PULSE
Episodes
Nurture Your Mental Fitness: AI, Coaching Culture, and the Clinician of the Future, with Dr Kudzai Kanhutu
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 do...
AI Safety, Ireland and Apple Get Serious, and the NHS and FEDIP Make History
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George unpack a rapidly shifting healthcare landscape, where AI is no longer theoretical, but already embed...
The Other 8,765 Hours - with Sara Riggare
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 de...
AI Everywhere: In Your Pocket, on Your Wrist, in the Clinic, and Inside the Cell
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 consum...
Startup Lessons from Guy Tsafnat & Decoding Healthcare’s Data Matrix
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 he...
The ChatGPT Health controversy: what the viral Nature Medicine study missed with David Fraile Navarro
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. A recent Nature Medicine study went vira...
The Eucalyptus Exit, an AI Hackathon Cardiologist, and Why Good Tech Still Fails
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George break down…One of the biggest exits in Australian digital health history sees Sydney-founded teleh...
Jordi Piera Jimenez on Interoperability Theatre and Building Digital Health on Stone, Not Sand
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. Jordi Piera Jiménez joins Pulse to unpa...
Two AI Healthcare Futures? Australia Builds Medicine Infrastructure and China Scales GenAI to Billions
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George tackle big shifts in medicines safety and the accelerating global AI race in healthcare.Australia mo...
Grahame Grieve on the Politics of Interoperability, Community & the Disruption We’re Not Ready For
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Predictions and The To-Do List You Need Now to Respond to the GenAI Announcements
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
Did AI just become the default digital front door to healthcare?
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 deci...
Pulse Summer: Dr Alain Labrique from WHO, on Building Global Digital Health Systems That Serve Countries, Community, and People
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Pulse Summer: Dr Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer at Google, on Trust, AI and Patient Care
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Pulse Summer: Liz Salmi on What Happens When Patients Get Test Results Before Doctors
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Bonus Show
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ri...
Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Part II
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Pulse+IT 2025 Year in Review: Part I
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 mains...
Healthcare’s Trust Paradox: AI Scribes, Augmented Humans, and the Rise of “Influencer Medicine”
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now - from billion-dollar hype to human-level tru...
You, Me & AI. David Fraile Navarro on triadic care in the clinical consultation
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Elon’s promise of surgical robots, nanobots, D2C blood tests: innovation, hype and health equity
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Opt...
Dr Bhavesh Patel on the AI Avatar Surgeon: Reimagining Patient Communication in Paediatric Care
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Pulse: Amplify, where we sit down with the leaders and changemakers shaping the future of health. What happens when a paediatric surgeon w...
ChatGPT Loses Its Medical License & NHS Digital Safety Scandal
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now. Australian MedTech Innovator Wins PM’s Pr...
The case for social prescribing integration into electronic medical records
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Measuring What Matters: Maturity Tests, Miracle Blood Tests, and the Great Health Data Grab
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now. Digital Health Maturity: Measuring What Mat...
Joe McDonald on why “Too Big To Fail” Health IT projects are destined for failure
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 conversati...
No Surgeon, No Physio, No Problem? The Future of You
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now. AI Physio: No Humans Required? An AI physio...
Rohan Mead & the Business Council of Australia on why Australia needs a bold vision, underpinned by technology, to fix healthcare
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 R...
The True Cost of Misinformation and Australia's Time HealthTech Moment
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Dr Charlotte Blease on how our humanness undermines the delivery of healthcare and how AI could help
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, Associ...
ACDC, AI Fertility, Apple Health Tech & Robot Caregivers | Guest: Dr Eric Topol (Part 2)
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Interview: Dr Eric Topol (Part 2) In the second half of our conversation, Dr Eric Topol discusses AI’s promise in reducing clinician burnout, foreca...
SuperAgers, Big Tech & The Human Side of Interoperability | Guest: Dr Eric Topol
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Interview: Dr Eric Topol (Part 1)We’re joined by Dr Eric Topol—cardiologist, scientist, author, and global digital health leader. In part one, Eri...
From Telecare's Big Exit to ChatGPT-5: Healthcare's Transformation Accelerates with the Commoditisation of AI Scribes
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Telecare Acquisition by Teladoc: US telehealth giant Teladoc Health acquires Australian virtual care clinic Telecare in a rare successful exit for the...
Bringing Joy to Medicine with Participatory Medicine. Guest: Dr Danny Sands (Part 2)
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
GenAI as Therapist A New York Times op-ed explores how people are using ChatGPT for therapeutic conversations and emotional processing, raising questi...
Participatory Medicine and the Power of “I don’t know”. Guest: Dr Danny Sands (Part 1)
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George and Louise chat with Dr Danny Sands - Pioneer of participatory medicine discusses the origins of the e-patient movement and participatory medic...
UK's Digital Health Utopia vs Australia's Allied Health Reality. Guest: Anita Hobson-Powell, Australia’s Chief Allied Health Rockstar
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George and Louise break down the hot topics of the day, including:AI Scribes now regulated as medical devices in the UK - all pilots must cease until ...
When the Doctor Becomes the Patient, with Dr Amandeep Hansra
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Special episode: Today on Pulse, we’re doing something a little different. We’re joined by one of Australia’s most respected voices in digital h...
AI Agents Take the Ward: Virtual Care Meets Reality
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s show, George and Louise delve into:Has China really built the world’s first an AI-Agent Hospital?Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne ...
Aussie Govt Updates, Silicon Valley, & Mother of FemTech Ida Tin
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George and Louise dive into a roundup from the Australian Digital Health Festival, key government presentations and reports from the Commonwealth, Vic...
Shifting populations & shifting priorities, Part 2 with demographer legend Bernard Salt AM
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the show today is part 2 of George and Louise’s talk with Bernard Salt AM, Founder of The Demographics Group. They have a conversation on shiftin...
Government announces virtual-first telehealth service, and Part 1 of our extended chat with demographer legend Bernard Salt AM
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen for your chance to go the Digital Health Festival on us – with thanks to the DHF team. #Muchlove💗On the show today George and Louise talk ...
Getting rid of the stupid stuff in healthcare. Guest: Jill Tomlinson
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the show today George and Louise talk with AMA Victoria President Dr Jillian Tomlinson on the GROSS initiative to get rid of stupid stuff like wast...
Adoption and scale requires technical + service + business model innovation, with Guest: Janette Hughes
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest of Pulse is Janette Hughes, Director of Planning and Performance at Scotland’s Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI). Janette join...
Bringing Joy Back to Medicine, with Guest: Dr Karen DeSalvo
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing you Part 2 of our chat with Dr Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer at Google. We cover designing systems that align with the needs of clinici...
When a Nobel Prize is only one of your achievements. Guest: Dr Karen DeSalvo
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google's Impact on Health Report 2025 reveals the company's extensive influence on global digital health, including their Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFol...
Apple Cider Vinegar & Misinformation, Guest: Tina Purnat
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Disinformation and misinformation is the topic of the moment – join George and Louise as they discuss these issues with Dr Tina Punat, consultant in...
The commoditisation of AI is upon us! & Part 2 of our chat on global health with guest Dr Alain Labrique, WHO
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So it turns out that 2 weeks is a long time in the world of AI. Louise and George break down a heap of key stories and developments. AI is quickly bec...
Spiders, viruses & proteins get the AI treatment and Global Digital Health with guest Dr Alain Labrique, WHO
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, hosts Louise Schaper and George Margelis dive into the latest advancements in health and biomedical sciences, exploring how artificia...
Pulse+IT’s Year in Review Issue. 2024, Part 2
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Louise and George as they run through some of the hot stories in the Australian and New Zealand health sector this year.01:31 Virtual Care and Te...
Pulse+IT’s Year in Review Issue. 2024, Part 1
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Louise and George as they run through some of the hot stories in the Australian and New Zealand health sector this year.04:16 2024 Pulse+IT Year ...
Role of AI in health insurance: a battle of good vs evil? Guest: Mark Brommeyer
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Co-Host: Dr Michael Bainbridge George is on holiday so joining Louise at the mic this episode is Michael Bainbridge, Clinical Architect for Leid...
The Ouroboros Effect: How AI Threatens Human Intellect. Guest: Prof Blackford Middleton
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prof Blackford Middleton joins us in the PulsePod studio to discuss his philosophising on the intersection of AI and healthcare, and his new publicati...
Information Foraging: Crowdsourcing 4AI & Cancer-Killing Tech. Guests: Dr Robin Mann & Dr Honor Magon
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk’s Grok and Crowdsourcing Medical Data – Elon Musk invites the public to submit medical images to his AI, Grok, raising serious privacy c...
What happens in digital health stays in digital health
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Contrary to the campaign slogan ‘what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’, George asks Louise to spill on how she found the HLTH Conference in Las V...
“AI is what it eats” Rachel Dunscombe says you can quote her!
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joining us in the Pulse Pod studio this week is Rachel Dunscombe, CEO of OpenEHR International and Director at the ECHA Alliance. Rachel is a key figu...
#PatientsUseAI – Do you?
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our special guest of Pulse is known online as e-Patient Dave. Dave Debronkart is a leading light of determined patient advocacy for individual access ...
Apple & Google, are you listening? (spoiler alert… yes, they are!)
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Holt, Founder of The Health Care Blog and resident Silicon Valley digital health expert, joins us in the PulsePod studio to talk about the US ...
Drugs, sex and aged care – AI is everywhere
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are living in the future! AI generated drug development is here. George and Louise discuss the significance of this development.There’s lots of s...
Daniel McCabe Part 2: Consumers want access to their health information and Daniel McCabe wants to make it happen
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode features part 2 of our extended interview with Daniel McCabe, First Assistant Secretary for the Medicare Benefits and Digital Health...
Consumers want access to their health information and Daniel McCabe wants to make it happen
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode features part 1 of our extended interview with Daniel McCabe, First Assistant Secretary for the Medicare Benefits and Digital Health...
What happens when patients get test results before doctors?
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The PulsePod team are in Brisbane Australia for the annual HIC conference, where there are a number of announcements from large software companies, pl...
Modernising our digital health infrastructure
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oh the irony – a software tool designed to offer cyber protection against systems going down, causes the biggest cyber outage the world has ever see...
How many strategies does a digital health plan make?
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Unless EMRs have become sentient and we missed the memo, humans are ultimately the cause of an ‘EMR error’ South Australia Health is currently inv...
What’s Ozempic got to do with digital health?
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well it’s finally here! George and Louise managed to coordinate their calendars to bring you this inaugural episode of Pulse. They lift the lid on a...
Louise and George explain what happens on Pulse
04 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two Australians who’ve been at the heart of digital health since before it was called digital health - Dr Louise Schaper and Dr George Margelis, joi...