The Healthtech Podcast
The Healthtech Podcast covers the latest in health and technology through interviews with disruptive healthtech startups and leaders. Whether you’re a patient, founder, investor or simply interested in healthtech, The Healthtech Podcast has it covered.
🌍 Listeners in over 150 countries.
🎙 New episode every week.
🗣 Hosted by Dr James Somauroo.
www.thehealthtechpodcast.com | www.somx.health | www.jamessomauroo.com
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 426
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Episode 86: Hiring in Healthtech
Hiring is hard. In healthtech it's even harder. But right now, it's needed more than ever with so many people out of work. The expertise is pretty niche, it's tough finding people that 'get it' in he…
Episode 85: The Story of Playfair Capital 🟢
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…
Episode 84: COVID-19: Ideas, Innovation and Optimism 💡
This week's Sunday Session is about ideas, innovation and optimism in the face of lockdown and social distancing. Mentioned this week:
- If you want to join the HS. Office Hours with Ananda Ventures …
Episode 83: The Story of Arkeo and Mental Fitness
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 se…
Episode 82: COVID-19: NHSX Calls In Microsoft and Google
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 …
Episode 81: COVID-19: The Story of Pando and The Flow of Information
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 fr…
Episode 80: COVID-19: The View of an ICU Doctor, with Dr Aman Gupta MBBS, BSc, FRCA
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 a…
Episode 79: COVID-19 Update From Healthtech
It goes without saying that this week's Sunday Session is an update on the healthtech response to COVID-19. Featured this week:
- The Coronavirus Tech Handbook (an open source google doc) - https://c…
Episode 78: COVID-19 Brings Q doctor & eConsult Together
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 th…
Episode 77: Healthtech Responds to COVID-19 🤍
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 help…
Episode 76: The Story of uMed and Innovating Clinical Trials 🚑
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 founde…
Episode 75: Getting Things Right From Day One ☝🏼
This week's Sunday Session has some bonus content from Jacob Haddad, cofounder of AccuRx who appeared in Episode 52. Jacob gives his tips on how healthtech startups can get things right from day one …
Episode 74: The Story of Peter Birch and the Australian Healthtech Scene 🇦🇺
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 …
Episode 73: Selling Your Healthtech News Into The Media 🗞
This week's Sunday Session is about communicating your messages as a healthtech startup. As a contributor for Forbes, James gives his tips on how to sell in a press release as a founder without a PR …
Episode 72: The Story of Limbic and the Line Between Art and Science 👨🎨
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. Combini…
Episode 71: Health Economics and Solving a $1 Trillion Problem 💰
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 Sch…
Episode 70: The Story of Novartis and Going BIG On Data and Digital 💥
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 digita…
Episode 69: Commercialising Academia 👩🏽🎓
Stay true to yourself, study something with a path to commercial value, make sure it could actually change the world, get out and meet some entrepreneurs... Plenty of advice coming to you this week f…
Episode 68: The Story of Pharmacy2U and Sex, Drugs & Rock n' Roll 💊
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 …
Episode 67: Getting Started in Healthtech and Artificial Intelligence 🤖
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 Healt…