Episode 246
📣 Digital Health Download: September 2026
Episode Description
It's our monthly Digital Health Download, and September's stories all circle the same tension: technology keeps promising to fix healthcare's problems, but just as often it moves them somewhere else, or creates new ones entirely. This week, Halle unpacks a news-heavy month, weighing who actually benefits as markets, algorithms, and AI get closer to our health decisions.
We cover:
- Americans can now bet on clinical trials and FDA regulatory reviews - but do we want that?
- Meta's massive settlement over harming children
- The surprising reason AI might be making healthcare more expensive instead of less
- A new study on the biggest lever we're not pulling to bend the healthcare cost curve
- Two lawsuits rattling a popular wearable and a celebrity-backed mental health startup
- What a widely used drug class reveals about bias in hiring, and the uncomfortable questions that raises
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