Health Innovation Matters

Michael chats with  Josh Howell,  Healthcare  Chief Technology Officer at Rubrik .   T ogether, they discuss the emergence of cyber resilience as a distinct field from cybersecurity, why cyberattacks are increasingly viewed as patient safety events, and how health systems can prepare to  maintain  care during cyber disruptions. Their conversation includes evolving strategies to defend against rans...

Michael chats with Max Mangum, Co-founder and CEO of Pivotal Health. Together, they discuss the purpose of the Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process under the No Surprises Act and why it was created to help ensure fair out-of-network reimbursement; the administrative and reimbursement challenges providers face when trying to participate in IDR; how growing administrative complexity is limit...

Michael chats  with  Chris Becker, President and CEO of  Bionix ® .   Together, they discuss   how  Bionix  has approached innovation in the ear, nose, and throat care space; persistent challenges facing family practices, pediatrics, and urgent care today;  how clinician expectations have evolved around visualization,  e fficiency ,  and the ability to complete more procedures directly in the   ex...

Michael chats  with  Dr.  Steven Falowski ,  Board-Certified Functional Neurosurgeon, President of Pennsylvania's Pain Society, and  Strategic  Advisor for  SynerFuse .   Together, they discuss   options for patient pain management, the prevalence of chronic back  pain , Steven's decision to get involved with  SynerFuse ,  the e-TLIF double  infusion  procedure ,  how  SynerFuse  is pairing neurom...

Michael chats  with  Dr.  Ken Heinrich,  Executive Vice  President  and Chief Medical Officer for   Emergency Medicine at SCP Health .   Together, they discuss   innovations and technologies used on The Pitt in the award-winning show's first two seasons, reflect on the pre-digital era in emergency medicine, how The Pitt portrays the use of AI in the hospital setting ,  what the show gets right abo...

Michael chats with Dr. Ryan Hungate, Chief Clinical and Strategy Officer at Henry Schein One. Together, they discuss Ryan's role at the company, the challenges Henry Schein One is solving across clinical workflows and revenue cycle management, and how integrated technology is reshaping dental practice operations. They also explore how AI and automation are improving efficiency, enhancing patient c...

Michael chats with Erik Johnson, Vice President of Marketing at Harmony Healthcare IT. Together, they discuss the company's recent priorities and milestones, how health systems are mitigating risk in data archiving while still driving innovation, and the ways legacy systems and data sprawl are quietly holding healthcare back. The conversation also explores how M&A activity and ERP migrations are r...

Michael chats with Jaya Tiwari, Senior Vice President of Global Medical Affairs at XVIVO. Together, they discuss today's organ transplant ecosystem, how organ transplants and preservation technology have evolved over time, remaining significant gaps between organ supply and demand and the transplant system, how XVIVO is expanding access and improving patient care in transplantation, what could be...

Michael sits down with Professor Rachel Dunscombe, the new CEO of HL7 International, to explore why data is at the center of healthcare's next chapter. Together, they discuss where AI is delivering real value today, the infrastructure and interoperability challenges holding it back, and what it will take for health systems to move from pilot programs to scalable impact. Rachel also shares her pers...

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Dr. Colin Banas, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst, and Jenna Hagan, Vice President of Product Marketing at NextGen Healthcare. Together, they discuss the significant scale of prescription abandonment, how DrFirst and NextGen Healthcare are addressing that issue, how prescribing workflow integration works inside NextGen's Enterprise EHR, how that engageme...

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Russell Teague, Chief Strategy and Security Officer of Fortified Health Security. Together, they discuss what's happening across the healthcare cybersecurity space right now; how the healthcare threat environment has evolved recently; trends in detection, containment, and overall impact of cyber incidents; how healthcare leaders are thinking about readin...

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Dr. Joel Salamon, Medical Director of Pain Management at ModMed. Together, they discuss ModMed's products and services, how they differ from other software providers, why specialty-specific software is critical in healthcare and how it differs from general-purpose AI solutions, how customers are using ModMed's tools, feedback from customers in the pain m...

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Dan McDonald, Co-Founder and CEO of 86Borders. Together, they discuss the impetus for starting 86Borders, what actually drives meaningful engagement with health plans, why members often struggle to connect with health plans, why human connection is important amid the automated outreach landscape, how Dan measures success for members and health plans, and...

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Michael Meucci, President and CEO of Arcadia. Together, they discuss Arcadia's role in the healthcare ecosystem, the biggest gaps between what vendors are promising and what organizations can operationalize, what accountable AI looks like in practice, the most common AI execution failures, what infrastructure must be in place to scale AI responsibly, and...

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Dr. Rihan Javid, President and Co-Founder of Edge and Rinova AI . Together, they discuss the shift from clinical to administrative in healthcare's workforce crisis; Edge's recent survey findings on administrative workflows, compliance, revenue cycles, scheduling, and documentation; risks surrounding administrative backlogs; healthcare's struggles to find...

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Jim Jacobs, President and CEO of MediQuant. Together, they discuss MediQuant's role in the healthcare ecosystem, problems the company is solving for CIOs and clinical leaders, how clinical summaries and AI change the way legacy data supports care, why it's important for health systems to think about applications and archived data together, and much more....

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Eric Clauss, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at OmniTrust. Together, they discuss "hidden" security gaps in connected medical devices, how manufacturers should think about trust across the full device life cycle, what a secure update program looks like for medical devices, areas in which hospitals and manufacturers may disagree when it comes...

Recorded live at HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael sits down with Sagnik Bhattacharya, CEO of Rhapsody, about the infrastructure healthcare needs to support the next wave of AI innovation. Together, they discuss the debut of Rhapsody Axon, the industry's growing shift toward agent-driven workflows, why solving interoperability challenges remains essential to scaling AI across clinical and operational sy...

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Nihal Titan, Vice President of Claim. MD. Together, they discuss the role of clearinghouses in healthcare, the impact of the Change Healthcare cyber attack on the industry, what that attack led providers to realize about their billing infrastructure, what "strategic redundancy" is and why it's important in healthcare billing, blind spots in revenue cycle...

Michael chats with David Cottingham, President of rf IDEAS. Together, they discuss how health systems can protect themselves from the rising threat of cyber attacks, especially in the fast-paced age of AI; how more secure authentication methods can transform healthcare workflows; how rf IDEAS   empowers organizations across industries to elevate efficiency while simplifying security; and much more...

From ViVE 2026 in Los Angeles, Michael chats with Conrad Gudmundson, Chief Commercial Officer at Lucem Health about how health systems are navigating growing financial and operational pressure, and where AI is beginning to make a measurable difference. Together, they discuss why organizations are partnering with Lucem to invest in earlier risk identification, what some health leaders may be undere...

From ViVE 2026 in Los Angeles, Michael chats with John Kirkman, Vice President of Government, Healthcare, and Education at Island. Together, they discuss how CIOs and CISOs can show that their approach to AI governance is working; the playbook for securing AI-assisted workflows; overcoming the biggest "shadow AI" risk today; how CIOs are modernizing their systems while still relying on essential l...

From ViVE 2026 in Los Angeles, Michael chats with Rafiq Ahmed, CEO and Co-founder of Serif Health. Together, they discuss how Rafiq uncovered the need to make healthcare pricing more transparent; his vision amid launching Serif Health and price transparency regulation; why price transparency data lacks accessibility; what's at stake if organizations aren't taking advantage of good transparency dat...

From ViVE 2026 in Los Angeles, Michael chats with Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, Chief Strategy Officer at DirectTrust. Together, they discuss DirectTrust's role in healthcare interoperability and trust; the biggest trust and interoperability challenges healthcare organizations are facing today; how the conversation around security and identity has shifted recently; how trust and governance fit into...

From ViVE 2026 in Los Angeles, Michael chats with Kassaundra McKnight-Young, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Zebra Technologies. Together, they discuss how Kassaundra's frontline clinical experience has shaped her approach to innovation at Zebra; workflow and patient safety challenges facing clinicians today; key features of Zebra's DS82-HC handheld scanner; how doctors, nurses, and other cli...