We gave them a 30 day supply of the medicine and said, good luck, take care of yourself.
Care DeliveryLeadership
The HealthTech Heroes Podcast
The people rebuilding healthcare, in their own words.
60 unscripted conversations with the founders, clinicians, operators and investors rewriting healthcare's DNA — what they built, what it cost them, and what they would do differently.
Latest: Sarah Nasir — Bridging Medicine, Spirituality, and Technology for Transcendent Living (August 3, 2026)
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- May 2025Publishing since
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60 conversations. Search a name, or pick the subject you came for — the episode plays right here.
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Revolutionizing Women's Health & Bone Density with The Movement Upgrade
Women's HealthPrevention & Data
Navigating Healthcare's Digital Frontier: Strategy & Human Connection
LeadershipCare Delivery
Mastering Healthcare Cost Management and AI Integration
Revenue & OperationsAI
Navigating the Future of Medical Affairs and Healthcare Innovation
Medical Affairs & PharmaLeadership
Navigating the AI Revolution in Healthcare
AILeadership
Folks didn't go to med school so that they could look at a computer… they wanted to take care of people.
Prevention & DataFounder Story
You can bring a lot of efficiency to these companies… But what you also bring is less autonomy.
Founder StoryLeadership
The worst time to tell somebody a bunch of new technical information is when they're sick and feeling terrible. But that's exactly what we do every time we discharge somebody from the hospital.
Care Delivery
You learn probably more from the bad experiences than you do from the good.
Access & EquityLeadership
From Physician to CEO: Revolutionizing Patient Histories with AI
AIFounder Story
So we made something that instead of having to pack it in the backpack, it fits in your pocket.
Care DeliveryRevenue & Operations
Most of the app is free, but to ask the app questions, it's going to cost $5 a year.
AIPrevention & Data
From Bench Science to AI-Powered Medical Affairs Leadership
Medical Affairs & PharmaAI
We can't explain why those results happen. It's a black box still.
Women's HealthAIAccess & Equity
Mind you, I'm like 22 years old and they're telling me I need to have spinal surgery.
Care Delivery
How much of an impact can we make on human beings who are suffering?
Care DeliveryAI
From Apple's Genius Bar to Revolutionizing Skin Health with JOYA
Founder StoryCare Delivery
In last 20 years, the changes that I have seen, I can certainly say that in next five years, there will be massive change.
AILeadership
I was running a business… that had gone from a $25 billion addressable market and 18 months later was about $2.5 billion.
Care DeliveryFounder Story
You just wave it over a patient and it tells you what's wrong.
Devices & RoboticsFounder Story
We have reduced our cost per session by over 50% while maintaining high customer satisfaction scores as well as strong clinical outcomes.
Mental HealthAccess & Equity
A little bit of knowledge and lot of talk is very harmful.
AIAccess & Equity
A pharma company spends 14 years bringing one molecule to market… and then they definitely don't change it.
Medical Affairs & PharmaFounder Story
Real Age was actually a subject of the Oprah effect where she started featuring the Real Age test.
Care Delivery
Scaling Care with Community and AI in Behavioral Health
Mental HealthAI
It's not always perfect. It's people taking care of people.
Care DeliveryFounder Story
What they don't realize a lot of the time is that health advice is actually somebody trying to sell you a supplement that probably isn't FDA regulated.
Prevention & Data
If I'm a therapist and I'm looking to get into private practice, it really takes often 12 plus point solutions.
Mental HealthAccess & EquityFounder Story
We call it death by a thousand paper cuts in our industry because these contracts are most often silent, meaning that the provider doesn't understand how they're being paid.
Revenue & OperationsClinician Burnout
We've had a number of our products… begin to change the clinical standard of care.
Founder StoryLeadership
We had reduced admissions from the skilled nursing facility to the hospital by 44%.
Care DeliveryFounder Story
You're turning a provider into their own scribe and we didn't know it at the time, but this would become one of the key drivers of physician burnout.
Clinician BurnoutFounder Story
If everybody's cookie-cutter then you just continue to repeat either the same trail or you never break out.
Founder StoryLeadership
Your denial rate should be really less than 5%… If it is less than 2%, it means you're thriving.
Revenue & Operations
Last month we reported 35 gross AR days, which is phenomenal for a critical access hospital and all the clinics combined.
LeadershipRevenue & Operations
If your goal is to use a podcast to sell a product, and nobody went from that podcast to that product, that's a vanity metric.
Founder StoryLeadership
Dad will die with that flip phone in his hand if you let him.
Care Delivery
Most people don't go to the doctor unless something's wrong.
Clinician BurnoutCare Delivery
My father died young, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, friends, literally by the time I was like 15 years old.
Care DeliveryRevenue & Operations
We've replaced their entire call center… about 90% of their calls are fully handled by AI now.
AIFounder Story
…takes people about nine to 11 years to get the right treatment for their mental health.
Mental HealthFounder Story
We said it can go to 1.2 billion and it did go to 1.2 billion in two years.
AILeadership
People say there's burnout and you need to have speakers and a free yoga class or whatever.
Clinician Burnout
That data was collected mainly on 60, 65 year old white males.
Access & EquityMedical Affairs & Pharma
About 70% of new health tech startups fail to get past pilot into adoption.
Leadership
Our provider knows exactly what's wrong at the pharmacy, but the pharmacist hasn't answered, and so you fax things back and forth and wait.
Mental HealthFounder Story
We have built the perfect medical interviewer, perfectly patient, perfectly empathetic.
AICare Delivery
What we do know is that within that community, there is 117 smoke shops.
Leadership
A lot of things that really shaped the growth to 12,000 members is really just constant feedback from our community.
Founder Story
There's got to be a quick way to not only interact with the system, but to teach things quickly and effortlessly.
Founder StoryLeadership
They got a 10-step system and in order to get to a real treatment they have to go through first five steps at least.
Mental HealthDevices & Robotics
The less you care about the sale, the more you sell.
Leadership
I was just the guy that you would bring in to say we don't know why, we don't know how.
Leadership
I see too many entrepreneurs believing that, well, this shouldn't be difficult.
Leadership
Decision making in today's world is all about when the patient is there.
AIDevices & Robotics
Let kids early on in life identify what their interests are and then let the STEM kids have the tools to do drug discovery type projects together.
AI
When they looked at the programs that use Securra… they saw that the claims percentage dropped down to 4.5%.
Care DeliveryLeadership
If you're becoming a new leader, the number one thing that you need to make sure you focus on is the people you're going to manage first, their well-being.
LeadershipMental Health
The cocoa, the chocolate, we could do without, but we gotta have the coffee.
Access & EquityLeadership
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About the show
Rewriting healthcare's DNA, one conversation at a time
HealthTech Heroes exists because the most useful thing in health tech is rarely the product demo — it is the story of what went wrong first. Every episode is one guest, half an hour to an hour, and questions with no marketing department behind them.
Conversations, not commercials
Every episode starts from the work, not a media kit — and the questions are the ones a buyer would actually ask, not the ones a press release invites.
Built by someone who sat in the buyer's chair
The host spent his career inside healthcare and pharma — Medical Affairs, HEOR, market access. The follow-up question comes from having lived the problem.
For the people doing the work
Founders, clinicians, operators, investors. If you are trying to get something real adopted inside a health system, this show is aimed at you.
Your host
Fasa Husain, PhD, MBA
Fasa is the founder of Futurize NOW Consulting, a healthcare growth partner for health-tech, medical device and pharma companies, and the author of The Trust API, a #2 Amazon Best Seller. Two decades in healthcare and research — including Medical Affairs, HEOR and market access leadership at top-10 pharmaceutical companies — sit behind every question he asks on this show.
He started HealthTech Heroes in May 2025 for a simple reason: the people solving the hardest problems in care rarely get an hour to explain themselves properly. 60 episodes and 37 hours later, it is still the same format.
Be a guest
Come and tell it properly
If you are building something in healthcare and you are tired of explaining it in ninety seconds, this is the hour. Share the story, the evidence and the parts that did not work — the audience is made of people who will recognise all three.
Who tends to fit
- Founders and executives building health-tech, medical device or digital health products
- Clinicians changing how care is delivered from inside the system
- Operators and investors with a view of the market worth arguing about
Start with a short call
Pick a time that suits you. If the fit is not there, we will say so on the call — no follow-up sequence, no obligation either way.
Book an introductory callPrefer email? fasa@futurizenow.co
How it goes
- 1
A 20-minute introduction
No pitch, no script. We talk about your work and find the thread worth an hour of someone's attention.
- 2
The recording
One conversation, remote, typically 30 to 60 minutes. You get the questions' territory in advance — never the answers.
- 3
It goes out
Edited, published to YouTube and Spotify, and shared with the LinkedIn community. You get the clips to use however you like.
Questions
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HealthTech Heroes is a video and audio podcast of unscripted conversations with the founders, clinicians, operators and investors changing how healthcare is delivered. Each episode is one guest and runs half an hour to an hour, hosted by Fasa Husain, PhD, MBA, founder of Futurize NOW Consulting. The show has published 60 episodes since May 2025.