Most healthcare innovations get faster, flashier, or cheaper to build. Few make care actually better. Halle Tecco joins Dan Polsky for a conversation on what separates the two, and what it takes for entrepreneurs, investors, educators, and policymakers to align mission and margin in a system that mostly rewards the opposite.
FEATURING
Halle Tecco, MBA, MPH
Halle Tecco has spent more than 15 years working to improve healthcare. She is the founder of Rock Health and has backed and advised dozens of healthcare companies, and is the author of Massively Better Healthcare. She is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and Course Director at Harvard Medical School, where she teaches future healthcare leaders, and serves on the boards of Collective Health and Cofertility. Halle's work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg. She has been recognized as one of Goldman Sachs' Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (MPH '20).
Moderator
Dan Polsky, PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Director, Hopkins Business of Health Initiative
This event is part of a larger series on the 'Conversations on the Business of Health,' which engages leaders in business and academia. We explore questions such as: Should companies invest in their employees’ health? Will artificial intelligence actually advance health? How can business offer healthcare in novel settings?