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Healthtech Pigeon — 198 episodes

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How do you sell a business without selling out?

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Can One Website Help Patients Beat NHS Waiting Lists?

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Are we tracking too much, or not enough?

4

What happens when NHS waiting times become searchable?

5

HLTH Europe 2026 Recap & What Did Midjourney Announce?

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How do we get digital health beyond the pilot phase?

7

Can patients trust pharma with their health data?

8

What happens when sport, longevity and biohacking collide?

9

Can AI fix the NHS workforce crisis?

10

Wearables, Whistleblowers & a Resignation We Did Not Plan For

11

Can ChatGPT really be trusted by clinicians?

12

Can the NHS walk away from Palantir?

13

What does the future of healthtech regulation look like?

14

Are we headed for a Microsoft monopoly in health AI?

15

Up to 81% of doctors use AI. So why can't you?

16

What is it going to take to see changes in women's health?

17

The role of arts in mental health and wellbeing

18

Can precision diagnostics be made more accessible?

19

What does "Explainable AI" in healthcare truly mean?

20

Is Apple being cautious, or falling behind in health?

21

Why are scientists using neurons as computers?

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Reliable for Whom? AI & wearables in health

23

Wearable Brain Imaging

24

Designing Telehealth for trust

25

Will OpenAI win Consumer Health?

26

Is AI making us more lonely?

27

Inside the Mind of a Healthtech VC

28

Menopause diagnostics, rising innovators & healthtech’s 2025 wrapped

29

The real power of XR for mental health therapy

30

Will we see an end to the GLP-1 gold rush?

31

Why is women's health content being censored?

32

70% of NHS digital tools have no legal safety sign-off

33

How AI is revolutionising cancer diagnosis

34

What can we learn from the government's new women's health strategy?

35

Is the future of heart disease management technology first?

36

Is ambient voice technology the future of healthcare?

37

What do we lose as virtual healthcare becomes the norm?

38

How can telehealth solve healthcare's biggest challenges?

39

What are the benefits of the breast milk microbiome?

40

What are the benefits of the breast milk microbiome?

41

How do healthcare professionals truly feel about digital health?

42

The ethical dilemmas of AI in healthcare

43

Is ChatGPT worsening mental health crises?

44

Is tech allowing us to be more human?

45

Preventive healthcare is the future

46

Why healthtech regulation is sexy

47

The challenges facing longevity startups

48

Can AI chatbots have more emotional intelligence than humans?

49

Tackling the stigma around obesity

50

How can we see real scale in the NHS?

51

Is the NHS 10-Year plan worth reading?

52

How is AI helping to speed up diagnosis?

53

2025 HLTH Europe roundup

54

How can women protect their health data?

55

How is Neurotech changing the industry

56

Is the UK is becoming a leader in healthtech?

57

How to effectively tackle digital exclusion in healthcare

58

One month Countdown to HLTH Europe: Everything you need to know

59

All things digital twins

60

Ambient scribes: Are they or aren't they a medical device?

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Rich data collection is the backbone of healthcare

62

Is remote monitoring the future of healthcare?

63

How should we address health inequalities?

64

Why we must prioritise homegrown innovations

65

Should you rush to delete your genetic data?

66

AI Implementation: Friend or Foe?

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Why we should all be invested in longevity

68

The complex road to tech adoption in health systems

69

How the NHS can use tech to truly save time

70

How to ensure AI enables equitable healthcare

71

Should AI be used in end-of-life medical decisions?

72

How to make the most of digital mental health tech

73

Let's talk about AI...again

74

The impact of telehealth on health systems

75

Everything healthtech companies need to know about the UK AI Action Plan

76

What does the future of preventative healthcare look like?

77

A Year in Healthtech: Advocacy, Equity, and What’s Next for AI?

78

Is healthtech helping or hurting health equity?

79

Can AI tools predict future health conditions?

80

What is holding the NHS back from innovation?

81

Would you bet against Ali Parsa?

82

Why we need system-level change for better population health

83

The Ultimate Autumn Budget breakdown

84

What should the NHS's 10 year health plan include?

85

#114 How wearable neurotech coming to the mainstream

86

Is it AI or is it just a really good algorithm?

87

Why did Huma acquire eConsult — and what's next?

88

Could brainwaves give us more insight into mental health?

89

Dragon's Den: Healthtech Special

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Have you read the Lord Darzi Report yet?

91

Nobody ever got fired for hiring Mckinsey

92

Who's using AI in health...and do they need to know?

93

The way we test healthcare AI isn't working

94

Could tongue colour identify diseases?

95

Funding and femtech: record breaking raises

96

Digital pathways transforming stroke recovery

97

AI's role in mental health care

98

What does an AI in healthcare strategy look like?

99

A full-body MRI scan or the ultimate selfie?

100

What should the next AI healthcare strategy cover?

101

The ultimate HLTH Europe roundup

102

Reframing the investment landscape

103

Does Gen AI have a place in therapy?

104

Tackling inequity in healthcare

105

Femtech's evolution and bridging the women's health funding gap

106

The confessions of a digital health investor

107

At-home blood test transforming cancer care

108

Virtual reality is revolutionising mental health

109

How can we make healthcare more accessible?

110

How important is the breastmilk microbiome?

111

Happiness is a state of mind

112

What's going on with digital health funding?

113

Pigeon et al 📚

114

Foresight is a Wonderful Thing

115

How secure are femtech apps, really?

116

Healthtech's biggest cheerleader 📣

117

The Pigeon's Guide to Productivity

118

Casper...is that you?👻

119

It's not bad, you're just reading it wrong.

120

A Nice Day in Dystopia

121

It’s not easy being green 🌱

122

When you need something done right...💪

123

Heart failure? Big deal(s)

124

The Warm Embrace of Health AI

125

Biomarkers, Regulation and Death 💀

126

When the beat drops...🎶

127

Quick! To the Robotarium!

128

If at first you don't succeed...

129

All's Phare in Health and Tech

130

Building Blocks and Bevvies🍺

131

Too late, Major Tom

132

GOSH, isn't it hard to adopt Generative AI In healthcare?

133

The NHS Federated Data Platform, for Dummies....

134

A Pain in the Proverbial....

135

A Time-travelling Healthtech Extravaganza

136

One flew over the Pigeon's HETT.

137

Can we stop stating the obvious about AI in health?

138

Planes, trains and automated workflows ✈️

139

Promises, Prophesies and Penguins 🐧

140

Why did Babylon Health fail? 📉🤷🏻‍♂️

141

A virtual smorgas-ward 🛏️

142

(Clinical) Trials and Tribulations 🧪

143

Funding, Fertility & Phenoxymethylpenicillin 🧫

144

We need to talk about Chatbots ✋

145

Catastrophe? What Catastrophe? 💣

146

And Our Survey Says... 📣

147

EUREKA! 🤯

148

Come for the party, stay for the cake 🎂

149

Failure is a type of exit, right?

150

Health, wealth, legs & lizards 🦎

151

Health, Out now on DVD 📀

152

Deal or No Deal 🤑

153

The Buzzword Generator

154

Pigeon for PM

155

St(h)ealth mode 🤿

156

Healthcare's big guano problem 🐷

157

A Pigeon-sized pile-on 🐦

158

E.T.'s chronic condition 👽

159

Big-tech Battle Royale 👑

160

Doom, Gloom & Yoon-icorns 🦄

161

A 60 second diagnosis? ⏱️

162

The hero we deserve

163

SV almost goes B(ust) 📉

164

Responsible AI investing 💸

165

Special K at your desk? 🥣

166

Healthtech decks that raised big 🎤

167

Mick Jagger's Toothpaste 🕺

168

AI goes bio 🤖

169

The Jargon Carousel 🎠

170

Anyone for Oregon? 🇺🇸

171

Why investors love healthtech 💌

172

Of eternal mice and men 🐭

173

New year, same ol' Pigeon. 🐣

174

A Healthtech Pigeon Christmas Bonanza

175

Is healthtech recession-proof? 📉

176

WHOOP, there it is!

177

The Inappropriate Joke Robot

178

$7 short of an $8 blue tick

179

A Healthtech Bond Villain

180

Pumpkin-Spiced Pathways 🧋

181

The Return Of Theranos? 🩸

182

Spicy Goggles = Less Drugs 🌶

183

Aussies, AI & A Worrying Trend 🇦🇺

184

Healthtech User's Biggest Turnoffs 👋

185

Sailing The High(Er) SEIS 🌊

186

Stuck in limbo

187

Arms Race 💪🏻

188

The Biotech Bee Gees 🕺

189

You are not a gorilla 🦍

190

Soonicorn yoghurt 🍯

191

Benchmarks, biotech & big bangs

192

Rise of the chatbots 💬

193

The end of Googling symptoms?🚦

194

Part-man, part-building 🏢

195

Two sides to every correction.

196

Healthtech 1 - 0 Fintech 🌱

197

Centaurs & Unicorns 🦄

198

Raise, Sell, Sleep. Repeat ♽