Health Tech Bites

By shelbybarker

Health Tech Bites is the daily show for anyone working in healthcare who has ever thought, “Surely this can’t be real,” and then checked their inbox and realized… it absolutely is. Each epi

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How many episodes does Health Tech Bites have?

The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.

Health Tech Bites episodes:

December 08, 2025 HTB:: ACCESS And The War For Chronic Care
In this episode of Health Tech Bites unpacks ACCESS, Medicare’s new chronic care model aimed at paying for what actually happens between visits, not just inside the clinic. The conversation digs into how ACCESS could reshape chronic care from punch-card phone calls to ongoing support woven into Tuesday afternoon life – and what that means for health plans, providers, and digital health vendors. Expect a clear-eyed look at who’s positioned to win, who’s at risk of getting buried in admin, and why this framework might finally force the industry to prove it can help real humans feel better between appointments, not just make dashboards greener.
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15min
December 05, 2025HTB:: Do for one
Story 1: UnitedHealth to wind down most non-Optum revenue cycle contracts by 2026
Story 2: Elevance to roll out $0 primary care copays across its national ASO book in 2026
Story 3: Nvidia launches edge-based “AI doctor” toolkit with pilots at five major health systems
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14min
December 04, 2025 HTB:: Who You Innovation Actually Serves
Today’s Bite
Local coalitions are hacking their own benefits, employers are staring down rude 2026 cost projections, and Gen AI scribes just got their first real report card. The real question is not “what is new,” but “who actually gets equipped, encouraged, and empowered by all this.”
The Stories
• Story 1: SF Chamber Care and the rise of local, chamber-backed coverage models
• Story 2: Employers bracing for a 9 percent medical trend and rethinking the entire benefits chassis
• Story 3: UCLA’s randomized AI scribe trial, where burnout relief shows up but magic productivity does not
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15min
December 03, 2025 HTB::Deductibles Dead, Workers Leaving, AI Saving Clinicians
Story 1 (Curative $150M Raise): Curative’s $150M Bet: Zero-Dollar Plans That Could Kill Deductibles Forever
Story 2 (Oscar Survey): 53% Will Quit for Better Insurance: The Benefits Exodus No Employer Can Ignore
Story 3 (Clinician-First AI): AI That Clinicians Actually Trust: The Burnout Fix Hiding in Plain Workflow
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17min
December 02, 2025 HTB:: The Wrong Place for the Right Tool
Story 1:
Yara AI shut down its own mental-health chatbot after realizing the model worked too powerfully in contexts it couldn’t safely control.
Story 2:
A surge of holiday health gadgets is creating a massive wave of unregulated health data as consumers build their own personal health stacks faster than the system can protect them.
Story 3:
Tampa General transformed its call center almost overnight by deploying an AI voice agent named Amy that slashed wait times and abandonment rates.
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15min
December 01, 2025 HTB:: The Day the Gaps Got Exposed
Today’s Bite:
Today healthcare didn’t speed up — it jumped a gear and pretended nothing happened.
The Stories:
• The White House activates the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem – Real-time patient data just went from “someday” to “start preparing now.”
• Cleveland Clinic collapses oncology turnaround times with Google Cloud AI – When results move from days to hours, expectations move with them.
• House Rx raises $55M to rewrite specialty pharmacy – AI inside the clinic is coming for the slowest, messiest corner of drug access.
Quote of the Bite:
“If healthcare keeps speeding up, the organizations built for slowness won’t just struggle — they’ll get exposed.”
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13min

FAQs about Health Tech Bites:

How many episodes does Health Tech Bites have?

The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.