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. 19H AGO

    Two AI Healthcare Futures? Australia Builds Medicine Infrastructure and China Scales GenAI to Billions

    This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George tackle big shifts in medicines safety and the accelerating global AI race in healthcare. Australia moves toward a National Medicines Record The Federal Government announces reforms requiring medicines prescribed via online platforms to be uploaded to My Health Record — including clinical context. With medication-related harm accounting for around 250,000 hospital admissions annually, is this the safety infrastructure Australia has needed for decades? AI predicts 130 diseases from one night of sleep A new Nature Medicine study claims a sleep foundation model trained on 585,000 hours of data can predict future risk of more than 130 diseases. Breakthrough preventative medicine — or promising science with important caveats. China’s AI healthcare surge China’s Ant Group health chatbot reaches 30 million monthly users, embedded inside Alipay’s super-app ecosystem. Meanwhile, China announces a $2–3 billion national AI healthcare strategy targeting population-scale deployment by 2030. Are we witnessing two divergent AI healthcare futures — cautious and regulated versus centralised and scaled? 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 Resources Dr Sara Riggare’s Checklist and Resources for Meaningful Engagement of 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

    38 min

  2. FEB 12

    Grahame Grieve on the Politics of Interoperability, Community & the Disruption We’re Not Ready For

    Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health.  In this episode of Pulse Amplify, Louise and George sit down with Grahame Grieve, creator of FHIR and one of the most influential global figures in digital health. What followed was a wide-ranging conversation on community, leadership interoperability, and the impact of AI on healthcare. This episode moves beyond interoperability and into systems thinking, societal change, and the legitimacy of healthcare institutions in the age of AI. Connect with Grahame: 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

    37 min

  3. FEB 5

    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. 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

    52 min

  4. JAN 29

    Did 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 consumersWhy GenAI could become the default digital front door to healthcareHow this shifts power, trust and expectations in the clinician–patient relationshipThe realities (and myths) around privacy, misinformation, regulation and safetyWhat 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. 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

    47 min

  5. JAN 22

    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. Follow Alain 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

    58 min

  6. JAN 15

    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. 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

    57 min

  7. JAN 8

    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. 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 min

  8. JAN 1

    Pulse+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 LinkPulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: New Zealand digital health LinkPulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Allied health breaking new ground LinkPulse+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. 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

    20 min
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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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  • Creator
    PULSE+IT
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    57
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    ©PULSE+IT
  • Show Website
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