PULSE
by PULSE+IT
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The AI Wars: Best Practice vs Heidi, Patients vs Doctors, and…
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About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 94 episodes
- The AI Wars: Best Practice vs Heidi, Patients vs Doctors, and Google's Health Agents · 46 min · Episode 93This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George pay tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart and Captain Picard’s legacy for science. Then they dig into who gets to let AI into our…
- Finally, the Australian Data: Over a Third of #PatientsUseAI, but They Still Back Their GP, with Dan Stinton and Dr Nick Coatsworth · 30 min · Episode 92For years, we've been talking about how patients are using AI for healthcare. Now, finally, we have Australian data — and the findings are fascinating. In this episode of Pulse…
- AI Scribes, Your Brain Data and the Sh*t Tech Bros Say · 51 min · Episode 91This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George ask Can AI cure cancer before smoking kills you? Should we worry if NVIDIA's CEO thinks basic maths no longer matters? Louise…
- It’s the Humans That Get Us: AI, Existential Risk and Healthcare’s Control Problem –with Enrico Coiera, Lucy Orr-Ewing & Guy Tsafnat · 41 min · Episode 90Is artificial intelligence an existential threat to humanity? Or is the greater danger what humans choose to do with it? In this special episode of Pulse, Louise and George are…
- Who Gets to Deliver Healthcare? AI Agents, Grindr, Apple and France's Telehealth Queue-Jumpers · 46 min · Episode 89This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George ask who gets to deliver healthcare, as AI agents, a dating app, Apple and online platforms all push into territory that once…
- Tech Is the Tail Wagging the Dog – OpenAI's Medicare Breach, AI Scribes in Court and the Push to Pay AI Doctors · 53 min · Episode 88This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George break down: OpenAI's Agent Breaches a Medicare Portal – An OpenAI agent that "didn't accept no for an answer" pulled non-public…
- The Case for AI to Retain Clinicians, Not Replace Them, with Prof Daniel Baumgart · 25 min · Episode 87Healthcare faces a global workforce crisis - but what if we’re asking the wrong question about AI? Professor Daniel Baumgart joins Louise and George to argue that AI’s greatest…
- Above the Loop: Has AI Earned the Right to Make Decisions? With Dr Andrew Rochford · 33 min · Episode 86“Human in the loop” has become one of healthcare AI’s favourite safety assurances. But what happens when AI is making decisions at a speed and scale no human can realistically…
- To Err Is AI: ChatGPT Meets Epic, the Trouble with Human-in-the-Loop & AI Enters the Operating Theatre · 45 min · Episode 85This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, how much of healthcare are we ready to hand over to AI? Louise and George look at OpenAI's new connection to Epic and what it could mean for the…
- Digital Maturity, AI and the Future of Aged Care, with Greg Moran · 31 min · Episode 84This week on Pulse: Amplify, Louise and George sit down with Greg Moran from Ageing Australia to discuss digital maturity, workforce, vendor capability, interoperability…
- Yay, Humans: A Billionaire Says AI Should Replace Doctors, an AI Scribe Invents a Drug History, and Google's AMIE Nearly Proves Him Right · 48 min · Episode 83This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, could autonomous AI deliver better care than doctors - even doctors using AI? Louise and George examine the provocative new JAMA argument that…
- No Budget for a Big Procurement: How That Saved Hong Kong's Health Record, with Dr NT Cheung · 32 min · Episode 82This week on Pulse: Amplify, Louise and George speak with EMR pioneer Dr NT Cheung. Dr NT Cheung joined the Hong Kong Hospital Authority when clinical computing was virtually…
- Transforming healthcare from episodic care models to continuous health intelligence · 40 min · Episode 81This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George explore the rapidly shifting boundaries of science, AI and human health. They unpack the extraordinary research using AI to…
- How the UK Professionalised Its Digital Health Workforce, with Jane Dwelly · 33 min · Episode 80This week on Pulse: Amplify, healthcare's digital future won't be built by technology - it will be built by people. In this episode, Louise and George are joined by Jane Dwelly…
- Trust, AI Governance Theatre & the First Big Health AI Lawsuit · 44 min · Episode 79This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George explore one question that underpins the future of digital health: how do we build trust? They begin with Australia's latest…
- Australia's Healthcare AI Roadmap, the PM's Announcement, and the Race for Healthcare's Front Door, with Prof Enrico Coiera · 35 min · Episode 78This week on Pulse: Amplify, Louise and George sit down with Professor Enrico Coiera - founder of the Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare and lead author of Don't Walk…
- The Tech Works. The System Doesn't: Portugal Buys AI Physio, the First AI Complaints Land, and the Wild West of Health Apps · 48 min · Episode 77This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George look at what happens when digital health stops being a pilot and starts being a system decision — and why, again and again, the…
- How Hugo Campos Built the Healthcare Tools the System Never Gave Him · 34 min · Episode 76This week on Pulse: Amplify, Louise and George sit down with patient advocate and AI Champion, Hugo Campos. Hugo Campos has spent nearly two decades fighting for a simple…
- Shadow AI: When Doctors, Patients and Robots Move Faster Than the System · 44 min · Episode 75This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise reports in from a heatwave in the French Alps while George braces for a Sydney winter — before the pair work through five stories on a…
- Is the NHS Ready for the AI-Powered Patient? with Pritesh Mistry · 31 min · Episode 74This week on Pulse: Amplify, Louise and George sit down with Pritesh Mistry, Fellow for Digital Technologies at The King's Fund, to dig into his provocative analysis Is the NHS…
