Designing the Future of Heart Health: AliveCor’s Consumer-Centric Approach (#456)

Designing the Future of Heart Health: AliveCor’s Consumer-Centric Approach (#456)

Author: Shift Forward Health September 30, 2025 Duration: 25:14

Al Woo, Chief Product Officer at AliveCor, describes how to design personal health devices when consumers seem to expect everything on demand, how to keep clinical integrity without sacrificing consumer usability, and how the future vision of people centric care is going from fixing illness to prevention. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Amazon teaming up with nutrition care startup Fay. How can this partnership improve access to digital dietician services, and what obstacles could stand in the way of adoption? 

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