PULSE

By PULSE+IT

PULSE, the podcast, produced by Pulse+IT and hosted by digital health legends Louise Schaper and George Margelis, is an enlightening, entertaining look at global digital health trends and current deba... more

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The podcast currently has 55 episodes available.

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February 05, 2026 Predictions and The To-Do List You Need Now to Respond to the GenAI Announcements
Dr Louise Schaper and Dr George Margelis are back with part 2 of their discussion to unpack the biggest healthcare story of the moment: Big Tech’s decisive move into generative AI for health.

January alone saw major announcements from OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon One Medical, signalling that healthcare is no longer a side experiment for AI companies — it’s a core vertical.

Today we will dive into enterprise impacts, predictions, and provide a practical to-do list for health leaders.

We are on tour!
Charlotte Blease of #DrBot book fame and Louise are hitting the road together. Come see them in person and get your booked signed by Charlotte!
Sydney: Tuesday 3rd March 6pm, Gleebooks, Glebe. Get tickets here
Melbourne: Tuesday 10th March 6.30pm, Mary Martin Bookshop, Southbank. Get tickets here

Visit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a rich treasure trove of archival material. People in the know, get their news from Pulse+IT – Your leading voice in digital health news.

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53min
January 29, 2026Did AI just become the default digital front door to healthcare?
In our first Hot Topics episode of 2026, Dr Louise Schaper and Dr George Margelis unpack the biggest healthcare story of the moment: Big Tech’s decisive move into generative AI for health.

January alone saw major announcements from OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon One Medical, signalling that healthcare is no longer a side experiment for AI companies — it’s a core vertical.

In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Louise and George explore:
What ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare actually mean for consumers
Why GenAI could become the default digital front door to healthcare
How this shifts power, trust and expectations in the clinician–patient relationship
The realities (and myths) around privacy, misinformation, regulation and safety
What this moment means for healthcare business models, vendors and startups

This is a wide-ranging, honest and occasionally provocative discussion about where healthcare is heading — whether the system is ready or not.

🎧 Part 2 will dive into enterprise impacts, predictions, and a practical to-do list for health leaders

Visit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a rich treasure trove of archival material. People in the know, get their news from Pulse+IT – Your leading voice in digital health news.

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48min
January 22, 2026 Pulse Summer: Dr Alain Labrique from WHO, on Building Global Digital Health Systems That Serve Countries, Community, and People
Welcome to Pulse Summer 2026, where Louise and George revisit the Pulse Pod archives to bring you a curated set of interviews which will challenge and inspire.

Today, we revisit our chat with friend of Pulse, Dr Alain Labrique, Director for the Department of Digital Health and Innovation at the World Health Organization. We chat about the transformative role of digital health on a global scale.

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58min
January 15, 2026 Pulse Summer: Dr Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer at Google, on Trust, AI and Patient Care
Welcome to Pulse Summer 2026, where Louise and George revisit the Pulse Pod archives to bring you a curated set of interviews which will challenge and inspire.

Back in late 2024, we were joined in the studio by Dr Karen DeSalvo — Chief Health Officer at Google, former US National Coordinator for Health IT, public health leader, clinician, and one of the most thoughtful voices globally on how technology, policy and equity intersect in healthcare.

We covered a lot of ground in this conversation — from Karen’s journey as a physician and public health leader, to why patient access to their own health information still matters deeply; from AI’s role in drug discovery and clinical practice, to how generative AI could transform public health, prevention, and global health equity at scale.

“Dr Google”, herself personifies what it means to be human and to put people first in everything she does.

Follow Karen on LinkedIn Link

Google Resources:
AI in Action: Accelerating Progress Towards the Sustainable Development Goals Link
Transforming Public Health Practice with GenAI. Health Affairs Link
Google Open Health Stack Link
Google for StartUps Growth Academy Link
The Keyword Blog: AI and Health collection Link
The Check Up with Google Health Link

Visit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a rich treasure trove of archival material. People in the know, get their news from Pulse+IT – Your leading voice in digital health news.

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57min
January 08, 2026 Pulse Summer: Liz Salmi on What Happens When Patients Get Test Results Before Doctors
Welcome to Pulse Summer 2026, where Louise and George revisit the Pulse Pod archives to bring you a curated set of interviews which will challenge and inspire.

Louise & George talk with Liz Salmi, Communications & Patient Initiatives Director for OpenNotes at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the US about her research and patient advocacy work, and what happens when patients get bad health news from reading it in online first

Paper: When Bad News Comes Through the Portal
Keynote: Getting Ready for Open Everything, MedInfo 2023
Follow @TheLizArmy on LinkedIn | BlueSky

Visit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a rich treasure trove of archival material. People in the know, get their news from Pulse+IT – Your leading voice in digital health news.

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28min
January 01, 2026Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Bonus Show
Welcome to Pulse: Year in Review, where Louise and George unpack the big stories from Pulse+IT’s 2025 Year in Review series.

Segment 3: AI and the rise of Virtual Care

Resources:
Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Australian digital health Link
Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: New Zealand digital health Link
Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Allied health breaking new ground Link
Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Community and Aged Care Link

Visit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a rich treasure trove of archival material. People in the know, get their news from Pulse+IT – Your leading voice in digital health news.

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21min
December 29, 2025Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Part II
Welcome to Pulse: Year in Review, where Louise and George unpack the big stories from Pulse+IT’s 2025 Year in Review series.

Segment 1: Aged Care’s Digital Reckoning

Segment 2: Allied Health’s Breakthrough Year

Resources:
Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Allied health breaking new ground Link
Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Community and Aged Care Link

Visit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a rich treasure trove of archival material. People in the know, get their news from Pulse+IT – Your leading voice in digital health news.

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Send us your questions [email protected]
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41min
December 22, 2025Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Part I
Welcome to Pulse: Year in Review, where Louise and George unpack the big stories from Pulse+IT’s 2025 Year in Review series.

Segment 1: AI goes mainstream

Segment 2: Modernisation, Standards, and the Path to Integration

Segment 3: Risk, Governance & its Relationship to Innovation

Resources:
Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Australian digital health Link
Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: New Zealand digital health Link

Visit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a rich treasure trove of archival material. People in the know, get their news from Pulse+IT – Your leading voice in digital health news.
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42min
December 11, 2025Healthcare’s Trust Paradox: AI Scribes, Augmented Humans, and the Rise of “Influencer Medicine”
Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now - from billion-dollar hype to human-level trust.

Are AI Scribes The Billion-Dollar Burnout Band-Aid?
Doctors adore them, investors can’t stop funding them - We dig into the paradox of technology that makes clinicians happy but might not be improving productivity—and why transparency is becoming urgent as these tools expand into agentic workflows.

Chatbots in Therapy: When AI Joins the Session
From therapists secretly using ChatGPT mid-session, to patients uploading their medical records for advice, and one founder shutting down his AI therapy app over safety fears — can AI-mediated care ever truly be therapeutic?

New Zealand’s Digital Déjà Vu
After a tough 2024, New Zealand’s back with a 10-year digital health plan, a new Centre for Modernisation, and a promise of one innovation a month. But with no funding announcement and an election looming, is this genuine commitment or just another round of hopeful planning? Tender watch is on.

MIT’s Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies
MIT Technology Review’s annual list has brain–computer interfaces voted readers’ #11 pick. Are BCIs about to finally enter their translation era? And would George drill a hole in his head for the tech?

The BMJ vs. TikTok Medicine
What happens when money, marketing, medicine, and misinformation collide? Raffael Heiss can tell you as he’s mapped it. Spoiler alert: it’s not god. Tina Purnat argues we can't regulate this away—we need to recognise the information environment as a determinant of health.

Resources:
AI Scribes paper, NEJM AI Link
NZ DH Strategy, Pulse+IT Story Link
MIT Technology Review’s Breakthrough Tech List Link
Public health challenges of ‘medical influencers’ BMJ Link

Visit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a rich treasure trove of archival material. People in the know, get their news from Pulse+IT – Your leading voice in digital health news.

Follow us on LinkedIn Louise | George | Pulse+IT
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Send us your questions [email protected]
Production by Octopod Productions | Ivan Juric
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46min
December 04, 2025You, Me & AI. David Fraile Navarro on triadic care in the clinical consultation
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health.

What happens when AI becomes a valued third party in the clinical consultation between a clinician and the patient? George and Louise sit down with author and postdoctoral research fellow Dr David Fraile Navarro to discuss the British Medical Journal special on generative AI in the clinical encounter.

Resources:
Connect with David on LinkedIn Link
BMJ special on Generative AI and the Clinical Encounter Link

Visit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a rich treasure trove of archival material. People in the know, get their news from Pulse+IT – Your leading voice in digital health news.

Follow us on LinkedIn Louise | George | Pulse+IT
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Send us your questions [email protected]
Production by Octopod Productions | Ivan Juric
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35min

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How many episodes does PULSE have?

The podcast currently has 55 episodes available.

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