Lauren Makler, Cofertility, on making egg freezing free
Lauren Makler, Co-Founder & CEO of Cofertility, joins Christina Farr to ask why having a baby with medical help now costs as much as a house, and what a fairer system would look like.
Rounds: An Industry Scan, The Next Full Body Scan, Keaton Bedell and Joe DeVivo
Christina Farr and Stephanie Davis are joined by Bridge CEO Keaton Bedell and Butterfly Network CEO Joe DeVivo to debate whether full-body scanning is actually good for you — and how Butterfly’s technology ended up inside Midjourney’s new ultrasound scanner.
Amit Phull, Doximity, on how his team built a product that reaches 85% of US physicians
Amit Phull, Chief Clinical Experience Officer at Doximity and a practicing emergency medicine physician, joins Christina Farr to talk about how the company reached 85% of US physicians and what it plans to do with that reach in the AI era.
Healthcare sends 9 billion faxes a year. Delaware has a better idea
Christina Farr talks with Smart Health Network CEO Paul Meyer, Delaware’s first Surgeon General Dr. Neil Hockstein, and prior authorization manager Aretha Rochester about why prior auth reform keeps failing — and Delaware’s plan to build a shared, Visa-style prior auth utility.
ChatGPT is already the largest mental health provider in America | Yusuf Sherwani, MD, Pelago CEO
Yusuf Sherwani, MD, Co-Founder and CEO of Pelago, joins Chrissy to talk about why substance use disorder is one of the most stigmatized and least-treated chronic conditions in healthcare, despite touching roughly one in five people.
Dr. Aartik Sarma, UCSF pulmonologist, on the $500M bet to cure the common cold
Aartik Sarma, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF, joins Christina Farr for a short special edition on Intercept, a new $500 million initiative from a coalition of tech companies including Stripe, OpenAI, and Anthropic aimed at finally cracking the common cold and flu.
What 3 doctors actually think about Midjourney's new body scanner
Christina Farr brings together three clinicians with genuinely different views: cardiologist Venkatesh Murthy, rheumatologist Paul Sufka, and internist Sandeep Palakodeti, to react to Midjourney, the whole-body scanning startup that went viral after an Elon Musk retweet.
Rounds | Billion Dollar Bet on Women's Healthtech | Megan Scheffel and Joanna Strober
Episode 1 of Rounds. Christina Farr and Stephanie Davis are joined by SVB’s Megan Scheffel and Midi Health founder Joanna Strober on the expanding definition of women’s health, the latest SVB report, and how Midi built a billion-dollar company out of a gap the system ignored for decades.
Joanna Strober, Midi Health CEO, on the menopause Tupperware parties that built a unicorn
Joanna Strober, CEO of Midi Health, joins Chrissy Farr to talk about building one of the first scaled companies in women's midlife health, and why the category didn't produce a unicorn until this year despite an obvious market need.
Ric Sinclair, CEO of Cotiviti, on why payer-provider friction is finally fixable
Ric Sinclair, CEO of Cotiviti, joins Christina Farr to argue that healthcare does not have a data problem or a technology problem — it has a coordination problem. They discuss why payers and providers are not the villains, and why AI may make things worse before it makes them better.
Dr. David Carmouche, Lumeris: Why AI is primary care's best chance at survival
In this episode of Lifers, Christina Farr sits down with Dr. David Carmouche, Chief Medical and Chief Commercial Officer at Lumeris and newly appointed advisor to HHS and CMS, to explore one of healthcare's most urgent questions: can primary care be saved, and is AI the thing that finally does it?
How SaaS is evolving from software to AI solutions | Artera's Guillaume de Zwirek & Dan Goldsmith
Artera CEO Guillaume de Zwirek and board member Dan Goldsmith join Christina Farr to ask what AI in healthcare actually is: neither traditional SaaS nor consulting, but bespoke solutions delivered at the speed and cost of software — and why companies missing that distinction are already dying.