Healthtech Pigeon

Teamwork makes the dream work people! AI has been a hot topic over the past few years. On one side, healthcare teams are considering how to integrate it into their workflows, while regulators are figuring out how to certify it. There's a lot happening in between as well! We had Tim Horton, Associate Director at The Health Foundation, in the Pigeon Studio to discuss some of the work they are doing with AI in healthcare. He emphasised that progress requires a dedicated strategy for AI in healthcare to address the current issue of various different siloed plans from the key players ⬇️ #digitalhealth #healthechpigeon #digitalcommunication

If you put Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, and Kevin Hart in one room, what do you get? Big moves in healthcare, apparently! Recently announced in Fierce Healthcare, Function Health has raised $53 million for their personalised health testing platform, offering members access to biomarker lab testing. As broad ranging diagnostic testing becomes more accessible, there’s surely an argument that it’s valuable – but is this more about prevention or optimisation? SomX’s Jessica Somauroo believes we should have a clear distinction between the two with prevention focusing on people at risk of falling ill, rather than the worried well ⬇️ #digitalhealth #healthechpigeon #digitalcommunication

🗣️The best business advice this Pigeon could give anybody working in healthtech is this: Get the basics right. Honestly, we could spend our time giving you play-by-play breakdowns of why this investment matters, or that technology is going to change the world, but we don’t*. Because we know all anyone really wants is a sassy pigeon emailing them the best healthtech stories of the week, which this week include…👇 ⌨️ Kai Nicol-Schwarz reports as Healthtech 1 picks up a premier raise 🔫 Anna Bawden lifts the lid on the expert paper calling for the NHS to get the basics right on cancer care 🤩 Heather Landi takes a look at Function Health, the unlikely meeting of healthtech and Hollywood. 👉 Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington get preventative, as they launch Thrive AI health, a new behaviour change endeavour 💊 PolyModels Hub picks up a pretty penny to digitise pharma research, as Oscar Hornstein writes 🛒 AgileMD's eCART goes to market as the clinical deterioration suite receives FDA 510(k) clearance. 📈 David Bogoslaw meets ex-clinician turned VC Dr Ronald Ramzi, to see what innovations flat the ZOI CAPITAL co-founder’s boat. 🩸How effective is healthtech at reducing blood pressure? Quite, say Atsushi Sakima et al in a recent paper for hypertension research Pods from 🔊 The Healthtech Pigeon Podcast with SomX’s Jessica, James and Daisy 🔊 The Healthtech Podcast with Together Digital’s Liam Cahill 🔊 The Guardian’s Science Weekly Podcast: ZOE and personalised Nutrition 🔊 Fierce Healthcare’s Podnosis podcast explores the state of digital health investment Find these stories, and other fun things too, at healthtech pigeon dot com *Yet. We rarely follow our own advice, and nor should you. #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthtechpigeon

Pigeon loves new and exciting technology as much as the next bird… However, a recent article in The Guardian highlights that in tackling cancer care in the UK, experts caution against relying solely on technology to solve all our problems. Fair point. SomX’s Daisy M. echoes this sentiment, emphasising that amidst the technological advancements in the NHS and healthcare overall, we must not overlook the basics to ensure everyone has access to the best healthcare ⬇️ #digitalhealth #healthechpigeon #digitalcommunication 

It’s Friday. You’re not doing any actual work, and even if you left your desk, it’s probably just going to rain all day anyway… So why not keep that Microsoft Teams green light on by scrolling through the best healthtech jobs of the week. We’re not going to lie, even Pigeon was tempted by some of these…* 📎 Senior Node.js & Cloud Engineer, Isla Health 📎 Product Designer - Commercial, Flo Health Inc. 📎 Quality Assurance Automation Engineer, Skin Analytics 📎 Investment Manager Life Science and Medtech, ZINC Get links to apply at healthtechpigeon.com *All that stopped us was our complete lack of skills. #healthtechpigeon #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthtechjobs

🤖 Software is eating the world, so maybe spare a thought for the poor robots? Pigeon has to confess, we’ve got a soft spot for healthtech hardware, and there’s no shortage of it in this week’s round up of the best stories in healthtech, which this week include…👇 🦾 Kai Nicol-Schwarz meets Esper Bionics, the bionic limb company with hopes for a future in microsensors 👏  MedTechNews meets Papcup, the pain free cervical cancer test kit 6️⃣ the Health Foundation’s Nell Thornton, Tom Hardie, Tim Horton and Malte Gerhold set out their recommendations for how to be strategic with healthcare AI 🚺 Shona Wright examines femtech’s role in closing the gender health gap 🤨 Yuzhe Yang et al consider the thorny issues of imaging AI when it comes to generalisation 💰 Vigneshwar Ravichandran meets Meela after its health funding round 🕹️ Fiona O'Driscoll asks if clinical simulation could change how healthtech is evaluated 🫓  Emma Beavins tracks Q1 healthtech funding as it finds its rhythm. Pods from 🔊the Healthtech Pigeon podcast with Huw, Jess and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust's Dr Julia Dawson 🔊 The Healthtech Podcast with Dr. James Somauroo and Primary Venture Partners Sam Toole 🔊The Man Up / Man Down Podcast with Numan’s Luke Pratsides 🔊 The ZOE Science and Nutrition Podcast with Dr LOUIS J ARONNE, MD PC Find all the stories in this weeks newsletter at healthtech pigeon dot com (link in comments, as always!) #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthtechpigeon #bionicarms #femtech

Strategy? What strategy? When it comes to AI, Pigeon’s more of a suck-it-and-see type of bird…. (Honestly, until ChatGPT concedes that a super-intelligent pigeon might know a thing or two about healthtech, we’ve sworn off using it…) But for the NHS, AI has implications on workloads, ethics, and equality – so a strategic approach to its use and deployment will be vital. But we’re a far cry from that being the reality, say the brains at The Health Foundation. In a new report, they lay out six wise recommendations any strategy needs to include… …and you can read them (as well as the rest of the week’s top healthtech stories) by signing up to the newsletter at HealthtechPigeon.com #healthtech #healthtechpigeon #digitalhealth #HealthcareAI

🧑💼 Today, Wes Streeting starts his dream job in the health sector – and soon, you could too… Whether you’re a policy and systems type (like Wes), or more of a hands-on ‘likes to do-the-doing’ sort, Pigeon’s got you covered, with some of the best jobs in digital health right now, including… 📎 Digital Innovation Programme Manager, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London Eye Hospital 📎 Interoperability Specialist for Digital Health Projects, EY 📎 Head of ASO, Flo Health Inc. 📎 Deputy Director, Horizon Scanning Demand Signalling, NHS England 📎 Healthtech Innovation Engagement and Delivery Manager - West Yorkshire, Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber Think of it this way, job hunting is hard - but it can be a bit less hard when the best jobs in healthtech are delivered straight to your inbox every sunday. Missing out? Sign up now at healthtechpigeon.com #healthtech #digitalhealth #healthtechpigeon #healthtechjobs

There's not much Pigeon likes more than a personal story to tug on the ol' heartstrings. Reflecting on his time at HLTH Europe, SomX’s Dr. James Somauroo emphasises a key takeaway from a number of sessions: never underestimate the power of a person's lived experience. While evidence-based information is crucial in healthcare content creation, personal experiences shared on social media help to create content that resonates, just as well as it educates ⬇️ #digitalhealth #healthechpigeon #digitalcommunication

👉 Sometimes, when you’re struggling, all you need is a little nudge in the right direction. Whether it’s an investor saying to a founder ‘have you thought about this instead?’ Or a doctor to a patient, saying ‘this device could help you…’ Sometimes, it’s just a Pigeon, bundling more inspirational healthtech stories into one newsletter than you can shake a stick at*, including... 🦄 Kai Nicol-Schwarz is holding out for a unicorn… 🎚️ Lawrence Dunhill spots a gap in regional health innovation funding 📈 Marissa Plescia has the deets on Pomelo Care’s $46m series B 💸 Antonio López Escárzaga reports as SAVA pick up €7.4 million to scale personalised health monitoring  🔟 Marina Temkin, CFA asks VCs which healthtech startups we should be watching closely 🤖 Health Tech World meets the robots fighting necroptosis 🐣 Dana Alomar finds out how AI is helping tackle infertility 🍟 Fergus Walsh shares the story of the boy and the neuromodulation device. 👉 Heather Landi has all the takeaways from Teladoc Health’s research on AI-powered diabetes management Plus pods from… 🔊 The Healthtech Pigeon Podcast (Post-HLTH download) with Jessica and James 🔊 The Healthtech Podcast with Harrison.ai’s Dimitry Tran 🔊 Chief Healthcare Executive’s Data Book Podcast with Cuero Health’s Lynn Falcone 🔊 Digital Health Unplugged with Jordan Sollof and Altera Digital Health’s Mark Hutchinson Read/listen to all of these nuggets of wisdom at healthtechpigeon dot com (Links below) *We’re sure it helps somebody. #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthtechpigeon #remotemonitoring #AI