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HealthTech Hour

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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Ep94: How two business leaders are thriving with...

HealthTech Hour ·

2024/04/17

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. They both opted-in to make the very best of their situation and be a positive role model for positivity in the face of

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Ep93: Liam Cahill, Digital Health Technologist and...

HealthTech Hour ·

2024/04/03

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 thrive in complex systems, with the NHS being one of the most complex single systems in the global economy today. Liam

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58:53

Ep92: Analyzing what makes HealthTech founders...

HealthTech Hour ·

2024/03/21

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 Roest our host also took part in this study with interesting results!Steve and Ian then go on to discuss the importance of

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58:25

Ep91: Saving 1 million people from a mental health...

HealthTech Hour ·

2024/01/24

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 that his purpose in life was to save 1 million people from ending up in the same situation he had.Sean's belief is that his

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58:51

Ep90: Has there ever been more innovation in the NHS...

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2024/01/09

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 truth about the state of the NHS at the moment vs the picture portrayed in the media.

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Ep89: Dr Adam Abbs, Medical Lead at Hurdle Bio, GP,...

HealthTech Hour ·

2023/12/13

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 to improve patient health and save money. Previously he was clinical director at Medicspot and curator of BMJ remote

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57:54

Ep88: Raj Kohli and Pete Huang, Co-Founders of...

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2023/11/14

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. Each year, in University towns, GP surgeries regularly register 5,000+ new patients, meaning each GP surgery is using

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Ep87: Carmelo Insalaco, CEO of Rapid Health discusses...

HealthTech Hour ·

2023/10/31

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 maintaining clinical standards - and avoiding the pitfalls that caught up with other services.

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Ep86: Jess McCreadie, Principal Investor at Octopus...

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2023/10/24

Jess McCreadie, Principal Investor at Octopus Ventures speaks to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc on this week's HealthTech Hour. Jess has spent her career helping businesses finance themselves, grow, scale and is hugely passionate about Venture Capital as a force for good. In this episode, Jess and Steve cover a huge amount of ground including: - Jess' journey through male-dominated industries, driven by her passion for finance and watching companies grow - and her views on diversity of gender and of

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53:46

Ep85: Chris Bischoff, MD at General Catalyst, leading...

HealthTech Hour ·

2023/10/03

Chris Bischoff is Managing Director at General Catalyst and speaks to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc. General Catalyst is the leading investor in early and growth stage healthcare businesses across the UK, US and Europe. Chris has incredible experience across the healthcare sector and takes Steve through his thesis on investing, his investments in Babylon and Livongo, the pros and cons of Value Based Care and what qualities he thinks founders need to thrive in healthcare.

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Ep84: Sophie Park, MD of Bayer G4A, digital health...

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2023/09/05

Sophie Park, MD of Bayer G4A Investments & Partnerships speaks to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc in today's show. Sophie is one of the leading voices for integrating digital health technology into public and private healthcare systems. In addition to her role at Bayer, Sophie has advised 2 White House administrations and her and Steve really get into some heated debate about the role of Pharma in being a force for good and how technology can be accelerated to help make people healthier.

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Success Mindset - PASSION to solve a problem,...

HealthTech Hour ·

2023/08/23

What are the main mindset you need to have a chance to succeed as an entrepreneur, or even in a fast-paced, high growth environment? Steve Roest asks Brian Plackis Cheng on this week's HealthTech Hour. For the full show, download it - Ep83!

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58:50

Ep83: Brian Plackis Cheng, CEO of OpenRad, hugely...

HealthTech Hour ·

2023/08/22

Brian Plackis Cheng is CEO of OpenRad and speaks today to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc and host of the HealthTech Hour. OpenRad is a company combined of two cutting edge imaging businesses that now brings radiology reporting services to the cloud, enabling all medical imaging interpretation to happen remotely - cutting backlog, enabling radiologists to do more and getting people treated more quickly.

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Ep82: Francesca Wuttke, CEO and Founder of nen -...

HealthTech Hour ·

2023/06/28

On this show, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Franceska Wuttke about Nen's mission to make tools, games and strategies based on CBT therapy for children with cancer, to learn how to manage their pain. Managing pain is a short term issue but also as Franceska explains, the long term consequences of childhood pain can be devastating, including major mental health issues and addiction in later life.A very emotional subject with a hugely passionate guest - have a listen!

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Ep81: Will West, CEO of CellCentric, leaders in...

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2023/06/15

Will West is CEO of CellCentric speaks to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc this week. Will and CellCentric are using next generation epigenetic data to create cancer drugs that can stop certain types of cancer at a genetic level. Epigenetics is a hugely fascinating and slight mind-bending area of scientific development!

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Ep80: Dr Claudia Pastides, Flo Health - Being open...

HealthTech Hour ·

2023/05/30

Dr Claudia Pastides is Director of Medical Accuracy at Flo Health and speaks to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc in this week's show. Flo aims to build a better future for female health and supports women during their entire reproductive life cycle and has over 48 million active users a month - an incredible number of women - across the entire world. Flo covers not just menstrual tracking, but also provides honest, accurate information about sex, reproductive health and other issues that are often

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Ep79: Liis Narusk, CEO of Certific, Estonian...

HealthTech Hour ·

2023/05/17

Liis Narusk from Certific speaks to Steve Roest CEO of PocDoc. Liis is one of the most extensive thinkers in Europe at this moment on the evolution of technology within the GP system, but focused with Certific outside the UK - yes, there is a world outside the UK! Liis co-founded Certific with Taavet Hinrikus, the founder of Wise and Dr Jack Kreindler, doctor, thinker and explorer. In this show, they cover the impact of AI on healthcare, how the regulations are going to struggle with AI, why

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Absolute mission clarity and be resilient - advice...

HealthTech Hour ·

2023/05/09

Chris Yates is the CEO and founder of Abingdon Health and he spoke to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc this week. Abingdon Health is one of the leading UK "born and bred" life science companies and diagnostic companies. Chris has successfully IPO'd two companies including Abingdon and they are currently trading on AIM under #Abdx

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Ep78: Chris Yates, CEO of Abingdon Health, leading UK...

HealthTech Hour ·

2023/05/02

Chris Yates, CEO and founder of Abingdon Health spoke to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc in this week's show. Chris has successfully IPO'd 2 diagnostics companies and Abingdon Health is one of the leading lights of the UK's thriving life science and diagnostics industry. One of the major covid test manufacturers, Chris' experience in this sector is vast and his success as a multi-IPO CEO is valuable to any entrepreneurs. Chris is a huge believer in the value of lateral flow testing as a major tool in the

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Ep77: Hamish Grierson, CEO of Thriva, talking to...

HealthTech Hour ·

2023/04/18

Hamish Grierson is widely known as one of the smartest and nicest people in UK healthtech and is the founder of Thriva, a leader in at home diagnostic testing. In this show, he and Steve clearly share a lot of the same values and missions between Thriva and PocDoc, it's a masterclass in self managed healthcare!

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