Our loyalty is not to the healthcare system we were handed. It’s to the future we can build.
About the book
Our system is plagued by staggering costs, inadequate outcomes, and pervasive inequities. In Massively Better Healthcare, Halle Tecco offers an insider’s guide to transforming healthcare through innovation. Drawing on her experience as an entrepreneur, investor, and educator, she delivers a practical roadmap for building solutions that align profit with purpose.
Through personal narratives, case studies, and actionable frameworks, Tecco shows you how to spot opportunities for meaningful change and turn obstacles into competitive advantages.
What this book will teach you:
The four new rules of building massively better healthcare.
Why healthcare is “hard” — and how to use that complexity to your advantage.
How to align the mission and margin so your work is sustainable, scalable, and impactful.
Who really holds power in healthcare and strategies for bending the system without being broken by it.
How to evaluate your ideas up front to increase your chances of success.
Ways to generate evidence that wins trust from patients, payers, and investors.
Massively Better Healthcare bridges Silicon Valley dynamism with healthcare’s evidence-based rigor. It’s a realistic yet optimistic playbook for anyone who wants to create lasting change in one of society’s most vital systems.
Reviews
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"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, MD, EVP and Professor, Scripps Research, author SUPER AGERS and DEEP MEDICINE
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"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
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"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
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“Tecco captures the central truth of U.S. healthcare: we get exactly what we pay for and too often that’s more procedures, more billing codes, and not better outcomes. Her fix—realigning incentives and unleashing entrepreneurs—is both obvious and radical, and we will all benefit when our healthcare system does better when patients do better.”
Bob Kocher, MD, Former Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare and Economic Policy, Partner at Venrock, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Stanford
About the author
Halle Tecco has dedicated her career to making healthcare massively better. She is the founder of Rock Health and has backed and advised dozens of healthcare companies. She teaches future healthcare leaders at Columbia Business School and Harvard Medical School, and serves on the boards of Collective Health and Cofertility.
Tecco’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg. She was named as one of Goldman Sach’s Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and listed on Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business 2023. She has spoken at the Aspen Ideas Festival, CES, TechCrunch Disrupt, and was a SXSW Keynote speaker. Tecco holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University.
With Massively Better Healthcare, she distills 15+ years of lessons into an essential guide for leaders who want to leave the system better than they found it.
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