HumanifAI HealthTech

70 to 80% of the global population lives with a known chronic disease. Most of them won't know something is wrong until symptoms appear, often years after the biology has already shifted. Dr. Guru Banavar, Founding CTO of Viome, joins host Brian Chee on HumanifAI HealthTech to break down how Viome's molecular AI reads RNA from gut, blood, and saliva samples to detect biological dysfuncti...

More than 200 rural hospitals have closed since 2010. Rural Americans face half the number of primary care doctors, an eighth the number of specialists, and mortality rates that are 23% higher than their urban counterparts. Dr. Jennifer Schneider, Co-Founder and CEO of Homeward Health, joins host Brian Chee on HumanifAI HealthTech to break down how Homeward built an AI-native, value-based care mod...

84% of health insurers now use AI across prior authorization, utilization management, and disease management. When that AI is working from outdated or ungoverned information, it doesn't hesitate. It answers anyway. Steve Pappas, Head of Innovation at eGain, joins host Brian Chee to break down why knowledge drift is more dangerous than model drift in a healthcare contact center, and how organi...

Clinicians spend roughly two hours on administrative tasks for every one hour of direct patient care. The tools to fix that exist. Getting them into the workflow is where everything breaks down. Oron Afek, Co-Founder and CEO of Vim, joins host Brian Chee to break down why workflow integration remains the single biggest barrier to AI adoption in healthcare, and how Vim is building the infrastructur...

Every patient carries roughly 1,000 pages of medical history. On average, their doctor sees less than half of it before they walk in the room. Carm Huntress, Founder and CEO of Credo, joins host Brian Chee to break down why decades of digitization still left medical records fragmented across hundreds of incompatible systems, and how Credo is using AI to turn that mountain of unstructured data into...

90% of clinical trials fail today at the same rate they did 30 years ago. Medicine has kept treating patients as populations while their biology has always been telling a more personal story. Dr. Jenny Yang, co-founder and CEO of Outpost Bio, joins host Brian Chee to break down how combining lab-grown human microbiomes with AI could finally close the gap between what medicine predicts and what ind...

Most AI in healthcare never reaches a patient. Not because the technology fails, but because no one translated it into something a clinician can actually use. Dr. Sanjay Juneja, a triple board certified hematologist, oncologist, and VP of Clinical AI Operations at Tempus AI, joins host Francesca Vereb to break down why data quality determines whether AI succeeds or quietly fails patients, and what...

Every day in healthcare, a referral goes out, and a patient disappears. Into the fax. Into the queue. Into someone's pile. The specialist never calls back. The primary care doctor never hears what happened. And the patient is left in limbo wondering if they’ve been forgotten. Trey Holterman, Co-Founder and CEO of Tennr, watched his mother, a physician's assistant, live with this for year...

Physical therapy is facing the perfect storm: a workforce stretched thin by a shortage of more than twelve thousand physical therapists and a demand curve that’s booming faster than most practices can keep pace with. Add to that a wave of AI tools rapidly moving into clinical workflows and the profession is navigating more change, faster, than at any point in its history. Justin Moore, CEO, Americ...

The EHR was supposed to fix healthcare. Instead, it created a new crisis, one that burns out the very clinicians it was meant to help. Today, a leader from Google Cloud is here to show us what it actually looks like when AI finally delivers on that original promise. Shweta Maniar, Global Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences Solutions & Strategy, Google Cloud, joins HumanifAI HealthTech t...

For decades, getting paid in healthcare meant an army of billers fighting a war of attrition against payers…claim by claim, denial by denial. But what if AI could end that war before it starts? Today, the CEO who bootstrapped her company from a kitchen table after watching AI fail from the inside is here to show us what it looks like when the clinician, the platform, and the payment finally talk t...

2025 was the year healthcare AI flooded the market with pilots, press releases, and big predictions. At JPMorgan Conference the storyline for 2026 was heard loud and clear: it’s time for AI solutions to prove real impact or step aside. Friend of the show and occasional co-host, Dr. Geeta Nayyar, Physician, Technologist, and Author, joins host Francesca Vereb to discuss the AI trends separating rea...

AI in healthcare is full of promises. Very few people can tell you how to keep them.  Today, a leader from a company at the forefront of the AI boom is here to show us what responsible, human-centered AI actually looks like in practice. And that company is none other than Microsoft.  Dr. David Rhew. Global Chief Medical Officer & VP, Microsoft Healthcare joins host Francesca Vereb to discuss w...

AI hype is everywhere in healthcare, but beneath the noise, many organizations are achieving significant, life-changing impact. Today, we’re exploring what it takes to get from PoC to ROI. In this episode of the HumanifAI Healthtech Podcast,  we’re tackling the question everyone’s asking about enterprise healthcare AI: how do you move from pilots to real, scalable practice? Eric Grover, Chief Tech...

AI is reshaping healthcare at a pace few industries can match, but speed without responsibility can break more than it fixes. In this episode, Net Health’s VP of Information Security, Keavy Murphy, explains why responsible AI isn’t optional. From protecting PHI to building transparent systems and keeping clinicians firmly in the loop, she reveals what it really takes for healthcare organizations t...

AI is everywhere in healthcare headlines. But how much of it is hype, and how much is real?  In the premiere episode of HumanifAI HealthTech, Dr. Geeta Nayyar and host Francesca Vereb (SVP of Marketing, Net Health), cut through the noise to uncover how AI is already changing healthcare - clinically, commercially, and everywhere in between. 📄 Read Our Report, "AI as a Strategic Cornerstone: T...