This week, James is joined by Vishaal Virani, a doctor by background now working in digital health. After spending a couple of years in the NHS Vishaal spent some time in healthcare strategy consulting. He then moved into digital health, working at Ada Health, an AI-powered symptom assessment technology. He is now developing digital health innovations for RB, which owns brands such as Nurofen, Gaviscon and Durex. He is also a co-founder of Doctorpreneurs, the global community of healthcare innovators. 

Get in Touch with Vishaal: Dr. Vishaal Virani, MBBS | LinkedIn 

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Dr Harro Stokman is CEO & Founder of Kepler Vision Technologies, an Amsterdam-based health-tech start-up which uses artificial intelligence to look after the well-being of humans at night through vision-based body language recognition software. 

Kepler Vision's mission is to make the job of nurses operating in elderly care homes less stressful and more enjoyable by freeing them to focus on providing care through real-time body language recognition. A spin-off company from the University of Amsterdam, Kepler Vision comprises a team of experts across machine learning, computer vision and healthcare - as well as multiple PhDs. Harro is a fascinating guy, and I think an interview with him would be of particular interest to your audience as we enter the second wave of the global health crisis and with many hundreds of thousands of at-risk elderly people still stuck in overstretched care homes facing a Christmas without seeing their families and in danger of contracting the virus.

Get in Touch with Dr Harro: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/harro

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On this week's Sunday Session, we're asking the question: why has remote monitoring failed? The technology has been around for years, so why isn't remote monitoring ubiquitous across healthcare right now? Are poor quality signals and lack of good-enough AI the answer? My guest is Elina Naydenova. Elina is a biomedical & AI engineer, with a PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare Innovation from Oxford University. She is the CEO & co-founder of Feebris – a company whose AI-powered platform enables carers & community health workers to detect health conditions early.

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This week, James is joined by Geoff von Maltzahn, CEO and co-founder at Tessera Therapeutics. Tessera is an early-stage biotech start-up that launched this summer with $50M in financing to pioneer a new category in ‘gene writing.’ Going even further than CRISPR, Tessera’s gene writing technology presents the potential to cure genetic disorders, cancers, and even infectious diseases like COVID-19. Geoffrey was awarded a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and medical physics from MIT.

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This week on my Sunday Session I'm joined by Mimi Billing Senior reporter at @siftedeu. Mimi writes about European health-tech and innovation in the Nordics. Previously at @didigital_se.

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This week I'm joined by Arturo Sanchez, founder and CEO of Sofia, a Mexican competitor to European digital health platforms, taking aim at the Mexican health insurance and primary care sectors. In the $65bn USD Mexican healthcare sector, 91% of private spending is paid out of pocket, with too many people forced to pay extraordinary costs for care and pressures on access to primary services.

Arturo Sanchez is hoping to change that with a new digital service bringing care to patients at a lower cost.

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My Sunday Session this week is with Martin Blinder, CEO and founder of Tictrac (a leading health engagement company). In this podcast Martin gives us his top tips for entrepreneurs. You can listen to his full chat with me on episode #170.   

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Martîn Blinder is the CEO and founder of Tictrac. Tictrac is a personalized digital health and wellness platform designed to empower individuals to take greater control of their wellbeing. Martîn recently appeared on Sky News to discuss the increased demand in HealthTech tools and why now is a pivotal moment for health and wellbeing. He believes that the workplace of the future will not just be about ensuring a productive team, but supporting the health and wellbeing needs of staff.

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