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PULSE

PULSE, the podcast, produced by Pulse+IT and hosted by digital health legends Louise Schaper and George Margelis, is an enlightening, entertaining look at global digital health trends and current debates with our hosts’ deep takes on all the latest news in digital health.

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57:36

Pulse Summer: Dr Alain Labrique from WHO, on Building...

PULSE ·

2026/01/22

Welcome to Pulse Summer 2026, where Louise and George revisit the Pulse Pod archives to bring you a curated set of interviews which will challenge and inspire.Today, we revisit our chat with friend of Pulse, Dr Alain Labrique, Director for the Department of Digital Health and Innovation at the World Health Organization. We chat about the transformative role of digital health on a global scale.Follow Alain on LinkedInVisit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly

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56:39

Pulse Summer: Dr Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer...

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2026/01/15

Welcome to Pulse Summer 2026, where Louise and George revisit the Pulse Pod archives to bring you a curated set of interviews which will challenge and inspire.Back in late 2024, we were joined in the studio by Dr Karen DeSalvo — Chief Health Officer at Google, former US National Coordinator for Health IT, public health leader, clinician, and one of the most thoughtful voices globally on how technology, policy and equity intersect in healthcare.We covered a lot of ground in this conversation

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27:04

Pulse Summer: Liz Salmi on What Happens When Patients...

PULSE ·

2026/01/08

Welcome to Pulse Summer 2026, where Louise and George revisit the Pulse Pod archives to bring you a curated set of interviews which will challenge and inspire.Louise & George talk with Liz Salmi, Communications & Patient Initiatives Director for OpenNotes at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the US about her research and patient advocacy work, and what happens when patients get bad health news from reading it in online firstPaper: When Bad News Comes Through the PortalKeynote:

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20:25

Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Bonus Show

PULSE ·

2026/01/01

Welcome to Pulse: Year in Review, where Louise and George unpack the big stories from Pulse+IT’s 2025 Year in Review series.Segment 3: AI and the rise of Virtual CareResources:Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Australian digital health LinkPulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: New Zealand digital health LinkPulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Allied health breaking new ground LinkPulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Community and Aged Care LinkVisit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly

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40:52

Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Part II

PULSE ·

2025/12/29

Welcome to Pulse: Year in Review, where Louise and George unpack the big stories from Pulse+IT’s 2025 Year in Review series.Segment 1: Aged Care’s Digital ReckoningSegment 2: Allied Health’s Breakthrough YearResources:Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Allied health breaking new ground LinkPulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Community and Aged Care LinkVisit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a rich treasure trove of archival material. People in the know, get

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41:23

Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Part I

PULSE ·

2025/12/22

Welcome to Pulse: Year in Review, where Louise and George unpack the big stories from Pulse+IT’s 2025 Year in Review series.Segment 1: AI goes mainstreamSegment 2: Modernisation, Standards, and the Path to IntegrationSegment 3: Risk, Governance & its Relationship to InnovationResources:Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Australian digital health LinkPulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: New Zealand digital health LinkVisit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a

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45:44

Healthcare’s Trust Paradox: AI Scribes, Augmented...

PULSE ·

2025/12/11

Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now - from billion-dollar hype to human-level trust.Are AI Scribes The Billion-Dollar Burnout Band-Aid?Doctors adore them, investors can’t stop funding them - We dig into the paradox of technology that makes clinicians happy but might not be improving productivity—and why transparency is becoming urgent as these tools expand into agentic workflows.Chatbots in Therapy: When AI Joins the

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34:16

You, Me & AI. David Fraile Navarro on triadic care in...

PULSE ·

2025/12/04

Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. What happens when AI becomes a valued third party in the clinical consultation between a clinician and the patient? George and Louise sit down with author and postdoctoral research fellow Dr David Fraile Navarro to discuss the British Medical Journal special on generative AI in the clinical encounter.Resources:Connect with David on LinkedIn LinkBMJ special on Generative AI and the

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43:54

Elon’s promise of surgical robots, nanobots, D2C...

PULSE ·

2025/11/27

Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now. From Elon Musk’s claim that Tesla’s Optimus robot will soon have superhuman surgical skills, to scientists who are quietly making real breakthroughs with microscopic nanorobots, we separate spectacle from science. We look at the rise of at-home blood testing, unpack OpenAI’s accelerating push into healthcare, and celebrate Rahma Health’s double win at the Telstra Business Awards.Along

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33:50

Dr Bhavesh Patel on the AI Avatar Surgeon:...

PULSE ·

2025/11/20

Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. What happens when a paediatric surgeon who grew up programming on green-screen computers decides to create an AI version of himself? In this fascinating episode, George and Louise sit down with Associate Professor Bhavesh Patel, a senior paediatric surgeon in Brisbane who isn't waiting for AI to transform healthcare—he's actively building itResources:Connect with Bhavesh on LinkedIn

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42:55

ChatGPT Loses Its Medical License & NHS Digital...

PULSE ·

2025/11/13

Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now. Australian MedTech Innovator Wins PM’s Prize A Perth-based researcher-engineer-pathologist wins the Prime Minister’s Prize for New Innovators with two real-world solutions — one that makes finding veins as easy as using a stud finder, and another putting “heart health in a box.” Proof that Australian innovation is alive, practical, and personal. Congrats Dr Nikhilesh Bappoo!ChatGPT

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29:10

The case for social prescribing integration into...

PULSE ·

2025/11/06

Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. In today’s show George and Louise chat with Professor Peter Brooks (clinician academic, health systems & workforce policy), Dr Claire Smith (retired GP; social & environmental determinants advocate), and Dr Frank Nicklason (geriatrician, Tasmanian Health Service) on how social prescribing can be integrated into electronic medical records and why this could be a game changer

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39:37

Measuring What Matters: Maturity Tests, Miracle Blood...

PULSE ·

2025/10/30

Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now. Digital Health Maturity: Measuring What Matters Is your health system truly digitally mature — or just good at buying software? We dig into the global frameworks that could finally separate progress from PR.Verily Me: Google’s Bid for Your Health Life A free app that knows your medical history, interprets your blood tests, and gives you health advice — what could possibly go wrong?The

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35:01

Joe McDonald on why “Too Big To Fail” Health IT...

PULSE ·

2025/10/23

Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. Today we have a frank and fun conversation with UK author Professor Joe McDonald who has just released a book –FHIR and Loathing in Las Vegas: Collected Essays on the Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychopathology of Big IT. Joe’s anthology of essays, written over a 13 year timespan track the highs, the lows, the optimism, the realities, the struggles, of the digital transformation of

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45:47

No Surgeon, No Physio, No Problem? The Future of You

PULSE ·

2025/10/16

Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now. AI Physio: No Humans Required? An AI physiotherapist just earned regulatory approval to diagnose and treat patients entirely on its own. Europe says it’s safe — but would you trust an algorithm with your rehab?Remote Surgery Goes Real. A Canadian team has completed the world’s first fully remote neurointerventional procedure — the surgeon wasn’t even in the same hospital. Star Trek, or

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40:44

Rohan Mead & the Business Council of Australia on why...

PULSE ·

2025/10/09

Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. Today we’re thrilled to be joined by Rohan Mead, chief author of the Business Council of Australia’s Health and Care Blueprint, Chair of the BCA Health and Care Services Committee and Australian Unity chief executive.Across 140 recommendations in 6 reform pillars, the Business Council of Australia’s Health and Care Blueprint lays out a bold vision: to modernise our fragmented system,

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43:51

The True Cost of Misinformation and Australia's Time...

PULSE ·

2025/10/02

Pulse has a brand-new format — Hot Topics only! Louise and George dive straight into the biggest stories shaping digital health right now.The cost of lies: From the US President’s paracetamol claim to Tina Purnat’s new Lancet paper, we explore why misinformation isn’t just a trust issue but a global operational and financial burden.Wearables grow up: A fresh NEJM survey shows wearables are moving from gimmicks to clinical tools — but will insurers, EHRs, and workflows catch up?Aussie pride:

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65:11

Dr Charlotte Blease on how our humanness undermines...

PULSE ·

2025/09/25

In this episode of Pulse, we launch our new alternating format with a deep-dive interview. Louise and George are joined by Dr Charlotte Blease, Associate Professor in Health Informatics at Uppsala University and researcher in Digital Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, to discuss her newly released book Dr Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us and How AI Could Save Lives.Charlotte argues that our very humanness—the biases, blind spots, and emotional complexities of both clinicians and patients—can

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62:49

ACDC, AI Fertility, Apple Health Tech & Robot...

PULSE ·

2025/09/18

Interview: Dr Eric Topol (Part 2) In the second half of our conversation, Dr Eric Topol discusses AI’s promise in reducing clinician burnout, forecasting disease, and reshaping prevention. He also reflects on 13 years since The Creative Destruction of Medicine, shares his favourite transformative tools, and offers advice for clinicians seeking creative careersAustralian CDC – the data angle Australia is finally moving ahead with its own Centre for Disease Control, promising better national

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76:48

SuperAgers, Big Tech & The Human Side of...

PULSE ·

2025/09/04

Interview: Dr Eric Topol (Part 1)We’re joined by Dr Eric Topol—cardiologist, scientist, author, and global digital health leader. In part one, Eric shares his journey from clinician to digital health pioneer, his vision for “SuperAgers,” and why genomics and personalised medicine could redefine how long—and how well—we liveChatbots for PatientsWe discuss the Wall Street Journal’s bold claim that chatbots could become part of the medical team. From spotting errors to translating lab results

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