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Airing the week of 9/13/2026, news from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), The Sequoia Project, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Juno Health, SlicedHealth, CARPL.ai, GenServe.AI, Centauri Health Solutions, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, AvaSure, VirtuAlly

The Discipline Behind Digital Transformation: How Healthcare Organizations Create Real Capacity for Innovation Russ Branzell, President and CEO of CHIME, welcomes Shane Cronin, Head of ITAM Services at SHI Healthcare, for a timely discussion on how digital health leaders are effectively creating the operational discipline necessary to sustain ongoing digital transformation. While AI and cloud modernization continue to dominate industry initiatives, many organizations are discovering that long-term success depends on something less visible but equally critical: governance, optimization, and a clear understanding of their technology environment. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure...

PVEK and the Changing Treatment Landscape for BPDCN On this episode host Dr. Ryan Haumschild, Vice President of Pharmacy at Emory, is joined by Dr. Naveen Pemmaraju, Professor of Leukemia and founding director of the BPDCN program at MD Anderson, to discuss blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN), an ultra-rare and aggressive blood cancer. They examine the recent FDA approval of pivekimab sunirine-pvzy (PVEK), a CD123-directed antibody-drug conjugate, and results from the CADENZA trial in both treatment-naive and relapsed or refractory patients. The conversation explores where PVEK may fit within the evolving BPDCN treatment landscape, its safety and outpatient...

The Dual Perspective of a Rural CMO and CMIO Host: Phil Sobol, Chief Commercial Officer at CereCore Guest: Tiffany Laurenz, Vice President of IT Delivery Operations, McLaren Health Care Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

The Missing Piece in Your Practice Sale: How Using an Investment Banker Can Make the Difference Host Ericka Adler is joined by John Tiedmann, Jr. from Physician Growth Partners to discuss the role investment bankers play in helping physicians to not only to find the best buyer, but to navigate the many steps on the way to a successful sale of a practice. John discusses the state of the physician practice market in 2026 and what physicians looking to sell might expect from a buyer in terms of price and deal structure. John and Ericka also discuss how practices can best...

How Current Health Improves Access to Advanced Therapies Chris McGhee, CEO & Co-Founder of Current Health, returns to share how the national dialogue about health at home programs, drug therapies, and empowered consumers has changed since he reacquired his company from Best Buy Health.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about the launch of the CMS ACCESS Model. Is CMS creating a framework for treating chronic conditions rather than just a short-term payment structure, and how does the model open up new partnerships that can help make preventive health a reality? Find all of our network podcasts on your fa...

Propensity Modeling: How to Find Your Most Valuable Leads Does your team keep chasing more leads but can’t explain why the pipeline doesn’t turn into revenue? This episode is for you. On this episode host Adam Turinas speaks with Aaron Burnett, founder and CEO of Wheelhouse DMG, who built his agency specifically for privacy-first industries like healthcare and medtech, and he walked Adam through something most agencies can’t do: predicting the dollar value of a lead in real time, without ever touching protected health information.

On this episode host Raj Sundar explores the limitations of mechanistic models in medicine and emphasize the importance of seeing patients as whole beings shaped by history, context, land, and community. Through candid conversation among clinicians trained in somatic experiencing, compassionate inquiry, and research with Indigenous communities, he reflects on how social determinants, trauma, and systemic violence contribute to disease and impact the patient experience. We discuss the value and complexity of diagnosis—how it can be both validating and reductive—and address how healing is fostered through relationship, safety, and the recognition of environmental, emotional, and intergenerational influences on heal...

The State of AI in Home Care Agencies with John Atkinson On this episode host Tom Foley invites John Atkinson, CTO of AxisCare to discuss their 4500 home healthcare provider clients and their adoption of AI through their platform. He shares that over half of the 4,500 clients have adopted AI features in the past nine months, with one AI feature analyzing over 7.7 million care notes in the last four weeks, saving an equivalent of 21,000 hours of work. Host Tom Foley encourages listeners to read AxisCare's newest white paper on the subject. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or...

Defining micro and macro impacts of technology; defining clinical intelligence and layers to effective development; understanding that incremental progress can have a significant impact; how clinician involvement in development creates a better experience. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

The discussion includes: vaccine policy & AI regulation - please speak up on proposed vaccine changes and make your comments human; FDA is regulating AI, lets hope without stifling useful innovation; Health-maxing: More data, tests, and tracking don’t automatically mean better health; Sometimes it just create more things to obsess over; Your wearables CGMs and sleep trackers can be useful, but only if the data is accurate and you understand the data; Healthcare gets stranger as Costco moves deeper into Medicare while employers squeeze spousal health coverage; If you thought healthcare was a workplace calculus before it definitely is now; An...

On this episode host Daniel Marino discusses the stages of CIN maturity, from launching the network to optimizing operations and scaling for growth. He explores how organizations can define a strong value proposition, strengthen care management and utilization management capabilities, improve network integrity, and position the CIN for long-term high performance. Whether your organization is developing a CIN, improving an existing network, or expanding value-based opportunities, this episode offers practical insights for building the alignment, infrastructure, and capabilities needed to drive sustainable success. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW...

The Power of Collaboration and Threat Sharing in Healthcare Cybersecurity On this episode host Jessica Davis invites Errol Weiss, Chief Security Officer, Health-ISAC to discuss how collective defense, threat intelligence sharing, and cross-industry collaboration make a real impact on healthcare cyber resilience despite longstanding sector challenges. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”.

On this episode Gil welcomes emergency physician, AI futurist, and Chief AI Officer of Phantom Space Corporation, Harvey Castro, MD (DrGPT™) for a wide-ranging conversation on artificial intelligence's transformation of medicine - from the emergency room to orbit. Dr. Castro shares how he built a personal digital twin integrating wearable data, electronic medical records, and genomics to shift his own health management from reactive to proactive. He discusses his landmark series of AI-in-healthcare books, including AI for Everyone in Healthcare: The Clinician's AI Playbook, and makes the case that predictive analytics, continuous monitoring, and AI-assisted clinical decision support will redefine wh...

S1E9: Caris Life Sciences Series Part 3 of 3: The Future: AI and Large-scale Molecular Data Shaping Next-Generation Oncology Host Shahid Shah with his guest Dr. Milan Radovich, Senior VP and Chief Scientific Officer at Caris Life Sciences To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On this episode of The Dish on Health IT, Tony Schueth, CEO of Point-of-Care Partners (POCP), welcomes Angel Ballew, Head of Pharmacy Clinical Programs & Services at Centene Corporation, along with Seth Joseph, Managing Director of Summit Health Advisors, and Jason Reed, Senior Consultant at Point-of-Care Partners, for a discussion about what it will take to scale pharmacist-delivered clinical services. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

What does it really take to move from manual open encounter workflows to autonomous professional fee coding? On this episode, Evan Davis, senior application analyst at the University of Kentucky HealthCare, explores the organization’s ambitious autonomous coding evolution. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Reverification at Scale Without the January Bottleneck Brittany Lemoi, Revenue Cycle Director of Authorizations and Verifications at Ivy Rehab, will share how her team approaches reverification across a nationwide therapy network. She will discuss the operational challenges Ivy faced, how its collaboration with Infinx has evolved, and what both teams have learned about building a more scalable and consistent process. Brought to you by www.infinx.com Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

On this episode hosts Fred and Gregg welcome David Shulkin, MD who served as U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs under President Trump and before that as VA Under Secretary for Health under President Obama. In this conversation Secretary Shulkin makes a counterintuitive argument: the VA's government-run, globally budgeted healthcare system is a model the private sector should be learning from, not dismissing. The discussion spans the VA's landmark hepatitis C elimination campaign, its AI-powered suicide prevention program, the structural case for population health over fee-for-service, and why Shulkin believes incremental reform has run its course. To stream our Station...

On this episode, host Carol Flagg talks with Megan Antonelli, founder and CEO of HealthIMPACT Live. Megan joins the show to discuss the rise of curated, community-driven events and gives a preview of the HealthIMPACT Fall Forum set for October in NYC. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Limited Six Part Series: Straight Talk, Better Benefits with The Phia Group Join Dr. Nick and Adam Russo, CEO of The Phia Group for Part 5: AI Isn’t the Enemy, But Opaque Use Might Be AI use in healthcare is creating a growing trust divide. Patients increasingly self‑diagnose through chatbots while suspecting that insurers use the same technology to deny claims. Even the term “preferred provider” network is misleading, “contracted doctors” would be more accurate, since these networks reflect negotiated pricing rather than quality, fueling cynicism and confusion. Quick AI searches often amplify the Dunning‑Kruger effect, making patients feel like expe...

Why Social Selling Beats Cold Outreach and What Actually Works Now On this episode host Adam Turinas closes out the four-part series on AI and sales enablement, and sits down with Tim Hughes, co-founder of DLA Ignite and one of the most respected voices in social selling. If you have felt like the channels you used to count on for pipeline just are not producing the way they used to, you’re not alone. Cold call connection rates have dropped to around 3 percent, email is getting buried by spam filters, and now LinkedIn is starting to go the same way as...

Microsoft's Vision For Scaling AI in Healthcare Mary Varghese Presti, Corporate VP of Microsoft Health and Life Sciences, discusses where consumer experience, nursing, and AI are colliding to create some interesting tailwinds for patients and clinicians.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Reach3’s new consumer health survey. What does the survey say about the use of digital health and wellness tools, and how does it help us to look at the data through the consumer lens?  Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more...

Industry Organizations and Associations with AMCP On this episode host Tom Testa continues his series on industry organizations that are making a difference for their members with Susan Cantrell, CEO of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP). With a diverse membership and history dating back to 1988, AMCP strives to ensure patient access to affordable medication and shape healthcare policy. Take a listen and learn more about AMCP. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”.

Host Adam Russo invites Garrick B. Hunt, Director of Business Development for The Phia Group to discuss challenges in self-funded healthcare with renewal season approaching. Adam and Garrick share insights on rising healthcare costs and NSA/IDR disputes as major pain points, with plan sponsors increasingly seeking independent claims reviews and considering benefit trimming while maintaining plan value. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.health...

On this episode Jim welcomes George Bosnjak, co-founder of Morph Services and Dale Brown, MediVix CEO. Their recent partnership addresses the persistent challenges seen in the pharmaceutical space that particularly affect vulnerable patients. It is rare when best practices meets government mandates but this is a case study of when one plus one can equal three. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

From Roadmap to Runway: What Speed to Value in Healthcare AI Actually Takes Every health system has an AI roadmap. Far fewer have a runway. Vendors sell the destination. Getting there, on time and on budget and actually live, is the part nobody demos. Scott Raymond, former CIO at Nebraska Medicine and a longtime health IT leader who still holds an active nursing license, gets specific on virtual nursing, predictive staffing and scheduling, the workflows you have to solve first, and why the gap between promise and production is where most AI quietly stalls. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit...

What's Holding Healthcare AI Back? To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Stop-Loss Beyond the Policy: Why Partnership Matters More Than Price On this episode join host Tom Testa and Joe Dore, President and CEO of USBenefits discussing what separates a great stop-loss partner from an average one. According to Joe, it's not just pricing; it's proactive collaboration. Hear insights on how early intervention, strategic partnerships, and a consultative approach can help employers avoid costly surprises, reduce high-dollar claims, and make smarter decisions in an increasingly challenging healthcare environment. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www...

Five Good Things Join us for Five Good Things with Janae Sharp and Megan Antonelli: A rapid-fire segment highlighting positive developments in digital health. Janae and Megan share insights on recent innovations, successful implementations, and emerging trends that are driving progress in healthcare technology. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Episode 5: Payment Automation and Buffalo Bills w/ Emily Smythe On this episode hosts Angie Shin and Dave Smith explore insights from the ECW conference, compare Luma's offerings with competitors, and highlight the importance of financial transparency and automation in enhancing patient experience. The discussion also addresses challenges in implementation and the cultural shifts within healthcare organizations as they adapt to new technologies. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

In this session, Stuart Newsome will share common themes emerging from real radiology practice conversations and explore the operational breaking points that are slowing down revenue, frustrating staff, and creating patient access delays. Radiology revenue cycle teams are being stretched by prior authorization complexity, staffing shortages, payer policy changes, fragmented systems, and denials that often begin long before the claim is submitted. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Host Ericka Adler is joined by Dennis Thornton, health care real estate advisor at CARR, to discuss how physicians and other health care practitioners can make informed real estate decisions when leasing, purchasing or expanding their practices. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

The Borderless Healthcare Revolution Is Already Here Dr. Sarah Matt discusses themes from her book The Borderless Healthcare Revolution, what consumer-centered health means from a surgeon’s point of view, and why we can’t burn down the system even when we see so many flaws.  All that, plus a recap of the Rap Community's June Think Tank chat about the ongoing move to preventive health. Join the free community at https://healthcarerapcommunity.com to attend our monthly chats.  Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www...

S2E1: Why Healthcare AI Success Starts With Governance, Not Technology, with Ben Scharfe, Executive Vice President of AI Initiatives at Altera Digital Health On this episode, host Dr. Heather Bassett welcomes Ben Scharfe, Executive Vice President of AI Initiatives at Altera Digital Health, to make the case that the biggest lever in healthcare AI isn't the model — it's the foundation underneath it. Ben traces his unconventional path from accounting and financial leadership into healthcare AI, and argues that the same continuous-learning mindset that got him there is what teams need most as the technology keeps shifting. He walks through Al...

When Doing the Right Thing Pays: Community Health Centers and the Future of Value-Based Care Host Dr. Robert Murry, CMO at NextGen Healthcare talks with Bob Theis, chief executive officer of Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center, about why health centers are uniquely positioned to lead the shift toward value-based care. Community health centers have long delivered the kind of whole-person, outcomes-focused care that value-based models are designed to reward. They discuss how accurate risk capture, attention to social needs, and proactive Medicaid outreach help patients stay connected to care. Theis also shares how one patient-centered program reduced emergency room visits...

S1E8: Caris Life Sciences Series - Part 2 of 3: The Access: Liquid Biopsy and Expanding Access to Precision Oncology Host Shahid Shah with his guest Joseph C. Murray, MD, PhD, is Senior Medical Director at Caris Life Sciences. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Building an AI Lead Scoring System That Boosted Conversion by 70% Your marketing engine is generating leads, but how do you know which ones are actually worth handing to sales? That is the question at the heart of this episode, and it is one that gets harder to answer the bigger your funnel gets. On this episode, host Adam Turinas sits down with Nick Panayi, a technology marketing veteran who most recently led marketing at Inovalon. If you listened to the episode with Nick last year, you know he has spent his career at the intersection of marketing and AI. This...

The Healthcare Challenge for 20% of Americans who prefer languages other than English On this episode host Tom Foley invites Dipak Patel, CEO of Globo, a healthcare interpretation company to dicuss language barriers and access to healthcare. There is a need for language services across all patient touchpoints, not just during clinical visits and the role of AI in interpretation should complement human interpreters rather than replace them, particularly for clinical conversations. Meeting language barriers can also bring financial benefits to health systems with reduced readmissions and length of stays. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask...

Host Dan Marino welcomes Dr. Suzanne Brixey, Executive Director of Fortify Children's Health, to explore how value-based care can transform pediatric healthcare. While value-based care has gained traction in adult medicine, pediatric care has often been left out of the conversation. Dr. Brixey discusses how Virginia's statewide pediatric clinically integrated network is advancing a new approach designed specifically for children and families. She explains why pediatric payment models and quality measures must differ from those used in adult care, how early intervention and preventive care can improve lifelong health outcomes, and why addressing behavioral health, social drivers of health, and...