Healthcare NOW Radio

On this special solo episode host Fred Goldstein, MS, President of Accountable Health LLC, takes listeners on an unexpected journey, from childhood dreams of shark research to a frontline role in restoring one of America's most biodiverse and imperiled waterways: Florida's Indian River Lagoon. Drawing on his population health expertise, Fred applies his proven "Select, Segment, Solve, Score" frame...

On this episode, host Justin Barnes shares a conversation with Tony Nunes, Sr. Manager, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AMD from a recent AI in Action virtual summit. Their discussion focused on, From Data to Decisions: Making AI Analytics Actually Actionable. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www. HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of ou...

On this episode host Dan Marino is joined by ECG’s Amanda Adams and Jessica Wells to discuss key themes and takeaways from the Becker’s Healthcare 16th Annual Meeting in Chicago. Together, they explore how healthcare organizations are rethinking workforce development, physician leadership, and operational integration amid growing financial, regulatory, and staffing pressures. The conversation high...

May News You Can Use Burnout, Bots, and Bada Bing Medical burnout isn’t caused by “the wrong people” entering medicine, the system itself is chewing people up and calling it resilience; AI “never skilling” may create doctors who can use the tools but never fully develop the skills behind them; Insurance companies love second-guessing physicians while avoiding accountability - if they deny care, th...

On this episode host Tom Foley shares a conversation he had with Harry Travis, President The Travis Group as part of a recent AI in Action virtual summit. Their discussion focused on Productivity vs. Reality: What AI Means for Community Pharmacies. 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 po...

Healthcare Clearinghouses and Cybersecurity On this episode host Tom Testa sits down with Stephanie Short-Romanello, Head of Marketing Communications at ClaimMD. What have we learned from the 2024 Change Healthcare clearinghouse cyber attack? Not if but when this happens again, is the industry more prepared? To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www. HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device...

Host Matt Fisher talks to Jake McCarley, CEO and Co-Founder of Alluvium, about defining patient access; building discipline around patient access as front end to revenue cycle; developing capacity for real-time decision-making; building efficiency in scheduling to help maximize capacity; avoiding traps of constraining capabilities of technology. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www. Healthcar...

On this episode Jim welcomes Greg Archambeau, President of Revalesio Corporation who discusses RNS60, a novel treatment for both ALS and acute ischemic stroke. Phase 3 trials are beginning soon based on promising Phase 2 results. 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 favo...

On this episode Gil welcomes Jamie Wisser, MD, New Jersey's top-cited plastic and trauma surgeon and founder of Actual Health Care Solutions, for a candid, unfiltered conversation about why the original promise of digital health went sideways and what one physician decided to do about it. Thirty years into a demanding surgical career, Dr. Wisser reached his breaking point watching clinicians lose...

From Clinic to Consumer On How AI Is Reshaping the Entire Health Experience Host: Megan Antonelli Guest: Kenn Harper, GM, Dragon and DAX Copilot, Microsoft Join host Megan Antonelli who sits down with Kenneth Harper, General Manager for Dragon and DAX Copilot at Microsoft, to explore two major moves reshaping health AI. Dragon Copilot has now scaled to more than 100,000 clinical deployments across...

A Rural CNO on Healthcare Innovation That Actually Helps Nurses Host: Phil Sobol, Chief Commercial Officer at CereCore Guest: Holly Davis, Chief Nursing Officer, Bingham Memorial Hospital 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

The $50B Rural Health Question In this session, Scott Cook, VP of Business Development at Infinx, unpacks what the Rural Health Transformation Program may mean in practice. The conversation will explore what the funding is designed to accomplish, why each state’s approach matters, and how rural healthcare organizations should think about sustainability once the five-year funding period ends. The s...

How to Address the Patient-Tech Disconnect With Scheduling Rom Cohen, Co-Founder of Hyro, talks about the state of patient communication, Hyro’s new research on the topic, and how an unsophisticated approach to AI means lots of patients don’t get treated.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Walmart’s new Clinical Trial Centers. What is the goal of the new centers, and what happens when we...

Healthcare Automation Evolution On this episode host Tom Foley invites Mayank Pant, EVP, Product & Innovation for IKS Health to discuss the shifting from traditional rigid automation to agentic AI in healthcare which prioritizes redesigned processes over simply automating existing inefficient workflows. IKS has recently launched My Care Hub prioritizing patient-centered engagement and utilizin...

Quiet Courage of the CMO There is a version of the marketing leader’s job that looks great on a slide deck, and then there is the real thing. On this episode, we wanted to get at the real thing. Host Adam Turinas sat down with two marketing leaders who are currently in the middle of major company transformations, Erik Johnson, VP of Marketing at Harmony Healthcare IT, and Steffany Whiting, EVP of...

The PBM Trap: How “Savings” Are Costing You a Fortune PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) were created with good intentions but became broken middlemen incentivized to push higher-cost drugs. Securing a big discount on an expensive drug looks more impressive than low-cost alternatives. Unfortunately, the system encourages over-prescription. 90% of doctors have no idea what the drugs they prescribe wi...

True healthcare transformation doesn’t happen in an isolated spreadsheet; it happens within the community. While the industry generates massive amounts of health data, that information too often fails to reach the local leaders who need it most. Join host Beth Friedman and Meghan Harris, President and Chief Operations Officer at Acentra Health, for an engaging conversation about health analytics a...

Hosts John Lynn and Colin Hung discuss Buy or Sell: Conference Edition. 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

On this first installment of the five-part series, Complex Compliance – Why Healthcare Laws are So Complicated, host Adam Russo, sits down with Ron Peck, Chief Legal Officer of The Phia Group, to unpack the growing legal and compliance challenges facing self-funded health plans, brokers, and administrators. They explore the rise of fiduciary breach litigation, increasing scrutiny around plan decis...

1 in 3 Women Unscreened On Closing the Cervical Cancer Gap Despite cervical cancer being nearly 100% preventable through routine screening, almost one in three U.S. women are behind, and the numbers have been moving in the wrong direction for a decade. Kara Egan, CEO and Co-Founder of Teal Health, left a career as a health tech investor to fix one of the most overlooked gaps in women's preventive...

Driving Resilient Care: Leadership, Technology, and Transformation in Digital Healthcare Host Russ Branzell, President and CEO of CHIME, welcomes Cletis Earle, Field CTO for Healthcare at Citrix, for a thoughtful discussion on what it takes to build resilient, high-performing digital health environments. Drawing on his experience as both a health system executive and technology strategist, Cletis...

On this episode, Carol welcomes Erin White to the show. Erin is the Senior Vice President of Brand Marketing and Communications for Buzz Health. At the start of 2026, the company made a seismic shift, moving from a consumer-facing prescription savings brand to a broader healthcare infrastructure and enterprise technology platform. Erin joins Carol to discuss the evolution from BuzzRx to Buzz Healt...

Payer & Provider Dynamics: Addressing Non-Medical Switching in Oncology for CLL/SLL On this episode guest host Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, MS, MBA, CPEL, Vice President of Pharmacy at Emory University and Emory Health Plan, Winship Cancer Institute, discusses the real-world impact of non-medical switching in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) with Timothy Mok,...

The New Revenue Cycle Reality for Acute Care Leaders Hospitals are facing a new revenue cycle reality shaped by margin pressure, workforce constraints, payer complexity, denials, underpayments, and fragmented workflows. In this episode, Peggy Kelly, Tim Anderson, and Jason Adams of Infinx will explore what acute-care leaders need to rethink as revenue cycle performance becomes a strategic priority...

Wei-Li Shao on Omada's IPO & the Rapidly Evolving GLP-1 Market Wei-Li Shao returns to talk about Omada Health’s IPO, the rapidly evolving landscape of GLP-1 therapies, market complexities associated with AI-driven innovation, and what it all tells us about consumer behaviors.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week comparing funding trends from Rock Health and Fitt Insider’s latest reports. Wher...