Improving Patient Outcomes Through Wearable Technology
HLTH Matters · featuring Jason Oberfest, VP Health Partnerships, ŌURA
Why we picked this episode
Every week the HTC editorial desk listens across the health tech podcast landscape and selects the conversations that actually move a listener's understanding forward. This episode of HLTH Matters, featuring Jason Oberfest, earned its place on that list.
What the conversation covers
How the Oura Ring's continuous sleep and readiness data is entering primary care, chronic disease management, and women's health - with provider partnerships like Essence Healthcare.
Key discussion threads
How the Oura Ring's continuous sleep and readiness data is entering primary care, chronic disease management, and women's health
With provider partnerships like Essence Healthcare
The bigger picture
The data-infrastructure backdrop makes this conversation timely: TEFCA crossed one billion exchanged health records this summer, up from 10 million in under a year (our coverage), while KLAS reports EHR purchasing fell 40% as capital shifts from record systems to the AI and analytics layered on top of them. Interoperability is no longer the constraint - deciding what to do with flowing data is.
Connected-device strategy is at an inflection point: Medicare RPM spending has passed $500 million a year, yet CMS has proposed consolidating seventeen monitoring codes into four and requiring directly employed clinical staff - a rewrite that would upend outsourced monitoring models by January 2027 (our coverage). Perspectives like this one show how operators are planning for the compliant service model, not just the hardware.
The HTC take
Listen with a notebook handy: the most valuable material here is operational, not theoretical - the kind of detail that only surfaces when practitioners talk shop. Pair it with our related coverage below and you have a working brief on the topic.