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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.
Episodes
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Finally, the Australian Data: Over a Third of #PatientsUseAI, but They Still Back Their GP, with Dan Stinton and Dr Nick Coatsworth
For 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…
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AI Scribes, Your Brain Data and the Sh*t Tech Bros Say
This 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…
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It’s the Humans That Get Us: AI, Existential Risk and Healthcare’s Control Problem –with Enrico Coiera, Lucy Orr-Ewing & Guy Tsafnat
Is 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…
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Who Gets to Deliver Healthcare? AI Agents, Grindr, Apple and France's Telehealth Queue-Jumpers
This 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…
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Tech Is the Tail Wagging the Dog – OpenAI's Medicare Breach, AI Scribes in Court and the Push to Pay AI Doctors
This 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"…
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The Case for AI to Retain Clinicians, Not Replace Them, with Prof Daniel Baumgart
Healthcare 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…
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Above the Loop: Has AI Earned the Right to Make Decisions? With Dr Andrew Rochford
“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…
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To Err Is AI: ChatGPT Meets Epic, the Trouble with Human-in-the-Loop & AI Enters the Operating Theatre
This 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…
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Digital Maturity, AI and the Future of Aged Care, with Greg Moran
This week on Pulse: Amplify, Louise and George sit down with Greg Moran from Ageing Australia to discuss digital maturity, workforce, vendor capability…
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Yay, Humans: A Billionaire Says AI Should Replace Doctors, an AI Scribe Invents a Drug History, and Google's AMIE Nearly Proves Him Right
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, could autonomous AI deliver better care than doctors - even doctors using AI? Louise and George examine the provocative new…
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No Budget for a Big Procurement: How That Saved Hong Kong's Health Record, with Dr NT Cheung
This 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…
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Transforming healthcare from episodic care models to continuous health intelligence
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George explore the rapidly shifting boundaries of science, AI and human health. They unpack the extraordinary…
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How the UK Professionalised Its Digital Health Workforce, with Jane Dwelly
This 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…
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Trust, AI Governance Theatre & the First Big Health AI Lawsuit
This 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…
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Australia's Healthcare AI Roadmap, the PM's Announcement, and the Race for Healthcare's Front Door, with Prof Enrico Coiera
This 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…
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The Tech Works. The System Doesn't: Portugal Buys AI Physio, the First AI Complaints Land, and the Wild West of Health Apps
This 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…
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How Hugo Campos Built the Healthcare Tools the System Never Gave Him
This 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…
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Shadow AI: When Doctors, Patients and Robots Move Faster Than the System
This 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…
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Is the NHS Ready for the AI-Powered Patient? with Pritesh Mistry
This 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…
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The Robots Took the Internet: Now They're Coming for Medicine
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George race through a very AI-heavy fortnight — from antibiotics and the menstrual cycle to whether "medical AI" is…
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The Data Behind Europe's Quiet Digital Health Powerhouse, with Inma Rodríguez ACCIÓ
What can the rest of the world learn from one of Europe's most impressive digital health ecosystems? This week on Pulse: Amplify, Louise and George sit down…
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AI, Patients, Prediction and the Foothills of the Singularity
In this Hot Topics episode, Louise joins from London after an unexpected encounter with the UK healthcare system, while George reports back from the Digital…
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Your Fear of AI Is Prehistoric - with Dr Nick van Terheyden
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. Dr Nick (van Terheyden) brings his trademark…
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Westminster in Crisis, Wearables Get Clinical, and the Grown-Up Guide to AI
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George cover a fortnight that captured the whole spectrum of digital health in 2026 — political turmoil at the top…
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Hold Fast: AI, Humanity and the Future of Aged Care with Donald Macaskill
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. At the recent ITAC Conference in Brisbane, one…
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AI – now with Clinical Reasoning; the Paradox of Medical AI and OpenEvidence Pulls Out of Europe
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George dive into the major developments shaping the future of healthcare. Tech giants Google and OpenAI release…
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Inside Hevolution: The World’s Largest Philanthropic Funder of Healthspan Science, with Dr Mehmood Khan & HRH Princess Dr Haya Al Saud
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. In this episode Louise and George sit down with Dr…
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The Data Patients Are Already Giving Us – Microsoft, Reddit, Apple and the Fourth Wave of Wearables
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George explore five major developments shaping the future of healthcare. Microsoft Opens the Lid on How the Public…
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Nurture Your Mental Fitness: AI, Coaching Culture, and the Clinician of the Future, with Dr Kudzai Kanhutu
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. In this episode Louise and George sit down with…
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AI Safety, Ireland and Apple Get Serious, and the NHS and FEDIP Make History
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George unpack a rapidly shifting healthcare landscape, where AI is no longer theoretical, but already embedded in…
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The Other 8,765 Hours - with Sara Riggare
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. Dr Sara Riggare has spent more than a decade…
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AI Everywhere: In Your Pocket, on Your Wrist, in the Clinic, and Inside the Cell
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George explore the rapid emergence of AI health assistants from Big Tech, unpack the growing role of consumer…
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Startup Lessons from Guy Tsafnat & Decoding Healthcare’s Data Matrix
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. Guy Tsafnat joins Pulse to unpack why healthcare…
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The ChatGPT Health controversy: what the viral Nature Medicine study missed with David Fraile Navarro
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. A recent Nature Medicine study went viral after…
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The Eucalyptus Exit, an AI Hackathon Cardiologist, and Why Good Tech Still Fails
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George break down… One of the biggest exits in Australian digital health history sees Sydney-founded telehealth…
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Jordi Piera Jimenez on Interoperability Theatre and Building Digital Health on Stone, Not Sand
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. Jordi Piera Jiménez joins Pulse to unpack the…
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Two AI Healthcare Futures? Australia Builds Medicine Infrastructure and China Scales GenAI to Billions
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George tackle big shifts in medicines safety and the accelerating global AI race in healthcare. Australia moves…
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Grahame Grieve on the Politics of Interoperability, Community & the Disruption We’re Not Ready For
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. In this episode of Pulse Amplify, Louise and…
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Predictions and The To-Do List You Need Now to Respond to the GenAI Announcements
Dr Louise Schaper and Dr George Margelis are back with part 2 of their discussion to unpack the biggest healthcare story of the moment: Big Tech’s decisive…
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Did AI just become the default digital front door to healthcare?
In our first Hot Topics episode of 2026, Dr Louise Schaper and Dr George Margelis unpack the biggest healthcare story of the moment: Big Tech’s decisive move…
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Pulse Summer: Dr Alain Labrique from WHO, on Building Global Digital Health Systems That Serve Countries, Community, and People
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…
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Pulse Summer: Dr Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer at Google, on Trust, AI and Patient Care
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…
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Pulse Summer: Liz Salmi on What Happens When Patients Get Test Results Before Doctors
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…
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Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Bonus Show
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…
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Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Part II
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…
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Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Part I
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 mainstream…
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Healthcare’s Trust Paradox: AI Scribes, Augmented Humans, and the Rise of “Influencer Medicine”
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…
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You, Me & AI. David Fraile Navarro on triadic care in the clinical consultation
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…
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Elon’s promise of surgical robots, nanobots, D2C blood tests: innovation, hype and health equity
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…
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Dr Bhavesh Patel on the AI Avatar Surgeon: Reimagining Patient Communication in Paediatric Care
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…
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ChatGPT Loses Its Medical License & NHS Digital Safety Scandal
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…
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The case for social prescribing integration into electronic medical records
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…
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Measuring What Matters: Maturity Tests, Miracle Blood Tests, and the Great Health Data Grab
Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now. Digital Health Maturity: Measuring What Matters Is…
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Joe McDonald on why “Too Big To Fail” Health IT projects are destined for failure
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…
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No Surgeon, No Physio, No Problem? The Future of You
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…
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Rohan Mead & the Business Council of Australia on why Australia needs a bold vision, underpinned by technology, to fix healthcare
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…
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The True Cost of Misinformation and Australia's Time HealthTech Moment
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…
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Dr Charlotte Blease on how our humanness undermines the delivery of healthcare and how AI could help
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…
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ACDC, AI Fertility, Apple Health Tech & Robot Caregivers | Guest: Dr Eric Topol (Part 2)
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…
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SuperAgers, Big Tech & The Human Side of Interoperability | Guest: Dr Eric Topol
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…