Healthscape

About Healthscape

We’re Healthscape, a MBA student-led podcast exploring the healthcare ecosystem through intimate conversations with healthcare’s biggest leaders. This podcast is brought to you by the Healthcare Club and supported by the Healthcare at Kellogg Program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. If you’d like to learn more about Healthcare at Kellogg, visit us at www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/academics-research/healthcare-at-kellogg.

Publisher

Kellogg Healthcare Club

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Mar 2021

Latest episode

9 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 64 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   9 Mar 2026

   Joshua Weiner (SVP at CVS Health): Inside CVS Health: How AI and Data Are Transforming Healthcare

   Josh Weiner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshweiner2/), Senior Vice President of Consumer Analytics & Engagement at CVS Health, (https://www.linkedin.com/company/cvshealth/posts/?feedView=all) joins MBA student Anand Chatterjee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandamoy-chatterjee/) to discuss how data, experimentation, and emerging technologies are reshaping the healthcare experience. Drawing on his leadership at CVS Health, Josh shares insights on consumer engagement, the role of AI in care delivery, and why improving healthcare often requires innovation from within the system. Tune in to hear why healthcare struggles to match the consumer experience of other industries, how wearable devices and interoperable data could transform care, and why aligning incentives across the healthcare ecosystem remains one of the biggest challenges to improving outcomes. Visit our podcast page for more episodes on trends and innovation in healthcare, and follow our socials so you never miss an update.

2. 

   23 Feb 2026

   Defining the Healthcare System We Actually Want

   What does it take to redesign the American healthcare system from first principles? Dr. Jim Weinstein (https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-weinstein-410a76177/), world-renowned spine surgeon, former CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock, and current Senior Vice President at Microsoft Healthcare, joins MD-MBA candidate Abhinav Balu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhi-balu/) on this episode of Healthscape to explore how incentives, data infrastructure, and AI are reshaping care delivery. From the landmark SPORT trial to the creation of the High-Value Healthcare Collaborative, Dr. Weinstein explains why more money isn’t the solution, why system design determines outcomes, and why healthcare needs ecosystem transformation, not just better technology. They also discuss Microsoft’s Diagnostic Orchestrator AI, the promise of multimodal data, and the importance of judgment in an AI-enabled future. Tune in for a conversation on value, innovation, and the road ahead for healthcare.

3. 

   19 Feb 2026

   Fortuna Health, Nikita Singareddy (Co-Founder & CEO): TurboTax for Medicaid: Simplifying America's Safety Net

   Nikita Singareddy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikita-m-s/), CEO & Co-Founder of Fortuna Health (https://www.linkedin.com/company/fortuna-health/), joins MBA student Kara Koopman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kara-koopman/) to discuss building venture-worthy businesses in Medicaid, one of the US’ largest and most fragmented healthcare programs. After raising $18 million from a16z to create the "TurboTax of Medicaid," Nikita shares how Fortuna is bringing consumer-first technology to Medicaidenrollment and why "too hard" often signals opportunity. Tune in to hear why the PHE unwinding was the catalyst, how Fortuna found rare win-win-win alignment across healthcare stakeholders, and the complexity of scaling across 56 different state programs. Visit our podcast page for more episodes on trends and innovation in healthcare, and follow our socials so you never miss an update.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 28: Women's Health Series: Smashing the Menopause Taboo with Alessandra Henderson, Co-founder of Elektra Health

Published 8 Mar 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But some of the considerations, I'm fascinated by taboos. Like I've actually been always in the back of my mind toying. I've never actualized it or like, you know, acted upon it, but I've been toying with starting a little bit of like an investment thesis around just taboo industries, whether that's divorce or, you know, addiction or I think, you know, eating disorder. Like there's just a lot of what, what a majority of people experience at some point over the course of their life. Um, but is taboo and people aren't talking about, I think are just really interesting opportunity areas. Um, so, so menopause kind of clearly shot up to the top of that list when I was looking at, um, at the women's space more broadly, but You know, going back a little bit to what I said before, that the second I said the word menopause, it was very early in my discovery and in my conversations, and it just stuck. […]

Who has been a guest on Healthscape

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

• Kristen Valdes
• Neil Patel
• Craig Garthwaite
• Kaiya Adam
• Ben Schwartz

Reach and audience

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

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

20 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

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Quality

53

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68

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