The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast

Updated: 12 May 2025 • 174 episodes
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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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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 women’s health innovation back including fewer growth-stage investments, limited exi

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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-level action on PBMs, they explore the unexpected ways the system is evolving. W

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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 Hogg, Director of Healthcare Research at the Clayton Christensen Institute, we exp

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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, Founder & CEO of Thyme Care, who has devoted his 17-year career to improving on

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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 the company in 2012. Since then, Oscar has grown to 1.7 million members, gone pub

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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 survival rates among digital health unicorns from the ZIRP-era, the hosts highlights

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