After a life‑threatening emergency and months of confusing denials, Ali Diab turned his personal crisis into a mission to fix health benefits. In this episode, he shares how that experience led to founding Collective Health and the drive to put clarity and humanity back into insurance.

We discuss opaque pricing, broken incentives in the insurance industry, the promise of self‑insured employer models, and the patience required to build meaningful change in healthcare.

Listen for a thoughtful conversation about how a single moment can reshape purpose and why transparency and better incentives are essential to making care affordable and navigable.

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"Upbeat Corporate" by Music For Creators is licensed under CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) via freemusicarchive.org.

What does it take to transform a health system from sick care to true health creation? In this episode, we sit down with Ann Somers Hogg, Director of Health Care Research at the Clayton Christensen Institute, to explore business model innovation in healthcare and the messy middle between bold ideas and sustainable systems.

Ann Somers shares what makes innovation efforts succeed or stall within large health systems, and how her time at Atrium Health helped her rethink value-based care, virtual behavioral health, and leadership incentives. She also explains how disruptive innovation works, and why only a CEO can green light meaningful change.

We also talk about her research on sugary beverage behavior change, with striking insights into what truly motivates parents to say goodbye to soda. From professional insight to personal story, this episode is a deep dive into transforming health by transforming the systems behind it.

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"Upbeat Corporate" by Music For Creators is licensed under CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) via freemusicarchive.org.

Healthcare innovation in cancer care often means new drugs or breakthrough therapies. But as Othman Laraki, co-founder and CEO of Color, explains, the most powerful impact comes from making proven tools work for everyone.

In this episode, Othman shares his journey from Google and Twitter into healthcare, driven by his family’s history with breast cancer. He describes how Color evolved from genetic testing into a full “virtual cancer clinic” that addresses screening, early detection, treatment navigation, and survivorship.

We discuss the challenges of healthcare’s multi-payer system, why distribution costs outweigh lab costs, and how focusing on efficiency and simplicity leads to better outcomes. Othman also reflects on the future of AI in medicine, from reducing friction in basic care to scaling clinical judgment across populations.

Music Credit:

"Upbeat Corporate" by Music For Creators is licensed under CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution) via freemusicarchive.org.