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Can Wearables Move from Wellness to Medicine? | Oura CEO Tom Hale
Digital Health Guest User 9/22/25 Digital Health Guest User 9/22/25

Can Wearables Move from Wellness to Medicine? | Oura CEO Tom Hale

More than 2.5 million people now wear Oura Rings to track their sleep, readiness and daily activity. But behind the popularity of this sleek, ring-shaped device lies a bigger story about how wearables are changing our understanding of health.


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Dissecting the BVP State of AI Report 2025 and What it Means for Healthcare
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Dissecting the BVP State of AI Report 2025 and What it Means for Healthcare

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 changing.


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Healthcare Consumers Are Waking Up | Collective Health CEO Ali Diab
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Healthcare Consumers Are Waking Up | Collective Health 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?


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The Reason Hospital Software Fails | Commure CEO Tanay Tandon
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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Hospitals are under immense pressure: burned-out clinicians, outdated systems, and rising costs have made delivering care harder than ever. 


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Managing Medicaid in Challenging Times | President & CEO, Boston Medical Center Health System Alastair Bell
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Managing Medicaid in Challenging Times | President & CEO, Boston Medical Center Health System 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.

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Intractable Healthcare Problems Might Finally Be Solvable | Solv Co-founder & CEO Heather Fernandez
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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.

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What The One Big Beautiful Bill Means For Digital Health
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What The One Big Beautiful Bill Means For Digital Health

A new federal law is reshaping how healthcare is paid for and delivered in America.




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This Founder Just Raised $243M to Free Doctors from Their Screens | Ambience Co-founder & CEO Mike Ng
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This Founder Just Raised $243M to Free Doctors from Their Screens | Ambience Co-founder & CEO Mike Ng

Fresh off a $240 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.”



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Building a $33 Billion Digital Health Juggernaut | Dexcom CEO Kevin Sayer
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Building a $33 Billion Digital Health Juggernaut | Dexcom 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.


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What’s Stopping AI from Taking Over Hospitals | Coalition of Health AI CEO Dr. Brian Anderson
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What’s Stopping AI from Taking Over Hospitals | Coalition of Health AI CEO Dr. Brian Anderson

More than a thousand AI medical devices have FDA clearance, yet fewer than two percent of radiologists actually use them.

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Winning Over the Skeptics | Prenuvo Founder & CEO Andrew Lacy
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Winning Over the Skeptics | Prenuvo Founder & CEO Andrew Lacy

When Andrew Lacy launched Prenuvo, most of the medical establishment dismissed it as fringe. Now, some of those same skeptics are collaborating with him on research.

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The Making of Omada Health | Co-founder & CEO Sean Duffy
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The Making of 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.

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The PillPack Founders Are Back for Round Two | TJ Parker
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The PillPack Founders Are Back for Round Two | TJ Parker

What does one do after selling their company to Amazon for $1 billion? Start a new one, of course.

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Special Episode: Digital Health's Evidence Problem
Digital Health Guest User 6/19/25 Digital Health Guest User 6/19/25

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.

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Do We Really Need Healthcare Superintelligence? | Color Co-founder & CEO Othman Laraki
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Do We Really Need Healthcare Superintelligence? | Color Co-founder & CEO Othman Laraki

Most AI in healthcare promises superintelligence—but what if that’s the wrong goal entirely?


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Inside a New Model Changing American Healthcare | Risant CEO Jaewon Ryu
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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.

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Why Healthcare Is Totally Unprepared for AI | Towerbrook President Eric Larsen
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Why Healthcare Is Totally Unprepared for AI | Towerbrook President Eric Larsen

US healthcare has more unproductive labor and more unstructured data than any other industry, making it both especially vulnerable to disruption from generative AI and especially unprepared for it.

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A New Era at Optum | Optum CEO Dr. Patrick Conway
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A New Era at Optum | Optum CEO 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.

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The Flywheel Holding Back Women’s Health | Tia Co-founder Carolyn Witte & Rock Health CEO Katie Drasser
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The Flywheel Holding Back Women’s Health | Tia Co-founder Carolyn Witte & Rock Health CEO Katie Drasser

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.

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Stopping Healthcare's Tapeworm with Zero Inflation Healthcare | Clayton Christensen Institute Director Ann Somers Hogg
Healthcare Costs Guest User 4/28/25 Healthcare Costs Guest User 4/28/25

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?

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