Healthcare NOW Radio

Join host Beth Friedman and Dr. Alex Ding, Chief Medical and Public Affairs Officer at DataSpring, for a conversation on the state of provider data, its impact across the ecosystem, and the path toward industry standardization. Dr. Ding breaks down why provider data matters, how industry leaders are convening to build unified standards, and how eliminating administrative friction directly benefits...

How do you know whether your healthtech company needs a classic demand gen campaign or a full ABM program? On this episode host Adam Turinas is joined by his colleague Paul Vandre, Account Director and Digital Marketing Specialist at Health Launchpad. Paul has two decades of experience in digital marketing, spending more than five years building paid media strategy for about 30 Health Launchpad cl...

Revenue Cycle Management and the Role of AI with Ritesh Ramesh On this episode host Tome Foley invites Ritesh Ramesh the CEO of MDaudit to discuss the recent benchmark report, highlighting trends such as payer reimbursement pressures, the strategic importance of revenue integrity, and the increasing use of AI to drive operational efficiency and ROI. Ritesh emphasizes that AI should be used with hu...

Why hasn't a decade of value-based care bent the cost curve? On this episode host Fred Goldstein talks with David Muhlestein, PhD, JD, founder and CEO of Simple Healthcare, about the variable health reform has largely left alone: price. Drawing on years of ACO research and on federal price transparency data, Muhlestein explains how the same provider can be paid very different amounts for the same...

Dr. Nick and Dr. Craig discuss a range of topics including: (1) vaccines, COVID and flu shots may come with a rough day, but there's a payoff reducing the risk of serious illness, hospitalization and worse; (2) AI-enabled documentation can capture care that was previously missed, but there’s a fine line between accurate coding and genuine upcoding; (3) whenever technology creates new revenue oppor...

Medical Device Security: From Alert to Action On this episode host Jessica Davis invites Tara Lansing-Deis, Principal Security Consultant of First Health Advisory to talk about tactical, reactive approaches to medical device security in the clinical setting, as well as training needs for health tech management teams. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www. HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Sma...

Is Healthcare Vulnerable to Runaway AI? To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www. HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. 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

Host Adam Russo invites Keith Smith, M.D, Medical Director at Surgery Center of Oklahoma to discuss transparent healthcare pricing and market-driven reforms. Dr. Smith discusses the founding of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma and its pioneering approach to posting all-inclusive, bundled prices online, which initially faced skepticism but eventually led to increased quality and lower costs in the lo...

On this episode Jim welcomes Mitesh Kumar (SVP of Claims) and Christian Bass (SVP of Payment Integrity) of Sagility, a technology-led healthcare operations partner for payers and providers. Kumar and Bass provide insight into the challenges and solutions of modern day claim payment. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www. HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW...

What does leadership look like as healthcare’s digital transformation continues to accelerate? On this episode of Talking the Walk, host Tom Testa sits down with Calli Dretke, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Marketing Officer at CHIME, for a preview of CHIME26 Fall Forum, taking place November 11–14 in Denver Dretke shares what makes Fall Forum unique, what attendees can expect from...

Securing the Machine Workforce: Identity, Zero Trust, and the Recovery Plan for When It Still Goes Wrong with Ben Smith of SailPoint Zero trust sounds simple until you try to implement it in a hospital where clinicians share devices, legacy systems can't be segmented, patients access care virtually across state lines, and AI agents are multiplying faster than you can inventory them. Add ambient AI...

Reverification at Radiology Scale For a high-volume radiology organization, reverification involves more than running eligibility a second time. This episode explores how to identify the right appointments, time the work appropriately, and respond when updated coverage changes the patient estimate, network status, or prior authorization requirements. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www. Heal...

Tiffany Laurenz, Vice President of IT Delivery Operations, McLaren Health Care discusses: Lessons from McLaren Health Care on Delivering Healthcare IT That Works 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

On this episode guest host Steve Kheloussi, PharmD, MBA, FAMCP, welcomes returning guest Dr. Arash Mostaghimi, MD, MPA, MPH, Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and Vice Chair of Clinical Trials and Innovation and Director of the Dermatology Inpatient Service at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, to discuss the rapidly evolving treatment landscape for alopecia areata. Once a co...

Adam Cherrington Talks Trust Math & Patient Workarounds Adam Cherrington returns to point out examples where he’s seeing the voice of patients and consumers being included in healthcare and other trends he’s spotting in his recent advisory work.  All that, plus a recap of the July Think Tank chat about the one-year anniversary of the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem.  Find all of our network podcasts...

Med Spa Medical Directors: Know Your Role, Know Your Risk Host Ericka Adler is joined by Roetzel attorney Melissa Cuddington to discuss the role of medical directors in med spas, and the responsibilities physicians take on when serving in this position. Melissa and Ericka discuss important considerations surrounding med spa ownership, supervision, scope of practice and compliance, as well as the r...

If you skipped every healthtech conference this year, this episode is your catch-up call. On this episode host Adam Turnias talks to Colin Hung, Editor-in-Chief at Swaay. Health and Healthcare IT Today, who is on pace to attend 50 conferences in 2026, roughly one a week, which means he sees more vendor pitches and more buyer conversations than almost anyone else in this industry. Adam asked him wh...

On the this episode Daniel Marino sits down with Emily Brower, President and CEO of the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS), to explore what the upcoming CMS changes mean for healthcare organizations and the future of accountable care. As CMS continues to refine its approach to value-based care, healthcare organizations face critical decisions about how to participate in accountable care models....

On this episode Justin invites Hal Wolf, President & CEO of HIMSS, a global advisor and thought leader supporting the transformation of the health ecosystem through information and technology. HIMSS (the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) is a mission-driven, independent non-profit society, a global thought leader, and an advisor dedicated to creating an informed and empowe...

S1E11: Using Events to Build Relationships and Move Deals On the episode host Shahid Shah addresses how events should focus on creating the conditions for trust and peer proof, rather than just generating leads or awareness. He advises companies to spend on small, intimate gatherings if they have product-market fit, and to listen more than pitch during these events. For buyers, he suggested priori...

Voices from Becker’s: What’s Really Changing in Revenue Cycle? Recorded at the Becker’s Health IT + RCM Conference in Chicago, this special episode brings together perspectives from interviews with healthcare leaders on patient access, AI, implementation, governance, and the challenges that continue to shape revenue cycle. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be...

On this episode Gil welcomes the physician co-founders of Lapsi Health, Diana van Stijn, MD, PhD (CMO) and Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades, MD (CEO), to explore how their FDA-cleared digital stethoscope, Keikku, that is redefining the clinical encounter. The conversation spans the origin story, volunteer medicine in the Peruvian mountains, to the cutting edge: ambient AI scribing, real-time murmur de...

On this episode host Matt Fisher interviews Dr. Art Papier, Co-Founder and CEO, VisualDx. They discuss the super power of AI as being able to contextualize questions and provide information, the important distinction between information and knowledge, explainability as essential component of AI for healthcare, risks and benefits for use of AI, and creating trust for AI in healthcare. Find all of o...

Building Purpose-Driven Organizations: Leadership, Culture, and the Unparalleled Promise of AI in Healthcare Russ Branzell, President and CEO of CHIME, sits down with Andy Smith, Managing Partner and Founder of Impact Advisors, for a candid conversation about leadership, culture, and what it takes to build organizations that thrive in periods of accelerated change. Andy shares perspectives on cult...

From transcription to ambient AI: Giving clinicians their time back On this episode, Davey Bowers, global business manager for clinician productivity solutions at Solventum, joins host Dr. Travis Bias to explore how documentation technology has evolved from traditional transcription to ambient AI powered by generative models. Davey explains why speech alone is no longer enough and how CDI and codi...