š£ Digital Health Download: December 2025
The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast Ā· Halle Tecco
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Show Notes
The first trillion-dollar healthcare company, a $298M longevity round, and a telehealth CEO headed for federal sentencing. Last month had range.
Today on the show, Halle and Michael sort through the biggest December stories shaping the year ahead, from runaway longevity funding to a telehealth scandal headed for federal sentencing.
We cover:
š§¬ Two hot funding rounds in longevity, including Function Healthās $298M B-round and Blueprintās all-angel, no-VC $60M raise
š How Eli Lilly became the first trillion-dollar healthcare company
š„ CVSās $5.7B Oak Street Health write-down (and why most acquisitions fail)
š Nursing, OT, PT, and PA being removed from the list of āprofessionalā degrees by the Department of Education
š¤ OpenAIās growing interest in consumer health tools
āļø The telehealth company whose founders were just convicted in one of the largest stimulant-fraud cases to date
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Show notes:
- Eli Lilly becomes first trillion-dollar healthcare company (Reuters)
- CVS takes $5.7B goodwill impairment on Oak Street Health (Forbes)
- Department of Educationās revised āprofessional degreeā list (Newsweek)
- NYT: Patients turning to AI for support (Dagens.com)
- DOJ conviction of Done Global executives (DOJ)
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