capable of human thinking and those advocating for a weak artificial intelligence, capable of helping humans in their tasks.  one of the first and most famous experiments regarding artificial intelligence in healthcare is SPHINX, a program designed to help doctors identify patients with jaundice, which is a yellow pigmentation of the skin in people suffering from liver conditions.  There are a growing number of applications of AI in healthcare: algorithms capable of identifying tumors on X-Rays, AI to help doctors interpret ECGs.  During Covid, AI was used by hospitals to predict the incoming flow of patients and adapt their activity. The same technology was used by governments to anticipate the number of masks or vaccines that should be ordered depending on the evolution of the situation. Science for Care is a podcast by HealthTech for Care, a non profit organization designed to support and promote access to care for all. If you enjoy our show, please mention it to your friends, family and co-workers, and leave ratings and reviews on your favorite listening platform. Production: MedShake Studio Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

On this episode, I was joined by Dr. James Somauroo of SomX and The HealthTech Podcast. James and I discuss: HealthTech Communication Growing a Passion The HealthTech Podcast Healthtech Pigeon Delegating vs. Creating Systems James is the founder of SomX: The Healthtech Agency and supports the best healthtech companies in the world. He covers healthtech for Forbes as a contributor, hosts The Health-Tech Podcast, which has listeners in >120 countries and is the Editor-In-Chief of the Healthtech Pigeon newsletter. He is an anaesthetics and ICU doctor by training, has held roles in leadership, management and innovation at NHS England, Health Education England and the British Medical Journal and previously directed two healthtech accelerators; DigitalHealth.London, which provided startups with market access to the NHS, saving £48M for the UK health service and HS., which built, scaled and invested in deep technology companies. He has degrees in medicine, biomedical sciences and education and is a guest lecturer on healthtech innovation and entrepreneurship at academic institutions around the world.

This week on The Business of Healthcare Podcast I am talking about The Importance of Collaboration along with a host of other news.  We are changing things up podcast wise with a re brand and re launch – we are working with the amazing somX to make this happen. Keep an eye on our social media channels for details of the re launch or click here to join our newsletter to hear about it first.   Points that are discussed; The Importance of Collaboration  Surrounding yourself with people who are great at their jobs  Professional development  Re-launching the podcast  Courses that we are offering    Mentions in the podcast  Episode 21 – How to create an attractive place to work with Jemma Fairclough-Haynes   Episode 120 – No longer chasing the prize with Dr James Somauroo  PCN Manger Training  PCN Plus  New to General Practice Partnership    Work with me   I'm Tara Humphrey and I'm the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I've worked with 11 Training Hubs and 12 Primary Care Networks.  I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I'm also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 200 blogs.    For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time    Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

In episode 10 of ReBootHealth, I speak with James Somauroo. James is an anesthetist and intensivist in the UK who has become a healthtech start-up communication “whisperer”. He is the founder of SomX, host of the Healthtech Podcast, and editor and chief of Healthtech Pigeon. I was fascinated with James's journey and felt a kindred spirit in helping to shine a light on all the great founders and activities in the healthtech ecosystem. I was particularly excited to invite James as my first, inaugural ‘across the pond' guest. We touched on a number of topics including the power of storytelling, the importance of a communications strategy for healthtech start-ups, a high-level overview of the NHS healthtech ecosystem, and where we might go from here for the ecosystem in general. James is a prolific content distributor, and I was honoured to have him share his learnings. As always, I hope you find the episode valuable. Please write a review on Apple Podcast. For other episodes or to learn more you can visit us at ReBootHealth or follow us on Twitter: @Reboothealth1 Episode recorded on October 6, 2021. 10:10—Choosing healthcare policy vs founder route. 18:20—Storytelling and healthcare start-ups. 25:30—Balancing healthcare marketing and evidence. 37:50—Where is health technology today. 42:46—Assessing the UK health technology ecosystem. 54:00—Moving away from ‘hype and hope'.

This week's episode is the last of season one and Graeme welcomes back Dr James Somauroo to recap the season and talk about their highlights. Get in touch with emteq labs: www.emteqlabs.com | info@emteqlabs.com

Dr James Somauroo tells us about his journey from Junior doctor to healthech guru. We talk about "Quitting" medicine How to switch career How can the latest health tech run on NHS computers The sleeping habits of new puppies Clubhouse  Windows 95 - under rated OS Biggest financial mistakes Want to stay up to date with the latest financial information for doctors? Join 24,000 doctors receiving free financial CPD via email by downloading our free ebook here https://www.medicsmoney.co.uk/ebook/ Follow us on Twitter  https://twitter.com/medicsmoney Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/medicsmoney  

#120 – Dr James Somauroo  Dr James Somauroo is the founder of somX which is a healthcare agency.  He also the host of the Health Tech Podcast, a writer for Forbes and started his career as a Doctor.  James joins me on the podcast today to talk about his journey, starting as a Doctor, imposter syndrome and how he is creating a business that truly makes him happy.  “I do think what I'm building with somX, it's really exciting. I'm enjoying building a team. I'm enjoying building out our services and products, I enjoy trying new things and seeing what it's like and I think that's what I'm being granted the freedom to do at the moment, and that's what's making me happy.” Dr James Somauroo  This week on The Business of Healthcare:  Where it all started.  What lessons have been learned.  Professional & Personal Identity.  What work James really enjoys.  Connect with Dr James Somauroo:  Dr James Somauroo website     On Twitter  On Twitter somX  On LinkedIn   On Instagram  Health Tech Podcast  Work with me  I'm Tara Humphrey and I'm the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I've worked with 11 Training Hubs and 12 Primary Care Networks.  I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I'm also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 190 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

How to start a health tech podcast with Dr James Somauroo Join DrGandalf and Dr James Somauroo of the Health Tech Podcast as we hear his journey from doctor to podcaster and how he is building a health tech interest company. 

This week's Sunday Session features bonus content from last week's guest, Dr. Peter Kecskemethy from Kheiron Medical. Peter joins us to tell us his top tips for entrepreneurs... Get in touch with Peter: www.kheironmed.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kecsky/ Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli is CEO of Cooper University Health Care, the leading provider of health services, medical education & clinical research in Southern New Jersey & Delaware Valley PA. He received his masters degree in bioethics from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and trained in emergency medicine at Cooper University Hospital, where he also served as chief resident and as well as his CEO role, he is actively practicing in the emergency department at Cooper in Camden. Get in touch with Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-mazzarelli-ab983b6/ Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week, James is joined by Nader Alaghband, the founder and CEO of Ampersand Health, which creates clinically-validated, behavioural science-based digital therapeutics for complex long term conditions, including IMIDs and rare diseases. Ampersand Health is a social purpose company. Their primary objective is to improve the health and quality of life of patients with inflammatory conditions like Crohn's, Colitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Atopic Dermatitis. They work with other subject matter experts, including leading clinicians, patient groups and industry to develop unique therapeutic programmes focused on lifestyle and their apps use behavioural- and data-science to support improvements in sleep, mental health and adherence for people living with an inflammatory condition. They also work with the NHS, helping clinicians keep tabs on patients remotely, avoiding unnecessary hospital appointments and reducing the overall cost of care. Ampersand Health is recognised in the Digital Health Global 100, and has won an HSJ Award, the NHS Ideas Lab, the NHS Hackfest and competitive grants from government and industry. The company was selected for the 2018/19 PWC Scale Health programme, the NHS's 2019/20 DigitalHealth.London accelerator and Techforce 19. https://www.ampersandhealth.co.uk/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nader0102/ Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: www.jamessomauroo.com

On the podcast this week is Dr James Somauroo. James is the founder of somX: the healthtech communication agency which supports the best healthtech companies in the world. He covers healthtech for Forbes as a contributor and also hosts The Health-Tech Podcast, which has listeners in >100 countries. He is an anaesthetics and ICU doctor by training, has held roles in leadership, management and innovation at NHS England, Health Education England and the British Medical Journal and previously directed two healthtech accelerators; DigitalHealth.London, which provided startups with market access to the NHS, saving £48M for the UK health service and HS., which built, scaled and invested in deep technology companies. He has degrees in medicine, biomedical sciences and education and is a guest lecturer on healthtech innovation and entrepreneurship at academic institutions around the world. Alex and James discuss the role of innovation for corporates, emerging technology in healthcare and the importance of education in workforce development.

This week Graeme is joined by Ifigeneia (Ifi) Mavridou and James Somauroo. Ifi is an Affect Scientist with a particular research focus in human-computer interactions and evoking emotional states in VR environments. In this episode of the Emotion Lab, Graeme, James and Ifi discuss the two-dimensional model of human emotions and the largest study ever done to measure these in a VR environment. Listen in to learn more about the model, how the public reacted to the experiment and much more! Get in touch with the guest - Ifigeneia Mavridou: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ifigeneiamavridou/ Learn more about Graeme's work: www.emteqlabs.com | info@emteqlabs.com

On this week's Sunday session, James drops a clip from the Scrubbed In podcast. He was on that podcast last week discussing personal branding, healthtech and giving his advice to young medics and entrepreneurs. You can catch the full episode at the link below! Scrubbed In with Dr James Somauroo: https://open.spotify.com/episode/24l3QO7zZj6g8pHNnvQcG3?si=7q7fppxbQZSF9xr0AjXIag Read the latest Healthtech Pigeon newsletter

This week, Graeme is joined by Dr James Somauroo, founder of somX, to discuss the technology frontier of human emotion research. Listen in to find out why quantifying emotions is important, how cutting-edge tech is changing research and how a global community is working together in this new field of research. Find out more about Graeme's work: www.emteqlabs.com | info@emteqlabs.com

This week, Charles Nduka is joined by Dr James Somauroo, an anaesthetics and ICU doctor by training, now the founder of somX. Charles is a world renowned Consultant Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon, Associate Professor at Sussex University and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, multi-award winning academic, who published over 100 scientific articles, monographs and book chapters and is an experienced entrepreneur. As a surgeon, he is passionate about developing ways to use technology to improve lives. This episode of the Emotion Lab covers clinical research and explores the current challenges and future of emotion research. Find out more about Charles' work: www.emteqlabs.com | info@emteqlabs.com

Sam Shah is our guest in this week's episode. He's on the panel at the conference in October. Dr Shah is a Global Clinical and Digital Adviser, NHS Clinician, former Director of Digital Development for NHSX, and the Financial Times 4th most influential UK BAME tech leader 2019.Sam talks about one of the public health projects he worked on that's still very close to his heart, Healthy Places, Heavy Lives, which aimed to reduce health inequalities. He discusses the fact that health issues are complex, and why we don't always need more clinicians, instead we need a better way of tackling the wider social determinants.Sam shares his belief that people should always be at the heart of digital development, and discusses the balancing act in healthcare around the clinical, emotional, and practical needs of patients.We move on to discuss telehealth, its fast adoption during the pandemic, and the risk of omitting people who can't access these services and driving a new inequality.Sam also talks about the lack of diversity in leadership roles within the health service, why inclusivity means better outcomes for everyone, and shares his ideas on how the public health sector can be made more diverse and representative of our wider society. We loved talking to Sam and we hope you enjoy the episode. To get in touch with Sam, go to his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-shah-nhs/To catch his contribution on the panel at the Anthropology + Technology Conference on 9th October, get your ticket at anthtechconf.co.uk.And check out Sam's conversation with Dr James Somauroo on the Health-Tech podcast.

How do you forge your own career path as a doctor? Dr James Somauroo is a former anaesthetics/ICU doctor and the founder of the healthtech agency: somX. He writes for Forbes and is also the host of the Health-tech podcast — the biggest podcast in this space with listeners in over 100 countries. Find Dr James Somauroo: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-somauroo/ The Health-tech Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-health-tech-podcast/id1438968893 somX: https://somx.co.uk You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io

This week, James is joined by Tobias Alpsten, an international health tech executive and entrepreneur focusing on transforming patient care globally. He founded iPLATO in 2000 and is now the company's Chief Executive. As iPLATO's CEO, Tobias is responsible for setting overall strategy and for leading marketing, support, product management and engineering. Committed to evidence based interventions in healthcare, Tobias works with leading institutions including UCL, Imperial College, the Department of Health and Public Health England on increasing the evidence base for Health Tech through research. After studies in Stockholm and Paris, Tobias earned an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 1996. He joined Accenture's Paris office before founding iPLATO in London in 2000. Tobias has worked in Sweden, France, Ireland, Singapore, Japan, the US, and now the UK. https://www.iplato.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobias-alpsten-b95141/ 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

We're obviously still in the midst of COVID-19 and if you're anything like us at HS., you'll be locked away, thinking, strategising, and coming up with new ideas, new innovations, even new businesses... When we all emerge, you may well be looking for investment and so this episode is a conversation I had a few weeks back with Chris Smith, Managing Partner at Playfair Capital. Chris focuses his investing activities on seed (and pre-seed) deals in the UK and Israel and has a particular interest in HealthTech having gone in for uMed, who you might recognise from a very episode of this podcast and Vine health who recently did a £1M seed round. Chris loves finding companies operating in unloved/overlooked sectors that are ripe for disruption and you can hear all about him, his background and his investing right here. https://www.playfaircapital.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/cdgsmith/ 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 Jana Dowling, founder and CEO of the preventative mental health-tech company, Arkeo. Previously a standup comic, Jana Downling found her way to entrepreneurship via a severe depressive episode. In her recovery, Jana started tracking her mental health and based on the data she was collecting on herself, she was back into work within 6 weeks. She then started social enterprise hiring and training other sufferers of mental health issues and eventually wanted to build a mental fitness brand - a Fitbit for the brain. Jana started Arkeo Sept 2018 - initially raised 100k and has now closed £1M in VC funding. jana@myarkeo.com | www.myarkeo.com 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's Sunday Session is another update on the healthtech response to COVID-19. This week we heard from NHSX and how they're partnering with big technology companies on a centralised data store to provide decision makers with real-time dashboards of how the virus is spreading and what resources are available in healthcare to deal with it. Also featured this week: Tracking apps/websites - https://covid.joinzoe.com/ (UK), www.tracktogether.co.uk (UK), www.covidnearyou.org (USA) NHSX is calling on all innovators who can support the elderly, vulnerable and self-isolating during COVID-19 to apply for government funding of up to £25,000 to test their solution - https://techforce19.uk/ Car manufacturers are making ventilators - https://apple.news/ALoKnJ2I8Q0yYlVoBbQ3Ppg Elon Musk said he sourced 1,255 ventilators from China and shipped them to Los Angeles as US worries about a shortage in the face of coronavirus - https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-he-shipped-1255-ventilators-to-la-coronavirus-2020-3?r=US&IR=T Rock health's portfolio companies making impact - https://rockhealth.com/10-ways-rock-health-portfolio-companies-are-responding-to-covid-19/ The Coronavirus Tech Handbook (an open source google doc) - https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/ 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, we're still getting our heads around coronavirus. We're newly locked down in the UK, we're all getting used to remote working and as we heard on the last episode with Dr Aman Gupta, the front line is preparing in almost military style for what is going to be a war on coronavirus and a huge influx of patients. To talk more about the clinical and technology implications, I have Dr Lydia Yarlott with me. Lydia is a community paediatrician and founder of the communication app Pando - a communication tool for health and social care that essentially gives clinicians a replacement for Whatsapp with some extra functionality making it ideal for primary, secondary and tertiary care. We chat about how the exchange and flow of information is so important right now and how Pando are helping; we talk identity as a doctor and the privilege and responsibility coming with that right now, Lydia talks about what it's like in paediatrics and we talk about innovation at a time like this and how things are changing and might change in the future. lydia@hellopando.com | www.pando.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/lydia-yarlott-473b50138/ 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

For this special episode, James is joined by Dr Aman Gupta: long time friend and fellow digital health guy, frontline anaesthetics and intensive care doctor and has worked at accelerators like DH.L and the NHS Innovation Accelerator, so he speaks our language on this podcast. In this 30 min chat, Aman talks about the coalface of healthcare during this crisis we're in and for our listeners that might not have ever had that view, it's important to see and hear why we do what we do in healthtech, which is often to help people like Aman do their jobs when they're looking after patients. You're going to hear a really candid and honest view of what's going on with COVID-19, the preparation of hospitals and their workforce, the fear HCPs are going through, the anguish of their families when they see them go to work everyday. Aman is even buying a caravan to live on his own driveway to protect his wife and young child from the virus. Some really poignant moments in the podcast, so please listen to what Aman has to say…. particularly as he closes out the podcast at the end with his asks of the public… amangupta514@gmail.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/amangupta514/ 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

We're living through a significant moment in history and healthtech companies are looking at ways they can help with the COVID-19 outbreak. They are sharing learning, partnering and working around the clock to find solutions to the ever-growing list of problems on healthcare's front-line. Two companies that have come together are Q doctor and eConsult who are experts in telemedicine and triage respectively Both companies have been on the podcast previously (you can hear them on episodes 7 and 21), so in this episode, James dives straight in to hear how their partnership is helping clinicians and patients. www.qdoctor.io | www.econsult.net/ chris.whittle@qdoctor.io | murray.ellender@webgp.com 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's Sunday Session is a somber nod to those healthtech companies working around the clock to help with the COVID-19 pandemic. One such company is Feebris, whose machine learning platform helps triage, diagnose and remotely monitor pneumonia patients in the community. Mentioned this week: WHO's advice for the public: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public WHO Director General's COVID -19, March 11 speech in full: https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---11-march-2020 Feebris: www.feebris.com | partnerships@feebris.com | elina@feebris.com 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

How do you go from arctic warfare in the military to becoming a healthtech entrepreneur? Should you bunk in the same office with your investors? How do you go from being a first to second-time founder? Can you close a healthtech investment after a guy selling inflatable hammocks? This week, James is joined by Matt Wilson, founder and CEO of uMed, which enables healthcare providers to efficiently deliver cutting edge research to their patients, whilst radically reducing the barriers for scientists to conduct the studies that underpin our fight against disease. Through a process that combines the power of electronic health records with targeted patient engagement, uMed securely connects researchers with patients whilst removing the burden on clinicians and site staff. James and Matt talk bunking with your investors, being a military medic, picking the best idea if you have many, the power of reflection - realising your business isn't working and how to come back stronger as a second time founder, building networks based on giving value, how uMed is making life better for clinicians and organisations - efficiency savings, enabling academic interests and increasing revenue, innovative business models with pharma companies and healthcare providers, how to optimise for scale, finding the right investors, health data and privacy.... Loads of learning points for everyone in this one https://www.umed.io/ | matt@umed.org 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 Peter Birch, host of the Talking Healthtech podcast based out of Australia. Peter has worked in management roles in healthcare organisations for over 15 years; big ones and small ones, innovative start ups and slow moving beasts, he's seen all different kinds. Pete has experienced first hand the exciting developments and the frustrating stagnation's of all the ups and downs in health, as well as the impact to businesses, investors, doctors, and patients. Peter and James talk getting into and building a career in healthtech, Peter's career through operations, sales, all sorts of technologies and business models in healthtech, AI and machine learning, algorithms, gaining doctors' trust and a whole lot about the Australian healthtech scene - particularly for those looking to scale over into Australia. Peter gives some great insights and some great practical advice to the entrepreneurs listening. peter@talkinghealthtech.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterbirch84/ Talking Healthtech: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/talking-healthtech/id1451558982 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

Dr James Somauroo is Co-Founder at HS. Ventures, a UK-based accelerator and VC that builds, scales and invests in the best healthtech startups.  James hosts the HS. Health-Tech Podcast, featuring 2 episodes a week with listeners in over 80 countries, interviewing inspiring entrepreneurs in this space.  He is also is a contributor to Forbes in the UK. He is an anaesthetics and ICU doctor by training, and held roles in leadership at the NHS, Health Education England and the British Medical Journal and he previously directed an accelerator that provided startups with market access to the NHS.  He also has degrees in biomedical sciences and education, and a guest lecturer on healthtech innovation and entrepreneurship at University College London. In this episode, James talks all about HS. Ventures and why it exists.  He explains what an accelerator and navigator does, and their importance in the health ecosystem.   Listen in for valuable insights from James about what to do and what not to do when you're trying to raise money as a healthtech start up. (This guy has seen many pitch decks in his time!) Learn about the healthtech space in the UK, and whether or not it's worth having a go at cracking the NHS if you're from Australia or anywhere else in the world. He also talks about how his own healthtech podcast came about, and some of the amazing guests he has had in his time, including Talking HealthTech's very own Peter Birch later this week!  Swapcast time!

This week, James is joined by Ross Harper, founder and CEO of Limbic, on a mission to model human psychology. In doing so, they're solving the biggest problems in psychological therapy today. Combining artificial intelligence with beautiful digital product design, they're making it easier than ever for patients to provide their clinicians with high quality data. Ross is a computational neuroscientist that uses probabilistic models to understand the brain. He describes himself as an experimentalist, theoretician, entrepreneur, communicator, and loverer of suffixes! ross@limbic.ai | www.limbic.ai | www.linkedin.com/in/refharper/ For more information and content, check out: www.hs.ventures. Twitter @HSVenture Instagram @hs.ventures Linkedin at 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 at james-somauroo email at james@hs.live

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

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

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 48: The Story of Skin Analytics and Dermatology AI: https://apple.co/2RoxSre Renovos Raise £140k From The Ronald Furlong Fund: https://bit.ly/2FZMRCs The Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation, 23rd January 2020: https://bit.ly/38hifIR Big Brain Revolution, by Dr. Michelle Tempest: https://amzn.to/3ajlqS9 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

Why do humans ignore their limitations to climb Everest, run multiple ultramarathons to their death? Why do people bring food to funerals? What happens when you measure heart rate variability of French bankers during Brexit? This week, James is joined by David Plans, cofounder and CEO at BioBeats, an artificial intelligence company dedicated to understanding and promoting human wellbeing through preventative mental health. David describes himself as a psychology researcher and entrepreneur - his initial doctoral used AI to create adaptive media systems that imitated and queried the nature of human creativity. He's given papers and performances at SXSW, International Computer Music Conference, the European Conference on Artificial Life, IRCAM, the Darwin Symposium, and the Computer Arts Society in London. David is also currently pursuing a DPhil in cognitive neuroscience at the Social Cognition Lab, University of Oxford, with Geoff Bird. Interestingly, David's early research focused on computational intelligence approaches to understand and classify emotion in music making, which forced him to examine the psychophysiology of play, flow and stress. Having built technology (apps+sensors) that attempts to measure stress and interoception in neurotypical adults, he is now investigating the influence of interoceptive awareness on stress, as well as aspects of organisational behaviour surrounding empathy and vulnerability. David actually suffered a heart attack in Brussels airport due to a combination of high-stress, malnutrition and lack of physical awareness of his health declining, so is now most interested in whether training interoceptive awareness through digital forms of biofeedback could contribute to better stress resilience and foster empathy. david@biobeats.com | biobeats.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidplans/ 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 Professor Mike Trenell, one of the UK's leading lifestyle medicine researchers in digital health and diabetes having published over 100 peer-reviewed papers. Mike is also a Professor of Metabolism & Lifestyle Medicine at Newcastle University, founding director of the National Health Innovation Observatory and the expert behind the BBC documentary, 'How to Stay Young', where he used his background in weight management, diabetes and nutrition to inform the documentary's studies. Mike is currently imparting his expertise and background as co-founder and chairman of health-tech company Changing Health, a behavioural change platform for Type 2 diabetes management, prevention and weight loss. A load of lessons for entrepreneurs and those interested in health and technology this week, James and Mike discuss elite sport and tech, the value of good mentors shaping you, how we're all standing on the shoulders of giants in healthtech right now and the changing heath tech landscape through Mike's time in the sector. mike@changinghealth.com | @miketrenell | https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeltrenell/ 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

The first Sunday Session episode - 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. This time, James reflects on the podcast's growth to 84 countries through 2019 and previews some podcasts you might've missed over the Christmas period. James also mentions the next HS. Health-Tech Talks Event and tells you about his contributing writing to Forbes and how to get in touch with him to potentially write an article on your startup. 5 things I learned from healthtech podcasting in 2019: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-things-i-learned-from-healthtech-podcasting-2019-dr-james-somauroo/ HS Health-Tech Talks Event, 28 January: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hs-health-tech-talks-growing-a-startup-registration-86471437397 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). And 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 investment banking and selling watches to becoming a healthtech entrepreneur? This week, James is joined by Shaun Azam who runs finance, operations and a whole lot more at Sweatcoin, a UK-based healthtech company on a mission to leave a mark on the world by helping every person on the planet be more active. Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement - they verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community. Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into the here and now - immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement. In Janary 2018 they raised $5.7 million in a seed round led by Goodwater Capital with participation from Greylock Partners, Rubylight, Seedcamp, and SmartHub. Previously, Shaun built a consumer brand in his spare time to a six-figure business, worked in a global investment bank trading government bonds and advised some of the largest companies in the world on corporate strategy. James and Shaun discuss Shaun's hourney and what led him to Sweatcoin, how to escape the city, how to approach networking events to get opportunities in healthtech, how to build a business in public health, (there are B2B models that can work!) and a whole lot more. www.sweatco.in | shaun@sweatco.in | https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaunazam/ 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 build an AI company in healthcare? What can AI in radiology actually do? What should it be doing? Are clinicians ever going to be replaced? What does the future look like in healthcare AI? This week, James is joined by Dr. Hugh Harvey, who was a consultant radiologist before entering academia and completing an MD research degree in computational analysis of prostate MR, and winning science writer of the year twice in a row. Hugh worked as a consultant radiologist in the NHS (Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Trust), and sat on the Royal College of Radiologists committee for medical imaging informatics as well as the AI working group. He now acts as a consultant and advisory board member for AI start-ups in the UK, EU and America within the imaging and healthcare space, as well as sitting on several AI and academic committees including the KSS Academic Health Science Network AI Core Advisory Group. He has co-authored several white papers and reports on AI in healthcare, alongside bodies such as Reform, an independent think-tank, and Health Education England and is an associate editor at Nature: Digital Medicine. He acted as co-chair of the Topol Review, a seminal independent report for the UK Secretary of State for Health into preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future - read my take on the Topol Review for Forbes here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2019/02/11/nhs-announces-workforce-plan-for-genomics-ai-and-digital-medicine/ And Hugh has deep start-up experience both as the lead for regulatory affairs at Babylon (recently valued >$1B) and then the Clinical Director at Kheiron Medical ($22M series A raise), where they developed deep learning software to improve breast cancer screening, and were the first UK company to receive the CE mark for a deep learning application in radiology. Hugh's unique career enables dynamic bridging between the medical, technical and business worlds, with academic, clinical and operational expertise in cognitive digital solutions. He's a pragmatist, a realist and incredibly refreshing and entertaining on social media @DrHughHarvey | hugh@hardianhealth.com 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

Can you grow a beating heart in a lab? Could you test cardiac drugs on it? Could you transplant it into a human? This week, James is joined by Dr. Kevin Costa, Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer at biotech firm Novoheart, the first company in the world to have developed miniature beating human hearts from stem cells which are being used to change the way drugs are able to be screened for cardiac effects. The company itself has worked on a multi-phase research partnership with Pfizer and has filed IP on its proprietary system which can create healthy as well as sick mini hearts and combines organoid data with AI to screen for drug toxicity and efficacy with an exceptionally high degree of accuracy. As well as his work with Novoheart, Dr. Costa is also the Associate Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. novoheart.com | Kevin.costa@novoheart.com 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 Arjun Panesar, founding CEO of Diabetes Digital Media (DDM). Arjun founded Diabetes.co.uk whilst still a student at university in 2003 after his grandfather's quadruple heart bypass and diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Since then, Arjun has led Diabetes.co.uk to become the world's largest diabetes support community. He holds a first-class honours degree (MEng) in Computing and Artificial Intelligence from Imperial College, London, with his award-winning Masters research demonstrating the benefit of intelligent systems in improving user experience through collaborative machine learning and data mining. Arjun's focus lies in empowering patients with innovative digital health services that augment traditional healthcare. Today, Arjun leads the development of DDM's evidence-based digital health solutions which harness the power of big data, machine learning and behaviour change to provide precise and personalised patient care to patients. This is delivered through insurance companies, health agencies, and governments worldwide – including the NHS. This scalable, effective and engaging approach is redefining chronic disease and wellness, with over 1.2 million members across all platforms. Arjun has written a book titled Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare which explores how artificial Intelligence and machine learning can be used to improve patient and population health. Arjun's book is due for release on 2nd February via Amazon https://amzn.to/2EAHCtv ddm.health | arjun@ddm.health | https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunpanesar/ 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 Jacob Haddad, cofounder of AccuRx, a UK-based startup using clinician-to-patient messaging to bring patients and their healthcare teams together. They make patients healthier and the workforce happier. AccuRx raised £8.8 million in Series A funding in February 2019 and their vision is for anyone involved in a patient's care to easily communicate with everyone else involved in that patient's care, including the patient. Their flagship product, Chain SMS, is used by GP practices to communicate with their patients. Chain SMS is completely free; the focus is on learning and developing ideas for powering communication across the healthcare workforce. It's now used in over 1 in 3 GP practices, all by word of mouth. On this week's episode, James and Jacob talk around a huge range of useful topics for entrepreneurs: bottom-up field sales in healthtech, pivoting and the importance of testing your assumptions with humility (AccuRx was originally built to solve a problem in antibiotic prescribing), business models in primary care (and tips for selling), innovative ways to get a customer's attention and Jacob tells us of his key tips in healthtech: minimising time to value with every interaction and building a great experience for end-users. www.accurxcom | jacob@accurx.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobnhaddad/ 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

In this episode, Hall welcomes James Somauroo of HS. Ventures. James is a Founding Partner at HS. Ventures, which build, scales and invests in the best health tech startups. James is a health tech contributor for Forbes and hosts the HS. Health-Tech Podcast, which is listened to in 80 countries. He's an anesthetics and ICU doctor by training, he's held roles in leadership, management and innovation at NHS England, Health Education England and the British Medical Journal and previously directed an accelerator that provides startups with market access to the NHS, saving £48M for the UK health service. James holds degrees in biomedical sciences and education and is a guest lecturer on health tech innovation and entrepreneurship at University College London.

How do you go from the post room at Virgin Records to becoming a healthtech entrepreneur? How does watching iTunes disrupting the music industry prepare you to disrupt healthcare? In healthtech, why is it so important to delight users with a great experience? All these answered and more on this week's episode where James is joined by Elliot Engers, founder and CEO of Infinity Health, a London-based start-up that has developed a suite of digital tools to improve workflow and task management in healthcare. Infinity Health was founded at the end of 2013 by Elliott and his cofounder, Dr Adam Benton. Elliot has an awesome background, coming from the music industry and watching iTunes disrupt the sector and he's now taken that learning into healthtech and is an expert in managing software products and services. In 2014 the company won a proof of concept grant from Innovate UK to develop digital tools for handover and task management. Over the years this has developed into Infinity Health, a digital platform that provides collaboration and task management for teams at the point-of-care. This takes the form of a suite of digital tools that collect and integrate data, for example patient lists and medical data, alongside tools to communicate this information such as notifications, instant messaging and activity feeds. www.infinity.health | hello@infinity.health | https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliottengers/ 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

What's the future of women's healthcare? Gloria Lau, cofounder and CEO of Alpha, believes that the future of health services and product delivery, whether prescription or OTC, insurance-covered or cash, will have a simple and personalised commerce experience supported by a team of AI-assisted doctors and pharmacies. Her current company, Alpha, is a health services brand that enables easy access to online diagnosis and prescription treatment, and focuses on healthcare's primary decision makers - women. Alpha believes that the healthcare journey starts with basic medical needs - offering hormonal contraceptives, acne & anti-aging treatment, and elective cosmetic therapy. Alpha patients have access to a team of doctors and nurse practitioners, support for both insurance-covered and outside-of-insurance conditions, along with free shipping right to the patients home. Previously, Gloria headed up data products at Linkedin and was VP of Data at Timeful which was acquired by Google. She is also a consulting faculty at Stanford, holds a Ph.D. and MSc from Stanford Engineering & Computer Science, a BSc from UCLA Engineering, is the inventor on 11 patents in the area of recommendation systems and data science and is author of over 40 academic papers on information retrieval systems. gloria@helloalpha.com | www.helloalpha.com | www.av8.vc 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 does a night at the pub give you an idea for the first ever AI drug discovery company? Can you code how humans perceive beauty? Do you want the job title ‘Drug Hunter' for your CV? Well, this week, James is joined by Prof. Andrew Hopkins, a leader in using AI in the hunt for medicines who will answer all of those questions. A bold claim, but one that can be backed up: Andrew invented the Artificial Intelligence approach to fix the very expensive, very slow, and very risky process of drug discovery, design and development. Andrew's company, Exscientia, works with data scientists, chemists and machine learning engineers that mine huge amounts of data to bring new insights into what diseases are and how they can be treated. Their approach is currently shortening medicine discovery from 5 to 1 year and cutting the cost of drug development by more than 30%. Prior to Exscientia, Prof. Hopkins spent 14 years at Pfizer, where he was frustrated with the slow pace of innovation - so he went back to Academia to found Exscientia as a spin out from his lab in 2012. Since then, Exscientia has discovered 4 pre-clinical drug candidates, with the first drug design by algorithm to enter human clinical trials imminently - and signed over 8 major pharma collaborations with companies such as Celgene, Sanofi, GSK and Evotec, estimated to be worth over $1 billion in milestones and royalties. 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

Can AI diagnose skin cancer as well as a dermatologist? The answer is yes and it's was proved this month by my guest this week, Neil Daly from Skin Analytics. It's a UK based healthtech company whose DERM product featured in JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association for its ability to catch melanomas as sensitive and specific as a dermatology specialist. Skin Analytics' ambition is to help more people survive skin cancer by using their proprietary AI technology to improve access to high quality skin cancer screening. Neil started the company in 2012, having worked extensively in mobile innovation and strategy consulting for a number of years. He holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Western Australia and an Executive MBA from London Business School. Skin Analytics are working with a number of healthcare organisations in the UK and Australia and the recent study in JAMA was conducted across 7 NHS sites in the UK, led by the Royal Free London NHS Trust. neil@skinanalytics.co.uk | www.skinanalytics.co.uk JAMA Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2752995 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 Darius Shahida, Head of Growth & Chief of Staff at the $1.25 billion valued ultrasound company, Butterfly Network. Darius helps lead fundraising, global health, commercial and strategic efforts. In 2018, and while a student at HBS, Darius raised $250 million dollars for Butterfly Network - the largest medical imaging raise in history. Butterfly is fundamentally changing the way ultrasound is undertaken and you can read all about their brand new device in one of James' latest Forbes articles (link below) Darius was previously Head of Trading at a Birch Grove Capital, a Global Cross-Asset Hedge Fund which manages over $1BN. In this capacity he was responsible for all trading across Credit, Equities, Convertibles, Bank Debt and Commodities as well as helping the CIO in risk and portfolio management. Prior to Birch Grove, Darius built the Cross Asset Special Situations Desk at Morgan Stanley, where he was amongst the firm's youngest hires. In this role, he was responsible for sourcing and structuring over $1BN in banking transactions and acted as the Firm's specialist on Argentina during the default proceedings. Darius holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S from Duke University, where he studied Neuroscience and Psychology, and worked for Dan Ariely, one of the world's foremost Behavioral Economists. He speaks five languages, holds three passports and has lived and worked in New York, London, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. www.butterflynetwork.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/darius-shahida-aa05a777/ | https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2019/09/27/butterfly-a-125-billion-heathtech-company-launches-new-ultrasound-technology-in-the-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

What would you do with a cloned version of your voice? What if it sounded so real, it could turn text into jokes and even sing? What if someone cloned Her Majesty The Queen's voice? This week, James is joined by Dr. Matthew Aylett, a recognized world authority in speech technology research and development and was working at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley, California, before returning to Scotland in late-2005 to co-found CereProc. Matthew helps patients with conditions like throat cancers and neurological disorders to clone their voices and is exploring many other value propositions in health and healthtech. Prior to ICSI he was the senior development engineer at speech synthesis leader Rhetorical Systems (later acquired by Scansoft), which he joined at its formation. At Rhetorical, Matthew was responsible for the design, implementation, and testing of the company's core speech technology. Before Rhetorical, he spent five years at the University of Edinburgh researching speech and dialogue technologies. Dr. Matthew Aylett holds a BA in Computing and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex, and an MSc with Distinction and PhD in Speech and Language Technology from the University Of Edinburgh. info@cereproc.com | www.cereproc.com 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 Bonnie Roupé, a Swedish-born international businesswoman and social entrepreneur, best known as the founder of Bonzun, a health company providing pregnant women and parents with unbiased evidence based medical information. In 2004, Bonnie started a publishing house and founded the Swedish Golf Magazine for women, Red Tee, the first niched sports magazine for women. In 2005 she was named the most promising entrepreneur of the Year in Sweden and in 2012 she was listed as one of Sweden's super talents. She was rewarded Innovation Against Poverty by SIDA 2012 for Bonzun's work spreading medical information in the countryside in China. In 2001 and 2003 Bonnie sailed on around Svalbard and from Greenland to the United States, making her one of few people to cross the Arctic Sea, Greenland Sea, Labrador Sea and North Atlantic Ocean on a 47.7 feet sailboat! bonnie@bonzun.com | www.linkedin.com/in/bonnieroupe 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

Are you keen to learn the basics of AI and NLP? Are you looking to use NLP in your company? Could you? Should you? This week, James is joined by Valentin Tablan, SVP for Artificial Intelligence at Ieso Digital Health which delivers high-quality cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) online, for people experiencing common mental health issues. Valentin has spent nearly 20 years in the field of Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, and Artificial Intelligence. His team apply advanced AI techniques to Ieso's vast dataset to determine which evidence-based therapy interventions are most effective. Under his leadership, Ieso has created the industry's first (real-time) AI-enabled tools that augment therapists' which in turn increases quality and improves clinical outcomes. Prior to joining Ieso Valentin was the lead scientist on the question-answering service that powers Amazon's Alexa smart assistant; he is now using that expertise to help computers familiarise with the way patients express themselves during therapy. Valentin holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield and is a multi-lingual language specialist. He is a frequent speaker on deep learning tools and techniques which can revolutionise healthcare applications, medicine and diagnostics. www.iesohealth.com www.twitter.com/vtablan https://www.linkedin.com/in/vtablan/ 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 Natalie Douglas, who has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare services sector and is an award-winning business leader and entrepreneur. Following a sales and marketing career in the pharmaceutical industry, most notably at Johnson and Johnson, she led and secured an MBO, developed an executed an international growth strategy for the company, building a highly successful business and brand, establishing operations in North America, Europe and India. Natalie was the CEO of Healthcare at Home Limited from May 2014. She is also the founder of Lucidity LLC which is based out of New York. natalie@lucidity.com 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 Mohamed Taha, founder and CEO of Mojo Diagnostics. Mohamed has been a medical student, an engineer, an investor and is now an entrepreneur. His journey to entrepreneurship started with a misdiagnosis during his PhD in Lyon, meaning he underwent fertility testing thwart with problems and inaccuracies. This led Mohamed to explore the issue and eventually build a company to solve the worldwide problems. Mojo applies artificial intelligence to semen analysis, which is used to determine a man's fertility. Today, diagnostic semen analysis is a very time consuming manual process requiring a highly trained professional. Using AI, Mojo is able to make the analysis easier, increasing the number of sperm that are counted and assessed. Mojo therefore assists in improving accuracy and producing reliable results, in a fraction of the time. On the podcast, James and Mohamed talk about his journey, perceptions of fertility issues, the technology needed both now and in the future and how to get investment when you're trying to create a new market. https://www.mojo-diagnostics.com/ 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

Ever wondered how a technology giant like Philips thinks about healthcare and healthtech? This week, James is joined by Jan Kimpen, Chief Medical Officer at Philips. As the leader for clinical strategy, Jan works in close collaboration with health system customers to deliver health technology solutions that support better health outcomes and experiences at lower-cost. A former hospital CEO and Professor of Paediatrics, Jan is an expert on digital innovation in healthcare with deep expertise on data management and artificial intelligence, precision medicine, telehealth and advanced homecare. Jan is also the lead spokesperson for Philips' Future Health Index (FHI), a yearly study surveying healthcare professionals and the general populations in 15 countries to determine the readiness of nations to address global health challenges and build sustainable health systems. Jan and James talk about Jan's career, how Philips think about healthtech startups, how they're acquiring companies and the implications of the FHI report. https://www.healthworks.philips.com/ is the Philips start-up engagement team's webpage which includes a submission form for enabling startups to contact them. https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/news/future-health-index is the Future Health Index landing page for those keen to read up on the report. 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 Dr. Yeshwanth Pulijala, artist, dentist and entrepreneur. He describes himself as a generalist who builds technologies that improve healthcare. During his PhD in VR and AR applications in healthcare, he designed and evaluated one of the first immersive virtual reality training tools for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. After training as a dentist, he gained over five years of interdisciplinary experience in healthcare and technology (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Computer Vision). He previously built a startup (Open Simulation) to provide low-cost surgical simulation using Augmented Reality, using his understanding of healthcare challenges from a clinical point of view and building tools to address those needs. Currently, he is focused on making surgery safer through Scalpel Ltd., building a non-invasive sensing platform for hospitals to improve patient safety, prevent serious incidents and reduce costs. Their proprietary system detects and prevents errors in real-time during an operation using a combination of deep learning and sensor fusion techniques. http://scalpel.ai/ 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

James is joined by Dr. Jud Brewer who holds the position of 4th most watched TED talk in 2016, with 12 million views. Jud is founder of MindSciences Inc developing digital therapeutics in the area of addiction, he is Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University and research affiliate at MIT. He's also held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts' Center for Mindfulness. As an addiction psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions, Dr. Jud has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety (Eat Right Now, Unwinding Anxiety and Craving to Quit). Based on the success of these programs in the lab, he co-founded MindSciences, Inc. to create app-based digital therapeutic versions of these programs for a wider audience, working with individuals, corporations, and hospital systems to put effective, evidence-based behaviour change guidance in the hands of people struggling with unwanted behaviours and “everyday addictions.” James and Jud cover lots of topics - all of the above, plus commercialising academia, Buddhist psychology, the science of mindfulness and how to harness technology to exploit it and the do's and don'ts of building a digital therapeutics company. https://www.drjud.com/ 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

James is joined by Jake Leach, Chief Technology Officer at Dexcom. Jake oversees the development of next generation products and his teams are responsible for delivering best in class glucose monitoring technology paired with an exceptional user experience. Jake joined Dexcom in March 2004 to lead development of sensor electronics which were part of the first generation Dexcom system. Jake has served in various roles within Dexcom including Senior Vice President of R&D, Senior Director of R&D, and Manager of Engineering. From 1996 to 2004, Jake held positions in research and development at MiniMed and subsequently Medtronic Diabetes, focusing on the development of glucose sensing systems. Jake holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. James and Jake talk about how Jake's background in engineering and his inquisitive mind set him up for a career in medical devices, how MiniMed and Dexcom scaled so fast and why the diabetes-tech space is so exiting right now. www.dexcom.com 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

James is joined by Dr. Paul-Peter Tak, Venture Partner at Flagship Pioneering and CEO of Kintai Therapeutics. Over a more than 25-year career in the life sciences, Paul-Peter has created and led multiple companies. From 2011 until 2017, Paul-Peter founded and served as senior vice president and head of the immuno-inflammation therapy area unit at GSK. Under Paul-Peter's leadership, this unit brought more than 10 new mechanisms of action into the clinic. From 2016 until 2018, Paul-Peter was senior vice president of R&D pipeline, chief immunology officer, development leader, and co-chair of GSK's scientific review board. He oversaw the creation of a new portfolio of medicines in oncology, with a focus on immuno-oncology, epigenetics, and cell and gene therapy. Trained as a general internist, rheumatologist, and immunologist, Paul-Peter has held multiple professorships and has published extensively, with more than 550 papers in his name. He served as professor of medicine and chair of the department of clinical immunology and rheumatology at the Academic Medical Centre/University of Amsterdam for twelve years. He is a professor of medicine at the Amsterdam University Medical Center, honorary professor of rheumatology at Ghent University, and honorary senior visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the U.K. Paul-Peter received his medical degree cum laude from the Free University in Amsterdam and his Ph.D. from Leiden University Medical Center. https://www.flagshippioneering.com/ 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 Peter Hames, cofounder and CEO of Big Health, a healthtech company that creates digital programmes to help those with mental health conditions. Not wanting to enter into the potentially vicious cycle of taking medications to help him sleep, Peter, a psychologist by background, was inspired and motivated to start the company when he saw the market lacked any evidence-based, non-drug solutions for his insomnia. Big Health's first product is, therefore, Sleepio, which is a digital sleep improvement program delivered online or via their app. It gives users techniques from a treatment method called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which means that patients like Peter, who don't want to take sedative medications, can receive an alternative, proven, evidence-based therapy. James and Peter talk about Peter's background as an insomnia sufferer, his awesome founder story and how an innovative business model has led to Sleepio being available to 12 million people globally. Read Peter's Forbes interview - https://bit.ly/2Zxgnbv www.sleepio.com 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 Rick Rowan, the patient-founder of Nurokor, a company that creates pain-relieving products that use a technology called microcurrent. Their first product is a device that looks pretty similar to a smartphone, with small electrodes attached that are put onto the skin. It's a Class IIa medical device, FDA approved, CE marked and is selling into 5 different countries, with sufferers of many forms of chronic pain, including Olympic athletes, shouting about positive results. James and Rick talk about Rick's background as a chronic back-pain sufferer, his motivations from seeing family members in pain to combatting the opioid epidemic and how initially selling B2C has helped the business across healthcare. https://www.nurokor.com/ 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 Hamish Grierson, founder and CEO of Thriva, who has raised over £6M to provide a home-blood-testing service to UK consumers (and now some NHS patients). Hamish is a serial entrepreneur and moved into healthtech from fintech and talks about his journey and some of the similarities and differences between the two sectors. Hamish will also be appearing in the Forbes Healthtech Stories series in May, so look out for that shortly. www.thriva.co 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 David Crane, founder and CEO of Smoke Free to talk about how becoming a psychologist led to the creation of the Smoke Free app and gives a lesson to all entrepreneurs in how implementing the theory of behavioural psychology has led to it being downloaded over 4 million times. David is a long-time entrepreneur and has previously founded a development agency, making over 400 apps and websites, a debating association, a company that created insights out of online community forums/blogs and even a cannabis cafe. www.smokefree.ai 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 Alex and James are joined by Gian Seehra an investor at Octopus Ventures to talk about transitioning from entrepreneur to venture capital, health tech investments and how both founders and investors should approach setting early valuations. Gian focuses on health investments at Octopus and splits his time on deal origination and assessment of investment opportunities. Prior to joining Octopus, Gian spent two years in Canada building a biotechnology company called Pebble Labs tackling vector-borne, animal and plant diseases, and Trait Biosciences within the cannabis industry. Gian holds a degree in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham. He spent two months training in Muay Thai Boxing in Thailand and plans to spend two weeks a year training there. Octopus Ventures are one of Europe's largest Venture Capital teams with £1bn under management. Octopus is a generalist fund but with specialist investments in health-tech. Based in London and New York, they have Venture Partners in San Francisco, Singapore and China. Their typical initial investment is from £1m for Seed to around £5m for Series A. https://octopusventures.com 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

On today's episode Alex and James are joined by Dr Sohaib Imtiaz M.D., MPH, VP of Innovation at Owaves, a company that aims to optimize your circadian rhythm through calendar-tracked lifestyle modification. Sohaib is a board-certified physician in lifestyle medicine from the United Kingdom who ranked among the top 10 students nationally in statistics, business studies, and information technology. He focuses on lifestyle medicine while exploring technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Sohaib chose to study in his hometown of Manchester in order to prioritize his well-being and relationships. He believes in prevention and in ‘Supra-Health,' the ability to optimize our health. The team discuss the journey of transitioning from clinician to entrepreneur, public health and lifestyle medicine. https://twitter.com/digitald0ctor https://owaves.com 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

Stephen Bourke is cofounder of the UK medicines-management and digital pharmacy app, Echo. Not wanting to be defined by his own medical condition, Stephen, a lifelong patient, embarked on a journey to build a solution that empowers patients and puts them in control of their medications, improving adherence rates and making life with a chronic condition much easier. Since its creation in 2016, Echo has gone on to scale nationally and has helped tens of thousands of people to stay well. With Stephen's firm belief in patient centred-design, along with his background in branding and a team comprised of alumni from Apple, Lyst, Hello Fresh and Badoo, they might have proved that you can, in fact, make a medicines app sexy. We chat design, disruption and digitising the UK health service. Notes: Stephen mentions The Spine, which, for those that don't know, supports the IT infrastructure for health and social care in England, joining together over 23,000 healthcare IT systems in 20,500 organisations. 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

James is joined by Will Stoddart, a Medical and Tech CEO, with experience founding, growing and scaling Werlabs, a rapidly expanding healthcare internet business based out of Stockholm, Sweden. Prior to Werlabs, Will was a founder, along with his twin brother, at Haploflow; focusing on helping individuals make decisions based on data from wearables. Will has experience across software engineering, medicine and finance - plus a few war stories on founding, raising financing and managing very different cultures: think medicine vs product vs marketing. Currently, Will is founding a new consumer healthcare company that is focusing on monitoring, educating and treating age-related decline in functionality. They cover Will's background, overcoming tragedy, his companies, motivations and passion to solve problems in health. Will gives a practical guide to starting a company, setting up a board, how to streamline the process, mentoring and being mentored and also explains why the tech ecosystem in Stockholm is so powerful. Podcast references: - Monkeyglandin.com - How To Stay Young, BBC - The Hidden 40%, Andreessen Horowitz - Physician Innovators, Andreessen Horowitz - The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz - Daniel Eck, CEO of Spotify - Jonas Norlander, Founder of Avito - Bridgewater's Ray Dalio On The Value Of Embracing Your Weaknesses 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 a5JLhnPM0MwY7xN93CU1

James is joined by Alex Gilbert who currently manages large Life Sciences Partnerships at Medopad, one of the UK's highest-growth digital health companies. Alex is an experienced “Jack of all trades” who has been working within the Digital Health industry alongside healthcare, pharmaceutical and tech organisations. Through his experience at Medopad, he has launched national projects, defined product proposition and helped grow the company from 8 to >100 people. His passion is the use of technology to empower and engage the patient to take control of their care. The team talk about Alex's background, how he got into digital health, the value of partnerships with the likes of Apple, Medopad's $28M raise, how Alex has helped Medopad scale internationally and Alex's view on the future of the healthtech sector. www.medopad.com 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 Zoe Peden, an experienced healthtech entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist at Ananda Impact Ventures. They discuss Zoe's journey as founder of social care startup, MyChoicePad; how being driven by impact led her to VC and what she looks for in companies as an investor. Zoe holds an undergraduate degree from LSE, an MBA from Henley Business School and is a visiting lecturer at Cass Business School. She has a particular interest in deep technology for impact and now looks to invest in companies that address social challenges in vital areas such as education, health, consumption and the ageing population. www.ananda.vc 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 Charlie Regis the co-founder of Styliff Tech. Styliff is an award winning London & Slovenia based development company who pride themselves on perfecting technology in style. Charlie became European Doubles Champion in Tennis with co-founder Lucas in 2012. He worked at Bastion PR Agency in sports sponsorship and earned his BSc in International Business from Loughbrough University. 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 Eric M. Fish who is the Senior Vice President of Legal Services at the Federation of State Medical Boards and serves as the general counsel for the organization. Eric also assists in the FSMB's federal and state advocacy efforts, analyzing legislation and healthcare trends, and consulting on the development of model policies for state medical boards. His current work includes exploring how regulated industries and healthcare will respond to the integration of artificial intelligence, as well as pioneering the use of new technologies to improve the licensure and credentialing process. 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

Alex and James are joined by Jonathan Knight co-founder of Perfect Ward, an app that makes health and quality inspections easy and effective, across hospitals, care homes and community services. Jonathan has a background in management consultancy, specifically healthcare consulting and founded Perfect Ward to solve key issues he identified with the inspections reporting chain. We talk about the service side of healthcare, quality improvement and staying focused in the face of emerging technology. https://www.perfectward.com/ 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

Alex, James and Nathan are joined by Dr Chris Whittle CEO and Founder of Q doctor an online video doctor service providing safe, secure, instant and easy to use video GP consultations from your PC or smartphone. Q doctor supports GP practices directly and has been declared safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after a full inspection. The team discuss the journey of an early founder, selling into public health systems and ensuring that technology companies put policy and patient safety first. 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

Alex and James are joined by Dr Umang Patel, partnerships and clinical director at Babylon Healthcare who's mission is to put an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on earth. At Babylon, Umang spends his time making sure that safe, effective and personalised healthcare is available to everyone, everywhere. Umang is also an NHS Paediatrician, he can be found treating children at Frimley Park Hospital on Fridays. The team talk about saving money and the costs of delivering healthcare, what makes a good healthcare company and the importance of culture when companies scale. www.babylonhealth.com 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

Callum Bramley Founder and CEO of Respond joins Alex, James and Nathan on the podcast. Callum studied robotics and AI at the University of Reading and founded Respond to help patients with early-stage dementia; helping to identify subtle signs a person may exhibit to help improve detection. The team discuss dementia, computer vision and parallels between health-tech and the fashion industry. www.respondapp.co 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

Alex, James and Nathan are joined by Dr Elina Naydenova and Adam Bacon the founders of Feebris an AI-powered system that democratises access to high quality diagnostic and monitoring services beginning with respiratory disease. Elina is a biomedical engineer and data scientist PhD at Oxford University and has also spent time at the World Health Organisation while Adam comes from a strong product background having worked in large corporate supply chains. The team discuss everything about AI in healthcare from regulation and the latest advances to how to ensure high accuracy of data sets together with the role of submarines and samosas. http://feebris.com 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

In this episode Alex and James are joined by health-tech angel investor Robert Van Der Zalm. Robert is a globally experienced executive with a strong financial and M&A background and ex-CFO of Noble group a $90bn turnover commodity trader. The team discuss angel investing from both the angel and entrepreneur's viewpoint, startup finances and offer helpful tips around raising angel investment rounds in health-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

Alex, James and Nathan are joined by Dr David Neale CEO & Founder of Vesalian and Paul Roberts CEO of GPDQ. The team and guests discuss integrating tech into primary care and discuss David's background in behavioural science and why it is vital for digital health adoption by both patients and physicians. www.hs.live www.vesalian.com www.gpdq.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

In this episode Alex, James and Nathan talk a little about their own back-stories and how HS. came to be created. The team discuss the current key technologies in healthcare, the importance of having a technical co-founder in your early stage health-tech company, the latest digital health investments and how to create a product that patients love that providers will pay for. 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