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Healthtech Pigeon SomX
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- Health & Fitness
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4.5 • 6 Ratings
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Like normal healthtech news but, you know, not boring.
The team at SomX bring you the audio version of the weekly Healthtech Pigeon newsletter - a panel show with journalists, VCs, podcasters, entrepreneurs, execs and those with a strong opinion to make things interesting. Regular hosts and guests are Dr James Somauroo, Jessica Smith, Belle Taylor, Huw Penson, Jess Farmery from the SomX team.
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What does an AI in healthcare strategy look like?
Huw and Belle from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter with help from The Health Foundation’s Tim Horton.
[02:15] - AI outperforms clinical tests at predicting Alzheimer’s progress
[42:30] - Digital health needs women at the heart of it
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A full-body MRI scan or the ultimate selfie?
James, Jessica and Daisy from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter.
This week: What should the next AI healthcare strategy cover?
[03:15] -Function pockets $53M for personalized health testing backed by celeb investors Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal and Kevin Hart
[18:25] -NHS urged to prioritise cancer care basics over tech and AI ‘magic bullets’
[39:00] - Effectiveness of digital health interventions for telemedicine/telehealth for managing blood pressure in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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What should the next AI healthcare strategy cover?
Huw and Jess from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter, with help from University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire Trusts, Dr Julia Dawson
08:35 - Priorities for an AI in health care strategy
24:05 - Pain-free home test kit for cervical cancer is unveiled
33:15 - AI prosthetic limbs and advanced sensors: how one startup is building tech for next gen wearables
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📚Reading list:
A whole sector approach to policy change will accelerate integration of sex and gender in research | The BMJ
Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations | Science
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The ultimate HLTH Europe roundup
James and Jessica from SomX do a post-HLTH download of all of the most exciting announcements from last week’s event in Amsterdam.
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Reframing the investment landscape
Join Jessica, Huw and Jess from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter, with help from Coulter Partners’ Ian Coyne.
This week:
[03:00] - Be a part of a study: What kind of person builds a digital health startup?
[09:30] - Freespira bets on slow and steady, amid spectacular digital health collapses
[23:00] - What do health tech leaders want from the general election campaign?
[37:50] - How virtual reality transforms women’s labor experiences
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Does Gen AI have a place in therapy?
Join Jessica, James and Huw from SomX breakdown the best stories from this week’s newsletter.
[02:30] - Lying To Your Therapist Is Being Superseded By Telling The Truth To Generative AI
[23:45] - Urinary incontinence neuromod newcomer Amber Therapeutics nets $100M
[32:15] - AI in Healthcare Report: Healthcare AI investment growing faster than non-health AI
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