Hi friends,
This week: Roman emperors, techbio investors, and telehealth takes a voyage to the core of the planet.
News Bites 🥪
🏺 IT issues cost NHS 13.5 million hours every year - For perspective, to live that many hours you’d have to start in the year 440AD to get to the present day.*
💬 What ChatGPT means for healthcare - A glimpse into the future of clinical applications.
🛤 Is this the future of medical diagnostics? - Choo choo! All aboard the hype train! Calling at Big Dreams Parkway, Moonshot Central, and Ground Breaking Park.
🌋 Telehealth startups pivot (again) - If Telehealth startups pivot much more they’re going to bore a hole to the centre of the planet.
🚕 Uber offers NHS staff free rides and food over Christmas - Sing it with me now: Working for Steve Barclay’s frightful, but this offer is quite delightful. If you’ve someplace to go, use this code, use this code, use this code.
💰 18 European techbio investors that founders should know - Last year, European biotech startups raised $8.5bn, and techbio is starting to get a bigger share of that pie.
🎯 Accurx integrates with NHS App to give patients front door to GP services - Not even sure that “Accurx does good thing” even counts as news now. It just par for the course. The Erling Haaland of healthtech. They shoot. They score.
What to listen to 🔊
🎄The Healthtech Pigeon Christmas Quiz! - Join the Pigeon crew, and special guests Dr Steve Cross and Riddhi Kanetkar for our inaugural Christmas quiz.
🔊 #283 - Healthtech & Insurance, Ventures & Acquisitions, with Andre Dreyer from RGAX - This week, James is joined by Andre Dreyer, Vice President of Ventures & Acquisitions at RGAX - the transformation engine of the Reinsurance Group of America
Opportunities 🕵️♀️
🛠 Operations Manager, Hardian Health - Hardian Health have put together a team of, frankly, ludicrously good people. Are you ludicrously good? Get applying.
🧑💻 Delivery Manager, Tech Canal - Ever dreamed of spending your days wistfully drifting down a canal, the reeds gently brushing your bow as you bid good morrow to a passing vole? Then go read CanalPigeon. Tech Canal are one of the most forward thinking and innovative consultancies working in the health & care. They need a delivery manager.
*If you do go back to the year 440AD, give my man Emperor Arcadius a high five from me. That dude was cray.