Trudging towards interoperability
Christina Farr, Ruth Reader and Annalisa Merelli
9 min read
This week a scoop from SO and a conversation with AMA's Jennifer Goldsack
Verifying AI in Medicine: Is Healthcare AI Actually Ready for Deployment?
Is AI ready for real-world clinical care? Dr. Zak Kohane and Protege’s Engy Ziedan debate what it takes to safely trust AI in diagnosis and treatment, from benchmark performance and clinical evidence to whether we’re holding AI to a higher standard than humans.
Healthcare AI needs humans | Microsoft's Peter Lee & Seattle Children's Chris Longhurst
Christina Farr sits down with Peter Lee, President of Microsoft Science, and Dr. Christopher Longhurst, the new CEO of Seattle Children's, to take stock of where AI in healthcare actually stands versus where the headlines say it is.
Doctors get into the ring about AI’s potential in healthcare
Christina Farr and Annalisa Merelli
10 min read
Plus: the Plushcare acquisition nobody announced, and McKesson breach
Everything I know about the behavioral health market in 2026
Christina Farr
18 min read
After $12B+ in investment and a brutal reset, behavioral health is the biggest category in digital health services — and every scaled player is now asking the same question: how do I get bigger without breaking the core business?
Price in healthcare is market share, not quality | Nick Reber, Garner Health CEO
Nick Reber, Founder and CEO, Garner Health talks with Chrissy about why the most consequential decision in healthcare, which doctor you actually see, is the one patients have the least information about.
Headspace gets a haircut
Christina Farr
6 min read
The payout for the mental health startup was far below its valuation
Healthcare's Newest Power Player Is the Chief AI Officer
Christina Farr and Jennifer Fields
15 min read
The chief AI officer is becoming one of healthcare’s newest C-suite roles. But what does the job actually involve — and what separates the leaders making AI work from the ones just chasing the hype?
What Growth Equity Investors Look for in Digital Health
Christina Farr and Meredith Nolan
13 min read
A Survey of 10 Leading Growth Equity Investors
White-collar work has no immunological protection | Eric Larsen, TowerBrook Advisors
This week on Lifers, Christina Farr is joined by Eric Larsen, President of TowerBrook Advisors and President Emeritus of the Advisory Board, argues that the shift of GDP from labor to capital is already underway, and that healthcare, the most labor-intensive sector in the US economy, will not be the