Podcast episodeA hospital AI deal done in under two months | Dr. Ilya Burkov, Nebius & Thomas Knox, VitVio
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 57 min
Lifers with Christina Farr
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Veteran journalist, investor, and Second Opinion Media founder Chrissy Farr talks with the CEOs and founders who've been in the trenches long enough to know that healthcare doesn't move at startup speed. These aren't the entrepreneurs chasing quick exits—they're the "lifers" who understand that building in healthcare requires endless pivots, regulatory navigation, and decade-long timelines. No hype, just honest conversations about what it really takes. Each episode explores healthcare innovation, startup strategy, medical technology and AI, health system transformation, and investment insights from operators who've navigated regulatory challenges, clinical trials, reimbursement complexities,
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Podcast episodeRounds: The Mental Health Moment
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 56 min
Podcast episodeSurviving the digital therapeutics graveyard | David Benshoof Klein, Click Therapeutics
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 57 min
Podcast episodeHealthcare runs a 1980s model in 2026 | Aaron Miri, Baptist Health
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 55 min
Podcast episodeRounds: Take the Money and R1, Megan Scheffel, Dan Bise, and Jeremy Friese
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 54 min
Podcast episodeDoctors demand tech. Nurses should too | Mary Varghese Presti, Microsoft
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 54 min
Podcast episodeHealthcare AI works best on jobs no one thought to do | Hippocratic AI CEO Munjal Shah
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 42 min
Podcast episodeMiriam Paramore on becoming a caregiver and the $500 gap that kept her father off Medicaid
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 1 hr 1 min
Podcast episodeHealthcare AI needs humans | Microsoft's Peter Lee & Seattle Children's Chris Longhurst
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 50 min
Podcast episodePrice in healthcare is market share, not quality | Nick Reber, Garner Health CEO
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 53 min
Podcast episodeRounds: The EHR is Dead, Long Live the EHR, Sam Toole and Sonia Millsom
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 52 min
Podcast episodeWhite-collar work has no immunological protection | Eric Larsen, TowerBrook Advisors
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 1 hr 0 min
Podcast episodeAl is already better than doctors, says Zeke Emanuel. The AMA's CEO disagrees
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 56 min
Podcast episodeThe hospital itself should be a robot | Kimberly Powell, NVIDIA
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 1 hr 1 min
Podcast episodeRounds: Following the Money in Digital Health, Megan Zweig and Arvind Kadaba
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 57 min
Podcast episodeWhy 10,000 texts a day is the future of primary care, with Dr. Zeyad Baker of Baker Health
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 1 hr 4 min
Podcast episodeMatthew Rothstein, VP of Engineering at Akido, on building the first AI native health system
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 53 min
Podcast episodeThe 80-year-old mistake at the heart of US healthcare | Mark Bertolini, Oscar Health
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 49 min
Podcast episodeLauren Makler, Cofertility, on making egg freezing free
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 47 min
Podcast episodeAmit Phull, Doximity, on why 80% of doctors wouldn't recommend a career in medicine
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 54 min
Podcast episodeRounds | An Industry Scan, The Next Full Body Scan | Keaton Bedell, Joe DeVivo
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 51 min
Podcast episodeHealthcare sends 9 billion faxes a year. Delaware has a better idea
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 51 min
Podcast episodeChatGPT is already the largest mental health provider in America | Yusuf Sherwani, MD, Pelago CEO
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 1 hr 0 min
Podcast episodeDr. Aartik Sarma, UCSF pulmonologist, on the $500M bet to cure the common cold
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 23 min
Podcast episodeWhat 3 doctors actually think about Midjourney's new body scanner
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 55 min
Podcast episodeRounds | Billion Dollar Bet on Women's Healthtech | Megan Scheffel and Joanna Strober
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 51 min
Podcast episodeJoanna Strober, Midi Health CEO, on the menopause Tupperware parties that built a unicorn
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 47 min
Podcast episodeRic Sinclair, CEO of Cotiviti on why payer-provider friction is finally fixable
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 1 hr 3 min
Podcast episodeDr. David Carmouche, Lumeris: Why AI is primary care's best chance at survival
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 49 min
Podcast episodeHow SaaS is evolving from software to AI solutions | Artera's Guillaume de Zwirek & Dan Goldsmith
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 54 min
Podcast episodeChris Altchek, Cadence CEO, on earning the right to deploy clinical AI
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 50 min
Podcast episodeWhy price transparency took a decade to crack | Heather Fernandez, Solv
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 47 min
Podcast episodeBehind Kalshi’s $22B rise: Betting on addiction with Dr. Rian Kabir
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 20 min
Podcast episodeBuilding Maven Clinic when no one believed with CEO Kate Ryder
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 50 min
Podcast episodeDr. Oliver Kharraz on the decades-long journey to make scheduling a doctor's appointment easier
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 52 min
Podcast episodeDr. Farzad Mostashari, Aledade CEO, on why more doctors are going independent
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 46 min
Podcast episode[Emergency Pod] Peptides - Part 2 with Dr. Jonathan Slotkin of Scrub Capital
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 24 min
Podcast episode[Emergency Pod] Peptides - Part 1 with Sunita Mohanty of Ultralight
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 13 min
Podcast episodeThe case for a virtual-first healthcare system with Dr. Chris Gallagher, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer and Dr. Blake Porter, Chief of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Access TeleCare
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 53 min
Podcast episodeAnyone can build a clinic now. Should they? | Josh Tauber and Keaton Bedell
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 15 min
Podcast episodeHow revenue cycle is evolving from "battle of the bots" to the smash hit application for AI with Terri Meier
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 34 min
Podcast episodeIs healthcare safe from the SaaS bloodbath? with Omada CEO Sean Duffy and Stephanie Davis
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 37 min
Podcast episodeWhy Graham Walker is ‘sounding the alarm’ for physicians
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 41 min
Podcast episodePresident of Microsoft Science saw ChatGPT coming (and now he predicts how it will change healthcare) | Peter Lee
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 59 min
Podcast episodeOthman Laraki, Color CEO, on surviving three major pivots
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 46 min
Podcast episodeDr. Ari Hoffman on escaping the era of pagers and eFaxes
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 40 min
Podcast episodeWhy longevity author Dr. Zeke Emanuel thinks you can eat the ice cream
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 44 min
Podcast episodeDr. Robert Wachter on why healthcare is finally ready for its "giant leap" because of AI
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 43 min
Podcast episodeNiyum Gandhi, CFO of Mass General Brigham & Mike Desjadon, CEO of Anomaly: Why hospitals are increasingly falling into the red
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 46 min
Podcast episodeDr. Kameron Matthews & Inlightened President Shelli Pavone on saving primary care from collapse
Lifers with Christina Farr
Audio · 46 min
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