The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast
The Heart of Healthcare podcast gets to the heart of our mission in digital health — to massively improve healthcare for all. 🏆 #1 podcast in the Top 100 Health Tech All time charts 👥 Hosted by digital health veterans Halle Tecco, Michael Esquivel, and Steve Kraus 🎙 New episode every Monday Join us for authentic and compelling conversations with thought leaders as we deconstruct underlying problems in healthcare, and identify how we can work together to solve them.
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Most people spend over 30 hours a year dealing with customer service—on hold, repeating account numbers, and navigating endless phone trees. But what if AI could fix that without losing the human touch? Clay Bavor, co-founder of Sierra (now valued at $10B) and former VP at Google, joins us to explore how AI agents are
This milestone 200th(!!!) episode of The Heart of Healthcare Podcast features none other than Dr. Tom X. Lee, the serial physician-founder behind Epocrates (acquired for $293M), One Medical (acquired by Amazon for $3.9B), and now Galileo, a tech-enabled medical group aiming to rewire care delivery from the ground up. W
Happy Q4 Heart of Healthcare Listeners! We’re back with your monthly Digital Health Download, where we discuss the biggest industry headlines of the month. We cover: 💊 Pharm tariffs, D2C drug ads, and TrumpRx? 📉 The ACA tax credit standoff and how it could double premiums for millions 🛒 UnitedHealthcare’s new st
Cancer drugs cost more than ever, yet survival benefits are often modest—and in some cases, patients can’t even access the care that already exists. After losing his father, Steve Jobs, to pancreatic cancer, Reed Jobs committed himself to making this the last generation that loses parents to the disease. Reed now lead
Some founders win support because of their product, others because of their story. In healthcare, where trust is everything, the ability to tell a compelling and authentic narrative can make or break a company. On this episode, Halle talks with longtime friend and colleague Christina Farr—reporter turned investor and n
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 between consumer wellness and enterprise healthcare? In this episode, ŌURA CEO Tom