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 66: The Story of Vivienne Parry OBE and Tomorrow's World 🌍
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 par…
Episode 65: Building Certainty & Trust As A Healthtech CEO ✅
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 …
Episode 64: The Story of Red Ninja and Impact Through Design 🤺
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 …
Episode 63: Focus 📌
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 …
Episode 62: The Story of Servelec and the Rio EPR 🇧🇷
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 …
Episode 61: AI, Africa and A £140k Investment 🌍
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 …
Episode 60: The Story of Biobeats and Coding Human Behaviour 🤖
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 Fren…
Episode 59: Understand Your Customer! 💥
The second 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 s…
Episode 58: The Story of 'Changing Health' and Behaviour Change At Scale 🚀
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 als…
Episode 57: The First Sunday Session 🤓
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, article…
Episode 56: The Story of Sweatcoin and Public Health 🏃🏾♀️
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 Sweatcoi…
Episode 55: The Story of Radiology AI with Dr. Hugh Harvey 🦾
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?
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Episode 54: The Story of Novoheart and Artificial Organs 💙
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 a…
Episode 53: The Story of Diabetes Digital Media and Social Platforms 👩🏽💻
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 …
Episode 52: The Story of AccuRx and Clinician-Patient Communication 📲
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 heal…
Episode 51: The Story of Infinity Health and Hospital Productivity 🏥
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 …
Episode 50: The Story of Alpha, Women's Health and The Silicon Valley Formula 👩🏽💻
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 ca…
Episode 49: The Story of Exscientia: The First AI Drug Discovery Company 💊🔍
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 wee…
Episode 48: The Story of Skin Analytics and Dermatology AI 🧴☀️
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…
Episode 47: The Story of Butterfly, Imaging Technology & A $1.25 Billion Valuation 🦋
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, commerci…