Health Innovation Matters

Michael chats with Rick Pinero, General Manager of W&H North America. Together, they discuss why W&H's Piezo & Drill Combination Console, the first FDA-cleared system in the U.S. that combines piezo technology and a surgical drill, is so significant for facial plastic and rhinoplasty surgery. They also dive into how the combined system solves issues for surgeons, including how it improves precisio...

Michael chats with Dr. Rohan Lall, Neurosurgeon and Medical Director of Community Neurosurgery for M Health Fairview. Together, they discuss Rohan's involvement in a key clinical trial for back pain treatment; what an e-TLIF procedure is and how patients and surgeons prep for it; achieving positive patient outcomes in robotic and other modern spinal surgeries; how SynerFuse, a Minneapolis-based me...

Michael chats with Parker Phillips, Chief Technology Officer at InStride Health. Together, they discuss InStride's care model and how the company's tech platform is built to support it; how the company's tech and model have evolved in concert; how the technology enhances care team collaboration and coordination; AI's role in InStride's platform and where it could be headed; ensuring behavioral car...

Michael chats with Tara Murphy, Vice President of Marketing at Channel Medsystems, Inc. Together, they discuss Tara's background and how she came into her role at the company; the commercialization of the company's flagship product, Cerene, an endometrial cryotherapy device; how market development, brand strategies, and patient engagement have fallen short over the years and how they're evolving;...

Michael chats with Dr. William Audeh, Chief Medical Officer at Agendia. Together, they discuss recent advancements in genomic testing for early-stage breast cancer, how Agendia's MammaPrint ® and BluePrint ® genomic assays go beyond answering the question of "chemo or no chemo," how decisions based on genomic insights offer improved precision in guiding treatment decisions for patients and their p...

Michael chats with Dr. Mike Teodorescu, CEO and Co-Founder of SurgiBox. Together, they discuss SurgiBox's mission and origin story; how its flagship SurgiField solution is portable, battery-powered, and guarantees a safe and clean surgical environment, and allows for the ability to perform surgery anywhere; the various scenarios and settings in which SurgiField could be used; how the company is ex...

Michael chats with Martin Price, Executive Chairman and CEO of HealthTrackRx. Together, they discuss how HealthTrackRx has transformed infectious disease testing with next-morning results, how the company has ensured its technology delivers on speed and accuracy for patients and providers, how its testing has influenced prescribing behavior and improved patient outcomes, balancing scaling operatio...

Michael chats with Elevsis Delgadillo, Senior Vice President of Customer Success at KeenStack. Together, they discuss KeenStack's AI-Powered Healthcare Referral Management Solution Powered by the ServiceNow AI Platform. Their discussion focuses on how the AI-powered solution has helped to overcome challenges with referral breakdowns, how KeenStack helps customers understand how to use AI in ways t...

Michael chats with Kathy Lee-Sepsick, CEO and Founder of Femasys. Together, they discuss the founding of Femasys and the products it offers, how Kathy has gone about raising capital for a women's health company despite a challenging lack of sector investment, the importance of gathering thorough safety data for regulatory approvals and commercialization, how Kathy envisions the global commercializ...

Michael chats with Russell Teague, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Fortified Health Security. Together, they discuss how the role of CISO is evolving amid today's cyber threat landscape and regulatory environment, areas in which healthcare needs to improve cyber resilience, why experience is so important in the clinical environment when selecting a vendor or SOC service partner, how C...

Michael chats with Tim Boyle, Director of Sales and Business Development at REVA Global Medical. Together, they discuss the biggest inefficiencies in medical practices that virtual assistants are uniquely positioned to solve, necessary steps providers should take to identify tasks to delegate to virtual assistants, REVA Global Medical's key safeguards to ensure clients remain compliant and keep pa...

Michael chats with Brandy Thompson, CEO and Co-Founder of benefitbay ® . Together, they discuss "broker-first" tech and the launch of benefitbay, direct carrier integrations for open enrollment, benefitbay's unique talent strategy and its measurable impact on the employee experience, how benefitbay has integrated ICHRA compliance and subsidy transparency into its UX, and much more. Connect with Br...

Michael chats with Anthony Romano, Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of ProfiHitch, about how his company is reshaping healthcare recruitment in Florida. They discuss how ProfiHitch enables job seekers to confidentially explore skills-based opportunities, how its unique Career Love Language feature creates more personalized and lasting matches, and why employers and staffing agencies are respond...

Michael chats with Jennifer Jones-McMeans, Divisional Vice President of Global Clinical Affairs at Abbott's cardiovascular business. Together, they discuss what peripheral artery disease (PAD) is, warning signs of PAD, how PAD affects patient life, how to prevent the disease, treatment options, and much more. Learn more about PAD, symptoms, risks, and treatments at PAD-info.com .

Michael chats with Robert-Jan (RJ) Verheggen, Co-founder and Global Growth Director at Klippa . Together, they discuss how Klippa's AI-powered automation processes can bolster healthcare operational functions, such as invoice handling; how AI is helping healthcare professionals combat staff shortages and focus on patient care; how Klippa is helping health systems overcome barriers to AI adoption;...

Michael chats with Dr. Michael Docktor, pediatric gastroenterologist, digital health innovator, and CEO of Dock Health. Together, they discuss how AI is reshaping the operational fabric of healthcare. Docktor unpacks common myths about AI's role in clinical settings, explains how Dock powers the invisible but critical workflows between systems, and explores how human-led, AI-supported operations c...

Michael chats with Max Silber, Vice President of Mobility and IoT at MetTel. Together, they discuss the role of copper-based landlines in today's daily hospital operations, transitioning those systems to digital alternatives, how MetTel is helping hospitals navigate those transitions, how hospitals can plan for modernization, and much more.

Michael chats with Zed Williamson, Founder and CEO of Physician Growth Accelerator. Together, they discuss constraints throttling a practice's revenue or capacity, Zed's neuroscience-based approach to patient acquisition and team alignment, the disconnect between what practices think they need and what they actually need, why traditional marketing tactics fall short for medical practices, and much...

In the final episode of our series with MedCerts, Michael chats with Jennifer Kolb, Vice President of Partnerships and Workforce Development at MedCerts, and Lauren Morency, BSN, RN, CNOR, RN Director of Perioperative Services at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. Together, they offer some background on SNHMC and Morency's varied role; MedCerts' mission and some of the organization's new partn...

Michael chats with  Elevsis Delgadillo , Senior Vice President of Customer Success at  KeenStack . Together, they discuss KeenStack's mission, how healthcare IT organizations support other organizations' digital transformations, how to foster successful IT change initiatives, how KeenStack expertise in implementing  ServiceNow 's AI-powered solutions enables digital transformation in healthcare, a...

Michael chats with Jay Volk, CEO of Weave Cloud Solutions. Together, they discuss how Weave is uniquely positioned to make an impact in the healthcare industry; how AI-powered Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) streamlines workflows and improves patient outcomes; what rise of AI means for the clinicians, administrative staff, and patients; and much more.

Michael chats with Dr. Colin Banas, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst. Together, they discuss automating and modernizing prior authorization workflows to speed access to critical drugs; challenges and opportunities in how providers, payers, and pharmacies share medication data and orchestrate prescription workflows across different systems; and advances in AI that can make a real difference for cli...

Michael chats with Dana Janssen, Chief Product Officer at MedCerts. Together, they discuss MedCerts new Professional Caregiver, Home Health Aide (HHA), and Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) program offerings and the industry challenges that led to their development; how these programs can help hospitals and nursing facilities address staffing shortages and reduce turnover; what sets these MedCerts...

Michael chats with Tom Liddell, CEO of Harmony Healthcare IT. Together, they discuss the impetus and development of ClearWay, Harmony's new AI platform designed to streamline clinical abstraction and submission workflows; how ClearWay is making a huge impact in time-savings for clinicians and patients alike; how AI-driven automation in healthcare continues to evolve; and much more.

Michael chats with Dr. Jennifer Hledik, Chief Operating Officer at SomaTX Design Inc., and Dr. Tom Andriacchi, President and Chairman of SomaTX Design Inc. Together, they discuss the impetus for developing KneeMo ® , a wearable, non-invasive, drug-free device designed to address knee pain and improve mobility. Jennifer and Tom dive into the technology behind KneeMo ® , how it allows people dealing...