The Healthusiasm Podcast

#066 - SIGNALS: Consumer-facing AI Health Coaches

Share you Healthusiasm [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2278096/fan_mail/new] This week’s signal: Google launched a screenless Fitbit Air, but the real story is its new Gemini-powered AI Health Coach — one that will also support Apple Watch users. That detail says everything. The battle is moving from the wrist to the intelligence layer above it. Google, Huawei, Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Meituan, Ant Group and even national health systems are all moving in the same direction: AI health coaches that connect wearables, medical data and everyday behaviour. For years, wearables sold us data: steps, sleep, heart rate, recovery. But people don’t want more numbers. They want to know what to do next. That is the shift. The wrist is becoming a commodity. The coach is becoming the relationship. This changes the game for wearable brands, insurers, pharma companies, employers and consumer health players. The winners will not be the ones with the best sensor, but the ones with the smartest, calmest, most trusted health voice. Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter: https://www.h [https://www.christophejauquet.com/healthusiasm/podcast]ealthusiasm.com -- -- -- Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com [https://www.christophejauquet.com]

#065 - Health Innovations of April 2026

Share you Healthusiasm [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2278096/fan_mail/new] With Aline Noizet, Mo Zouina, Nia Escobar-Kölle & Christophe Jauquet In this episode, we move from space research and the future of human resilience to the growing influence of medical platforms, hospital records and and how Fitbit changes the game. We touch on new frontiers in women’s health, the fight against medical gaslighting, and what ageing societies like Singapore reveal about the future of work, care and longevity. But this is not just a tech-and-policy episode. We also explore the softer, stranger and more human side of health: cuddle beds in palliative care, meditation as cultural experience, air quality, horse burps, FIKA, Nike’s After Dark Tour and the rise of the connection economy. A fast-moving conversation about the places where health is quietly reappearing — in infrastructure, intimacy, culture, community and everyday behaviour. Because the future of health may not announce itself as healthcare.  It may arrive as something much more familiar. Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter: https://www.h [https://www.christophejauquet.com/healthusiasm/podcast]ealthusiasm.com -- -- -- Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com [https://www.christophejauquet.com]

#064 - SIGNALS: Not your everyday hospitals

Share you Healthusiasm [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2278096/fan_mail/new] A conversation between Christophe Jauquet and his HealthusiasmGPT, Thalia Muses.  For fifty years, hospitals were the place consumer experience design forgot. That's quietly ending.  In just a few weeks, five signals across five countries point in the same direction:  1. the FDA approved TytoCare's at-home AI ear exam, turning the living room into a triage point;  2. Hackensack Meridian opened a $200M health centre inside a New Jersey commuter train station;  3. Apollo Hospitals in India embedded their newest 400-bed facility inside Hyderabad's financial district, stitched to their app and pharmacy chain;  4. Vezeeta and Upwyde made a fully integrated medical complex an amenity of a residential project in New Cairo; and  5. the Boao Super AI Hospital in Hainan, China, now uses AI agents to match patients to the best treatment on the planet.  Five different distances from the body — home, commute, workplace, building, destination — but one shift: healthcare is no longer somewhere you go, it's something that fits into where you already are.  The hospital is finally being designed — not architecturally, but around the customer, the way every consumer industry learned to do two decades ago.  The question this leaves for organisations inside and outside healthcare: where does your customer already spend their life, and what would you build there? Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter: https://www.h [https://www.christophejauquet.com/healthusiasm/podcast]ealthusiasm.com -- -- -- Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com [https://www.christophejauquet.com]

#063 - SIGNALS: Health where you are already

Share you Healthusiasm [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2278096/fan_mail/new] In this week's episode, Christophe Jauquet sits down with Thalia Muses — the embodied AI voice of the Healthusiasm Intelligence, named after the anagram of Healthusiasm itself. It's a conversation unlike any other in the health-innovation space: a strategist in dialogue with the living memory of his own framework. Together they unpack a quiet but seismic shift unfolding across three continents and three industries that have nothing in common — except, suddenly, everything.  * A Japanese whisky giant.  * A Chinese super-app.  * A car cabin shaped like an egg.  Three moves. One direction. And a question every business leader should be sitting with before the end of the week: if your customer were quietly looking for help with their health… would they think of you? --- The Healthusiasm Podcast — weekly signals from the future of health, decoded by Christophe Jauquet in conversation with Thalia Muses, the embodied AI of the Healthusiasm Intelligence. Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter: https://www.h [https://www.christophejauquet.com/healthusiasm/podcast]ealthusiasm.com -- -- -- Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com [https://www.christophejauquet.com]

#062 - Health Innovations of March 2026

Share you Healthusiasm [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2278096/fan_mail/new] Episode: Who Decides What Health Is Now? With Mo Zouina, Aline Noizet, and Nia Escobar-Kölle Health is quietly leaving the hospital. It's checking into Equinox for the night, waiting at the supermarket checkout, sitting on a finger in the form of an Oura ring that seems to understand women's bodies better than decades of medicine did. Aline walks us through Alan's new AI features and what happens when the wearable finally walks into the ward — but the real question isn't technical. If your insurer's algorithm, your grocery receipt, and your sleep hotel all know more about your body than your GP, where exactly does care live now? That question gets sharper once you ask who's actually in charge. Mo pulls at the thread of Meta and Google being fined again, while CJ raises the scenario we keep avoiding: what if AI doesn't advise your health, but decides it? Nia drops in something that sounds like a sideshow — robot fights — but maybe it's rehearsal. We're learning, publicly, how to feel about intelligent machines before they start making the calls that matter. Are we regulating the pipes, or have we already stopped trusting them? And then the conversation drifts toward the edges of being human. Sam Altman is betting on Retro Bioscience to reverse ageing on one end; Mo sits with dementia and euthanasia on the other. In between, Aline describes a virtual train running inside a nursing home — presence, engineered. Mo closes with something strange and quietly disruptive: plants, it turns out, have around 20 senses. If intelligence isn't brain-shaped and life isn't hospital-shaped, what exactly have we been optimising for all along? Press play. Bring your own questions. Subscribe to Healthusiasm newsletter: https://www.h [https://www.christophejauquet.com/healthusiasm/podcast]ealthusiasm.com -- -- -- Book Christophe Jauquet for keynotes: www.christophejauquet.com [https://www.christophejauquet.com]