Health Innovation Matters

About Health Innovation Matters

Health Innovation Matters is a biweekly, 30-minute podcast focusing on the next generation of healthcare innovators and movers-and-shakers who are disrupting the healthcare space. This podcast is all about increasing awareness of future health trends, accelerating technologies, and art and design perspectives. The podcast also provides a forum for elevating public discourse on ways healthcare can be more accessible, less costly, and more efficient. You'll hear about dynamic collaborations, breathtaking technological breakthroughs, and cutting edge developments in the newest medical fields, including regenerative medicine, digital health, precision health, advanced cellular therapies, advances in nutrition, nutrigenomics and sustainable energy as it pertains to creating a health future that is equitable. You'll hear from innovators, entrepreneurs, leaders, decision-makers, policymakers, educators, investors, and inventors. This is a health innovation podcast about results, about success stories, about possibilities.

Publisher

Michael Levin-Epstein

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Oct 2018

Latest episode

31 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

148 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Jul 2026

   Revolutionizing Spinal Surgery Pain Management with Dr. Michael Park

   Michael chats with Dr. Michael Park, Professor at the University of Minnesota, Neurosurgeon at M Health Fairview, Chief Technology Officer of SynerFuse, and the primary inventor of SynerFuse technology. Together, they discuss the reality of spinal surgery and the patient experience today, how SynerFuse has combined spinal fusion with dorsal root ganglion stimulation in a single surgery, how that innovation has proved to be safe, how that innovation has proved to reduce post-surgery pain and opioid use, how SynerFuse is aiming to advance the procedure into regular practice, where spinal surgery is headed in the future, and much more.

2. 

   10 Jul 2026

   Healthcare's Evolving Cyber Reality with Josh Howell

   Host Michael interviews Josh Howell, Healthcare Chief Technology Officer at Rubrik, about cyber resilience and its impact on patient safety in healthcare.

3. 

   2 Jul 2026

   Navigating IDR Challenges and Change with Max Mangum

   Host Michael chats with Max Mangum, Co-founder and CEO of Pivotal Health, about navigating Independent Dispute Resolution challenges and ensuring fair out-of-network reimbursement.

Who has been a guest on Health Innovation Matters

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Josh Howell
• Max Mangum
• Chris Becker
• Dr Steven Falowski
• Ken Heinrich

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

91

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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Books guests

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