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Healthtech Pigeon — 193 episodes

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How do we get digital health beyond the pilot phase?

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Can patients trust pharma with their health data?

3

What happens when sport, longevity and biohacking collide?

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Can AI fix the NHS workforce crisis?

5

Wearables, Whistleblowers & a Resignation We Did Not Plan For

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Can ChatGPT really be trusted by clinicians?

7

Can the NHS walk away from Palantir?

8

What does the future of healthtech regulation look like?

9

Are we headed for a Microsoft monopoly in health AI?

10

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

11

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

12

The role of arts in mental health and wellbeing

13

Can precision diagnostics be made more accessible?

14

What does "Explainable AI" in healthcare truly mean?

15

Is Apple being cautious, or falling behind in health?

16

Why are scientists using neurons as computers?

17

Reliable for Whom? AI & wearables in health

18

Wearable Brain Imaging

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Designing Telehealth for trust

20

Will OpenAI win Consumer Health?

21

Is AI making us more lonely?

22

Inside the Mind of a Healthtech VC

23

Menopause diagnostics, rising innovators & healthtech’s 2025 wrapped

24

The real power of XR for mental health therapy

25

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

26

Why is women's health content being censored?

27

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

28

How AI is revolutionising cancer diagnosis

29

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

30

Is the future of heart disease management technology first?

31

Is ambient voice technology the future of healthcare?

32

What do we lose as virtual healthcare becomes the norm?

33

How can telehealth solve healthcare's biggest challenges?

34

What are the benefits of the breast milk microbiome?

35

What are the benefits of the breast milk microbiome?

36

How do healthcare professionals truly feel about digital health?

37

The ethical dilemmas of AI in healthcare

38

Is ChatGPT worsening mental health crises?

39

Is tech allowing us to be more human?

40

Preventive healthcare is the future

41

Why healthtech regulation is sexy

42

The challenges facing longevity startups

43

Can AI chatbots have more emotional intelligence than humans?

44

Tackling the stigma around obesity

45

How can we see real scale in the NHS?

46

Is the NHS 10-Year plan worth reading?

47

How is AI helping to speed up diagnosis?

48

2025 HLTH Europe roundup

49

How can women protect their health data?

50

How is Neurotech changing the industry

51

Is the UK is becoming a leader in healthtech?

52

How to effectively tackle digital exclusion in healthcare

53

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

54

All things digital twins

55

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

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Rich data collection is the backbone of healthcare

57

Is remote monitoring the future of healthcare?

58

How should we address health inequalities?

59

Why we must prioritise homegrown innovations

60

Should you rush to delete your genetic data?

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AI Implementation: Friend or Foe?

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Why we should all be invested in longevity

63

The complex road to tech adoption in health systems

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How the NHS can use tech to truly save time

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How to ensure AI enables equitable healthcare

66

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

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How to make the most of digital mental health tech

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Let's talk about AI...again

69

The impact of telehealth on health systems

70

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

71

What does the future of preventative healthcare look like?

72

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

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Is healthtech helping or hurting health equity?

74

Can AI tools predict future health conditions?

75

What is holding the NHS back from innovation?

76

Would you bet against Ali Parsa?

77

Why we need system-level change for better population health

78

The Ultimate Autumn Budget breakdown

79

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

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#114 How wearable neurotech coming to the mainstream

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

82

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

83

Could brainwaves give us more insight into mental health?

84

Dragon's Den: Healthtech Special

85

Have you read the Lord Darzi Report yet?

86

Nobody ever got fired for hiring Mckinsey

87

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

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The way we test healthcare AI isn't working

89

Could tongue colour identify diseases?

90

Funding and femtech: record breaking raises

91

Digital pathways transforming stroke recovery

92

AI's role in mental health care

93

What does an AI in healthcare strategy look like?

94

A full-body MRI scan or the ultimate selfie?

95

What should the next AI healthcare strategy cover?

96

The ultimate HLTH Europe roundup

97

Reframing the investment landscape

98

Does Gen AI have a place in therapy?

99

Tackling inequity in healthcare

100

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

101

The confessions of a digital health investor

102

At-home blood test transforming cancer care

103

Virtual reality is revolutionising mental health

104

How can we make healthcare more accessible?

105

How important is the breastmilk microbiome?

106

Happiness is a state of mind

107

What's going on with digital health funding?

108

Pigeon et al 📚

109

Foresight is a Wonderful Thing

110

How secure are femtech apps, really?

111

Healthtech's biggest cheerleader 📣

112

The Pigeon's Guide to Productivity

113

Casper...is that you?👻

114

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

115

A Nice Day in Dystopia

116

It’s not easy being green 🌱

117

When you need something done right...💪

118

Heart failure? Big deal(s)

119

The Warm Embrace of Health AI

120

Biomarkers, Regulation and Death 💀

121

When the beat drops...🎶

122

Quick! To the Robotarium!

123

If at first you don't succeed...

124

All's Phare in Health and Tech

125

Building Blocks and Bevvies🍺

126

Too late, Major Tom

127

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

128

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

129

A Pain in the Proverbial....

130

A Time-travelling Healthtech Extravaganza

131

One flew over the Pigeon's HETT.

132

Can we stop stating the obvious about AI in health?

133

Planes, trains and automated workflows ✈️

134

Promises, Prophesies and Penguins 🐧

135

Why did Babylon Health fail? 📉🤷🏻‍♂️

136

A virtual smorgas-ward 🛏️

137

(Clinical) Trials and Tribulations 🧪

138

Funding, Fertility & Phenoxymethylpenicillin 🧫

139

We need to talk about Chatbots ✋

140

Catastrophe? What Catastrophe? 💣

141

And Our Survey Says... 📣

142

EUREKA! 🤯

143

Come for the party, stay for the cake 🎂

144

Failure is a type of exit, right?

145

Health, wealth, legs & lizards 🦎

146

Health, Out now on DVD 📀

147

Deal or No Deal 🤑

148

The Buzzword Generator

149

Pigeon for PM

150

St(h)ealth mode 🤿

151

Healthcare's big guano problem 🐷

152

A Pigeon-sized pile-on 🐦

153

E.T.'s chronic condition 👽

154

Big-tech Battle Royale 👑

155

Doom, Gloom & Yoon-icorns 🦄

156

A 60 second diagnosis? ⏱️

157

The hero we deserve

158

SV almost goes B(ust) 📉

159

Responsible AI investing 💸

160

Special K at your desk? 🥣

161

Healthtech decks that raised big 🎤

162

Mick Jagger's Toothpaste 🕺

163

AI goes bio 🤖

164

The Jargon Carousel 🎠

165

Anyone for Oregon? 🇺🇸

166

Why investors love healthtech 💌

167

Of eternal mice and men 🐭

168

New year, same ol' Pigeon. 🐣

169

A Healthtech Pigeon Christmas Bonanza

170

Is healthtech recession-proof? 📉

171

WHOOP, there it is!

172

The Inappropriate Joke Robot

173

$7 short of an $8 blue tick

174

A Healthtech Bond Villain

175

Pumpkin-Spiced Pathways 🧋

176

The Return Of Theranos? 🩸

177

Spicy Goggles = Less Drugs 🌶

178

Aussies, AI & A Worrying Trend 🇦🇺

179

Healthtech User's Biggest Turnoffs 👋

180

Sailing The High(Er) SEIS 🌊

181

Stuck in limbo

182

Arms Race 💪🏻

183

The Biotech Bee Gees 🕺

184

You are not a gorilla 🦍

185

Soonicorn yoghurt 🍯

186

Benchmarks, biotech & big bangs

187

Rise of the chatbots 💬

188

The end of Googling symptoms?🚦

189

Part-man, part-building 🏢

190

Two sides to every correction.

191

Healthtech 1 - 0 Fintech 🌱

192

Centaurs & Unicorns 🦄

193

Raise, Sell, Sleep. Repeat ♽