{"podcast":{"title":"The Digital Health Podcast with Fexingo: Wearables, Diagnostics, and Health Software","slug":"the-digital-health-podcast-with-fexingo-wearables-diagnostics-and-health-software-7872006","podcast_index_feed_id":7872006,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/the-digital-health-podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-digital-health-podcast/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":62,"summary":"Lucas and Luna explore the rapidly evolving world of digital health, where wearables track vitals, diagnostics shift to at-home testing, and software platforms reshape patient care. Each episode focuses on a specific development: how continuous glucose monitors are changing diabetes management, the FDA's latest clearance for an AI-driven ECG algorithm, or the business models behind telehealth startups like Ro and Hims & Hers. Lucas brings a journalist's precision to the numbers — market sizes, clinical trial results, reimbursement rates — while Luna challenges him on the real-world impact for clinicians and patients. They dissect earnings reports from Apple and Fitbit, parse policy moves from the FDA and CMS, and debate whether VC-funded digital health unicorns can sustain their valuations. Listeners — healthcare professionals, investors, tech strategists — get a clear-eyed briefing on what works, what's hype, and what's next in a sector where staying informed means understanding both the science and the business. How do you separate signal from noise when every startup claims to democratize healthcare? #DigitalHealth #Wearables #HealthTech #Telemedicine #FDA #RemotePatientMonitor…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T20:20:38.160520+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-digital-health-podcast-with-fexingo-wearables-diagnostics-and-health-software-7872006"},"episode":{"title":"How Insurance Companies Are Buying Your Wearable Data","slug":"how-insurance-companies-are-buying-your-wearable-data","published_at":"2026-06-13T21:46:35+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-digital-health-podcast-with-fexingo-wearables-diagnostics-and-health-software-7872006/how-insurance-companies-are-buying-your-wearable-data","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-digital-health-podcast-with-fexingo-wearables-diagnostics-and-health-software-7872006","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-digital-health-podcast/episode-0049.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-digital-health-podcast/episode-0049.mp3","summary":"Episode 49 of The Digital Health Podcast with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore the quietly growing market where health insurers pay for wearable device data — not through employer wellness programs, but via direct incentives, premium discounts, and data-sharing agreements. They break down the specific case of UnitedHealth's Motion program, which offers up to $1,000 per year in rewards for sharing step counts and heart rate data from devices like Garmin and Fitbit. The hosts discuss the privacy trade-offs, the regulatory gray area under HIPAA, and how startups like Vivante Health are building insurance-linked digital health platforms. They also examine why Apple and Google are designing their health APIs to give users granular control over data sharing — and whether that's enough to prevent risk-based pricing. A sharp, skeptical conversation about the monetization of personal health data, without sensationalism. #WearableData #HealthInsurance #UnitedHealth #MotionProgram #Garmin #Fitbit #AppleHealth #DataPrivacy #DigitalHealth #Insurtech #VivanteHealth #HIPAA #PremiumDiscounts #HealthPolicy #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TechAndHealth Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 49 of The Digital Health Podcast with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore the quietly growing market where health insurers pay for wearable device dat…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":643,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-digital-health-podcast-with-fexingo-wearables-diagnostics-and-health-software-7872006/episodes/how-insurance-companies-are-buying-your-wearable-data/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-digital-health-podcast-with-fexingo-wearables-diagnostics-and-health-software-7872006/how-insurance-companies-are-buying-your-wearable-data.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}