



17 episodes
by Massively Better Healthcare · English
🏆 2026 Webby Award-winning podcast. Join us every Monday for conversations with the biggest names in healthcare. Hosted by health tech veterans Halle Tecco, Michael Esquivel, and Steve Kraus. Learn more and submit your ideas for the show at the Heart of Healthcare website.









How NVIDIA’s Kimberly Powell argues AI (especially agentic AI) can relieve healthcare’s clinician shortage and administrative burden, and how “physical AI” could evolve hospitals into…
9 Nov 2026 · 44m · 15 chapters
Digital health news roundup (stories from October 2026) covering AI in clinical decision-making and malpractice risk, a new U.S.
2 Nov 2026 · 30m · 17 chapters
Healthcare advocacy—turning anger into action to fix barriers that harm patients and healthcare workers, especially lack of “protected speech” for clinicians.
26 Oct 2026 · 33m · 18 chapters
Tyler Shultz, a Theranos whistleblower, explains how the company’s “blood testing” claims were not validated, how a culture of fear silenced scientists, and what he learned about ethics, due…
21 Oct 2026 · 47m · 24 chapters
David Vivero explains Lucian, a “nutrition label for the air you breathe,” built to measure indoor airborne particles (including molds, bacteria, dust-mite drivers, and outdoor pollutants like brake…
19 Oct 2026 · 31m · 13 chapters
Ortet’s plan to build healthcare-specific foundation models (“universal health model”) that learn from biological, clinical, and operational data in a closed learning loop to reduce “cold start” and…
12 Oct 2026 · 41m · 15 chapters
The episode covers four October 2026 digital health themes. First, a Washington State case (Raphael v.
5 Oct 2026 · 34m · 13 chapters
Wall Street’s misunderstanding of healthcare, with a focus on kidney care at DaVita—human-centered metrics, patient experience, and the business/investor implications of long-horizon care.
28 Sep 2026 · 30m · 14 chapters
The episode argues that “Quality Revolution 1.0” (checklists, forcing functions, human-led standardization) has hit limits as medical knowledge and patient complexity grow, and that AI should extend…
21 Sep 2026 · 37m · 18 chapters
Sarah Russell (Anthropic healthcare product lead) discusses Anthropic’s approach to deploying safe AI in healthcare—building “non-regrettable primitives,” enterprise readiness, and especially…
14 Sep 2026 · 33m · 18 chapters
Why American workers pay so much for healthcare, arguing that “healthcare isn’t expensive” but profiteering, price gouging, administrative bloat, and fraud are.
7 Sep 2026 · 41m · 23 chapters
Monthly digital health headlines (Sept 2026), covering clinical-trial prediction markets, Meta’s child-safety settlement, AI’s role in rising healthcare costs, single-payer savings modeling, AI…
31 Aug 2026 · 22m · 11 chapters
SmarterDx founders Michael Gao and Joshua Golaris discuss how their health AI company evolved from early customer-finding struggles into a “pre-bill” revenue-driving product, and how they built a…
24 Aug 2026 · 35m · 16 chapters
How Stanford Medical School is preparing future physicians for decades of practice amid generative AI, patient self-education, and evolving medical education; also discusses lifelong learning,…
17 Aug 2026 · 40m · 17 chapters
Oura CEO Tom Hale argues that wearable health data can act like “a doctor in your pocket” by improving behavior change, especially through sleep tracking and predictive signals (e.g., Symptom Radar).
10 Aug 2026 · 43m · 19 chapters
Digital health headlines (GLP-1 companion platforms, FDA peptide compounding vote, ChatGPT Health expansion and lawsuits, job lock from employer insurance, and daylight saving time health impacts).
3 Aug 2026 · 34m · 11 chapters
Why autonomous vehicles (and other technologies) face slower adoption despite strong safety data, because people demand “perfect” machine performance while tolerating human-caused deaths;…
27 Jul 2026 · 27m · 8 chapters