HealthTech Hour

May 15 2024 4
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HealthTech Hour sees Steve Roest, CEO & Founder of PocDoc, speaking to the founders, leaders, clinicians and investors who are driving the HealthTech revolution and are at the forefront of healthcare innovation. Drawing on his extensive network, Steve will give listeners a unique insight into some of the most exciting technologies and most inspiring people from across all aspects of HealthTech.

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Ep96: Why should we all care about Electronic Patient Records, why they save millions of lives and understanding how the NHS can get value for money with Rachael Fox from leading EPR provider

May 15 2024 58 mins  
In this show Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc and his guest Rachael Fox, EVP of Altera Digital Health have a major discussion about the true value of a digital Electronic Patient Record and WHY it matters, or should matter to all of us. The right Electronic Patient Record can make the difference between life and death in hospitals and it is an area with real controversies between new ent

Ep95: Why UK PLC is losing billions by not backing Open Source for the NHS and the AI revolution - views from Richard and Joel, two experts in the space

May 02 2024 58 mins  
In this show, Steve Roest, host and CEO of PocDoc speaks to Richard Pugmire and Joel Ratnasothy about the incredible area of Open Source software and how a battle is raging between Big Enterprise and the wider software development industry about the best way to rebuild the NHS for the future. Open Source technology is used across our entire lives, but in health, it's seen as danger

Ep94: How two business leaders are thriving with terminal cancer - a study in Post Traumatic Growth with Peter Cowley and Craig Maxwell

Apr 17 2024 58 mins  
In this episode of the HealthTech Hour, Steve Roest speaks to two people he's known for a long time - Peter Cowley and Craig Maxwell. Peter and Craig share the same terminal cancer diagnosis and share a similar reaction to this extremely traumatic event - relentlessly focus on how to bring positivity and real impact to other people's lives instead of shrinking back into themselves.

Ep93: Liam Cahill, Digital Health Technologist and Visionary on the "beautiful chaos" that is our NHS and how innovative companies can thrive if they approach it correctly

Apr 03 2024 58 mins  
On this week's show, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc and host of the HealthTech Hour hosts Liam Cahill - a healthcare strategist, advisor and the founder of Together Digital. Liam previously co-founded an impactful, nationally respected social enterprise supporting the NHS to improve care around medicines and prescribing. Liam has written and spoken extensively about how innovation can

Ep92: Analyzing what makes HealthTech founders different to everyone else and why personalities matter when building a business with Ian Coyne, Partner at leading executive search firm and integral part of vibrant UK HealthTech scene

Mar 21 2024 58 mins  
In this episode Steve Roest speaks to Ian Coyne who has spearheaded a major piece of groundbreaking research that compares the personality make-up of HealthTech founders to the personalities of other CEOs and founders in other industries to determine what makes them different and why they've dedicated themselves to scaling innovation in a very hard sector. Full disclosure: Steve Ro

Ep91: Saving 1 million people from a mental health crisis, addressing shortcomings of in-person therapy like recency bias and finding your purpose with Sean Ruane, Founder and CEO of Mind Data

Jan 24 2024 58 mins  
In this episode Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Sean Ruane, Founder and CEO of Mind Data, an innovative mental wellbeing platform characterised by its data-driven approach, offering real-time mental health insights within universities and organisations.Steve and Sean get really into the emotional journey of personal mental health crisis that brought Sean to his realisation tha

Ep90: Has there ever been more innovation in the NHS or has the crisis never been worse? Or Both? Using technology to make patients lives better

Jan 09 2024 58 mins  
This week Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc (pocdoc.co) speaks to Steve Sawyer, Managing Director of The Access Group's Health, Support, and Care division, one of the largest providers of digital care to the NHS. In this episode, Steve and Steve (!) get into social prescribing, mental health, digital tech that helps vulnerable people and try to unpick the conundrum which is finding the tr

Ep89: Dr Adam Abbs, Medical Lead at Hurdle Bio, GP, digital evangelist, entrepreneur, author on how the NHS can save £69 billion

Dec 13 2023 58 mins  
This week Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Dr Adam Abbs. Adam is a GP, author, educator and digital health expert, currently Medical Lead at Hurdle.bio with a focus on disruptive models in remote healthcare. Adam was at the forefront of Virtual GP appointments and has put a huge amount of thought into how the NHS and other healthcare systems can embrace and implement technology

Ep88: Raj Kohli and Pete Huang, Co-Founders of Healthtech-1 - doing their life's best work saving GP surgeries over 90% of their administration time

Nov 14 2023 57 mins  
On this week's show, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Raj Kohli and Pete Huang who started Healthtech-1 to automate repetitive processes for healthcare systems. As an example, to bring this to life - it is very common that all patient registrations are done manually. Each registration has up to 100 pieces of discrete information which are manually entered into the GP records. E

Ep87: Carmelo Insalaco, CEO of Rapid Health discusses being a digital front door for GPs to triage better and stop the 8am rush for appointments, and the impact of Babylon Health on the AI digital doctor space

Oct 31 2023 54 mins  
This week, Carmelo Insalaca is Steve Roest's guest on the show. Carmelo is CEO and founder of Rapid Health, one of the next generation of digital front door services that have followed in the wake of Babylon Health. Steve and Carmelo get straight into the recent damning exposee of Babylon and dig into how Rapid Health has achieved a major step up in efficiency for GPs while maintai