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On this episode Justin records live at ViVE 2026 in LA. Stay tuned for the next few weeks to hear all his guests. This week, long time friends of the show, Rasu Shrestha, MD MBA, Chief Innovation and Commercialization Officer, EVP at Advocate Health and Aneesh Chopra, Author, Innovator, Former US CTO, Chair, Arcadia Institute. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www. HealthcareNOWRadio.com or as...

Healthcare’s Broken Trust: Autonomy, Anger, and Advocacy On this episode Gil and Gregg welcome Matthew Zachary, a cancer survivor and founder of Stupid Cancer, and organization that helped define the adolescent and young adult (AYA) oncology movement in the United States. Through advocacy and community-building, he had elevated issues of patient autonomy, survivorship identity, and access to care....

S1E11: Your Vendor’s ‘AI’ Might Be a Trojan Horse: A Hospital CISO’s Reality Check On this episode, Steven Hajny talks with Jim Bowie, VP & CISO at Tampa General Hospital, about the real-world collision between AI hype and healthcare security reality. Jim shares what hospital teams are actually asking AI to do, how his health system evaluates and governs AI use cases (especially where regulations...

Emergency departments are under more pressure than ever as they are facing overcrowding, extended wait times, workforce strain, and rising patient demand fueled in part by primary care shortages. On this episode Dan examines how these mounting challenges are reshaping the hospital’s front door and what they mean for patient care, operational performance, and long-term sustainability. Dan is joined...

Transparency in Coverage Data Is Transforming Payer Negotiation Host Beth Friedman, Senior Partner, FINN Partners engages Ryan Kelly, Senior Director of Content & Growth at Trek Health, to explore the emerging role of Transparency in Coverage (TiC) data in healthcare payer negotiations. Originally mandated by federal regulation, TiC rules require insurers to publish detailed information about nego...

This episode is hosted by Tony Schueth, CEO of Point-of-Care Partners, alongside co-host Pooja Babbrah, a pharmacy standards and interoperability expert, who welcome special guest Bob Katter, President of First Databank (FDB). Together, they explore how technology is enabling pharmacists to expand their clinical services, enhance patient care, and integrate more deeply into the healthcare team—esp...

Host Matt Fisher talks to Dr. Michael Gerson, Associate Professor in Sports and Performance Psychology, National University about importance of entwining mental and physical health; recognizing that everyone encounters mental health and can benefit from taking care of the "mentals"; positive impact of public figures on changing the discourse around mental health; applauding the removal of barriers...

Host: Megan Antonelli Guest: Nayan Patel, SVP/GM, Transformation & Digital Health, Neteera Join host Megan Antonelli who sits down with Nayan Patel, a former hospital CIO now leading healthcare innovation at Neteera, to unpack what's shaping the digital health landscape heading into VivVE and HIMSS. They explore how the CIO role is evolving from technology manager to "curator of information and ou...

Natalia Arzeno-Gonzalez, Chief Data Scientist at Infinx, helps healthcare leaders cut through the noise by setting realistic expectations for what AI can and cannot do in revenue cycle management today. The discussion explores why AI is not a plug-and-play solution, how data quality and workflow maturity influence outcomes, and why many initiatives fall short even with significant effort and inves...

Traditional diagnosis codes only scratch the surface of a patient’s health story. While clinical data provides critical insights, it’s the social and environmental factors—where people live, how people live and more—that often shape health outcomes. On this episode, Dr. Patricia Saleeby returns to discuss the powerful synergy between the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and...

The Operation of the Century - Why Total Hip Replacement Keeps Getting Better Interview with Adolph V. Lombardi, Jr., MD, FACS who has performed 38,000+ joint replacements. Topics discussed: Why total hip replacement is considered the “operation of the century” (as described in The Lancet); Modern hips use cementless fixation, advanced ceramics, and highly cross-linked polyethylene, dramatically i...

Primary Care, Platforms & the Push for ROI Primary Care, Platforms & the Push for ROI Frequent contributor Paul Schrimpf returns to highlight trends he’s uncovering between workforce reconfiguration, primary care, and the ""platformification"" of care delivery. Healthcare has to get better at connecting the dots.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Amazon One Medical’s first partnership in...

On this episode, Carol Flagg is joined by Nicky Battle, President of Supreme Communications. Nicky joins Carol to discuss the opportunities for AI in communications (PR on steroids!) and the negatives (AI slop!). Tune in to hear one of the show's most engaging guests unpack how AI is supercharging PR, where it’s going off the rails, and what communicators must do to stay credible. To stream our St...

How to Create Memorable Trade Show Experiences in Healthcare On this episode host Adam Turinas is joined by two of his colleagues from Health Launchpad, Design Lead Pepper Fee and Account Director Amy Hamilton. Both Amy and Pepper bring decades of experience in healthcare IT marketing and design to the table, having managed everything from massive trade show booths for global corporations to high...

Ericka Adler sits down with Lori Cox of AAPC to talk all things healthcare audits. What should you do when an audit letter lands on your desk? Should you review records before sending them? What happens if you disagree with the results or owe money back? They break down how to respond to audits, when to involve legal counsel and why annual self audits are one of the best ways to protect your pract...

On this episode Justin Barnes records live in Tampa FL at the Moffitt Cancer Center for this special series during CancerX 2026. He brings back Dr. Kamal Jethwani, VP Digital Ventures & CEO AccelerOnc and Dr. Nainesh Parikh, VP Chief Expansion & Partner Officer from the Moffitt Center to discuss more on this year's CancerX Accelerator.

On this episode Fred and Gregg welcome Xiaopeng Zhao, PhD, Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Mississippi, whose research bridges artificial intelligence, robotics, and dementia care. Topics: Dr. Zhao discusses how machine learning techniques are being used to analyze complex EEG brainwave data to detect early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, patterns invisible to the hum...

Hosts Colin Hung and John Lynn discuss The Healthcare IT Olympics. 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 episode, host Adam Russo welcomes Ken Uveges, President of Enterprise Group Planning, Inc., (EGP) a professional service organization specializing in Employer Sponsored Health Benefit Plan management. Ken discusses EGP's 50-year history and their commitment to innovative reimbursement systems despite facing skepticism from large carriers and health systems. They explore the challenges of s...

On this episode of Voices of Self Funding, host Tom Testa sits down with Matt Ohrt, National Executive Director of the Free Market Medical Association (FMMA), to explore how employers can take back control of healthcare costs and quality through free market principles. Matt shares his personal journey – from a 25-year HR career and near-fatal accident to leading national reform movements like Self...

Host: Megan Antonelli Guest: Brandon Welch, , MS, PhD, Author of Telehealth Success, Executive Director, Telehealth.org, Founder & CEO of Doxy.me Join host Megan Antonelli for part 2 of a two-part interview with Dr. Brandon Welch, founder and CEO of doxy.me; a platform that has facilitated over 8 billion minutes of care across 1 million providers in 176 countries. With the administration signing t...

MGMA with Julia Rosen, SVP of IT S1E18: On this episode host Tom Testa continues his series on industry organizations that are making a difference for their members with Julia Rosen, SVP of IT for the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). An association for professionals who lead medical practices. MGMA is celebrating its history of 100 years at their September annual conference. Learn abou...

Coming to you live from the Oregon HFMA Winter Conference, we will discuss observations drawn from Office Hours, the Infinx thought leadership forum where healthcare leaders regularly explore the realities of change across revenue cycle operations. Across these conversations, artificial intelligence consistently emerges as the anchor that connects common themes involving workflows, staffing models...

How Sesame Can Offer the Wegovy Pill at Cash-Pay Prices Dr. Michael Botta, President and Co-founder of Sesame, shares details of their newly announced partnership to offer the Wegovy pill, their continued relationship with Costco, how their clinicians approach patients who are loading their medical records to ChatGPT, and more insights from the quickly expanding cash pay side of healthcare.  All t...

S1E9: AI in Medical Language Processing: Transforming Unstructured Clinical Data, with Tim O'Connell, MD, CEO and Co-Founder of emtelligent On this episode, host Dr. Heather Bassett welcomes Tim O'Connell, radiologist, CEO and founder of emtelligent, discussing the challenge that sparked his company: the impossibility of thoroughly reviewing clinical records at the volume modern healthcare demands...