Episodes

As AI rapidly transforms healthcare, cybersecurity leaders must balance innovation with governance, patient safety, and mission-driven care. In this episode, Michael Prakhye, Chief Information Security Officer and Director of Information Security at Adventist HealthCare, shares how his background in healthcare IT, the Department of Defense, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology shaped his approach to cybersecurity leadership at Adventist HealthCare. He explains why healthcare...

What happens when AI systems begin collaborating, coding, learning, and making decisions faster than humans can keep up? In this episode, Allen Roush, Lead AI Researcher at Thoughtworks, explores the rapid evolution of AI agents, autonomous software development, and the challenges of managing increasingly capable AI systems. He discusses how current AI tools are already transforming software engineering workflows, enabling developers to automate complex tasks and dramatically accelerate produ...

Healthcare revenue cycle work is about to look very different, and AI is driving the change. In this episode, Ben Beadle-Ryby, Co-Founder at AKASA, talks about how generative AI is transforming healthcare revenue cycle management. He explains that legacy, rules-based systems struggle with the complexity of clinical documentation, which can span dozens of records and thousands of words per patient encounter. AKASA uses large language models to interpret this data more accurately, with humans r...

What changes when mission-driven discipline meets healthcare’s complexity? In this episode, Blaine Hebert, Vice President and CISO at Onvida Health, discusses his transition from a 27-year career in the Marine Corps to leadership in healthcare cybersecurity. He contrasts the military’s structured, fast decision-making with healthcare’s slower, more complex, and politically nuanced environment. In his current role, he focuses on strengthening foundational security practices, managing vendor an...

What if the biggest benefit of AI in healthcare is simply giving physicians the ability to look patients in the eye again? In this episode, Chad Dodd, Vice President of Product Management at athenahealth, discusses how AI is being used to simplify healthcare workflows and humanize patient care. He explains how athenahealth’s AI-native platform integrates ambient listening, automated documentation, patient chart summarization, and clinical recommendations directly into the physician workflow w...

How should healthcare organizations think about cybersecurity when AI is changing the speed and shape of attacks? In this episode, Chip Witt, Principal Security Evangelist at Radware, discusses the evolving threat landscape around APIs, AI, bots, and application-layer attacks. Chip explains why traditional defenses built for human-speed attacks are no longer enough, especially as autonomous agents and AI-driven tools expand an organization’s threat surface. He also shares how Radware is appro...

Technology in healthcare only matters when it improves patient care. In this episode, Dave Fox discusses his journey from the software startup world into healthcare technology and why he found his purpose at the intersection of medicine and innovation. He explains how remote patient monitoring and healthcare integration systems help connect critical bedside data with hospital infrastructure. Dave also shares his perspective on the ongoing industry push toward FHIR interoperability, while many...

What if AI is finally creating the moment to renew the EHR? In this episode, David Cohen, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Greenway Health, explains how AI is changing the pace, direction, and possibilities of healthcare technology. He shares how Greenway serves the independent ambulatory market, including thousands of providers across specialties, FQHCs, community health centers, and tribal health organizations. David discusses the launch of Navarre, Greenway’s AI-orchestrated EHR pro...

What happens when a single cyberattack disrupts prescriptions, patient care, reimbursements, and entire healthcare workflows across the country? In this episode, Greg Garcia, Executive Director of the Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, explains how the healthcare industry is rethinking cyber resilience following the Change Healthcare attack, which exposed dangerous operational chokepoints across critical workflows such as pharmacies, imaging, and blood supply syst...

What happens when a hospital turns on thousands of AI licenses overnight before the security team is ready? In this episode, James Pham, CEO and Co-founder of Opsin, explains how healthcare organizations are rapidly adopting enterprise AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Claude while struggling to manage the security risks they entail. James shares how AI can unintentionally expose protected health information, as enterprise systems often contain overshared or improper...

What if one of the biggest cybersecurity risks in healthcare is sitting in plain sight? In this episode, Jim LaRoe, CEO of Symphion, explains why printers and other IoT endpoints remain among healthcare’s most overlooked cybersecurity and operational risks. He shares that hospitals rely on these devices for critical workflows such as patient admissions, wristbanding, pharmacy labeling, and discharge processes, even though many still operate with outdated firmware, exposed credentials, and fac...

AI in rural healthcare is about balance: innovation vs. risk, automation vs. control, and doing more with less. In this episode, Jim Roeder, CIO and VP of IT at Lakewood Health System, discusses how rural healthcare systems are approaching AI adoption, with a strong emphasis on governance, security, and alignment with organizational values. He highlights the challenge of managing both new AI tools and existing, often unrecognized AI embedded in current systems. While innovation like ambient l...

Technology adoption in healthcare doesn’t hinge on innovation; it hinges on trust. In this episode, Karie Ryan, Chief Nursing Officer at Artisight, explains why clinicians remain skeptical after years of short-lived IT initiatives and how proving ROI and workflow alignment is critical. She explores how AI and virtual care can reduce burnout, enhance decision-making, and improve both patient and nurse experiences, without replacing the human element of care. Karie also highlights the growing i...

Most hospitals celebrate 40% adoption of AI tools, but what if that’s actually failure? In this episode, Landon Ware, Strategic Growth Executive for Ambience Healthcare, explains how ambient AI is evolving from basic scribing into a comprehensive system that supports clinicians before, during, and after patient encounters. By combining accurate documentation with real-time coding, the technology helps healthcare organizations capture more value while reducing administrative burden. However, h...

Healthcare needs patient-centered innovation that actually saves lives. In this episode, Michael Archuleta, Chief Information Officer with Mount San Rafael Hospital and Clinics, shares how he is leading digital transformation as CIO of Mt. San Rafael Hospital, with a strong focus on patient-centered innovation. He explains that AI is only valuable when it directly improves patient outcomes, highlighting real-world applications such as radiology tools that help detect strokes and brain bleeds ...

What happens to patient care when the systems everyone depends on suddenly go dark? In this episode, Natalie Freels, clinician, researcher, and educator in hospital internal medicine at Mayo Clinic Florida, shares her work as a physician assistant in hospital internal medicine at Mayo Clinic, where she operates at the intersection of clinical care, technology, and healthcare resilience. Her work includes implementing tools like continuous glucose monitoring, optimizing EHR systems, and leadin...

Healthcare is entering an AI-powered future, but its security and resilience foundations may not be strong enough to support it. In this episode, Richard Staynings, Chief Security Strategist at Cylera, shares over 30 years of experience in healthcare cybersecurity, spanning roles in industry, academia, and advisory work focused on AI-driven security and risk assessment. He highlights that healthcare is entering a major transformation driven by AI and robotics, but warns that cybersecurity mat...

What happens when demand for care outpaces the number of beds and the people available to staff them? In this episode, Robin Roberts, Director of Health IT Regulatory Affairs at PointClickCare, explains how skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) face mounting pressure from rising patient acuity, workforce shortages, and limited bed capacity. She highlights how AI is being embedded into EHR systems to support staff through summarization, workflow augmentation, and improved care transitions. With th...

Cybersecurity in healthcare is no longer about hacking systems; it’s about hacking trust. In this episode, Ryan Witt, Head of Healthcare Solutions at Proofpoint, discusses how healthcare cybersecurity is evolving toward protecting people rather than just systems, as attackers increasingly exploit trust through AI-driven social engineering. He explains Proofpoint’s approach to securing communication layers and preventing data loss from various user risk types. Witt highlights the rapid adoptio...

What does it take to lead cybersecurity well in healthcare when the stakes are operational, personal, and tied to patient safety? In this episode, Skip Sorrels, Field CTO and CISO at Claroty, reflects on the lessons that shaped his career across healthcare cybersecurity and leadership. He shares how early mistakes taught him never to underestimate threats, why preparation matters most when teams are under pressure, and how playbooks, tabletop exercises, and strong relationships help organizat...

What if the patients with the most data are the ones least able to protect it, or advocate for themselves? In this episode, Sri Bharadwaj, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Officer at Longevity Health Plans, explains how Longevity Health uses data analytics and AI to improve care for elderly patients in skilled nursing facilities. By tracking activities of daily living, his team identifies early warning signs and intervenes before conditions worsen, often preventing hospitalizatio...

What if the key to fixing healthcare innovation isn’t more technology, but better partnerships and smarter leadership models? In this episode, Stephanie Lahr, an internal medicine physician and healthcare executive, shares her journey from practicing internal medicine to health system leadership and now fractional executive work across healthcare technology companies. She explains how this model allows organizations, especially early-stage ones, to access experienced leadership without the co...

What if your security platform could warn you about a cyberattack before it even happens? In this episode, Ty Greenhalgh, Healthcare Technology Strategist for Armis, explains how the company is evolving beyond medical device security by integrating AI-driven capabilities for early threat detection, code analysis, and automated remediation. Their platform can predict cyberattacks up to 30 days in advance, identify vulnerabilities in AI-generated code, and assign ownership of issues to accelera...

Healthcare has long accepted a false tradeoff: better security means worse clinician experience, but what if you could have both? In this episode, Dr. Sean Kelly, Chief Medical Officer and the SVP of Customer Healthcare Strategy at Imprivata, discusses the need to eliminate the tradeoff between cybersecurity and clinician experience by making secure behaviors the easiest option through passwordless technologies like facial biometrics and passkeys. He emphasizes that clinicians don’t resist te...