In this show, Steve Roest, host and CEO of PocDoc speaks to Richard Pugmire and Joel Ratnasothy about the incredible area of Open Source software and how a battle is raging between Big Enterprise and the wider software development industry abou

Ep94: How two business leaders are thriving with terminal cancer - a study in Post Traumatic Growth with Peter Cowley and Craig Maxwell

25 days ago 58m 51s

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 trauma

Ep93: Liam Cahill, Digital Health Technologist and Visionary on the "beautiful chaos" that is our NHS and how innovative companies can thrive if they approach it correctly

Apr 3rd, 2024 58m 49s

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 enter

Ep92: Analyzing what makes HealthTech founders different to everyone else and why personalities matter when building a business with Ian Coyne, Partner at leading executive search firm and integral part of vibrant UK HealthTech scene

Mar 21st, 2024 58m 53s

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 det

Ep91: Saving 1 million people from a mental health crisis, addressing shortcomings of in-person therapy like recency bias and finding your purpose with Sean Ruane, Founder and CEO of Mind Data

Jan 24th, 2024 58m 25s

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

Ep90: Has there ever been more innovation in the NHS or has the crisis never been worse? Or Both? Using technology to make patients lives better

Jan 9th, 2024 58m 51s

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 (!) g

Ep89: Dr Adam Abbs, Medical Lead at Hurdle Bio, GP, digital evangelist, entrepreneur, author on how the NHS can save £69 billion

Dec 13th, 2023 58m 49s

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 Vir

Ep88: Raj Kohli and Pete Huang, Co-Founders of Healthtech-1 - doing their life's best work saving GP surgeries over 90% of their administration time

Nov 14th, 2023 57m 54s

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 regis

Ep87: Carmelo Insalaco, CEO of Rapid Health discusses being a digital front door for GPs to triage better and stop the 8am rush for appointments, and the impact of Babylon Health on the AI digital doctor space

Oct 31st, 2023 54m 46s

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 straig

Ep86: Jess McCreadie, Principal Investor at Octopus Ventures - tech as an enabler of change, what investors like and don't, importance of diversity of gender and background in VC/startups, future health business trends

Oct 24th, 2023 56m 43s

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 Capi

Ep85: Chris Bischoff, MD at General Catalyst, leading growth investor in HealthTech in UK, Europe and US

Oct 3rd, 2023 53m 46s

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 experi

Ep84: Sophie Park, MD of Bayer G4A, digital health expert and advocate for advances in public health

Sep 5th, 2023 58m 49s

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

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Success Mindset - PASSION to solve a problem, HUMILITY to start at the bottom - advice from CEO, founder, investor Brian Plackis Cheng on two must haves for founders - HealthTech Hour SHORTS

Aug 23rd, 2023 1m 6s

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!

Ep83: Brian Plackis Cheng, CEO of OpenRad, hugely scaling radiology services and cutting the backlog (MRIs, Xrays, CT) by using the cloud to connect machines, radiologists and patients

Aug 22nd, 2023 58m 50s

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

Ep82: Francesca Wuttke, CEO and Founder of nen - helping children with cancer manage their pain better

Jun 28th, 2023 58m 45s

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 bu

Ep81: Will West, CEO of CellCentric, leaders in epigenetic cancer drug development, using genetic markers to cure cancer

Jun 15th, 2023 58m 50s

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 hug

Ep80: Dr Claudia Pastides, Flo Health - Being open and honest about menstruation, sex and reproductive health

May 30th, 2023 58m 49s

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 a

Ep79: Liis Narusk, CEO of Certific, Estonian HealthTech leader focused on how technology can move us from sick care to health care

May 17th, 2023 58m 50s

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 w

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Absolute mission clarity and be resilient - advice from multi-time IPO CEO on how to succeed as a founder - HealthTech Hour SHORTS

May 9th, 2023 1m 32s

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 t

Ep78: Chris Yates, CEO of Abingdon Health, leading UK Life Science company, diagnostics expert, multi-IPO CEO

May 2nd, 2023 58m 50s

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

Ep77: Hamish Grierson, CEO of Thriva, talking to Steve Roest about the future of diagnostics and why increasing access to testing is the key to better health for us all

Apr 18th, 2023 52m 35s

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 betwe

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Never give up - Monday Morning Motivation to all entrepreneurs from CEO trying to cure Motor Neurone Disease - HealthTech Hour SHORTS

Apr 17th, 2023 35s

In this super short wisdom bomb, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc asks Melanie for her advice to any entrepreneurs, but specifically scientific entrepreneurs. Her advice is amazing! Get after it! Monday morning here we come!

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How patient power made motor neurone disease a priority to cure - HealthTech Hour SHORTS

Apr 14th, 2023 3m 25s

This is a clip from the full show this week between Dr Melanie Lee and Steve Roest. Melanie is the CEO of LifeArc who have decided to give away £1.3bn in funding to finding diagnostics, treatments and cures for motor neurone disease. In this cl

Ep76: Dr Melanie Lee, CEO of LifeArc - cutting edge motor neurone disease research - using £1.3bn to fund treatments, cures and what scientists need to do to become entrepreneurs!

Apr 4th, 2023 58m 50s

Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Dr Melanie Lee, CEO of the incredible charity LifeArc which is aiming to donate £1,3bn of funding by 2030 into diagnosis, treatment and cures for motor neurone disease, cystic fibrosis and tuberculosis among

Ep75: Sebastian Anastassiou, major VC investor on surviving in a downturn, advice for entrepreneurs and CEOs and healthtech scene, next set of exciting healthtech startups...and SVB!

Apr 4th, 2023 58m 49s

Sebastian Anastassiou is an ex medic and successful investor at Nina Capital. If you want advice about your startup, listen up! He loves synthetic data, AI and healthtech that underpins healthcare systems. He and Steve Roest talk about Silicon