Healthtech Pigeon

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Healthtech Pigeon episodes

November 08 Are GLP-1s Fuelling an Eating Disorder Crisis?
Jessica + Anna talk to Rich Andrews, co-founder and CEO of Univa Health, about a JAMA Psychiatry study showing that global cases of anorexia and bulimia rose 71% between 1990 and 2023, whether GLP-1s could make things worse, why online prescribers need better eating disorder screening, and why care has to be built around the patient and their family.
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53 min
November 01 Stop Pitting AI Against Doctors
James + Jessica talk about Microsoft claiming “medical superintelligence” with its MAI-DxO diagnostic AI, Coherence Neuro raising $45m for implantable cancer tech, a Queen Mary University of London trial that stimulates a nerve in the ear to lower blood pressure, and why AI should be built to work with doctors, not against them.
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37 min
October 25 Scribes Are Just the Start, Accuracy Isn't Adoption
James + Jessica talk about Suki's $90M raise to take AI scribes beyond documentation, a study showing emergency doctors' use of an AI decision support tool dropping from around 68% to 30% over a single shift, and why the best product in the world still fails if it adds friction at 2am.
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30 min
October 18 Can We Trust Healthtech When the Connection Drops?
James, Jessica and Anna from SomX, talk about a Philips ultrasound fault linked to four deaths, Google’s Lancet study on its Amie AI chatbot, Google’s partnership with Flo Health, and why women’s health data shouldn’t sit behind a paywall.
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52 min
October 11 Finally the Wearable Penis Ring Exists
James + Jessica talk about RFK Jr telling the MAHA Summit that AI gives a better second opinion than any doctor, Grindr paying $250m for PurposeMed, the parent company of Freddie, a wearable penis ring, and why Telemedicine 3.0 is all about meeting people where they are.
00:00 - Intro
02:58 - AI vs Doctors: The Fight Only the Media is Having
26:39 - Grindr Wants to be Your Doctor Now
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49 min
October 04 Is Your Smart Ring Gaslighting You?
James and Jessica dive into this week's healthtech headlines, a CRISPR therapy that halves cholesterol in a first-in-human trial, the Health Foundation's £33bn case for better NHS tech, Oura scrapping its Nasdaq IPO, and why Jessica has broken up with her smart ring.
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38 min
September 20 500 Companies, One Very Big Drop
Belle and Elin dive into this week's healthtech headlines: Time's Top 500 Healthtech Companies list, Sword Health's discount buyout of Headspace, why cycle syncing workouts have women split, and what's at stake as the FDA weighs approval for the first psychedelic medicine.
00:00 - Intro
02:58 - Time's Top 500 Healthtech Companies & Headspace's $300m Sale to Sword Health
16:37 - Menstrual Fitness: Why Some Women Are Cycle Syncing Their Workouts
30:27 - FDA Hearing Weighs Access and Safety for Psychedelic Medicine
39:50 - Outro
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41 min
September 13 Who Owns Your Health Data?
Jessica and James sit down with pharmacist and NHS non-exec director Mark Duman to talk wearables, patient data, and why AI scribes might be missing the bits that matter most.
00:00 - Intro
04:04 - Wearables Recap
13:33 - AI Scribes May Fail to Capture Patients' Experiences
32:52 - IPremom Raise 15M to Help Pregnancy Care
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53 min
September 06 Jeremy Hunt on AI in the NHS: What He Actually Said
James and Jack Needham break down last night's Health Tech Talks panel with Rt Hon Sir Jeremy Hunt MP and Tara Donnelly — including the parts that didn't make it into anyone's LinkedIn post.
00:00 - Post-Event Debrief: Behind the Scenes with Jeremy Hunt & Tara Donnelly
13:00 - AI in the NHS: Adoption, Procurement Red Tape & AI Sovereignty
37:00 - Craft Over AI Slop: Why Doing Hard Things Matters
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47 min
August 30 When does AI stop being special?
Jessica and James from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week.

00:00 - Intro: This Week's AI Health Tech Roundup
01:00 - Are Wearables Lying to You About Sleep?
15:00 - NHS Rolls Out At-Home Cervical Screening
21:00 - Brain Surgery, Therapy Bots & Life-Saving Drones
34:00 - Jeremy Hunt Showdown
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44 min