📣 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 debate about where healthcare is headed and what it means for founders, investors, clinicians, and patients.
In this episode:
• Why a court declared that patients don’t have right to ambient AI recordings
• Oura postpones its IPO at the last minute, despite strong investor demand. What happened?
• What happens when patients start showing up to appointments armed with medical advice from AI?
• AI was supposed to make healthcare cheaper. So why is it driving spending up first?
• The FDA starts wrestling with one of healthcare AI’s hardest questions: How do you regulate medical technology that can change constantly? Chime in on the white paper here (fda.gov/medical-devices/digital-health-center-…).
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