The Healthtech Podcast
The Healthtech Podcast covers the latest in health and technology through interviews with disruptive healthtech startups and leaders.
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#464 How to go to market in healthtech - Ross Drynan from We Don’t Consult (opens the original)
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Ross Drynan has spent twelve years at the intersection of technology and healthcare, almost all of it in go to market, including building the go to market that took a small dental software company to international market leadership. He now runs We Don't Consult, which despite the name is a consultancy, working with clinicians becoming founders, SaaS companies stuck after their first few percent of market share, and established teams trying to work out AI adoption. The conversation opens on why s
#463: Real world evidence & the metrics patients care about in healthtech (opens the original)
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Nader Alaghband co-founded Ampersand Health with two NHS gastroenterologists, Dr Gareth Parkes and Dr Bu Hayee, and has spent about eight years building it. His argument here is uncomfortable and worth hearing. Too much of a hospital appointment is spent on the things doctors care about, and not enough on the things patients care about. People living with Crohn's and colitis do not measure their week by an inflammation marker. They measure it by whether they held down a job and kept up with thei
#462: Dr Nikita Kanani, Global Medical Director at Neko - Neko's Year 3 Prevention data & Insights from 80,000 scans (opens the original)
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Dr Nikita Kanani MBE is Global Medical Director at Neko Health and still a practising NHS GP. Before Neko she was medical director for primary care at NHS England, through the pandemic and the vaccine rollout, and she and Dr James Somauroo start there because it explains everything that comes after. She is precise about what those years were actually like. Two or three in the morning on Teams in her pyjamas, her daughter building a diorama of the Roman empire beside a call with the Prime Ministe
#461: Deborah Cohen, BBC & ITV journalist: Has the Internet Hijacked Our Health? (opens the original)
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Deborah Cohen is a medically qualified investigative journalist, formerly science editor at ITV News and health correspondent at BBC Newsnight, where she led the programme's COVID coverage. Her book, "Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked Our Health", shortlisted for the Royal Society science book prize, started from one question: are influencers making us sick? She spoke to more than 200 people to answer it, and the answer turned out to be more nuanced than the title suggests. She and James
#460: Why healthtech still hasn't had its big exits (opens the original)
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This week, James is joined by Dr Sai Narimetla, an A&E doctor who simultaneously works in investment banking at SSG Capital, to ask why healthtech hasn't produced the exits that biotech and medical devices have. They get into fragmentation, why the deals that are happening don't make headlines, and what a clinical lens actually adds when you're diligencing a company. Connect with Sai: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sainarimetla/ Learn more about SSG Capital: https://www.ssgcapital.uk/ Apply to be a
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