The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast
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🏆 2026 Webby Award-winning podcast.
Join us every Monday for conversations with the biggest names in healthcare. Hosted by health tech veterans Halle Tecco, Michael Esquivel, and Steve Kraus.
Learn more and submit your ideas for the show at the Heart of Healthcare (heartofgealthcarepodcast.com) website.
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📣 Digital Health Download: November 2026
Hello November! AI is getting smarter, healthcare is getting more expensive, and the plot keeps thickening. In this month's Digital Health Download, Steve and Michael break down the month's biggest healthcare headlines, including surprising
How to Fight Back Against a Broken Healthcare System | Dr. Elisabeth Potter & Trina Spear
Speaking out against the healthcare system can cost you your job, your reputation, or even your business. So why do it? This week, Halle sits down with FIGS co-founder and CEO Trina Spear and Dr. Elisabeth Potter, the plastic surgeon who we
What It Took to Tell the Truth About Theranos | Whistleblower Tyler Shultz
Speaking up at Theranos meant risking your career, your relationships, and your safety. Tyler Shultz did it anyway. With the release of You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, we’re r
A Nutrition Label for the Air You Breathe | Lution Co-founder David Vivero
We pay close attention to what we eat and drink. But how much do we really know about the air we breathe inside our own homes? This week, Halle is live from the New York Stock Exchange, sitting down with three-time founder David Vivero for
Why Healthcare Needs Its Own Foundation Models | Ortet Founder & CEO Kyunghyun Cho
One of the world’s leading AI researchers has big plans for healthcare. And Thoreau just committed $500 million to bring that vision to life. This week, we are the first to sit down with Ortet founder and CEO Kyunghyun Cho to talk about the
📣 Digital Health Download: October 2026
It’s time for our Monthly Digital Health Download, where we unpack the stories shaping healthcare and technology right now. This month, Steve Kraus and Michael Esquivel try to make sense of a particularly eventful few weeks, with plenty to
What Wall Street Gets Wrong About Healthcare | DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez
Healthcare is full of things that are easy to measure, from costs and outcomes to utilization and, increasingly, AI. But DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez believes one of the most important parts of healthcare is also one of the hardest to put in
Can AI Finish What The Quality Revolution Started? | Bunkerhill Health CCO Dr. Azita Hamedani
For decades, healthcare's quality movement gave us checklists, forcing functions, and protocols to catch human error before it reached a patient. It worked, to a point. But as medical knowledge and patient complexity keep outpacing what any
Anthropic’s Bet on the Future of Healthcare | Healthcare and Life Sciences Lead, Sarah Russell
Sarah Russell picked up a phrase at her new job at Anthropic: a "non-regrettable primitive." It's how she describes the kind of infrastructure she thinks Anthropic should be building in healthcare, and it says a lot about how one of the mos
Why American Workers Pay So Much for Healthcare | Health Rosetta CEO Dave Chase
Healthcare costs are taking an ever-larger bite out of American workers’ compensation. This Labor Day, we’re revisiting a conversation with Health Rosetta CEO Dave Chase about why healthcare has become so expensive and what employers can do
📣 Digital Health Download: September 2026
It's our monthly Digital Health Download, and September's stories all circle the same tension: technology keeps promising to fix healthcare's problems, but just as often it moves them somewhere else, or creates new ones entirely. This week,
From Early Struggles to Billion+ Exit | SmarterDx Founders Michael Gao & Joshua Geleris
We don't talk enough about how hard it actually is to build a healthcare startup. Behind SmarterDx's story, now one of the biggest health AI exits to date, were 18 months without a single customer, a pivot that seemed to make no product sen
Training Doctors for the Next 40 Years | Stanford Medical School Dean Dr. Lloyd Minor
It's back-to-school szn, and while some kids are stressing over earlier wake-ups, this year's incoming medical students have a bigger question to answer: how do you train for a career that could still have you practicing medicine in the 207
Can Oura Become the Doctor in Your Pocket? | Oura CEO Tom Hale
We're on summer break and replaying one of our favorite episodes. This episode originally aired on September 22, 2025. A wearable can collect endless data, but it only matters if people trust it enough to change their behavior. In this repl
📣 Digital Health Download: August 2026
This month is about the gap between what a system offers and what people actually get from it: drugs that work better with support nobody's paying for, AI that's already answering more medical questions than most doctors ever will, and a la
Why We Demand Perfect Machines Yet Tolerate Human Carnage | Dr. Jonathan Slotkin
Every day, roughly 100 Americans die in crashes caused by human drivers. Yet when a self-driving car hesitates at an intersection or makes the news for an unusual mistake, public trust can evaporate. In this special episode, Dr. Jonathan Sl
Shareholder Primacy Is Breaking Healthcare | Eric Ries
Healthcare companies are built to improve patients' lives. So why do so many prioritize shareholders over the people they're meant to serve? This week, Halle sits down with Eric Ries, author of Incorruptible, to unpack the rise of sharehold
Can AI Build the First New Pharma Giant in Decades? | Formation Bio CEO Ben Liu
Over the last decade, the number of drug candidates entering development has doubled, yet the number of successful drug approvals remains flat at ~50 per year. This week, we sit down with Formation Bio founder and CEO Ben Liu. His company h
Building A Healthcare Unicorn In Three Years | Assort Health Founders Jeff Liu and Jon Wang
They built a $1.2 billion healthcare AI company in under three years, but they say the hardest part of healthcare AI isn't the AI. This week, Halle sits down with Assort Health co-founders and co-CEOs Jeffery Liu and Jon Wang, whose company
📣 Digital Health Download: July 2026
July marks five years of The Heart of Healthcare, and we're grateful for every listener who's tuned in. If you've enjoyed the show, please show your love by leaving us a review! This month, Steve and Halle take stock of an industry where ca
Healthcare’s Oppenheimer Moment | Listener Q&A
Back by popular demand, 3x Heart of Healthcare guest Eric Larsen joins Steve to answer listener questions on healthcare's AI revolution. Drawing on the ideas behind his latest essay, Healthcare's Oppenheimer Moment, Eric argues that healthc
How AI Changed Healthcare Fundraising and Venture Capital
Healthcare AI funding is booming, but the money is flowing to fewer companies than ever before. As investors pour capital into a small group of breakout winners, founders are navigating a fundraising environment where expectations seem to c
What Healthcare Can Learn From Waymo | Qualified Health Founder and CEO Justin Norden
Autonomous vehicles may be the closest real-world example of AI operating in life-and-death situations at scale. Justin Norden believes healthcare has a lot to learn from how that industry approached safety, testing, adoption, and trust. Th
📣 Digital Health Download: June 2026
Healthcare is simultaneously propping up the US economy and facing one of its most uncertain moments in years. This month, Halle and Steve unpack the growing contradictions shaping digital health right now: healthcare jobs are driving nearl
Investing in “Whole Person Care” | Lance Armstrong
Most careers don’t follow a straight line. But few require starting over in full view of the public. This week, Halle sits down with Lance Armstrong to discuss how he rebuilt his life and career after multiple turning points, including surv
How AI Will Finally Make Healthcare Deflationary | Eric Larsen
AI in healthcare may be entering a new chapter, one where the biggest question is no longer whether the technology works, but who is willing to deploy it, measure it, and take responsibility for the risk. This week, Steve sits down again wi
What It Takes To Scale Care With AI | Akido Labs CEO Prashant Samant
Medicaid reimbursements are shrinking, providers are pulling back, and vulnerable populations are losing access to care. Akido Labs is betting that AI can expand care capacity fast enough to reverse that trend. This week, Halle sits down wi
📣 Digital Health Download: May 2026
AI is everywhere in healthcare, and May's big question is whether it's actually delivering. The money is flowing, the promises are bold, but some cracks are starting to show. Steve and Michael break down the month's biggest stories. We cove
Is ChatGPT Now the World's Largest Health App? | OpenAI VP of Health Nate Gross, MD
Forty million people use ChatGPT for health-related questions every day, making it one of the most widely used tools for health information in the world. So what is their team doing to maximize impact and minimize harm? For one, they've bro
The Chaos Of Drug Pricing in the US | GoodRx CEO Wendy Barnes
Nearly one billion prescriptions are abandoned at the pharmacy counter every year, often because patients are blindsided by the cost. This week, co-host Halle Tecco is joined by Wendy Barnes, President and CEO of GoodRx, to discuss the chao
