The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast
🏆 #1 podcast in the Top 100 Health Tech All-time charts Join us every Monday for conversations with the biggest names in digital health. Hosted by digital health veterans Halle Tecco, Michael Esquivel, and Steve Kraus. Learn more and submit your ideas for the show at the Heart of Healthcare website.
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Fixing Rural Healthcare Before It Collapses | Homeward Co-founder & CEO Dr. Jennifer Schneider
As millions of Americans hit the road to visit family for Thanksgiving, many will pass through, or return to, rural communities. Nearly 60 million Americans live in these areas, yet many struggle to access even basic healthcare as rural hospitals close at record rates. Dr. Jennifer Schneider, co-founder and CEO of Home
How a Small Team Built the Fastest-Growing Clinician App Ever | OpenEvidence Co-founder & CTO Zack Ziegler
On the heels of raising $210 million at a $6 billion valuation, OpenEvidence is the fastest-growing physician app in history, now reaching over 40% of U.S. physicians and powering 17 million monthly clinical queries. In this conversation, co-founder and CTO Zack Ziegler shares how his background in early large language
A billion-dollar startup. A promise to change healthcare forever. And behind the scenes… a massive lie. Tyler Shultz was just starting his career when he joined Theranos, only to discover that the company’s breakthrough blood tests didn’t actually work. Speaking up meant risking everything—his career, his family relati
Does it feel like we packed in a decade of progress this year in digital health? We think so. Today, Halle and Steve break down the biggest digital health stories of the moment, from funding trends to AI rivalries and new rules shaping the future of care. We cover: 💸 What non-AI healthcare startups should do in today
Over 3 million clinicians around the world depend on UpToDate to guide patient care, and now the gold standard in clinical decision support is integrating generative AI. But in a world where AI models often hallucinate, how do you build something that doctors can actually trust? In this episode, Halle talks with Dr. Ho
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