🐦 005: NHSx awards £50M and there's a new sheriff in town
The 1 minute healthtech roundup
Hey friends,
This week, NHSx awards £50M to 42 AI projects, a new healthtech hub in Birmingham and Biofourmis snags £100M from Softbank 💯
News Bites 🥪
💰 The NHSx Artificial Intelligence Award: 42 projects awarded £50M
🤠 The Wild West of AI clinical trials is over – there’s a new sheriff in town
🏥 Deloitte launches new healthtech hub in Birmingham
🤖 £32M given to walk-through cancer diagnoses and robotics muscles (+ others) by UK gov
💊 Biofourmis (digital therapeutics) snags £100M from Softbank
📱 Doctors and Nurses Take to TikTok to Fight Covid Myths
What to Listen to 🔊
The Health-tech Podcast — #129: The Story of Alexa Group, with Nicholas Kelly
Nicholas is the chairman of Axela Group. He’s had senior leadership roles in the LinkedIn and Apple application development teams — and has now shifted his focus towards healthtech. Oh, and he’s also a fighter pilot 🛩
His top tips for healthtech entrepreneurs:
👩⚕️ Have a clinician in your team
⚙️ Think about your product/service within the bigger system
❌ Move fast and break things doesn’t work in healthtech
Psssttt… healthtech startups 👂
Applications for the NHS Innovation Accelerator and the P4 Precision Medicine Accelerator Programme opened this week 🤑
That’s it, until next time 👋
James
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