# Innovation, Consumers, and How We Get to Better Health Care | Halle Tecco Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/health-affairs-this-week-3424387/innovation-consumers-and-how-we-get-to-better-health-care-halle-tecco Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/health-affairs-this-week-3424387/innovation-consumers-and-how-we-get-to-better-health-care-halle-tecco.md Podcast: [Health Affairs This Week](https://stenobird.com/podcast/health-affairs-this-week-3424387) Published: 2026-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/36767b27 Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/36767b27/7db3d0d1.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/health-affairs-this-week-3424387/episodes/innovation-consumers-and-how-we-get-to-better-health-care-halle-tecco Duration seconds: 1212 ## Resource Health Affairs ' Jeff Byers welcomes Halle Tecco , investor, founder of Rock Health and professor at Columbia Business School , to the pod to discuss her new book, Massively Better Healthcare: The Innovator's Guide to Tackling Healthcare's Biggest Challenges . Their conversation explores why consumers are becoming a powerful force in healthcare, how innovation happens within complex systems, and what it takes to align technology, evidence, and incentives to drive meaningful change. Related Links: Order Massively Better Healthcare: The Innovator's Guide to Tackling Healthcare's Biggest Challenges Check out Halle's podcast, The Heart of Healthcare Podcast ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/health-affairs-this-week-3424387/episodes/innovation-consumers-and-how-we-get-to-better-health-care-halle-tecco/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/health-affairs-this-week-3424387/innovation-consumers-and-how-we-get-to-better-health-care-halle-tecco.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.