HeyJaredThe Healthcare Theory Podcast
Discover where healthcare is headed with The Healthcare Theory. Through recurring mini-series, we unpack everything from health policy to life sciences and digital health.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Aug 18, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 14, 2026
Latest episodes
How Doctors Became Unit Secretaries | $18B Athenahealth Chief Product Officer Paul Brient (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Today's guest is Paul Brient, Chief Product Officer at Athenaheallth, a $17 billion EHR with more than 170,000 clinicians on its network. Paul has spent his entire career getting doctors to actually love the technology they use, from running PatientKeeper for 17 years, to now leading Athena's push to build an AI native EHR. We start with the origins of the physician friction problem, why doctors adopted robotic surgery overnight but fought the EHR for two decades, and how Meaningful Use turned t
When Big Pharma Abandoned the Heart | $750m Carduion CSO Dr. Howard Surks (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Cardiovascular disease remains the world's leading killer, yet cardiovascular drug development has declined dramatically when compared to other therapeutic areas. Today, we sit down with Dr. Howard Surks, a cardiologist turned bench scientist turned big pharma leader who left Merck and Sanofi to help build Cardurion Pharmaceuticals from the ground up around a first-in-class heart failure drug. In the episode, Howard's discusses journey from studying blood vessel biology at Tufts to running trans
Why Is Good Healthcare Policy So Hard? | UPenn LDI Director Dr. Rachel Werner (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Today's guest, Rachel Werner, is a physician, health economist, and Executive Director of Penn's Institute of Health Economics whose work explores how healthcare policy can improve care without creating harmful unintended consequences. In this episode, we discuss why public quality report cards can push providers to avoid high-risk patients. We examine why pay-for-performance often improves the metric being rewarded without meaningfully improving patient outcomes. We also explore the debate over
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.