Episodes

AI is moving faster than healthcare governance can keep up, and that’s a problem. In this episode, Dr. Hamed Abbaszadegan, an internal medicine–trained physician and clinical informatics leader known as “The AI MD”, talks about the urgent need for effective AI governance in healthcare. He explains why traditional governance structures fall short and require more diverse, technically skilled teams. He also explores how improving data quality is unlocking better decision-making and new AI use c...

Imagine a healthcare system where patient data from thousands of providers seamlessly comes together to improve care in real time. In this episode, Inderpal Kohli, Chief Technology Officer at Healthix, discusses the transformation of a large New York Health Information Exchange (HIE) into a data intelligence organization, managing data from 9,000 entities and 27,000 physicians. He highlights the challenge posed by messy, disparate data and the importance of normalizing and building trust to p...

What if the real problem in healthcare isn’t clinical care, but everything that happens before it? In this episode, Aditya Bansod, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Luma Health, shares how his team is using operational AI to simplify how patients access care, focusing on everything outside the exam room. He explains a shift from point solutions like scheduling tools to outcome-driven models, in which AI agents coordinate across workflows to ensure patients complete their care journey...

What if the biggest breakthrough in healthcare isn’t happening at the bedside, but on the phone? In this episode, Dr. Erin Palm, Medical Lead at Infinitus Systems, shares how AI-powered communication agents are transforming healthcare by automating phone interactions with payers, providers, and patients to reduce delays and errors. She explains how structured protocols, agent supervision, and human-led audits ensure safety and clinical quality as these systems scale. Drawing from her experien...

What if the very technologies meant to reduce physician burnout are actually making it worse? In this episode, Dr. Jay Anders shares his journey from practicing internal medicine to becoming CMO at Medicomp, driven by early involvement in health IT and a desire to improve clinical systems. He discusses how his organization is cautiously leveraging AI, particularly voice-enabled commands powered by LLMs, while focusing on minimizing errors, such as hallucinations, to ensure reliability. From a...

What if one of healthcare’s biggest expenses is something most executives barely even know exists? In this episode, Greg Miller, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Carta Healthcare, explains how hospitals spend billions on manual clinical data abstraction and how his company uses AI combined with clinical expertise to automate and improve this process. He emphasizes the importance of “hybrid intelligence,” where AI and human validation work together to ensure high-quality data for co...

AI is everywhere in healthcare right now, but many leaders are still trying to figure out what it actually means for their organizations. In this conversation at ViVE 2026, Cambrey Ware, Chief Commercial Officer at Censinet, shares what she’s hearing from health system leaders about AI, highlighting widespread confusion, mixed adoption strategies, and the growing need for governance. She reflects on how she unexpectedly entered healthcare through technology sales and built a career driven by ...

Are you ready to rethink resilience in healthcare IT? In this episode, Andrea Steele, Healthcare IT and business intelligence executive, talks about building resilience, preparing for system downtime, and the evolving role of AI in healthcare. She emphasizes the importance of proactively testing business continuity and disaster recovery plans and ensuring cross-departmental collaboration and operational buy-in. Steele also shares insights on navigating shadow AI, securing sensitive data, and ...

As healthcare moves beyond the hype of AI, organizations are discovering that success depends just as much on governance, security, and people as it does on the technology itself. In this episode, Steven Ramirez, Chief Information Security & Technology Officer (CISTO) for Renown Health, discussed how healthcare organizations are moving beyond AI hype and focusing on practical implementation, governance, and adoption. Renown has prioritized early use cases, such as Microsoft Copilot, while emp...

AI doesn’t need its own strategy; it should support the strategy you already have. In this episode, Linda Stevenson, Chief Operations and Chief Digital Information Officer at Fisher-Titus Health, discusses how rural health systems can thoughtfully integrate AI to strengthen financial performance and expand community access to care. She explains why strong data foundations and vendor partnerships are essential for smaller hospitals adopting AI. She also shares how Fisher-Titus is using AI to red...

AI doesn’t need its own strategy; it should support the strategy you already have. In this episode, Linda Stevenson, Chief Operations and Chief Digital Information Officer at Fisher-Titus Health, discusses how rural health systems can thoughtfully integrate AI to strengthen financial performance and expand community access to care. She explains why strong data foundations and vendor partnerships are essential for smaller hospitals adopting AI. She also shares how Fisher-Titus is using AI to r...

AI governance is becoming the difference between deploying safely at speed and getting stuck in endless review cycles. In this episode, Dennis Chornenky, Founder and CEO of Dome Labs AI, joins Ed Gaudet to break down why large enterprises, especially healthcare and government, struggle to adopt emerging tech even when everyone agrees it matters. Dennis shares lessons from his path through finance, telehealth, the White House, and UnitedHealth Group’s first Chief AI Officer role, then explains...

Healthcare labs are overloaded, under-recognized, and still running on manual workarounds, and biology-inspired AI can help change that. In this episode, Julian Wilkison-Duran, founder of Astor Mind, shares his path from caregiver to clinical lab science to software, and why he’s now building a different kind of AI, one designed to be more transparent, domain-specific, and accessible (even running on a consumer laptop). Julian breaks down the day-to-day realities inside hospital labs, from in...

Cybersecurity compliance isn’t about checklists; it’s about trust, maturity, and building businesses that can withstand real-world risk. In this episode, Chris Johnson, Senior Director of Cybersecurity Compliance Programs for GTIA, discusses the evolution of cybersecurity compliance and what it truly means for MSPs and the broader IT services ecosystem. He shares his unconventional path into IT — from entrepreneurship to burnout in high-stakes risk assessments, to leading IT for a school dist...

When a nation-state attack turns theory into reality, security leadership is tested in ways no playbook can fully prepare you for. In this episode, Tim Brown, Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Security for SolarWinds, reflects on his journey from security product builder to frontline CISO during one of the most consequential supply-chain attacks in history. He shares firsthand lessons from the SolarWinds breach, including how incident response plans held up under unprecedented scal...

AI is no longer a future concept in oncology; it’s becoming a necessity. In this episode, Dan Nardi, CEO of Reimagine Care, talks about how AI-driven virtual cancer care is reshaping healthcare delivery and rapidly becoming the standard of care. He explains how rising patient volumes, clinician shortages, and burnout are pushing providers to adopt AI to bridge the widening supply–demand gap in oncology. Nardi shares how Reimagine Care has supported over 10,000 patients, reduced avoidable ER v...

Why do so many organizations invest in technology but overlook leadership in security? In this episode, M.K. Palmore, the founder and principal advisor at Apogee Global, talks about building a people-centered approach to cybersecurity, physical security, and leadership advisory for growing organizations. He shares how his experience across the FBI, Marines, and Silicon Valley shaped his mission to bring enterprise-level security expertise to small and mid-sized organizations without Big Four ...

The endocannabinoid system could become a platform as consequential as GLP-1s, starting with non-addictive, disease-modifying therapies for women’s health and chronic pain. In this episode, Caitlyn Krebs discusses how generative AI is accelerating the design of oral small molecules that target CB1 and CB2 receptors for pain, inflammation, and endometriosis. She breaks down why today’s endometriosis treatments often force patients into intolerable tradeoffs, how AI helps optimize and prioritiz...

Medical imaging AI is shifting from narrow, single-task tools to foundation models, and that shift will demand better access to standardized, privacy-safe data. In this episode, Martin Willemink, co-founder and chief scientific officer of a medical imaging data startup, discusses how hospitals can securely de-identify and standardize imaging datasets so researchers can search, filter, and learn from real-world scans. He also shares founder lessons on pivots, fundraising, dilution, and what ac...

Want to take control of your health before it’s too late? In this episode, Hunter Ziesing, co-founder and Head of Partnerships at Longevity Health, discusses how his company leverages data, AI, and personalized care to enhance longevity and prevent disease. He shares his journey from Wall Street to cancer advocacy, culminating in the creation of a virtual clinic that combines comprehensive testing, longitudinal health tracking, and expert care teams. Hunter also explains how AI, paired with d...

AI only works when it’s tied to real business outcomes, governed responsibly, and built on clean internal data, not hype. In this episode, Will Conaway, healthcare technology executive and AI advisor, rejoins the podcast and discusses his shift from large enterprise leadership into consulting and what he’s seeing as organizations rush into AI. He breaks down what clients should have ready before starting: clear definitions, realistic expectations, measurable metrics, and honesty about what is...

AI is no longer optional in healthcare or law; it’s becoming a defining line between those who adapt and those who fall behind. In this episode, Carrie Nixon, Founder and Managing Partner of Nixon Law Group, discusses the rapid rise of AI in healthcare and legal services, exploring its implications for innovation, regulation, and the future workforce. She explains how AI is most powerful when used to solve complex, multi-variable problems rather than simple contract tasks. Carrie also shares ...

Cost optimization through application decommissioning is one of the largest untapped financial levers in healthcare today. In this episode, Jason Rose breaks down how healthcare systems can reduce operating costs, eliminate redundant applications, lower cyber risk, and repurpose decades of clinical and financial data. He explains why cost containment has become the top priority for healthcare leaders, how application rationalization delivers massive ROI, and how data enablement supports longi...

What if the key to stopping cyberattacks before they happen isn’t chasing malware, but outsmarting it with extreme network visibility and never-forgetting threat intelligence? In this episode, Tony Scott, CEO of Intrusion, explained that the company focuses on extreme network visibility, maintaining institutional memory of threats, and blocking malicious communications to prevent cyberattacks, including zero-day threats. He emphasized the importance of monitoring both inbound and outbound tra...