Healthtech Pigeon

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Healthtech Pigeon episodes

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
August 16 Everything You Didn't Know About the Federated Data Platform
Jessica and Jessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with help from Barlett Data's Tom Bartlett.
00:00 – Intro & setup
06:38 – Why Tom spoke out
35:15 – A coordinated campaign?
50:49 – Where FDP falls short

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1 hr 12 min
August 09 The AI Mental Health Reckoning
Jessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with help from Aahuti Rai.
Mental Health Innovation Showcase, Hale House — 15 September, London
https://harleystreethealthdistrict.com/event/mental-health-innovation-showcase-returns-to-harley-street-health-district/

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41 min
July 19 How do you sell a business without selling out?
James is joined by Dr Tommy Perkins, co-founder of Medics' Money, days after he and co-founder Dr Ed Cantelo sold the business outright to Pastest. Tommy tells the whole story: founding Medics' Money on the day his first daughter was born, the free tax rebate guide that has now saved doctors close to £80m, and the deliberate decision to bet on email and podcasting long before either was fashionable. It is a masterclass in leading with value, building a genuine community rather than a mailing list to sell to, and earning the trust of a hard to reach audience.

Then they get into the exit itself. Why sell a profitable, bootstrapped, 100% owned business at all, why Pastest (a family business that has supported doctors through exams since 1972), and what the next two years look like for Tommy inside a bigger company. Tommy also gives a refreshingly candid, practical walkthrough of how anyone can estimate a private company's sale price using Companies House data, typical industry margins and EBITDA multiples. James returns the favour with the real numbers behind Healthtech Pigeon and where SomX is placing its bets.

Along the way: the doctor creator economy and the four levels of monetisation, why vertically integrated creators win, how AI now lets a two person team do the work of ten, the death of legacy media and the rise of niche distribution, the case for building in public (and why Tommy didn't), and why he is still practising medicine two and a half days a week through all of it.

Connect with Tommy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommy-perkins-138864149
Learn more about Medics' Money: https://medicsmoney.co.uk
Medics' Money x Pastest: https://www.pastest.com/pages/medics-money

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This podcast was brought to you by SomX - https://somx.health

Resources:
Medics' Money - https://medicsmoney.co.uk
Pastest acquires Medics' Money (BusinessCloud) - https://businesscloud.co.uk/news/edtech-pastest-acquires-financial-platform-medics-money/
Pastest - https://www.pastest.com
Companies House - https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
GP Bullhound - https://www.gpbullhound.com
57 min
July 12 Can One Website Help Patients Beat NHS Waiting Lists?
James and Jessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with help from Dr Mustafa Ghafouri, creator of https://hospitalwaits.co.uk/

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49 min
July 05 Are we tracking too much, or not enough?
Jessica and Anna from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week.

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54 min