<![CDATA[Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Listen to Podcast 🎙️]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/s/healthtech-pigeonhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t8qR!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F430f879f-1baa-48eb-bce8-65376529421b_1280x1280.pngHealthtech Pigeon 🐦: Listen to Podcast 🎙️https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/s/healthtech-pigeonSubstackSun, 12 Jul 2026 14:35:00 GMT<![CDATA[Can One Website Help Patients Beat NHS Waiting Lists?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/can-one-website-help-patients-beat-f3bhttps://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/can-one-website-help-patients-beat-f3bSun, 12 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMTJames and Jessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with help from Dr Mustafa Ghafouri, creator of https://hospitalwaits.co.uk/

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]]><![CDATA[Are we tracking too much, or not enough?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/are-we-tracking-too-much-or-not-enough-304https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/are-we-tracking-too-much-or-not-enough-304Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMTJessica and Anna from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week.

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]]><![CDATA[What happens when NHS waiting times become searchable?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/what-happens-when-nhs-waiting-times-3b3https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/what-happens-when-nhs-waiting-times-3b3Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:00:00 GMTJessica and James from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week.


00:00 - Intro
01:49 - A doctor built the NHS waiting-times comparison the e-RS dashboard won’t give you

14:03 - Pastest buys Medics’ Money, and the “doctor life-admin” stack quietly consolidates

21:02 -Meanwhile, the NHS throws £8m at AI to shrink those same waiting lists

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]]><![CDATA[HLTH Europe 2026 Recap & What Did Midjourney Announce?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/hlth-europe-2026-recap-and-what-did-c28https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/hlth-europe-2026-recap-and-what-did-c28Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMTJames from SomX chatted through all the best news from HLTH 2026, with Motic's Harvinder Power.

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]]><![CDATA[How do we get digital health beyond the pilot phase?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/how-do-we-get-digital-health-beyond-a03https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/how-do-we-get-digital-health-beyond-a03Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:00:00 GMTJessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with Heather Cook, Fiona McCormick and Toby Croft.

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]]><![CDATA[Can patients trust pharma with their health data?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/can-patients-trust-pharma-with-their-95bhttps://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/can-patients-trust-pharma-with-their-95bSun, 07 Jun 2026 05:00:00 GMTJessica from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with Coulter Partners' Ian Coyne.

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]]><![CDATA[What happens when sport, longevity and biohacking collide?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/what-happens-when-sport-longevity-16ahttps://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/what-happens-when-sport-longevity-16aSun, 31 May 2026 05:00:00 GMTJames from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with Freyr Health's Dr Tomasz George

00:00 - Intro
05:08 - The Enhanced Games are real, and they’re equal parts entertaining and concerning

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]]><![CDATA[Can AI fix the NHS workforce crisis?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/can-ai-fix-the-nhs-workforce-crisis-8d1https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/can-ai-fix-the-nhs-workforce-crisis-8d1Sun, 24 May 2026 05:00:00 GMTJames from SomX chatted through all the best news from this week with Patchwork's Dr Anas Nader

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]]><![CDATA[Wearables, Whistleblowers & a Resignation We Did Not Plan For]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/wearables-whistleblowers-and-a-resignation-8efhttps://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/wearables-whistleblowers-and-a-resignation-8efSun, 17 May 2026 05:00:00 GMTJess and James are back from a brief hiatus to break down three of the biggest stories shaping healthtech right now.

First, Whoop hires its first in-app doctor and Google launches the Fitbit Air - signalling that consumer wearables and primary care are converging faster than anyone expected. They get into what happens when your health data lives across competing ecosystems, the case for portability standards, and a viral TikTok in which a Whoop user catches her boyfriend cheating via Strava kudos.

Then: the Palantir saga rumbles on. A leaked memo published by the FT and the Guardian confirms that contractors were granted access to identifiable patient data on the Federated Data Platform before pseudonymisation. James and Jess disagree - loudly - on how to read it.

Finally, Berlin-based Ditto raises €7.6M from Heal Capital to build the patient-side equivalent of an ambient AI scribe: record your appointment, get a plain-language summary, share it with the people who matter. Plus a kicker: Wes Streeting resigned as we were recording.

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]]><![CDATA[Can ChatGPT really be trusted by clinicians?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/can-chatgpt-really-be-trusted-by-91fhttps://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/can-chatgpt-really-be-trusted-by-91fSun, 26 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMTBelle and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week.

Stories:

Palantir's NHS break clause is suddenly very much on the table

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Clinicians, a free AI tool for physicians, NPs and pharmacists

The Women's Health Strategy arrived with a £1.5m FemTech fund and a very quotable Streeting line

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]]><![CDATA[Can the NHS walk away from Palantir?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/can-the-nhs-walk-away-from-palantir-cc4https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/can-the-nhs-walk-away-from-palantir-cc4Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMTJessica and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Dr Jing Ouyang CGO and Co-Founder of Patchwork Health.

00:00 - Intro
09:10 - FDP: An Insider's Perspective
28:21 - WHOOP affiliate selected for CMS innovation program

Stories:

https://www.bartlettdata.co.uk/post/blog-coming-soon

https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/whoop-affiliate-selected-for-cms-innovation-program-to-expand-tech-enabled-care-for-medicare-patients

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]]><![CDATA[What does the future of healthtech regulation look like?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/what-does-the-future-of-healthtech-234https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/what-does-the-future-of-healthtech-234Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:00:00 GMTJessica and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Hardian Health's Dr Hugh Harvey. 

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]]><![CDATA[Are we headed for a Microsoft monopoly in health AI?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/are-we-headed-for-a-microsoft-monopoly-dbehttps://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/are-we-headed-for-a-microsoft-monopoly-dbeSun, 29 Mar 2026 05:00:00 GMTJessica and Belle from SomX chat through all the best news from this week.

31:04 - Introducing Perplexity Health

35:48 - How AI is Giving Back Time to NHS Healthcare Teams

48:11 - Under 50% of NHS staff receive basic EPR training

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]]><![CDATA[Up to 81% of doctors use AI. So why can't you?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/up-to-81-of-doctors-use-ai-so-why-ebdhttps://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/up-to-81-of-doctors-use-ai-so-why-ebdSun, 22 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMTJessica and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week.

04:14 - Google wants Fitbit to know your medical history. Sure, why not?

12:24 - Clinicians are using AI, but would prefer patients not to

23:45 - The therapy gap is 1.6 billion people. Limbic wants AI to help

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]]><![CDATA[What is it going to take to see changes in women's health?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/what-is-it-going-to-take-to-see-changes-012https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/what-is-it-going-to-take-to-see-changes-012Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMTJessica and Belle from SomX chat through all the best news from this week.

The conversation PR isn't having about motherhood

Hertility Preventative Healthcare Report 2026

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]]><![CDATA[The role of arts in mental health and wellbeing]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/the-role-of-arts-in-mental-health-d57https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/the-role-of-arts-in-mental-health-d57Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:16:23 GMTJames from SomX chats through all the best news from this week with Sarah Ticho from The XR Health Alliance

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Resources

https://www.soulpaint.co/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32139436/

]]><![CDATA[Can precision diagnostics be made more accessible?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/can-precision-diagnostics-be-made-eefhttps://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/can-precision-diagnostics-be-made-eefSun, 01 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMTJessica from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Christoph Ruedig from Albion VC and Celestin de Wergifosse from Signatur Bio.

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]]><![CDATA[What does "Explainable AI" in healthcare truly mean?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/what-does-explainable-ai-in-healthcare-5bdhttps://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/what-does-explainable-ai-in-healthcare-5bdSun, 22 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMTJessica from SomX chats through all the best news from this week with Hansen Tsui from Sanome.

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]]><![CDATA[Is Apple being cautious, or falling behind in health?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/is-apple-being-cautious-or-falling-903https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/is-apple-being-cautious-or-falling-903Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMTJessica and Harry from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Niki Loboda from Whereby and Carlo Alberto Gaetaniello from Serenis.

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]]><![CDATA[Why are scientists using neurons as computers?]]>https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/why-are-scientists-using-neurons-bd9https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/p/why-are-scientists-using-neurons-bd9Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMTJessica and Harry from SomX explore three stories from the latest edition of the Healthtech Pigeon Newsletter.

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