Digital Health Leaders Podcast

On this week’s Leader to Leader podcast episode, Russ Branzell, President & CEO of CHIME, discusses how to create a thriving workforce with Andy Smith, CFCHE, Managing Partner and Founder of Impact Advisors. Andy has a 30+ year career in the industry and Impact Advisors was recently recognized as the #2 best place to work by Consulting Magazine.   Together, they review the state of the industr...

Artificial intelligence has been around for years, so why is the health tech community suddenly abuzz about it? Because there’s a new type of AI known as “generative AI”, and it’s shaking up the world as we know it.   Russ Branzell, President & CEO of CHIME, sits down with Sumit Ganguli, CEO, GS Lab | GAVS Technologies, to chat (no pun intended) Chat GPT and other forms of generative AI. What...

Burnout is having a major negative impact in healthcare, and this issue is global. Russ Branzell, President & CEO of CHIME, meets with BJ Schaknowski, CEO of symplr and proud Georgia Bulldog, to address tackling burnout through technology.   While most organizations are dedicated to patient care, symplr is focused on the healthcare worker. Their goals include helping the overworked healthcare...

Health systems are under constant attack and breaches are catastrophic. Russ Branzell, President & CEO of CHIME, meets with Carter Groome, CHIME Board Member and CEO of First Health Advisory, to discuss the critical needs in cybersecurity today.   Together, they talk cybersecurity technology, challenges, regulations, and patient safety regarding “connected” medical devices. Carter shares his v...

During this Leader to Leader podcast episode, Russ Branzell meets with Trent Sanders, Vice President, US Healthcare & Life Sciences, Kyndryl, to talk about how to turn healthcare challenges into opportunities. Trent describes what he sees as healthcare’s top three challenges today as well as Kyndryl’s mission of helping individual health systems drive quality care. Russ and Trent discuss healt...

On this week’s Leader to Leader podcast episode, Russ Branzell quizzes iMethod’s CEO, Clint Drawdy, about his take on the workforce challenges plaguing healthcare today. They talk top challenges, how to solve them, predictions on the future of healthcare and the workforce, as well as how to retain top talent. Tune in to learn more on iMethods' views on the workforce crisis and learn from this...

On today's podcast episode: Russ Branzell, CHIME President & CEO  Daniel Nigrin, MD, CHCIO, CDH-E 

On today’s Trailblazers episode, Russ welcomes to the podcast booth Dr. Stacey Johnston, Vice President and Chief Applications Officer for Baptist Health, and current AEHADA Board Chair. Together, they discuss AEHIA’s rebranding to AEHADA and what’s on the horizon for CHIME’s applications- and data & analytics-focused association. They also tackle the reason AEHADA came to be as well as Dr. Jo...

On this week’s Trailblazers episode, Russ welcomes CHIME CIO of the Year, Theresa Meadows, and CHIME’s own resident cybersecurity expert, David Finn, to talk all things cybersecurity! Both esteemed guests recently received recognition through the Baldrige Foundation, and they share what this recognition means to them personally and professionally. Discussions on recent cybersecurity "battles&...

This week, Russ Branzell is joined on the Trailblazers podcast by three esteemed female healthcare leaders: Novlet P. Mattis, Senior Vice President and CDIO, Orlando Health, Sarah Richardson, Senior Vice President and CDIO, Tivity Health, and Anika Gardenhire, Chief Digital Officer, Centene Corporation. They talk women at work with a focus on gender equity, the lack of women in healthcare leadersh...

Join Russ Branzell and three special guests as they explore how healthcare providers can harness the power of technology to bridge the equity gap in patient care. Discover how technology, when used effectively, has the potential to close disparities and ensure equitable access to quality healthcare. Hear from industry experts, including Andrea Daugherty, CISSP, Head of Digital Health, SHI Internat...

In today's episode, host Russ Branzell welcomes two distinguished members, Chani Cordero, CIO at Brooke Army Medical Center, and Rusty Yeager, SVP, CIO and Head of Design and Construction at Encompass Health. These esteemed guests have not only served the digital health industry but also their country as members of the armed forces. They discuss how their military careers shaped their leadersh...

In this episode of our CIO Trailblazers Podcast, host Russ Branzell is joined by two distinguished representatives from the CHIME Board of Trustees Freshman class: Tressa Springmann, CIO of LifeBridge Health, and Terri Couts, SVP and CDO of The Guthrie Clinic.   Tune in as they delve into the workforce challenges that many healthcare providers are currently facing and explore the potential of comb...

The Next Generation of Digital Health Transformation On this episode of our CIO Trailblazers podcast, join Russ Branzell and special guest, Matthew Kull, CIO at the Cleveland Clinic, as they discuss how digital transformation in healthcare can help organizations become nimbler in the face of evolving business models and tightening budget constraints.     Also hear insight from Matthew on his bigge...

In the inaugural episode of CHIME's New Trailblazers Series, join Russ Branzell as he embarks on a captivating and thought-provoking conversation with Danielle Rodriguez, Sr. Director of Customer Excellence at Baptist Health, and Aaron Miri, Senior VP, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Baptist Health. Together, they dive deep into their transformative experiences at the CHIME CIO Bootca...

Leader to Leader: Managing Digital Infrastructure L2L Podcast Interview • Russ Branzell, CHIME President & CEO • Rick Shepardson, our Chief Strategy Officer

Health care organizations continually face evolving cyberthreats that can put patient safety at risk. While awareness around these issues has drastically improved, the need for a zero trust in healthcare will be crucial moving forward given the sector’s staffing gaps, limited resources, and other challenges. CHIME sat down with Imprivata President and CEO, Gus Malezis, to dig deeper into how zero...

The pandemic highlighted systemic weaknesses in healthcare systems around the globe. At Oracle’s CloudWorld event, we heard that the healthcare sector was a pillar for the company’s future. One year into the acquisition, CHIME sat down with Oracle Health Chairman, David Feinberg, M.D., to reflect on the last year, highlight customer expectations through the transition, and understand just how clos...

Matt Roberts is the practice lead at Juniper Networks focused on sales and business development in the healthcare provider segment. Matt chats with host Russ Branzell about Juniper Network’s focus on building better networks. By taking a holistic approach, looking at infrastructure and intentional network design, you can ensure that you build a network capable of delivering new insights, automatio...

Russ Branzell interviews Brian Fugere, Chief Product Officer at symplr. Brian has over 30 years of go-to-market experience in software companies. Brian leads product management, user experience design, and strategy efficiency at symplr. He explains the challenge at healthcare organizations today of managing literally hundreds of disparate systems from hundreds of different vendors. The mission of...

In today's episode, CHIME President and CEO Russ Branzell sits down with Taylor McPartland, CEO of ScaleHealth, an organization that is making waves in the Digital Health industry by providing a marketplace for health solutions. Russ and Taylor discuss how ScaleHealth is de-risking working with start-ups to accelerate health innovation. This episode is a follow-up to the virtual showcase host...

Leader to Leader: Unlocking the Digital Front Door to Improve Patient Care & Provider Efficiency The Covid-19 pandemic forced patients and providers to turn to digital solutions when they may not otherwise have done so. This has led to the digital transformation of today in which providers are attempting to balance patient care with digital efficiency and are sometimes struggling with it. Russ...

CHIME 30th Anniversary Podcast: John Glaser Interviews Russ Branzell On Leadership In our final 30th Anniversary podcast episode, the man who started it all, including helping found CHIME and envisioning the formal role of CIO, reflects on what’s happened during the last 30 years and what’s coming in the next 30 years. From before Google and Amazon to the conversations of today about AI and digita...

CHIME 30th Anniversary Podcast: Leadership with John Glaser In this special 30th Anniversary podcast episode, Russ Branzell and John Glaser wind back the clock to 1992 when John became CHIME’s very first Board Chair. Currently Executive in Residence at Harvard Medical School, John shares insights into what it means to be a leader in health IT in 1992 and through to today. “Godfather” John hel...

During this informative CHIME Foundation Leader to Leader episode, CHIME President and CEO, Russ Branzell, and Tegria’s Managing Director, Anders Brown discuss the universal pain points in healthcare and how to balance day-to-day realities while moving forward with digital transformation. In addition to discussing how to make healthcare feel more human, Anders and Russ also touch on how the innova...