Halle Tecco (Rock Health) - Accelerating Real Change in Healthcare

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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🗓️ 15 January 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Halle Tecco, co-founder and CEO of healthcare accelerator Rock Health, shares how technologists, designers and other professionals can play a role in bringing innovation to the healthcare industry. Tecco identifies systemic challenges facing healthcare in America and shares examples of companies working to address these opportunities for change.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	My name is Tom Byers, and I'm one of the three instructors for the series and the course.
0:24.5	And it's my pleasure to introduce our first speaker of the winter.
0:30.9	Halle Tecco of Rock Health.
0:34.4	She went to Case Western as an undergrad. She went to Harvard Business School,
0:39.5	which is where I met her, and was just blown away with this huge vision that she had that
0:45.2	she's going to share with us. That was three years ago. Rock Health is an accelerator in the
0:49.6	life sciences area, and we just can't wait to hear all about it. In the past, before Harvard Business
0:55.8	School, she was at Intel and Apple. So without further ado, let's give the floor to Halley.
1:04.8	Thank you. Did I hear that you guys get credit for listening to me speak? That's not right.
1:13.6	I wish Harvard was that easy.
1:15.8	So how many of you guys, sorry.
1:20.8	How many of you guys that are students know what you want to do with your lives, know where you want to go?
1:27.2	Not a lot. So I have no idea. But how many of you guys know that you want to do with your lives, know where you want to go. Not a lot.
1:28.3	So I had no idea.
1:29.3	But how many of you guys know that you want to get into technology?
1:32.3	Something in tech, startups?
1:34.3	And how many of you guys in healthcare?
1:37.3	Just like, okay, so a lot of people in tech, not a lot in healthcare.
1:41.3	That's about what I would expect. I work at kind of the
1:45.0	intersection of the two, and I'm relatively new to health care. Unlike most people in the
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