Prove It

The show where digital health leaders stop hand-waving, start evidence-building, and reveal how extraordinary claims become extraordinary results. Each episode I’ll be joined by someone who’s had their ideas tested in the fire of peer review, regulators, and the real world.

Prove It is a technology podcast hosted by Paul Wicks, with 6 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Paul Wicks hosts Prove It, a technology show with 6 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  Regulation Is Not the Enemy of Speed Tauseef Mehrali on Building Safety Culture at 400 million Users

  May 7, 202652 minS1

  <p>Paul Wicks sits down with Dr. Tauseef Mehrali , GP, former VP of Medical Safety at Ada Health, and now VP of Regulatory Science at Flo Health, the world's largest femtech platform, for a deeply practical conversation about what it actually takes to build safety and regulatory rigour into digital health products at scale.<br /><br />Flo has over 400 million downloads and nearly 80 million monthly active users. When something goes wrong at that scale, the harm is invisible, insidious and potentially enormous. Tauseef's job is to make sure it doesn't.<br />In this conversation they cover:<br /><br />🛑 Why he tur...

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  Episode #5

  Hugh Harvey on Radiology AI Startups, Regulation, Evidence & the Only Way to Win in Health Tech

  Apr 15, 202650 minS1

  <p>In 2015 Geoffrey Hinton said radiologists would lose their jobs to AI within five years. It's 2026 and we're still short of radiologists. Dr. Hugh Harvey has a few thoughts on that.<br /><br />Paul Wicks sits down with Hugh, radiologist, ex-Babylon Health, Europe's first CE-marked deep learning mammography device, and now regulatory consultant to over 150 medical device companies, for a masterclass on why most healthcare AI companies fail, and what the ones that survive actually do differently.<br /><br />In this conversation they cover:<br />🏥 Why AI didn't replace radiologists, and what that really tells us about healthcare AI<br />📋 How so...

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  Can a Chatbot Really Care? Woebot's Founder on Therapeutic Bonds, CBT, and What LLMs Still Can't Do

  Mar 31, 202646 minS1

  <p>Before mental health chatbots were a trend, Dr. Ali Darcy was already running randomised controlled trials on one.<br /><br />In 2016, she and her collaborators at Stanford conducted what is widely regarded as the first ever formal RCT of a conversational AI for mental health. <br /><br />The paper has since been cited over 2,000 times. Her creation, Woebot, became one of the most studied and recognised digital mental health tools in the world.<br /></p><p>In this episode of Prove It, host Paul Wicks sits down with Ali for a wide-ranging, deeply honest conversation about what the science...

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  15 Years of Medical Rigour Over Hype: ADA Health's Daniel Nathrath, Building AI That Actually Works

  Mar 19, 202643 minS0

  <p>Digital health is littered with extraordinary claims that never collide with evidence. ADA Health is one of the rare exceptions.<br /></p><p>In this episode of Prove It, host Paul Wicks sits down with Daniel Nathrath, founder and CEO of ADA Health, to unpack what it actually takes to build medical-grade AI over 15 years without cutting corners on safety, rigour, or evidence.<br /></p><p>Daniel opens up about why he, a lawyer by training with a background in consumer internet, ended up building one of the world's most clinically validated symptom assessment platforms. <br /><br />From the...

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  Episode #2

  The Secret Editor: The Brutal Truth About Peer Review, Profit, and “Bonkers” Publishing

  Feb 26, 202646 minS1

  <p>Medical publishing looks objective from the outside, but behind the curtain it’s a high-pressure, incentive-driven system where great science can get buried and mediocre work can slip through.<br /><br />In this special Prove It episode, Paul Wicks interviews a senior journal editor who remains anonymous (“The Secret Editor”) and explains how papers really move through the sausage factory: desk decisions, editorial boards, associate editors, peer review overload, and the surprisingly human judgments that shape what gets published.<br /><br />They unpack the profit engine that reshaped scientific publishing, why “read the journal guidelines” is the #1 rule for getting ac...

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