The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast

Halle Tecco, Michael Esquivel, Steve Kraus

Publicly listed emails

halletecco@gmail.com

halle@giant.vc

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Booking Overview

This is a weekly healthcare technology interview show focused on digital health, healthcare innovation, artificial intelligence, pharmaceuticals, and company building, typically featuring founders, CEOs, and prominent business or technology thinkers. Credible pitches include healthcare and life sciences founders, digital health executives, AI researchers, pharmaceutical innovators, and authors or policy experts with distinctive perspectives on healthcare transformation; booking is likely high difficulty because recent guests include highly accomplished founders, CEOs, and bestselling authors.

Metrics

Episodes: 235

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 485 subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

halletecco@gmail.com

halle@giant.vc

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Host

Halle Tecco - Health tech veteran and podcast host focused on healthcare and digital health innovation.

Michael Esquivel - Health tech veteran and podcast host focused on healthcare and digital health innovation.

Steve Kraus - Health tech veteran and podcast host focused on healthcare and digital health innovation.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Healthcare, digital health, life sciences, or artificial intelligence founders and senior executives; researchers with substantial technical or clinical expertise; and recognized authors or thought leaders with original perspectives on healthcare transformation.
Required Achievements:  
Founded or led a notable healthcare, life sciences, or artificial intelligence company, Raised substantial funding or built a company with significant market valuation, Published influential books or research, Developed technologies, diagnostics, therapeutics, or platforms with meaningful healthcare impact

Recent Guest Discussions

Eric Ries - Shareholder Primacy, Corporate Governance, Long-term Company Building, Mission Preservation, And Healthcare Governance.

Ben Liu - Artificial Intelligence In Drug Development, Clinical-trial Bottlenecks, Pharmaceutical Company Building, And The Future Of Medicine.

Jon Wang - Healthcare Voice Artificial Intelligence, Scaling A Healthcare Startup, Durable Competitive Advantages, Patient Navigation, And Organizational Culture.

Jeffery Liu - Healthcare Voice Artificial Intelligence, Scaling A Healthcare Startup, Durable Competitive Advantages, Patient Navigation, And Organizational Culture.

Recent Topics

Digital Health, Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceuticals, Entrepreneurship

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast
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Can Oura Become the Doctor in Your Pocket? | Oura CEO Tom Hale

August 10, 2026

We're on summer break and replaying one of our favorite episodes. This episode originally aired on September 22, 2025.A wearable can collect endless data, but it only matters if people trust it enough to change their behavior.In this replay, Oura CEO Tom Hale joins Steve and Michael to explain how the company combines clinical-grade accuracy with a consumer-friendly product. They discuss why the ring’s form factor makes overnight tracking so powerful, how Oura turns physiological signals into...

📣 Digital Health Download: August 2026

August 03, 2026

This month is about the gap between what a system offers and what people actually get from it: drugs that work better with support nobody's paying for, AI that's already answering more medical questions than most doctors ever will, and a labor market where staying healthy can mean staying stuck. Halle and Michael break down the stories reshaping digital health in August.We cover:Why GLP-1 funding is shifting from prescribing platforms into "companion" ecosystemsThe FDA panel vote that opens a...

Why We Demand Perfect Machines Yet Tolerate Human Carnage | Dr. Jonathan Slotkin

July 27, 2026

Every day, roughly 100 Americans die in crashes caused by human drivers. Yet when a self-driving car hesitates at an intersection or makes the news for an unusual mistake, public trust can evaporate.In this special episode, Dr. Jonathan Slotkin reads his latest Noema essay exploring why we demand perfection from machines while accepting human error as inevitable. Drawing on lessons from medicine, psychology, and autonomous vehicles, he argues that the biggest barrier to safer technology is tr...

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