Epic doubles down on AI while legal battles and industry shifts raise questions about the EHR giant’s next chapter.
This week on Lifers, Christina Farr is joined by Dr. Zeke Emanuel and Dr. John Whyte, CEO of the American Medical Association, who are longtime friends on opposite sides of the biggest question in health AI: should it ever practice medicine without a human in the loop?
As AI moves from pilots into day-to-day healthcare operations, health systems are having to decide who should actually
Christina Farr sits down with Kimberly Powell, VP of Healthcare at NVIDIA, an 18-year veteran who built the company's healthcare business from a single cold call in 2008. They dig into the physician replacement debate ("the task is not the job"), why AI agents made the last six months a turning poin
Plus an interview with Jesse Ehrenfeld on a new consortium to figure out AI diagnostic governance
Christina Farr and Stephanie Davis dig into what is really driving digital health with Rock Health Advisory CEO Megan Zweig and Aidoc CFO Arvind Kadaba: $7.4B in H1 2026 funding, mega deals absorbing 45% of all capital, and what counts as a differentiator once “AI-enabled” means nothing.
Dr. Zeyad Baker, a pediatrician who scaled a 24-hour primary care practice, sold it to Optum, and spent five years as their tri-state market CEO, joins Christina Farr to argue that the scarcest resource in healthcare is not data or technology but the doctor-patient relationship itself.
Plus an update on Second Opinion’s growth
While the healthcare industry remains locked in a high-level debate over the theoretical potential of artificial intelligence, a select
As enterprise health purchasers face volatile medical cost trends and tightening operational margins, the standard vendor pitch of "improved
What the rise and fall of the hedge fund Situational Awareness tells us about the market
