{"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 Wearable Data Is Changing Health Insurance Underwriting","slug":"how-wearable-data-is-changing-health-insurance-underwriting","published_at":"2026-06-14T08:12:17+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-digital-health-podcast-with-fexingo-wearables-diagnostics-and-health-software-7872006/how-wearable-data-is-changing-health-insurance-underwriting","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-0050.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-digital-health-podcast/episode-0050.mp3","summary":"Episode 50 of The Digital Health Podcast explores how life and health insurers are using data from wearables like smartwatches and fitness trackers to inform underwriting decisions. Lucas and Luna examine the case of John Hancock, which in 2018 became the first major US life insurer to offer interactive policies tied to wearable data through its Vitality program. They discuss how this shift from reactive claims processing to continuous risk monitoring is reshaping the insurance industry, the privacy concerns it raises, and what it means for consumers who choose to share their step counts, sleep scores, and heart rate data for potential premium discounts. The episode also touches on regulatory scrutiny from state insurance commissioners and the growing market for data brokers specializing in health metrics. If you're building or running a business at the intersection of health tech and insurance, this episode offers a concrete look at how one data stream is changing a trillion-dollar industry. #WearableData #HealthInsurance #LifeInsurance #Underwriting #JohnHancock #VitalityProgram #InsuranceTech #DataPrivacy #ConsumerHealth #Smartwatch #FitnessTracker #RiskAssessment #BehavioralInsurance #DigitalHealth #Business #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 50 of The Digital Health Podcast explores how life and health insurers are using data from wearables like smartwatches and fitness trackers to inf…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":527,"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-wearable-data-is-changing-health-insurance-underwriting/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-wearable-data-is-changing-health-insurance-underwriting.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}