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Why Nobody is Winning The Payer-Provider AI Arms Race w/ Dr. Marc Harrison, TowerBrook Institute

Sep 18, 2026
45:13

Episode Description

American health care is too expensive, too inconsistent, and too difficult to navigate. And the payer-provider AI arms race that has emerged over the last several years is making all three problems worse, not better.

Dr. Marc Harrison, Chair of the TowerBrook Health Care Institute, former CEO of Intermountain Health, and co-founder of HATCo, joins host John Marchica to examine why the health care system remains stubbornly stuck in an analog model and how AI-driven abundance could finally close the gap between the care Americans need and the care they can actually access.

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🎙 ABOUT DR. MARC HARRISON

Marc Harrison, M.D. is Chair of the TowerBrook Healthcare Institute, Senior Advisor to TowerBrook Capital Partners, and Strategic Advisor to General Catalyst. Previously, he was the founding CEO of Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATCo), where he led digital transformation initiatives and the acquisition of Summa Health. Before that, he served as President and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, driving growth across the Mountain West through telehealth, rural health strategies, and value-based care. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Cleveland Clinic, including founding CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and Chief Medical Operations Officer. Dr. Harrison is a pediatric critical care physician with 20 years of clinical practice.

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Health Care Rounds podcast brings together the leaders changing the future of health care and pharma, from how it's delivered and paid for, to where it's headed. Each episode goes deep on the decisions, innovations, and ideas reshaping the industry from the inside out. Hosted by John Marchica, CEO of Darwin Research Group and a longtime industry insider, every episode has one goal: leave you thinking differently than when you arrived.

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