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 46: The Story Of Healthe & Blue Light Technology 👁🗨
How bad is the blue light from your devices for your health? What technology is out there to combat it? How do you build a business tackling such an issue? This week, James is joined by Justin Barret…
Episode 45: The Story of Cereproc and Speech Synthesis 🗯
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 …
Episode 44: The Story of Bonzun and Pregnancy-Tech 🤰🏽
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 pare…
Episode 43: The Story of Ieso Digital Health and NLP 🗣
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 Ie…
Episode 42: The Story of Natalie Douglas and Being A Healthtech CEO 🤷🏼♀️
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 entreprene…
Episode 41: The Story of Draper & Dash and Hospital Analytics 🏥
How did a company go from selling luxury ties 👔 to scaling predictive hospital analytics software? This week, James is joined by Orlando Agrippa, CEO and founder of Draper and Dash, a London-based, V…
Episode 40: The Story of Mojo and Fertility Technology 🤰
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 entrepreneursh…
Episode 39: The Story of Philips and Healthtech Corporates 💡
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 strate…
Episode 38: The Story of Scalpel and Tech in Surgery 😷
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 …
Episode 37: The Story of Jud Brewer, Digital Therapeutics and Mindful Tech 📱
Episode 36: The Story of Dexcom and Diabetes-Tech 🍰
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 monitor…
Episode 35: The Story of Flagship Pioneering and The Future of Medicines 🧪
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 mult…
Episode 34: The Story of BIOS & Hacking The Human Brain 🧬
Can we one day hack the human brain? That day might be sooner than you think... This week, James is joined by Emil Hewage, Co-Founder and CEO at BIOS. Emil undertook PhD research in computational neu…
Episode 33: The Story of Teckro and Innovating Clinical Trials 💊
James is joined by Gary Hughes, CEO and co-founder of Teckro. Gary founded Teckro with his brother, Nigel Hughes, and CTO Jacek Skrzypiec. Teckro uses machine learning to help get drugs and treatment…
Episode 32: The Story of GlaxoSmithKline and the Importance of Design In Healthtech 🧬
James is joined by Andrew Barraclough, VP of design and innovation at GlaxoSmithKline. With thirty years’ experience, Andrew Barraclough is a leading voice at the heart of design and innovation in th…
Episode 31: The Story of Xenzone and Digital Mental Health 🧘🏽♀️
James is joined by Zoe Blake, CEO of Xenzone. Zoe is on a mission to provide improved access to clinically excellent mental health services across England and beyond via digitised counselling - power…
Episode 30: The Story of Vincent Grasso, A Wall Street Legend and Extreme Telemedicine 🏔
This week, James is joined by Vincent Grasso, a surgeon, software architect and medical informaticist. He’s currently Global Practice Lead for IPSoft where he designs Cognitive Health Agents and thei…
Episode 29: The Story of Endomag and Nanotechnology 🤖
James is joined by Eric Mayes, serial nanotechnology entrepreneur and CEO of Endomag. Eric has 20 years of experience in technology. He was named the Royal Society of Chemistry’s ‘Entrepreneur of t…
Episode 28: The Story of Birdie and AgeTech 👴🏻
James is joined by Max Parmentier, founder and CEO of Agetech startup, Birdie. Max has previously scooped $15M from investors including Bill Gates to work on start-up Wambo, an Amazon-esque marketpla…
Episode 27: The Story of Albion VC and the History of Healthtech ⏳
This week James is joined by Andrew Elder, Deputy Managing Partner at Albion VC. Andrew initially practised as a surgeon for six years, specialising in neurosurgery, before joining the Boston Consult…