#109: Truss in the process

The one-minute healthtech roundup. Best served chilled. Sit back and enjoy.

Hi friends,

This week: the UK has a new prime minister, which means cabinet reshuffle (could that be a tiktok dance?) and we’re wondering… do you have Truss in Liz to fix the NHS?

News Bites 🥪

🌾 A 6-question revolutionary checklist to assess any digital health announcement - It’s time to separate the wheat from the digital health chaff, folks. Resident genius, The Medical Futurist has created a checklist to stop you, a magpie, from getting distracted by shiny objects.

🤖 AI with a touch of human - A study from Singapore suggests that people trust AI-powered (double barrel buzzword, kerching!) interventions less than those delivered by human experts. Just a reminder for those of you at the back, tech should be complementing human touch, not replacing it.

🇺🇸 Heathily $20M raise for symptom checker - UK-based AI symptom checking app Healthily, with a cool 30M users over the last year, is set to take on the US market with none other than Walmart as a partner.

⌚️Vertigo treatment headband, Otolith Labs bags $20M - The company has developed a wearable device for treating chronic, debilitating vertigo and plans to begin enrolling patients in a pivotal study soon.

💤 Researchers use breathing patterns to detect Parkinson’s disease - An AI device, that looks like a WiFi router, can silently sit in a patient’s room and detect signs of Parkinson’s disease, paving the way for earlier diagnoses. Wow.

What to listen to 🔊

🧐 The Healthtech Podcast: The Story of Mindset Health - Papa Pigeon, Dr James Somauroo is back with a bang! Kicking off season 3, the first guest is truly an overachiever who puts us all to shame… And he’s digitising clinical hypnosis…

Opportunities 🕵️‍♀️

⛺️ Evidence Generation Bootcamp, DigitalHealth.London - Digital health company? Struggling to navigate the evidence generation maze? You and me both, but DHL has your back, so get your applications in!

🧑‍💻 Health Equity Summit, Google - The search engine extraordinaire is back with its jam-packed annual event on 12th September (tomorrow). It’s online and the Chief Health Officer of Google is headlining.

🇪🇸 Clinical Project Manager, Gameto - Looking to fly the nest? Look no further, Gameto (not the name of Pokemon) wants you* to join them in Madrid to help redefine female reproductive health. *You = medics with business experience.

🎸 Senior Javascript Engineer, Feebris - Know the difference between full stack and half stack? If you don’t, this job might not be for you. FYI, half stack is guitar chat for an amplifier set. Definitely not tech related.

And finally, the feature that nobody asked for…

Poll of the week 📊

🐦 Pigeon out.