Massively Better Healthcare: The Innovator's Guide to Tackling Healthcare's Biggest Challenges

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Halle Tecco

Massively Better Healthcare

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ISBN: 9780231222365

The Innovator's Guide to Tackling Healthcare's Biggest Challenges

Halle Tecco

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Columbia University Press
16 March 2026

Business innovation; Health systems & services

Healthcare is broken-but we can fix it. Our current system is plagued by staggering costs, inadequate outcomes, and pervasive inequities. How can we deliver long-overdue change and make this system work for everyone?

In this groundbreaking book, Halle Tecco provides an insider's guide to transforming our healthcare system through innovation. Drawing from her extensive experience as an entrepreneur, investor, and professor, she delivers a practical roadmap for addressing the most pressing challenges. Combining personal narratives, compelling case studies, and actionable frameworks, Tecco explores how to identify opportunities for meaningful change and build sustainable, scalable solutions that align profit with purpose. She acknowledges the difficulties-such as regulatory hurdles, misaligned incentives, and resistance to change-but shows how entrepreneurs can turn obstacles into their competitive advantage.

Bridging the gap between Silicon Valley dynamism and healthcare's evidence-based approach, Massively Better Healthcare offers a realistic yet optimistic view of what's possible. Written for everyone from seasoned professionals to aspiring innovators, this book shares an inspiring and attainable vision of a better healthcare system and equips readers with the essential tools to succeed.

By: Halle Tecco
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780231222365
ISBN 10: 023122236X
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 16 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface: Who Are You to Do This? Part I. US Healthcare: Make It Make Sense 1. The Dire Need for Healthcare Innovation 2. Healthcare’s Not-So-Simple Food Chain 3. Healthcare’s Sleeping Giant Part II. The Anatomy of Healthcare Innovation 4. What Does Innovation Look Like? 5. Where Does Innovation Come From? 6. Healthcare Is Hard, So Make Hard Your Moat 7. When Innovation Fails Part III. The New Rules of Building Massively Better Healthcare 8. Rule 1: Work from the Inside Out, Not the Outside In 9. Rule 2: Align the Margin and the Mission 10. Rule 3: Be a Good Steward of Health Data 11. Rule 4: Invest in Evidence 12. Go Forth and Fix Healthcare Acknowledgments Notes Index

Halle Tecco is the founder of the venture fund Rock Health and an investor in more than fifty digital health companies. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and a course director at Harvard Medical School, where she teaches the next generation of leaders about healthcare innovation. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University.

Reviews for Massively Better Healthcare: The Innovator's Guide to Tackling Healthcare's Biggest Challenges

Halle Tecco has the DNA of a healthcare innovator who had to crack into an industry highly resistant to change. Through her success, the invaluable things she’s learned are well articulated in and needed for Massively Better Healthcare. -- Eric Topol, author of <i>Super Agers</i> and <i>Deep Medicine</i> In Massively Better Healthcare, Halle Tecco does what public health and health care practitioners have long hoped for: she bridges the gap between innovation and impact. This book is a masterful exploration of how we can reimagine the delivery of health care. With real-world insights and compelling storytelling, Tecco doesn't just diagnose the problems—she provides a blueprint for meaningful, systemic change. -- Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, Dean of Yale School of Public Health Halle Tecco is as inspiring today as she was when we first met at the launch of Rock Health. Our uniquely public-private healthcare system still demands an ‘all hands on deck’ approach, and Tecco’s roadmap equips the next generation of innovators with the insight they need to navigate its complexities and drive meaningful change. -- Aneesh Chopra, former Chief Technology Officer of the United States