Healthtech Pigeon

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Healthtech Pigeon episodes

June 28 What happens when NHS waiting times become searchable?
Jessica and James from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week.

00:00 - Intro
01:49 - A doctor built the NHS waiting-times comparison the e-RS dashboard won’t give you
14:03 - Pastest buys Medics’ Money, and the “doctor life-admin” stack quietly consolidates
21:02 -Meanwhile, the NHS throws £8m at AI to shrink those same waiting lists

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32 min
June 21 HLTH Europe 2026 Recap & What Did Midjourney Announce?
James from SomX chatted through all the best news from HLTH 2026, with Motic's Harvinder Power.

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58 min
June 14 How do we get digital health beyond the pilot phase?
Jessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with Heather Cook, Fiona McCormick and Toby Croft.

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1 hr
June 07 Can patients trust pharma with their health data?
Jessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with Coulter Partners' Ian Coyne.
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28 min
May 31 What happens when sport, longevity and biohacking collide?
James from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with Freyr Health and Panio's Dr Tomasz George
00:00 - Intro
05:08 - The Enhanced Games are real, and they’re equal parts entertaining and concerning

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53 min
May 24 Can AI fix the NHS workforce crisis?
James from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with Patchwork's Dr Anas Nader

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45 min
May 17 Wearables, Whistleblowers & a Resignation We Did Not Plan For
Jess and James are back from a brief hiatus to break down three of the biggest stories shaping healthtech right now.
First, Whoop hires its first in-app doctor and Google launches the Fitbit Air - signalling that consumer wearables and primary care are converging faster than anyone expected. They get into what happens when your health data lives across competing ecosystems, the case for portability standards, and a viral TikTok in which a Whoop user catches her boyfriend cheating via Strava kudos.
Then: the Palantir saga rumbles on. A leaked memo published by the FT and the Guardian confirms that contractors were granted access to identifiable patient data on the Federated Data Platform before pseudonymisation. James and Jess disagree - loudly - on how to read it.
Finally, Berlin-based Ditto raises €7.6M from Heal Capital to build the patient-side equivalent of an ambient AI scribe: record your appointment, get a plain-language summary, share it with the people who matter. Plus a kicker: Wes Streeting resigned as we were recording.
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37 min
April 26 Can ChatGPT really be trusted by clinicians?
Belle and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week.
Stories:
Palantir's NHS break clause is suddenly very much on the table
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Clinicians, a free AI tool for physicians, NPs and pharmacists
The Women's Health Strategy arrived with a £1.5m FemTech fund and a very quotable Streeting line

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46 min
April 19 Can the NHS walk away from Palantir?
Jessica and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Dr Jing Ouyang CGO and Co-Founder of Patchwork Health.
00:00 - Intro
09:10 - FDP: An Insider's Perspective
28:21 - WHOOP affiliate selected for CMS innovation program
Stories:
https://www.bartlettdata.co.uk/post/blog-coming-soon
https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/whoop-affiliate-selected-for-cms-innovation-program-to-expand-tech-enabled-care-for-medicare-patients

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42 min
April 12 What does the future of healthtech regulation look like?
Jessica and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Hardian Health's Dr Hugh Harvey.

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40 min