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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 debates with our hosts’ deep takes on all the latest news in digital health.

  1. 28分前

    Nurture Your Mental Fitness: AI, Coaching Culture, and the Clinician of the Future, with Dr Kudzai Kanhutu

    Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health.  In this episode Louise and George sit down with Associate Professor Kudzai Kanhutu to explore one of the most profound questions facing healthcare today: what happens to clinician identity, power, and learning when AI becomes part of the team? We discuss: Why clinician identity is the real conversation behind AI adoption What a coaching culture actually requires in a hierarchical, time-poor health system The gap between compliance-driven AI and genuinely personalised clinical decision support Kudzai's vision for AI as a 360-degree professional mirror - drawing on real outcomes data, not vibes The COVID lesson: creativity flourishes when compliance is no longer enough Why C-suite AI decisions need to be prefaced with a standing invitation to say "you got it wrong"Final thoughts: the world doesn't have to end in AI Connect with Kudzai: LinkedIn 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 Follow us on BlueSky Louise | George | Pulse+IT Send us your questions pulsepod@pulseit.news Production by Octopod Productions | Ivan Juric

    36 分鐘

  2. 4月9日

    AI Safety, Ireland and Apple Get Serious, and the NHS and FEDIP Make History

    This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George unpack a rapidly shifting healthcare landscape, where AI is no longer theoretical, but already embedded in patient behaviour, clinical risk, and global policy responses. And a big win for the UK’s digital health workforce! Ireland’s AI Strategy for Health - Ireland releases a national AI for Care strategy, positioning AI as core infrastructure for healthcare delivery, with strong emphasis on governance, workforce integration, and data readiness. A rare example of a country moving beyond pilots into system-wide planning AI Named #1 Patient Safety Risk - ECRI ranks AI-driven diagnostics as the top patient safety concern for 2026, highlighting risks like automation bias, poor integration, and lack of governance, reframing AI as a clinical safety issue, not just a technology one. Apple Forces Health Apps Into Regulation - Apple mandates that health apps declare whether they qualify as medical devices, signalling a major shift from platform neutrality to accountability, and potentially reshaping trust, compliance, and developer behaviour globally Patients Are Already Using AI - New research from KFF, NEJM AI, and The Lancet shows that consumers are actively using AI for health advice, often before seeing a clinician, with evidence that AI is influencing real-world behaviour and reshaping care pathways NHS Recognises Digital Health Workforce - The NHS formally recognises its digital, data, and technology workforce as a professional group, a major milestone that elevates digital health roles and signals their critical importance to patient outcomes. Resources:Horizon Europe Grants Link Ireland’s AI for Care Strategy 2026-2030 Pulse+IT Link ECRI 2026 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns report Link KFF poll on consumers use of AI in health Link ESSENCE study, published in the NEJM AI Link Sara Riggare and Charlotte Blease in Lancet Primary 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. Follow us on LinkedIn Louise | George | Pulse+IT Follow us on BlueSky Louise | George | Pulse+IT Send us your questions pulsepod@pulseit.news Production by Octopod Productions | Ivan Juric

    44 分鐘

  3. 4月2日

    The Other 8,765 Hours - with Sara Riggare

    Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health.  Dr Sara Riggare has spent more than a decade challenging one of healthcare’s most deeply embedded assumptions - that patients are passive recipients of care. Living with Parkinson’s disease and trained as a chemical engineer, she has built a body of work that reframes patients as active producers of knowledge. In this episode, Sara shares her journey from diagnosis at age 32 to completing a PhD in ‘personal science’, where she studied her own condition to generate new insights into Parkinson’s. Her now-iconic “1 vs 8,765 hours” concept highlights just how little time patients spend in the healthcare system, and how much of their lives, and data, exist outside it.  We explore why healthcare systems still struggle to recognise patient-generated knowledge as valid, and how this creates an epistemic gap at the heart of modern medicine.  This is a powerful discussion about power, knowledge, and what it would take to truly design healthcare around the people who live with disease every day. Resources: Patients Are Not Waiting For Permission Lancet Connect with Sara Riggare: LinkedIn 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 Follow us on BlueSky Louise | George | Pulse+IT Send us your questions pulsepod@pulseit.news Production by Octopod Productions | Ivan Juric

    29 分鐘

  4. 3月26日

    AI Everywhere: In Your Pocket, on Your Wrist, in the Clinic, and Inside the Cell

    This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George explore the rapid emergence of AI health assistants from Big Tech, unpack the growing role of consumer wearables as research-grade medical tools, examine how AI scribes are evolving into multimodal and physical devices, and zoom out to a groundbreaking scientific achievement—simulating a living cell.  AI health assistants from Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Perplexity signal a shift from standalone tools to a persistent, orchestrating layer across patient data, raising urgent questions about trust, ownership and the future role of the health system.  A new partnership between Verily and Samsung could turn consumer smartwatches into research-grade data sources, unlocking new possibilities for decentralised trials, digital biomarkers and real-world evidence at scale.  AI scribes are evolving beyond software, with vision-enabled systems dramatically improving accuracy and new purpose-built hardware like Heidi Remote signalling a move toward AI as embedded clinical infrastructure.  And in a remarkable scientific breakthrough, researchers have simulated an entire living cell at the molecular level—opening the door to a future of in silico experimentation and personalised medicine at unprecedented depth. Resources:AI Scribe gets eyes npj Digital Medicine Link Cell Simulation Link EOI for the Chatbot User Guide for Patients 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 Follow us on BlueSky Louise | George | Pulse+IT Send us your questions pulsepod@pulseit.news Production by Octopod Productions | Ivan Juric

    49 分鐘

  5. 3月19日

    Startup Lessons from Guy Tsafnat & Decoding Healthcare’s Data Matrix

    Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health.  Guy Tsafnat joins Pulse to unpack why healthcare is “data rich but evidence poor,” and what it really takes to turn messy clinical data into something usable at scale.  He shares hard-earned lessons from building multiple startups, including why sales is harder than technology, how founders should think about co-founders, and why asking for help matters more than perfect pitch decks.  The conversation explores why healthcare data is fundamentally different to other industries, why most data projects stall before delivering value, and what needs to change to make evidence-based care actually work in practice.  Guy also gives a pragmatic take on AI in healthcare—why “rubbish in, rubbish out” still applies, where ambient AI is showing real promise, and why simply layering AI onto poor data won’t change clinical practice.  Finally, he reflects on the realities of building a global health startup from Australia, including the challenges of selling innovation locally and the advantages of lower development costs and strong R&D support.  Connect with Guy Tsafnat: LinkedIn 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 Follow us on BlueSky Louise | George | Pulse+IT Send us your questions pulsepod@pulseit.news Production by Octopod Productions | Ivan Juric

    29 分鐘

  6. 3月12日

    The ChatGPT Health controversy: what the viral Nature Medicine study missed with David Fraile Navarro

    Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health.  A recent Nature Medicine study went viral after reporting that ChatGPT Health under-triaged more than half of emergency cases when tested using clinician-written scenarios. The finding raised serious concerns about whether consumer AI tools are safe for medical triage. But researchers from Macquarie University’s Australian Institute of Health Innovation took a closer look at the study design and suspected the results might reflect the evaluation format rather than the AI’s clinical capability. In this episode of Pulse Amplify, Louise and George speak with David Fraile Navarro about their follow-up study testing five frontier AI models across more than a thousand trials. Their research suggests that when AI systems are evaluated using more natural, patient-style interactions rather than exam-style prompts, triage performance improves significantly. The discussion explores why prompt structure, forced answer formats, and restrictions on clarifying questions can dramatically alter model behaviour, and why designing realistic evaluation methods is essential as millions of people begin using AI for health advice. The conversation also examines broader questions: How should AI triage tools be evaluated? What role should clinicians play in AI-mediated care? And what do patients need to know before trusting AI with health decisions? References Ramaswamy A. et al. (2026). ChatGPT Health performance in a structured test of triage recommendations. Nature Medicine. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04297-7 Fraile Navarro D, Magrabi F, Coiera E. (2026). Evaluation format, not model capability, drives triage failure in the assessment of consumer Health AI. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18975048 Connect with David Fraile Navarro: LinkedIn 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 Follow us on BlueSky Louise | George | Pulse+IT Send us your questions pulsepod@pulseit.news Production by Octopod Productions | Ivan Juric

    27 分鐘

  7. 3月5日

    The Eucalyptus Exit, an AI Hackathon Cardiologist, and Why Good Tech Still Fails

    This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George break down… One of the biggest exits in Australian digital health history sees Sydney-founded telehealth company Eucalyptus acquired by U.S. platform Hims & Hers in a deal worth up to $1.6 billion, raising questions about the rise of global consumer health infrastructure and what it means for the future of care delivery.  A cardiologist in Brussels places third in Anthropic’s global Claude AI hackathon after building a patient follow-up tool in just seven days, highlighting how domain expertise combined with generative AI tools could dramatically accelerate healthcare innovation.  A massive NHS trial of an AI-enabled “tricorder-style” stethoscope shows the technology can dramatically improve detection of heart failure and atrial fibrillation — but poor workflow integration meant many clinicians simply stopped using it.  Finally, a curious new study finds emojis appearing in electronic health records, prompting a light-hearted but serious discussion about clinical documentation standards, data quality and what happens when modern communication habits collide with medical records. We are on tour! Charlotte Blease of #DrBot book fame and Louise are hitting the road together. The Sydney event was fantastic, it’s not too late to catch the Melbourne book launch. 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. Follow us on LinkedIn Louise | George | Pulse+IT Follow us on BlueSky Louise | George | Pulse+IT Send us your questions pulsepod@pulseit.news Production by Octopod Productions | Ivan Juric

    35 分鐘

  8. 2月26日

    Jordi Piera Jimenez on Interoperability Theatre and Building Digital Health on Stone, Not Sand

    Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health.  Jordi Piera Jiménez joins Pulse to unpack the foundations of digital health. Fresh from stepping down as Director of Digital Health Strategy at the Catalan Health Service, Jordi reflects on what most health systems are still getting wrong: interoperability that’s more theatre than reality, AI built on poorly structured clinical data, and the dangerous confusion of digital transformation with IT procurement. We explore why public health systems should own their digital infrastructure, how procurement can be a powerful lever for change, and why clinicians must be better supported to understand that documentation is the core of modern healthcare. Jordi shares a bold vision for the next decade: true digital public infrastructure, genuine patient agency over data, and platform economies that drive innovation without vendor lock-in. A thoughtful, systems-level conversation about infrastructure, governance, ethics — and getting the foundations right. Connect with Jordi: LinkedIn 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 Follow us on BlueSky Louise | George | Pulse+IT Send us your questions pulsepod@pulseit.news Production by Octopod Productions | Ivan Juric

    35 分鐘
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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 debates with our hosts’ deep takes on all the latest news in digital health.

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    PULSE+IT
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    2024年 - 2026年
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