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The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast

Halle Tecco, Michael Esquivel, Steve Kraus

Booking Overview

A weekly interview-led digital health and healthcare show featuring prominent executives, academic medical leaders, physicians, and authors. Credible pitches include digital health founders and CEOs, healthcare executives, medical innovators, physician-researchers, and experts in healthcare AI, governance, or access with substantial leadership, published work, or a notable book; booking difficulty is high.

Metrics

Episodes: 241

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

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 co-host focused on digital health and healthcare innovation.

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

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

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Healthcare and digital health CEOs, founders, senior healthcare executives, academic medical leaders, physician-researchers, authors, and recognized experts in healthcare innovation or policy.
Required Achievements:  
Leading a prominent healthcare, technology, or digital health organization, Founding or scaling a notable healthcare or technology company, Publishing influential research or writing, Authoring a recognized book, Holding senior leadership at a major academic medical institution

Recent Guest Discussions

Lloyd B. Minor, MD - Medical Education And Artificial Intelligence, Precision Medicine, Healthcare Access, Healthcare Costs, And The Future Of Clinical Practice.

Tom Hale - Wearable Health Technology, Sleep Tracking, Clinical Accuracy, Consumer Trust, Regulated Medical Devices, Medicare Advantage, Women’s Health, And Metabolic Health.

Eric Ries - Shareholder Primacy, Corporate Governance, Mission Preservation, Long-term Company Building, Healthcare Ownership Structures, And Founder-led Growth.

Recent Topics

Digital Health, Healthcare, Health Technology, Medical Innovation, Health Policy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast
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Can AI Finish What The Quality Revolution Started? | Bunkerhill Health CCO Dr. Azita Hamedani

September 21, 2026

For decades, healthcare's quality movement gave us checklists, forcing functions, and protocols to catch human error before it reached a patient. It worked, to a point. But as medical knowledge and patient complexity keep outpacing what any human system can track, a new question is emerging: can AI pick up where that movement left off?In this episode, in her first interview since stepping into the role, we talk with Dr. Azita Hamedani, the newly appointed Chief Clinical Officer at Bunkerhill ...

Anthropic’s Bet on the Future of Healthcare | Healthcare and Life Sciences Lead, Sarah Russell

September 14, 2026

Sarah Russell picked up a phrase at her new job at Anthropic: a "non-regrettable primitive." It's how she describes the kind of infrastructure she thinks Anthropic should be building in healthcare, and it says a lot about how one of the most closely watched companies in health AI is positioning itself. In this episode, Steve talks with Sarah Russell, MD healthcare and life sciences lead at Anthropic. This conversation comes as Anthropic heads toward what's shaping up to be one of the mos...

Why American Workers Pay So Much for Healthcare | Health Rosetta CEO Dave Chase

September 07, 2026

Healthcare costs are taking an ever-larger bite out of American workers’ compensation. This Labor Day, we’re revisiting a conversation with Health Rosetta CEO Dave Chase about why healthcare has become so expensive and what employers can do about it.Dave argues that healthcare itself isn’t the problem: clinicians receive only a fraction of every dollar spent, while price gouging, administrative bloat, and middlemen consume much of the rest. He explains how community-owned health plans are reb...

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halle@giant.vc

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