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 for a simple principle: patients should have access to the data generated by their own bodies. After discovering that his implanted cardiac defibrillator was sending information to clinicians and manufacturers—but not to him—he became one of the world's leading advocates for patient data rights.

In this episode, Hugo explains why generative AI changes everything. Rather than waiting for hospitals or vendors to build better tools, patients can now create their own AI-powered applications, analyse their own health data and ask questions that matter to them.

We discuss patient-directed AI, the rise of personalised "N-of-1" healthcare, critical AI health literacy, and why the next wave of healthcare innovation may come from patients themselves—not institutions.

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Resources – open source, freely available by Hugo:

https://caihl.org/ (framework of critical ai health literacy)

https://openkp.org/ (mcp server for access to provider data)

https://myheartdata.org/ (19 years of Hugo’s own echo data)

https://hugotronic.com/ (longitudinal data from Hugo’s implantable defibrillator)

https://endothelial.org/ (explains endothelial dysfunction, built for Dave)

Hugo’s newest app:

https://hugoscore.org/ (evaluates patient-facing health apps throught he CAIHL lens)

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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 five stories on a single throughline: AI adoption by clinicians and patients is racing ahead of the institutions meant to govern it.

They discuss why more than half of UK GPs are now using generative AI in clinical practice, how an AI system analysing a routine ECG helped save a patient's life, the emergence of agentic AI capable of managing clinical workflows, a robotic platform accelerating cancer drug discovery, and an Australian-developed wearable "stethoscope sticker" designed to continuously monitor heart and lung sounds.

Resources:

Half of UK GPs Now Use AI Blease et al Link

AI Flagged a Failing Heart Hartman et al Nature Link

Agentic AI Comes to Medicine Topol, Ground Truths Link

AIME, Lievin et al Nature Link

MIRA, Ferber et al Nature Link

UpDoc FDA-clearance announcement — PRNewswire Link

Shrestha, Innolitics Link

Persistern Cells, Sun et al., ScienceAdvances Link

The "Stethoscope Sticker" Dang et al., Link

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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 analysis Is the NHS Ready for the AI-Powered Patient?

Pritesh argues the NHS is no longer the centre of a person's health experience, but one participant in a much larger ecosystem - and he unpacks the three forces driving that shift: direct-to-consumer innovation, generational change, and a growing role for employers.

Pritesh asks if ‘NHS exceptionalism’, the belief that any care delivered outside the NHS must be re-validated within it, is responsible in an era of resource constraint. Pritesh, Louise and George explore what it really takes to share authority and clinical risk with better-informed patients, the sycophancy problem with consumer AI, and whether these tools will widen or narrow inequalities. Pritesh makes the case for building "AI readiness" as a core public capability rather than hardwiring rigid plans.

Connect with Pritesh on LinkedIn

Resources:

Pritesh Mistry, Is the NHS Ready for the AI-Powered Patient?, The King's Fund (26 May 2026) Link

Keep Britain Working Review: Final Report, GOV.UK Link

Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England, GOV.UK Link

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