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The Innovator's Guide to Tackling Healthcare's Biggest Challenges.
Massively Better Healthcare:
The Innovator's Guide to Tackling Healthcare's Biggest Challenges
Halle Tecco
Investor, founder, author
Adj. Professor, Columbia Business School
Course director, Harvard Medical School
In conversation with:
Dr. Frances Onyimba
Physician, Digestive Health Expert, Founder
Healthcare is broken—but we can fix it. Our current system is plagued by staggering costs, inadequate outcomes, and pervasive inequities. How can we deliver long-overdue change and make this system work for everyone?
In this conversation, Halle Tecco shares an insider’s perspective on transforming our healthcare system through innovation. Drawing from her extensive experience as an entrepreneur, investor, and professor, she delivers a practical roadmap for addressing the most pressing challenges. Combining personal narratives, compelling case studies, and actionable frameworks, Tecco explores how to identify opportunities for meaningful change and build sustainable, scalable solutions that align profit with purpose. She acknowledges the difficulties—such as regulatory hurdles, misaligned incentives, and resistance to change—but shows how entrepreneurs can turn obstacles into their competitive advantage.
Bridging the gap between Silicon Valley dynamism and healthcare’s evidence-based approach, Tecco offers a realistic yet optimistic view of what’s possible, an inspiring and attainable vision of a better healthcare system.
Time will be allocated for Q&A.
Co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and MIT Club of DC
"In Massively Better Healthcare, Halle Tecco does what public health and health care practitioners have long hoped for: she bridges the gap between innovation and impact. This book is a masterful exploration of how we can reimagine the delivery of health care. With real-world insights and compelling storytelling, Tecco doesn't just diagnose the problems—she provides a blueprint for meaningful, systemic change."Megan L. Ranney,MD, MPH, Dean of Yale School of Public Health
Halle Tecco has dedicated her career to making healthcare massively better. She is the founder of Rock Health and has backed and advised dozens of healthcare companies. She teaches future healthcare leaders at Columbia Business School and Harvard Medical School, and serves on the boards of Collective Health and Cofertility.
Tecco’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg. She was named as one of Goldman Sach’s Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and listed on Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business 2023. She has spoken at the Aspen Ideas Festival, CES, TechCrunch Disrupt, and was a SXSW Keynote speaker. Tecco holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University.
With her new book, Massively Better Healthcare, she distills 15+ years of lessons into an essential guide for leaders who want to leave the system better than they found it.
Dr. Frances Onyimba is a gastroenterologist, entrepreneur, and health systems leader. As founder of a digital health company and leader of the esophageal motility program at WellSpan Health, she bridges clinical medicine with innovative care models that scale across borders.
Dr. Onyimba earned her medical degree from Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, followed by an internal medicine residency and fellowship in Gastrointestinal Motility and Neurogastroenterology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She then completed a general gastroenterology fellowship at the University of California San Diego, where she served as chief fellow.
An advocate for health and science communication, Dr. Onyimba enjoys engaging the Club and broader community through healthcare events and dialogue. Beyond medicine, she remains an avid supporter of the performing arts and co-founded the CU Arts Initiative-backed P&S Dance Club at Columbia, now known as Dance Haven.