Risk Never Sleeps Podcast

What if the real ROI of AI in healthcare isn’t speed, but giving clinicians their time and purpose back? In this episode, Pavitra Krishnamani, emergency physician at MD Anderson Cancer Center, explains how building a strong foundation in AI and digital health education is essential to driving meaningful innovation in healthcare. At MD Anderson Cancer Center, multidisciplinary initiatives such as j...

Most healthcare breaches don’t start inside the hospital; they start with a vendor no one is watching closely enough. In this episode, Paul Russell, Chief Product Officer for Censinet, explains how healthcare organizations struggle to manage risk across thousands of third-party vendors, where many breaches originate. He describes how manual processes make risk assessment overwhelming and how Censi...

When ransomware hits a hospital, the real damage is not just technical. It can disrupt care, reroute patients, strain clinicians, and threaten the survival of the organization itself. In this episode, Omar Hussain, CEO and Co-Founder of QuellSecure, shares why he came out of retirement to tackle one of healthcare’s most devastating cyber threats. He explains how QuellSecure approaches ransomware d...

Breaking down silos across healthcare systems may be one of the most important steps toward safer care, stronger operations, and more sustainable performance. In this episode, Nancy Wright, Vice President of Digital Structures and Platforms at GE HealthCare, discusses how health systems can use digital platforms, data aggregation, and AI to connect fragmented hospital operations. She explains why...

AI might be the headline, but the real transformation in healthcare IT is happening in the foundations most people overlook. In this episode, Oliver Galicki, Vice President of Clinical Applications at Memorial Hermann Health System, explains how his organization is evolving beyond a major Epic transformation into a new phase focused on ERP modernization, enterprise imaging, and AI adoption. He hig...

Curious about how AI is transforming healthcare documentation and evidence-based decision-making? In this episode, Dr. Nancy Cibotti, US-Based Chief Medical Information Officer at Heidi Health, shares her journey from managing large health systems to leading AI innovation for clinicians globally. Heidi began as an AI scribe to reduce documentation burdens and now serves 190 countries in 110 langua...

You don’t know what your medication costs until you’re at the pharmacy, and by then, it’s too late to choose. In this episode, Miriam Paramore, Founder & CEO of RxUtility, shares how her company is tackling one of healthcare’s most frustrating gaps: the lack of transparent prescription pricing at the pharmacy counter. Drawing on over 40 years in health tech, she is building an AI-enabled, data-dri...

AI is moving fast in healthcare, but it’s not replacing the most important part: people! In this episode, Krista Arndt, Associate CISO of St. Luke's University Health Network, Dr. Dan Spitzer, the SVP and GM at Cyderes, discuss how AI is reshaping healthcare, emphasizing that it must remain human-centered with clinicians always “in the loop.” They highlight digital health equity as a critical mind...

The best healthcare technology strategies start with people, not platforms. In this episode, Koh Kerdsri, Chief Information Officer at Clever Care Health Plan, shares how he is leading enterprise IT, AI governance, security, and data strategy in a culturally sensitive Medicare Advantage organization serving diverse communities across Southern California. He discusses the growing importance of cybe...

Great technology leadership in healthcare starts with curiosity, close contact with users, and a willingness to solve the right problems in fast-changing environments. In this episode, Josh Prince, Chief Technology Officer and VP of Engineering at Censinet, shares his path from healthcare consulting and analytics into startup leadership and enterprise software development. He talks about what he l...

AI in healthcare will only scale if organizations can prove it creates real value and earns real trust. In this episode, Jerry Buchanan, Head of Growth at Optura. AI, discusses why trust is the missing ingredient in most healthcare AI strategies and how organizations can build it by focusing on measurable outcomes from the start. He explains how Optura helps health systems manage the full AI journ...

What if the most overlooked driver of lifelong health isn’t the healthcare system, but the confidence of a parent in the first year of a child’s life? In this episode, Hans Kullberg, CEO and co-founder of Avocado Health, discusses how parental confidence and competence shape lifelong health outcomes from birth. He shares how Avocado Health delivers 24/7, evidence-based support through text messagi...

AI is moving faster than healthcare governance can keep up, and that’s a problem. In this episode, Dr. Hamed Abbaszadegan, an internal medicine–trained physician and clinical informatics leader known as “The AI MD”, talks about the urgent need for effective AI governance in healthcare. He explains why traditional governance structures fall short and require more diverse, technically skilled teams....

Imagine a healthcare system where patient data from thousands of providers seamlessly comes together to improve care in real time. In this episode, Inderpal Kohli, Chief Technology Officer at Healthix, discusses the transformation of a large New York Health Information Exchange (HIE) into a data intelligence organization, managing data from 9,000 entities and 27,000 physicians. He highlights the c...

What if the real problem in healthcare isn’t clinical care, but everything that happens before it? In this episode, Aditya Bansod, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Luma Health, shares how his team is using operational AI to simplify how patients access care, focusing on everything outside the exam room. He explains a shift from point solutions like scheduling tools to outcome-driven mode...

What if the biggest breakthrough in healthcare isn’t happening at the bedside, but on the phone? In this episode, Dr. Erin Palm, Medical Lead at Infinitus Systems, shares how AI-powered communication agents are transforming healthcare by automating phone interactions with payers, providers, and patients to reduce delays and errors. She explains how structured protocols, agent supervision, and huma...

What if the very technologies meant to reduce physician burnout are actually making it worse? In this episode, Dr. Jay Anders shares his journey from practicing internal medicine to becoming CMO at Medicomp, driven by early involvement in health IT and a desire to improve clinical systems. He discusses how his organization is cautiously leveraging AI, particularly voice-enabled commands powered by...

What if one of healthcare’s biggest expenses is something most executives barely even know exists? In this episode, Greg Miller, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Carta Healthcare, explains how hospitals spend billions on manual clinical data abstraction and how his company uses AI combined with clinical expertise to automate and improve this process. He emphasizes the importance of “hyb...

AI is everywhere in healthcare right now, but many leaders are still trying to figure out what it actually means for their organizations. In this conversation at ViVE 2026, Cambrey Ware, Chief Commercial Officer at Censinet, shares what she’s hearing from health system leaders about AI, highlighting widespread confusion, mixed adoption strategies, and the growing need for governance. She reflects...

Are you ready to rethink resilience in healthcare IT? In this episode, Andrea Steele, the Associate Vice President of Information Technology and Business Intelligence for the Health Care District of Palm Beach County, talks about building resilience, preparing for system downtime, and the evolving role of AI in healthcare. She emphasizes the importance of proactively testing business continuity an...

As healthcare moves beyond the hype of AI, organizations are discovering that success depends just as much on governance, security, and people as it does on the technology itself. In this episode, Steven Ramirez, Chief Information Security & Technology Officer (CISTO) for Renown Health, discussed how healthcare organizations are moving beyond AI hype and focusing on practical implementation, gover...

AI doesn’t need its own strategy; it should support the strategy you already have. In this episode, Linda Stevenson, Chief Operations and Chief Digital Information Officer at Fisher-Titus Health, discusses how rural health systems can thoughtfully integrate AI to strengthen financial performance and expand community access to care. She explains why strong data foundations and vendor partnerships a...

AI governance is becoming the difference between deploying safely at speed and getting stuck in endless review cycles. In this episode, Dennis Chornenky, Founder and CEO of Dome Labs AI, joins Ed Gaudet to break down why large enterprises, especially healthcare and government, struggle to adopt emerging tech even when everyone agrees it matters. Dennis shares lessons from his path through finance,...

Healthcare labs are overloaded, under-recognized, and still running on manual workarounds, and biology-inspired AI can help change that. In this episode, Julian Wilkison-Duran, founder of Astor Mind, shares his path from caregiver to clinical lab science to software, and why he’s now building a different kind of AI, one designed to be more transparent, domain-specific, and accessible (even running...

Cybersecurity compliance isn’t about checklists; it’s about trust, maturity, and building businesses that can withstand real-world risk. In this episode, Chris Johnson, Senior Director of Cybersecurity Compliance Programs for GTIA, discusses the evolution of cybersecurity compliance and what it truly means for MSPs and the broader IT services ecosystem. He shares his unconventional path into IT —...