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The Healthtech Podcast

The Healthtech Podcast

Dr. James Somauroo

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
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best The Healthtech Podcast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to The Healthtech Podcast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite The Healthtech Podcast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

The Healthtech Podcast - #147: The Story of Kheiron Medical, with Peter Kecskemethy ☤
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11/12/20 • 50 min

Dr. Peter Kecskemethy is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO/co-founder of Kheiron Medical, an AI cancer diagnostics company based in London. He is a computer scientist by background and prior to Kheiron, he founded two tech start-ups and was lead developer in two others. Peter did his PhD and post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford in high performance computing and computational statistics for population genetics. Kheiron’s mission is to give a better fighting chance against cancer and its current focus is breast screening. The company’s first product, Mia, has European regulatory approval, and won best new radiology solution for 2019.
https://www.kheironmed.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kecsky/
Get in touch:
www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

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The Healthtech Podcast - #136: Building brand in healthtech 🚀
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10/04/20 • 9 min

For this week's Sunday Session, we have a clip of James on the Virti Human Performance Podcast talking about what he and the team at somX do to build brand for healthtech companies, get their messaging on-point and how they think about content generation to specific audiences in healthcare. Whether you're building your personal brand or your healthtech company's brand, this one is worth a listen!
Listen to the full episode on the Virti Human Performance Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-human-performance-podcast/id1498467993?i=1000493127643
Join the waiting list for somX:
www.somx.co.uk
Get in touch:
www.jamessomauroo.com

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The Healthtech Podcast - #117: The Story of GE Healthcare, with Rob Walton
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07/31/20 • 53 min

This week, James is joined by Rob Walton, the president and CEO of GE Healthcare's businesses in 13 markets across Southeast Asia, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. He took on the role in June 2019 and is responsible for leading all the business activities for GE healthcare in the region.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-walton-511555/ | https://www.gehealthcare.co.uk/ Get in touch:

www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

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The Healthtech Podcast - #116: The Story of aMoon with Tomer Berkovitz 🌙
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07/27/20 • 48 min

Tomer is a Partner & CFO at aMoon, where he leads mid-late stage investments in healthtech companies. Tomer joined aMoon in early 2018 and led several investments including $30M Series C round in Zebra Medical Vision and $55M Series D round in Seer. He is also a board member in PharmaTwoB and Mapi. With 15 years of US capital markets experience, Tomer spearheads aMoon’s Bridge to Wall Street, where he manages the fund’s relationships with major investment banks, equity research analysts and investment funds.
Prior to joining aMoon, Tomer was the CFO & COO of Alcobra, a NASDAQ-listed development-stage biotech company, where he led successful public equity offerings from leading US healthcare funds. Prior to joining Alcobra, he was an Executive Director in J.P. Morgan’s Investment Banking Division in New York, where he played a leading role in numerous capital market and mergers and acquisitions transactions. In this capacity, he advised senior management and boards of directors of J.P. Morgan's key U.S. clients, including several S&P 500 healthcare firms. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Tomer worked in Citigroup's Investment Bank in New York. From 2000 to 2003, he served as an economist in the Financial Advisory Unit to the Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.
Tomer holds a Ph.D. in Finance and Economics (with Distinction) from Columbia Business School and has published a number of corporate finance articles in leading academic and practitioner journals. He also holds an M.Sc. in Finance and Accounting (Magna Cum Laude) and a B.A. in Economics and Management (Magna Cum Laude), both from Tel-Aviv University.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomerberkovitz/ | https://www.amoon.fund/
Get in touch:
www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

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The Healthtech Podcast - #113: The Story of Cinapsis with Owain Rhys Hughes
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07/16/20 • 52 min

Dr Owain Rhys Hughes is the founder and CEO of Cinapsis. He has over 13 years of experience working as a doctor and he is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He has been awarded a personal Fellowship from the Medical Research Council and has twice received the British Journal of Surgery Prize.
Cinapsis SmartReferrals reduces A&E attendances by 83% and face-to-face appointments by 70% through advice & guidance. GPs can contact specialists for advice quickly and securely. Cinapsis SmartReferrals makes it very easy for primary care physicians, nurses, paramedics and pharmacists to talk directly and securely with local specialists. Specialists direct patient flow and improve efficiency by controlling when and where they see patients. Cinapsis SmartReferrals has been designed with consultants to help them work efficiently and without disruption.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/owainrhyshughes/ | https://www.cinapsis.org/
Get in touch:
www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

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The Healthtech Podcast - Episode 101: The Story of Brainworks with Phillip Alvelda 🧠
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06/04/20 • 47 min

Phillip Alvelda is a scientist, an engineer, a serial entrepreneur, and an educator. Previously at DARPA, the central research and development organization for the U.S. Department of Defense that maintains the technological superiority of the U.S. military and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed sensors that have flown throughout the solar system. Phillip has founded new infrastructure, telecommunications, and media companies, including the DARPA-funded MicroDisplay; MobiTV; TaDa Innovations; and the non-profit Westminster Institute for K-12 Science Education Reform.
He is now the founder of Brainworks, which builds trustworthy intelligent machines, and applies them to solve complex global challenges. The company leverages the latest pioneering discoveries in neuroscience to build more complete, whole-brain AI systems that society can trust with life-or-death decisions.
Alvelda holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Cornell University, and Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has authored or contributed to more than 50 technical publications and holds numerous patents and a Technical Emmy award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
www.brainworks.ai | https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillipalvelda/

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The Healthtech Podcast - Episode 98: Early access to somX 🔳
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05/24/20 • 7 min

This week's Sunday session is a look into what James is building at somX. If you want to join the early access list, head over to www.somx.co.uk and be the first to hear the updates. Also mentioned this week - The London Business School Healthtech Challenge, a pitching competition with a £10,000 prize, which James is judging on Tuesday. Head to https://www.londonhealthtechchallenge.org/ to learn more and sign up to watch 👍🏼

Get in touch:
www.somx.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com | [email protected]

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This week James is joined by Paul Tunnah, founder of pharmaphorum, which combines industry leading publications with a specialist strategy and creative consultancy. Paul is an experienced pharmaceutical industry thought leader and adviser, with a specialist focus on cross-stakeholder communication, digital / social media engagement and collaborative innovation. James and Paul cover all things healthcare and communication and there's a lot of lessons for entrepreneurs looking to communicate what they do in this space!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paultunnah/ | https://pharmaphorum.com/
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[email protected] | www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

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For this week's session, I'm giving you my take on the brand new AI checklist which has been issued here in the UK for health and care organisations by NHSx. It's an incredibly succinct document outlining a bunch of simple questions for organisations to ask AI companies if they want to procure them. Loads to learn for startups, investors and healthcare organisations both in the UK and abroad.
There's also some info on somX... www.somx.co.uk
Grab the AI guidance here: https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/media/documents/A_Buyers_Checklist_for_AI_in_Health_and_Care.pdf
Get in touch!
www.jamessomauroo.com | www.linkedin.com/in/james-somauroo | [email protected]

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In this week's Sunday Session, Dilraj Kalsi is back to talk about some of the practical steps to take and hurdles to overcome to become an entrepreneur in the wellness space.
Subscribe to healthtech pigeon: www.healthtechpigeon.com
Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

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How many episodes does The Healthtech Podcast have?

The Healthtech Podcast currently has 379 episodes available.

What topics does The Healthtech Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Tech, Digital Health, Medicine, Podcasts, Technology, Health and Healthcare.

What is the most popular episode on The Healthtech Podcast?

The episode title '#331 Gender stereotypes and leadership: rejecting the pressure to conform with Sasha Tory from Ally Health' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Healthtech Podcast?

The average episode length on The Healthtech Podcast is 43 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Healthtech Podcast released?

Episodes of The Healthtech Podcast are typically released every 4 days, 3 hours.

When was the first episode of The Healthtech Podcast?

The first episode of The Healthtech Podcast was released on Oct 13, 2018.

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