PULSE

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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. 23 hrs ago

    Transforming healthcare from episodic care models to continuous health intelligence

    This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George explore the rapidly shifting boundaries of science, AI and human health. They unpack the extraordinary research using AI to design entirely new, functioning viruses, and the biosecurity questions that follow. Then, turning the discussion to South Australia’s newly announced Royal Commission into AI and whether governance can possibly keep pace with technological change. Then they look at the emerging era of the “continuous human”: Germany’s €40 million push to crack continuous hormone monitoring, and Google’s enormous SensorFM foundation model, trained on more than a trillion minutes of wearable data, which could point towards a future of personalised, continuous health intelligence. Plus, George recommends Paper Guide for scientific research, and we highlight two international opportunities for clinicians to contribute to research on AI in healthcare. Research Opportunities: Clinicians – be part of the research into clinician use of AI, open globally Link AI policy vs frontline reality survey (deadline 2 September) Link Resources: SPRIND Continuous Hormone Monitoring Challenge Link Ida Tin Coined Femtech. Now She's Funding Continuous Hormone Monitoring, Forbes Link SensorFM: Towards a general intelligence and interface for wearable health data, Google Research Link Recommendations: Paper Guide 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

  2. 6 Aug

    How the UK Professionalised Its Digital Health Workforce, with Jane Dwelly

    This week on Pulse: Amplify, healthcare's digital future won't be built by technology - it will be built by people. In this episode, Louise and George are joined by Jane Dwelly, Vice President International at CHIME and Chair of the Federation for Informatics Professionals (FedIP), to discuss why professional recognition, leadership and workforce capability are critical to healthcare’s future, especially as healthcare enters the AI era. They explore the UK's landmark move to recognise digital health professionals, what other countries can learn, how AI is reshaping workforce skills, and whether the future could include internationally recognised standards for digital health professionals. Connect with Jane on LinkedIn Resources: FedIP, Federation for Informatics Professionals Link CHIME CXO Summit, September @Cambridge Link CHIME membership Link Professional Membership for the NHS Digital, Data and Technology Workforce – NHS Link VisitPulse+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

  3. 30 July

    Trust, AI Governance Theatre & the First Big Health AI Lawsuit

    This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George explore one question that underpins the future of digital health: how do we build trust? They begin with Australia's latest healthcare cyberattack and New Zealand's response to one of theirs, asking if cybersecurity should be considered a patient safety issue rather than simply an IT problem.  The discussion then turns to the World Health Organization's first AI Readiness Assessment for Europe and what it reveals about the gap between rapid AI adoption and the governance needed to support it safely. The conversation moves to healthcare investment, examining Rock Health's latest funding report, new evidence on the economics of AI, and whether venture capital is backing the innovations that will deliver the greatest value for patients.  Louise and George also discuss how patients are already using AI, drawing on new research from Microsoft and the Commonwealth Fund that reveals where people trust AI, and where they still want human care. Finally, they explore one of the first major lawsuits involving ChatGPT and alleged medical harm, asking how accountability will evolve as consumers increasingly rely on generative AI for health advice. Recommendations: Clinicians – be part of the research into clinician use of AI, open globally Link Athens Digital Health Week, 23–25 February 2027, Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens Link Resources: Action Plan aims to strengthen Health NZ digital security, Pulse+IT (Reesh Lyon) — Link Health NZ Action Plan - Link Partnered Health cyber incident statement — Link WHO Europe statement: Govern AI in health before the gaps become irreversible — Link WHO report: AI is reshaping health systems — state of readiness across the European Union — Link Rock Health H1 2026 Funding and Market Overview — Link A systematic review of economic evidence of artificial intelligence in healthcare, Health Policy (Schmidt, Carter, McGuire, Mossialos, van Kessel) — Link 2025 Global Women's Health Investment Hit A Record, But U.S. Investors Curb Their Enthusiasm, Forbes (Geri Stengel) — Link Global analysis of country-level factors associated with chatbot usage for health, Nature Health — Link Patients' Perspectives on AI in Primary Care, Commonwealth Fund — Link ChatGPT Led to a Man's Near-Fatal Health Crisis, Lawsuit Claims, The New York Times — Link With Thanks to Datacom: Download the Executive Briefing Playbook Link Visit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters

  4. 23 July

    Australia's Healthcare AI Roadmap, the PM's Announcement, and the Race for Healthcare's Front Door, with Prof Enrico Coiera

    This week on Pulse: Amplify, Louise and George sit down with Professor Enrico Coiera - founder of the Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare and lead author of Don't Walk. Run., the third National Policy Roadmap for AI in Healthcare.  Enrico walks us through the Roadmap's 28 recommendations across eight priority areas, and we put it up against the Albanese government's new Office of AI and the national AI standards due to be legislated in early 2027 - asking whether a whole-of-government framework can do justice to a sector as complex as health. We also get into sovereign capability, the arrival of powerful open-weight models like Kimi K3, and what happens when the hyperscalers become the front door to healthcare. With Thanks to Datacom: Download the Executive Briefing Playbook Link Download ‘Don’t Walk. Run.’ here Connect with Professor Coiera on 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

  5. 16 July

    The Tech Works. The System Doesn't: Portugal Buys AI Physio, the First AI Complaints Land, and the Wild West of Health Apps

    This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George look at what happens when digital health stops being a pilot and starts being a system decision — and why, again and again, the technology isn't the hard part. Portugal Buys AI Physiotherapy for an Entire Country — Portugal's National Health Service has contracted Sword Health to make AI-supported physiotherapy available to all 10 million citizens, free after a prescription, prompting the question: are governments shifting from buying AI software to buying AI-delivered healthcare? AI and Accountability: The First Complaints Land — The UK's first complaints about clinicians' inappropriate use of AI have reached professional regulators, arriving well before the evidence base and accountability frameworks are ready. 95% of Health Apps Have No Verifiable Regulatory Approval — Rudolf Wagner's analysis found that of nearly 96,000 apps qualifying as Software as a Medical Device, 95% had no verifiable CE marking or FDA authorisation, leaving consumers with no easy way to know what they're actually using. Doctors Want Wearable Data, But Can't Use It — A new AMA(US) survey found 97% of physicians would review data from a patient's wearable, but no more than 6% have actually integrated it, blocked by missing standards, workflow fit, reimbursement and liability. Virtual Care Could Transform Residential Aged Care — Australian researchers found virtual care between aged care homes and GPs improves access and reduces unnecessary hospital visits, but is undermined by poor integration, unreliable networks and limited staff training — the technology works, the system around it doesn't. With Thanks to Datacom: Download the Executive Briefing Playbook Link Resources: Sword Health partners with Portugal's National Health Service Link First complaints made over clinician use of AI, HSJ via Patient Safety Learning Hub Link Ensuring the clinical impact of medical artificial intelligence, Andreoletti et al., Lancet Digital HealthLink Analysis of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) Compliance in App Store Applications, Rudolf Wagner Link Docs unable to harness wearables data, survey finds, Axios Link Virtual care could benefit residential homes – study, Pulse+IT Link Virtual care in residential aged care homes, Journal of Medical Internet ResearchLink Recommendations: Clinicians – be part of the research into clinician use of AI, open globally Link Standards Australia telehealth and virtual care standard Link There's An AI For That (TAAFT) newsletter Link Age-Friendly Futures newsletter, George Gouzounis Link "Welcome to the Land of the Free" — World Cup song by Jason Stills 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

  6. 9 July

    How Hugo Campos Built the Healthcare Tools the System Never Gave Him

    This week on Pulse: Amplify, Louise and George sit down with patient advocate and AI Champion, Hugo Campos. Hugo Campos has spent nearly two decades fighting for a simple principle: patients should have access to the data generated by their own bodies. After discovering that his implanted cardiac defibrillator was sending information to clinicians and manufacturers—but not to him—he became one of the world's leading advocates for patient data rights. In this episode, Hugo explains why generative AI changes everything. Rather than waiting for hospitals or vendors to build better tools, patients can now create their own AI-powered applications, analyse their own health data and ask questions that matter to them. We discuss patient-directed AI, the rise of personalised "N-of-1" healthcare, critical AI health literacy, and why the next wave of healthcare innovation may come from patients themselves—not institutions. Connect with Hugo on LinkedIn Resources – open source, freely available by Hugo: https://caihl.org/ (framework of critical ai health literacy) https://openkp.org/ (mcp server for access to provider data) https://myheartdata.org/ (19 years of Hugo’s own echo data) https://hugotronic.com/ (longitudinal data from Hugo’s implantable defibrillator) https://endothelial.org/ (explains endothelial dysfunction, built for Dave) Hugo’s newest app: https://hugoscore.org/ (evaluates patient-facing health apps throught he CAIHL lens) 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

  7. 2 July

    Shadow AI: When Doctors, Patients and Robots Move Faster Than the System

    This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise reports in from a heatwave in the French Alps while George braces for a Sydney winter — before the pair work through five stories on a single throughline: AI adoption by clinicians and patients is racing ahead of the institutions meant to govern it. They discuss why more than half of UK GPs are now using generative AI in clinical practice, how an AI system analysing a routine ECG helped save a patient's life, the emergence of agentic AI capable of managing clinical workflows, a robotic platform accelerating cancer drug discovery, and an Australian-developed wearable "stethoscope sticker" designed to continuously monitor heart and lung sounds. Resources: Half of UK GPs Now Use AI Blease et al Link AI Flagged a Failing Heart Hartman et al Nature Link Agentic AI Comes to Medicine Topol, Ground Truths Link AIME, Lievin et al Nature Link MIRA, Ferber et al Nature Link UpDoc FDA-clearance announcement — PRNewswire Link Shrestha, Innolitics Link Persistern Cells, Sun et al., ScienceAdvances Link The "Stethoscope Sticker" Dang et al., 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

  8. 25 June

    Is the NHS Ready for the AI-Powered Patient? with Pritesh Mistry

    This week on Pulse: Amplify, Louise and George sit down with Pritesh Mistry, Fellow for Digital Technologies at The King's Fund, to dig into his provocative analysis Is the NHS Ready for the AI-Powered Patient? Pritesh argues the NHS is no longer the centre of a person's health experience, but one participant in a much larger ecosystem - and he unpacks the three forces driving that shift: direct-to-consumer innovation, generational change, and a growing role for employers.  Pritesh asks if ‘NHS exceptionalism’, the belief that any care delivered outside the NHS must be re-validated within it, is responsible in an era of resource constraint. Pritesh, Louise and George explore what it really takes to share authority and clinical risk with better-informed patients, the sycophancy problem with consumer AI, and whether these tools will widen or narrow inequalities. Pritesh makes the case for building "AI readiness" as a core public capability rather than hardwiring rigid plans. Connect with Pritesh on LinkedIn Resources: Pritesh Mistry, Is the NHS Ready for the AI-Powered Patient?, The King's Fund (26 May 2026) Link Keep Britain Working Review: Final Report, GOV.UK Link Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England, GOV.UK 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

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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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