Hosted by Christina Farr
Listed under Technology, Health & Fitness, Business › Investing
Veteran journalist, investor, and Second Opinion Media founder Chrissy Farr talks with the CEOs and founders who've been in the trenches long enough to know that healthcare doesn't move at startup speed.
72 episodes · publishes weekly · latest 2026-07-14 · ~43 min/episode
Rank
#10
Substance
90.0
/ 100
Breakdown
Scored 2026-07
Updated monthly
General rank
#2 of 267
Across the index
#10 of 6182
Substance
Top 1%
outscores 100% of the index
Lifers with Christina Farr ranks #10 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 90.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on originality and guest caliber. The core argument - that interoperability is a governance and trust problem solvable via a neutral public-benefit utility rather than a technical breakthrough - is genuinely fresh, and the Visa cooperative-history and Port Authority bond analogies are well beyond recycled healthcare-IT takes.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
The episode packs several non-obvious systemic insights - why HITECH digitized records but ignored administrative transactions, why standards alone don't scale without a common hub, the N-times-N connectivity problem, and the governance-vs-technology reframing - though some points are repeated and padded with tourism chatter.
“It's like every organization built a different dirt road for every different type of car to everywhere else.”
“What is missing is the connectivity. You can have the best standards in the world if everybody has to connect to everybody else.”
The core argument - that interoperability is a governance and trust problem solvable via a neutral public-benefit utility rather than a technical breakthrough - is genuinely fresh, and the Visa cooperative-history and Port Authority bond analogies are well beyond recycled healthcare-IT takes.
“I don't think this is a technology problem at all. I think this is a governance and trust problem.”
“In 1919, New York and New Jersey realized we need some bridges... issued a $50 million bond to build the George Washington Bridge. Paid back out of tolls.”
Strong practitioner lineup: a repeat healthcare-infrastructure founder (Text4Baby, Smart Health Network), a practicing surgeon appointed Delaware's first Surgeon General, and - unusually valuable - an actual front-desk scheduler giving ground-truth on prior auth workflows.
“Governor Matt Meyer created the Office of the Surgeon General for the State of Delaware and appointed me as Delaware's first, uh, Surgeon General.”
“First about 16 years ago when I launched a service called Text4Baby.”
Rich in concrete data points - dollar figures, dates, named organizations, and a telling pilot statistic - which ground the abstract argument in real evidence.
“DaVinci... was pioneered five years ago by Regents Blue Cross, Blue Shield and Multicare in Washington State... Regents is connected to a grand total of five health systems.”
“the Rural Health transformation program is 50 billion”
The host asks a few sharpening questions - demanding the patient-side urgency and probing whether it's really a technical problem - but the tone is largely supportive and promotional, ending in booster-ish tourism prompts with no real pushback on claims.
“give me the, what's the take that makes me go, I need this as a patient.”
“Do you all think that this is a hard, technical problem to solve in any way?”
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