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Direct Contracting Explained: How Northwell Direct Cut Employer Costs 20% | Nick Stefanizzi, CEO, Northwell Direct Every health system that considers selling directly to employers hits the same wall. The discounted rate lands on patients you may already have, and nobody can prove the trade works. Nick Stefanizzi says it does. He is the CEO of Northwell Direct, Northwell Health's for-profit direct-...

Healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure to improve access while balancing patient expectations, provider capacity, and operational complexity. On this episode host Daniel Marino is joined by healthcare access leaders Jon Fullerton and Jenny Hart to discuss what it takes to create a more coordinated and sustainable access strategy. The discussion highlights real-world barriers that o...

S1E10: The Challenges and Opportunities of Integrating AI into Health Systems On the episode host Shahid Shah addresses the difference between organizations that effectively implement AI and those that only create plans. The key to success is not the AI technology itself, but the organization's ability to identify and amplify its unique strengths, or "native alpha.". Shahid argues that health syst...

What if the diseases most likely to diminish your final decade of life were already detectable perhaps 10 to 20 years before you'd feel a single symptom? On this episode host and bestselling author Gil Bashe (Healing the Sick Care System) engages Dr. Julie Chen, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Radence, a precision medicine company built within RA Capital Management's healthcare incubator, to explore...

Defining elemental diet and medical nutrition; making an elemental diet more palatable to increase adherence; role of nutrition in health; evolving understanding of nutrition and impact on the body; payment coverage for elemental diet and medical nutrition.

The Medical Device Security Challange: Balancing Patient Safety, Risk, & Innovation On this episode host Jessica Davis invites Mike Kijewski, CEO of Medcrypt, to discuss progress in medical device security and continued pain points in the wake of regulatory shifts and resource and patch management challenges. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www. HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart D...

The Rural Health Transformation Program in Plain English Carrie Foote breaks down the Rural Health Transformation Program in plain English and shares how rural health clinics should be thinking about partnerships with hospitals, tech vendors, and state agencies.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Cityblock’s rumored acquisition of Homeward. How are the two primary care startups reportedly...

Jenna Hagan Chats with Signify Research About AI’s Role in the Future of Ambulatory Care Host Jenna Hagan, vice president of revenue cycle national sales at NextGen Healthcare, talks with Vlad Kozynchenko, senior market analyst for Signify Research. They discuss AI’s role in the future of ambulatory care and consider how forward-thinking healthcare organizations are moving from isolated AI solutio...

On this episode host Dr. Craig Joseph talks with Dr. Bart Kaczmarek family physician and healthcare innovator based in Windsor, Ontario. They discuss how Dr. Kaczmarek transformed a traditional paper-based family medicine practice into a highly efficient, team-driven care model that serves nearly 4,000 patients while maintaining same-day access. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite po...

Before You Reverify Eligibility for Anyone Reverification is more than rerunning eligibility. It is about knowing who needs attention, what changes matter, and what to do next. This episode shares a practical playbook for getting ahead of the process before coverage changes turn into delays, denials, or last-minute patient surprises. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platfo...

Stop Building That. A CIO's Test for Buy, Build, or Partner When Edmund Siy became chief information and technology officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health in May 2025, he told Becker's his opening move was cybersecurity and infrastructure, with AI to follow. Plenty of systems were pointing at pilots that year. He pointed at the plumbing. Fifteen months later the foundation is largely built and AI has...

On this episode co-creator and host Fred Goldstein, MS, President of Accountable Health, is joined by returning guest Nick van Terheyden, MD; (Dr. Nick) physician leader, digital health strategist, and veteran healthcare technology executive, for a candid, unscripted assessment of the AI gold rush sweeping healthcare. With every conference booth and startup pitch deck claiming AI-powered transform...

Why Healthcare Still Has a Paper Payment Problem Healthcare has made enormous progress in digitizing revenue cycle transactions, yet paper checks, remittances, and manual payment workflows remain surprisingly common. Host Stuart Newsome talks with Monte Sandler, COO of WebPT, about why these processes persist, where automation can reduce administrative work, and why modernizing the basics may some...

Three Decades and a Passion for Patient Access to Health Data On this episode host Tom Testa sits down with Lee Barrett, the new Executive Director for Carequality. Lee emphasizes his passion for patient access to health data and the importance of trust in the digital healthcare ecosystem. The discussion also covers the critical nature of trust, the challenges of digital identity and authenticatio...

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Ambient AI for Nurses: From Early Adopters to Standard Practice Ambient AI earned its early reputation in the exam room, easing physician documentation. The bigger opportunity, and the harder build, is nursing. Geri Hansen, Vice President of IS Applications at Baptist Health and an informatics nurse by training, joins Megan Antonelli to talk about what it really takes to move ambient AI for nurses...

Host Adam Russo invites Matt Rhenish, SVP, COO Health Plan Operations, Powering Healthtech to discuss the challenges and complexities of the healthcare industry. Adam and Matt share insights on the lack of education on healthcare costs in business schools, the emotional and personal nature of healthcare decisions, and the difficulty of implementing cost-saving solutions due to the diverse needs of...

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

From the Archive: Building an AI-First Marketing Team How do you build an AI-first marketing team from the ground up, and get legal, compliance, and a skeptical staff on board with you? On this encore episode host Adam Turinas chats Nick Panayi, recorded when he was CMO at Inovalon. They go deep on how he and his digital marketing lead, Chris Marin, put an AI-first mindset into practice across eve...

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 mode...

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

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 pivek...

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 p...

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 f...

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 s...