The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast
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Can Wearables Move from Wellness to Medicine? | ŌURA CEO Tom Hale
Thanks to improved accuracy and new form factors, wearables have evolved from novelty step counters to tools that can predict illness, nudge healthier behaviors, and even influence alcohol consumption. But can they really bridge the gap bet
Dissecting the BVP State of AI Report 2025 and What it Means for Healthcare | BVP's Sofia Guerra and Kent Bennett
AI companies are hitting growth milestones in record time—some reaching $100 million in revenue in just two years. But while this pace feels familiar in tech, healthcare has always been slower to adopt new tools. That may finally be changin
📣 Digital Health Download | September 2025
Healthcare’s “back-to-school” season delivered no shortage of big headlines! From Epic’s big leap into AI to a looming insurance “blood bath,” Steve and Michael break down the stories that shaped digital health this month. We cover: 🖥 Epic
Healthcare Consumers Are Waking Up | Collective Health Co-founder & CEO Ali Diab
Healthcare costs keep climbing, and yet patients and employers often feel powerless to change the system. What if outsiders—those not steeped in the traditions of healthcare—are actually the ones best positioned to fix it? This special epis
The Reason Hospital Software Fails | Commure CEO Tanay Tandon
Hospitals are under immense pressure: burned-out clinicians, outdated systems, and rising costs have made delivering care harder than ever. Tanay Tandon, founder and CEO of Commure, shares how his team is rethinking hospital infrastructure
Managing Medicaid in Challenging Times | Boston Medical Center CEO Dr. Alastair Bell
One in four Americans is enrolled in Medicaid, yet the system designed to support them is constantly at risk—underfunded, politically vulnerable, and often overlooked. Dr. Alastair Bell, President and CEO of Boston Medical Center Health Sys
Why Intractable Healthcare Problems Might Finally Be Solvable | Solv Co-founder & CEO Heather Fernandez
Three simple questions plague every American seeking healthcare: Where should I go? When can I be seen? And how much will it cost me? Despite seeming basic, these questions have remained largely unanswerable—until now. In this episode, we e
What The One Big Beautiful Bill Means For Digital Health | Marwood Group Managing Director Joseph Mercer
A new federal law is reshaping how healthcare is paid for and delivered in America. In this episode, Steve sits down with health policy expert Joe Mercer to unpack the details of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It’s the most significant hea
This Founder Just Raised $243M to Free Doctors from Their Screens | Ambience Co-founder & CEO Mike Ng
Fresh off a $243 million fundraise from Oak HC/FT and A16Z, Ambience Healthcare is on a mission to kill medical billing — and build “Iron Man suits for doctors.” Today we sit down with co-founder and CEO Mike Ng to talk about how Ambience i
Building a $33B Digital Health Juggernaut | Dexcom Chairman & CEO Kevin Sayer
Dexcom generates more than $4 billion in annual revenue and has a market cap north of $30 billion, making it one of the biggest digital health companies in the world. And it all started with a better way to measure blood sugar. In this epis
Will AI Doctors Be Legal in 3 Years? | Coalition for Health AI President & CEO Dr. Brian Anderson
More than a thousand AI medical devices have FDA clearance, yet fewer than two percent of radiologists actually use them. In this episode, Steve sits down with Dr. Brian Anderson—CEO and co‑founder of the Coalition for Health AI—to unpack w
Winning Over the Skeptics | Prenuvo CEO & Founder Andrew Lacy
When Andrew Lacy launched Prenuvo, the medical establishment largely dismissed it as fringe. Now, some of those same skeptics are collaborating with him on research. In this episode, Halle and Michael sit down with Andrew, founder and CEO o
The Making of Omada Health | Omada Health Co-Founder & CEO Sean Duffy
In their first podcast since going public, Omada Health CEO Sean Duffy joins us to reflect on the journey to bend the curve of chronic disease. From walking away from the traditional PMPM model to staying grounded in clinical outcomes, Sean
📣 Digital Health Download | July 2025
Dare we say digital health is back? The IPOs are IPOing, and startups (at least the AI ones) are back raising mega rounds. In this month’s Digital Health Download, Halle and Steve break down the recent headlines, including a blockbuster fun
The PillPack Founders Are Back for Round Two | Co-founder and Former CEO of PillPack TJ Parker
What does one do after selling their company to Amazon for $1 billion? Start a new one, of course. In this episode, Halle sits down with TJ Parker, pharmacist, entrepreneur, and advocate for consumer-centric digital health. After co-foundin
Special Episode: Digital Health's Evidence Problem
Most medical care is backed by varying types of evidence, yet we apply higher standards to digital health tools before they’re trusted, adopted, or reimbursed. In this special episode, guest host Lucia Savage is joined by Dr. Vindell Washin
Do We Really Need Healthcare Superintelligence? | CEO & Co-founder of Color Health Othman Laraki
Most AI in healthcare promises superintelligence—but what if that’s the wrong goal entirely? In this episode, Michael and Halle speak with Othman Laraki, co-founder and CEO of Color Health, to talk about why real-world care doesn’t need a p
Inside a New Model Changing American Healthcare | Risant CEO Jaewon Ryu
Over half of Americans now live with at least one chronic condition, yet our healthcare system still revolves around episodic, reactionary care instead of continuous, coordinated support. We talk with Dr. Jaewon Ryu—former CEO of Geisinger
📣 Digital Health Download | June 2025
Is the digital health IPO drought over? Halle and Michael dig into the Hinge Health IPO and what it signals for the return of digital health companies to the public markets. They explore how much equity founders typically hold at IPO, the g
Why Healthcare Is Totally Unprepared for AI | TowerBrook Advisors President Eric Jon Larsen
US healthcare has more unproductive labor and more unstructured data than any other industry, making it both vulnerable to disruption from generative AI and especially unprepared for it. That’s the provocative thesis of Eric Larsen, preside
A New Era at Optum | Optum Chief Executive Officer Dr. Patrick Conway
Over 160 million Americans are served by Optum, yet many still don’t fully understand what it actually does—or why it matters. Dr. Patrick Conway, newly appointed CEO of Optum and former head of CMS Innovation Center and Blue Cross NC, join
The Flywheel Holding Women’s Health Back | Rock Health CEO Katie Drasser & Tia Founding CEO Carolyn Witte
Women make 80% of healthcare decisions and outspend men two to one on care—yet when it comes to designing, funding, and scaling health tech, they’re still treated like a niche. In this episode, we break down the broken flywheel holding wome
📣 Digital Health Download: May 2025
In this month's Digital Health Download, Steve and Halle unpack the headlines shaping healthcare, policy, and technology—with an eye toward where things may be heading next. From shifting political support for Medicaid and the ACA to state-
Stopping Healthcare's Tapeworm with Zero Inflation Healthcare | Clayton Christensen Institute Director Ann Somers Hogg
The average American family spends over $24,000 a year on healthcare, and costs continue to rise faster than inflation. Why can't we create a healthcare system that delivers more value for less money? In this conversation with Ann Somers Ho
From Family Business to Startup Success | Thyme Care Founder & CEO Robin Shah
Each year, 2 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer and face a fragmented, overwhelming healthcare system with minimal guidance between doctor visits, even as they make life-altering decisions. In this episode, we talk with Robin Shah,
The Health Insurance Founder That Hates Insurance | Oscar Health Co-founder Mario Schlosser
Health insurance has a Net Promoter Score of around 0-10 industry-wide, one of the lowest ratings of any industry. This is exactly why the founders of Oscar Health, with no background in healthcare and a distaste for the industry, started t
📣 Digital Health Download: April 2025
In this month's Digital Health Download, Steve, Halle, and Michael take a deliberately optimistic look at key headlines in healthcare technology. From the impressive impact of AI scribing tools on physician satisfaction to encouraging survi
Healthcare’s Eras Tour | NEA Co-CEO Mohamad Makhzoumi
Venture capital in healthcare has evolved from "the trailer park of venture investing" to a fundamental core tenant of the ecosystem, reflecting a quarter-century transformation of the entire industry. In this episode, we sit down with Moha
A Brave New Medicaid World | Waymark Co-founder & CEO Dr. Rajaie Batniji
One in four Americans relies on Medicaid, yet the program faces billions in federal funding cuts. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Rajaie Batniji, co-founder and CEO of Waymark, about delivering tech-enabled community care to Medicaid pat
The Real Reason the Teladoc-Livongo Merger Went Sideways | Scrub Capital Co-Founder Rebecca Mitchell, MD
In 2020, telemedicine company Teladoc acquired remote patient monitoring company Livongo for a record $18.5 billion, creating a $38 billion entity. Today, the combined company is worth less than a tenth of that. Rebecca Mitchell, who spent
