Why on earth cant clinical and product get along

Randhir Vieira

Digital health coach and AI advisor

Saranya Loehrer, MD

Rule-breaking MD scaling better care

+ Andrew Schutzbank, MD

Stop the clinical–product standoff that’s stalling your roadmap and your care

The clinical–product standoff is one of the most expensive problems in health tech. It slows launches, burns out your best people, and leaves patients with worse care. Most teams treat it as a personality problem — the “difficult clinician,” the “reckless PM” — and try to fix it with better communication or another offsite. It rarely works, because the conflict isn’t about people. It’s structural: mismatched incentives, unclear decision rights, and goals that were never actually aligned.

This workshop gives you a shared language and a practical framework to see exactly where your clinical and product functions are breaking — trust, goals, or process — and what to change first. You’ll leave with a diagnostic you can run with your own team next week, concrete moves to realign incentives and decision-making, and a way to turn a draining rivalry into the partnership that ships great care faster. Led by three operators who’ve sat on both sides of this table at Omada, Headspace, Teladoc, and Iora, it’s built on real cases, not theory.

What you’ll learn

Diagnose why clinical & product clash, and lead the structural changes that turn the standoff into a partnership that ships better care.

  • Map the structural drivers — incentives, decision rights, timelines — that pull clinical and product apart

  • Separate genuine structural conflict from personality friction

  • Understand why “better communication” usually fails to fix it

  • Apply a powerful trust / goals / process lens to your own org

  • Pinpoint the single misalignment costing you the most right now

  • Spot warning signs before they hit your roadmap

  • Build shared metrics both functions actually own

  • Reframe clinical safety and product velocity as one goal, not a tradeoff

  • Set decision rights so the right call gets made faster

  • Redesign how clinical input enters the product cycle

  • Establish escalation paths that don’t grind delivery to a halt

  • Create rituals that build trust instead of resentment

  • Adapt the plays whether you’re a PM, clinician, or exec

  • Get buy-in from the “other side” without a reorg

  • Sequence what to change first for fastest impact

  • Walk out with a filled-in diagnostic for your own team

  • Take a 30/60/90 outline to realign your two functions

  • Know the first conversation to have and with whom

Workshop agenda

  • The standoff, decoded (Why clinical and product really clash)

    We reframe the conflict from “difficult people” to structural forces, and share real cases where the divide slowed care — and where it got fixed.

  • The diagnostic: trust, goals, process (Find where yours is breaking)

    Learn a simple lens to locate misalignment, then apply it live to your own org to pinpoint the one gap costing you the most.

  • The realignment playbook (What to change and in what order)

    Concrete moves to align incentives, redraw decision rights, and redesign the collaboration process — with what to tackle first for fastest results.

  • Your Monday-morning plan + live Q&A (Make it real)

    Draft your 30/60/90 to bring the two functions together, pressure-test it with the instructors, and bring your hardest clinical–product problem for group problem-solving.

Learn directly from expert instructors

Randhir Vieira

Randhir Vieira

Digital health coach and AI advisor helping leaders scale teams & impact

Headspace, Omada Health
Headspace
Omada Health
Yahoo
HealthifyMe
Saranya Loehrer, MD

Saranya Loehrer, MD

Rule‑breaking MD driving health equity, movements, and better care at scale.

Teladoc
Teladoc Health
Andrew Schutzbank, MD

Andrew Schutzbank, MD

Physician-operator helping rebuild healthcare with practical playbooks, patterns

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Who this workshop is for

  • Product leaders / PMs in healthtech who keep hitting friction with clinical teams & want a repeatable way to align, not just keep the peace.

  • Clinical leaders and clinician-operators tired of feeling ignored in product decisions and ready to help shape the roadmap.

  • Founders, GMs, and cross-functional execs who own both functions and need them shipping great care together instead of fighting.

What's included

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