Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz, two Yale physician-professors, discuss the latest news and ideas in healthcare—including new research, AI in medicine, federal health policy, value-based care, healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship, and much more—and seek out the truth amid the noise. Produced with the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Public Health. New episodes are available every Thursday.
Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale School of Medicine cardiologist Eric Velazquez to discuss how advances in treatment have transformed cardiovascular medicine and how technology could make care more accessible and equitable. Howie reports on a possible case of plague in Russia; Harlan reflects on how AI is changing the relationship between doctors and patients—and what that means for medical education.
Show notes:
Plague
"Pneumonic plague: WHO says it wants more details from Russia in death of worker at research lab"
"Dozens quarantined after researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of 'unknown' infection"
"U.S. Seeks Information From Russia on Possible Plague Death"
"Rumors Are Swirling of a Plague Outbreak in Russia. Here's What We Know."
"What to know about pneumonic plague
"World Health Assembly adopts historic Pandemic Agreement to make the world more equitable and safer from future pandemics"
CDC: International Health Regulations
WHO: Biological weapons
Eric Velazquez
Yale School of Medicine: Cardiovascular Medicine
Yale Cardiovascular Research Center (YCVRC)
Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE) (https://medicine.yale.edu/core/)
Interventional Cardiology
Myocardial Infarction (MI)
Stent
Statins
Beta-Blockers
Atrial fibrillation
Structural Heart Disease
Heartbeat Health (https://www.heartbeathealth.com/)
"What Is an Ambulatory Center? How It Differs From a Hospital"
Expertise and AI
Harlan Krumholz: "Beyond Information Asymmetry in Medicine: The Changing Nature of Medical Authority and Expertise"
"Why Do London Taxi Drivers Have Larger Hippocampuses?"
In the Yale School of Management's MBA for Executives program, you'll get a full MBA education in 22 months while applying new skills to your organization in real time.
Yale's Executive Master of Public Health offers a rigorous public health education for working professionals, with the flexibility of evening online classes alongside three on-campus trainings.
Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions. (mailto:health.veritas@yale.edu)
1 Oct 2026
Learning from Your Own Health Data with Sara Riggare and Gary Wolf
Howie and Harlan are joined by journalist Gary Wolf, author of the new book The Quantified Self: Learning to Observe, and patient researcher Sara Riggare, who has spent years studying her own experience with Parkinson's disease to better understand and manage her health. They discuss how systematic self-observation can help people ask better questions and learn more about their own health. Howie examines Sweden's use of AI as a second reader of screening mammograms; Harlan asks whether AI will streamline healthcare billing or fuel an arms race between providers and insurers.
Show notes:
AI Radiologists
"Health system will use AI instead of radiologists for breast imaging 2nd reads"
"Lunit Expands AI-Powered Breast Cancer Screening Across the Stockholm Region"
"Artificial intelligence for breast cancer detection in screening mammography in Sweden: a prospective, population-based, paired-reader, non-inferiority study"
Joann G. Elmore, MD, MPH
The Quantified Self
Quantified Self: Self-Knowledge Through Numbers (https://quantifiedself.com/)
Gary Wolf: The Quantified Self: Learning to Observe (https://quantifiedself.com/book/)
Quantified Self: Personal Science Research Group (https://quantifiedself.com/psrg/)
"N-of-1 Trial Design: Single-Patient Crossover Methodology" (https://casrai.org/guides/n-of-1-trial-design)
What is Parkinson's?
Sara Riggare: "The Red Dot and the Blue Dots: My ISDM 2026 Keynote"
Sara Riggare: "Precision Medicine in Parkinson's Disease—Exploring Patient-Initiated Self-Tracking"
Sara Riggare: "The Burden of Tracking"
TED Talk by Gary Wolf: "The Quantified Self"
Gary Wolf: "The Data-Driven Life"
"What Is Biohacking and Is It Safe?"
Gary Wolf: "A Conceptual Framework for Personal Science"
AI Billing
"What Is Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)?"
"Agentic AI and the race to a touchless revenue cycle"
"Analysis examines AI in hospital billing as spike in complex patients adds nearly $1 billion in extra costs"
"Hospital Coding Intensity Analysis"
In the Yale School of Management's MBA for Executives program, you'll get a full MBA education in 22 months while applying new skills to your organization in real time.
Yale's Executive Master of Public Health offers a rigorous public health education for working professionals, with the flexibility of evening online classes alongside three on-campus trainings.
Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions. (mailto:health.veritas@yale.edu)
24 Sept 2026
Expanding the Reach of Pediatric Cardiology with Emily Bucholz
Host Harlan Krumholz and Host Howie discuss pediatric cardiologist Emily Bucholz's work expanding fetal heart abnormality treatment and suicide prevention strategies.
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