The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show

Most people think the biggest barriers in healthcare are access, staffing, or technology. Brian Marsella thinks it's something else. Money. Millions of Americans delay or avoid care every year because they're worried about what it might cost, what bill might show up later, or whether they can afford to walk through the door in the first place. In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation...

Healthcare has a workforce crisis, but what if the real problem isn't staffing? In Episode 192 of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Michael Stamatinos sits down with Tess Michaels, Founder and CEO of Clasp, to explore a bold new approach to solving one of healthcare's biggest challenges: attracting and retaining clinicians before they ever enter the workforce. With more than 3 million clin...

What if the biggest challenge in healthcare isn’t creating more innovation…but actually getting it into the hands of the people who need it most? In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Michael Stamatinos sits down with John Fryer, Chief Growth and Corporate Development Officer at Lumeris, to explore one of the most important questions facing healthcare today: How do we scale...

What happens when the healthcare system has all the data…but still misses the patient? Dr. Jenni Gudapati, PhD has spent nearly three decades asking that question. She started her career as an emergency room and critical care nurse in rural America, where she saw the same patients returning again and again. At first, they were labeled “frequent flyers.” Then one patient changed everything. The pat...

George Hsu, Founder and CEO of Aulea Medical, joins host Michael Stamatinos on the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show to discuss how a single-use urological device is reshaping OR efficiency, reducing infection risk, and expanding access to care in rural communities across the United States. He didn't set out to disrupt an industry. He just refused to accept a broken process. George Hsu spent 15...

Why does the same prescription cost $15 at one pharmacy and $56 at another? And why does almost nobody standing at that counter know about the savings that could change everything? In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Miriam Paramore, founder and CEO of RxUtility, operating advisor at Goldman Sachs, limited partner at 7wire Ventures, a...

Most health systems write a check and call it innovation. Steve West built something different. In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Steve West, Managing Director of Healthliant Ventures, the innovation arm of Tanner Health, a five hospital system serving western Georgia and east Alabama. Steve runs a live clinical environment where he...

What if American healthcare is doing exactly what it was designed to do? Dr. Scott Neeley, MD, MBA, has spent 40 years in medicine. Harvard. Stanford. University of Chicago residency. He's been in the ICU at 2am fighting to save lives. He became a CEO. He had major surgery and chose to do it at his own hospital. And he'll tell you straight: we've built a world-class system for treating disease. We...

What does transformation actually look like inside a healthcare organization after the headlines fade away? In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Michael Stamatinos sits down with Angi Jennings for a raw and honest conversation about operational transformation, leadership under pressure, and the messy reality of rebuilding healthcare organizations from the inside out. After...

What does it actually take to drive innovation from inside one of the largest health systems in the country? Dr. Mohammed Quadri has been at Hackensack Meridian Health for over 20 years, starting as a sleep medicine researcher and growing into VP of Strategy for Academics, Research, and Innovation. He co-founded the HMH Research Institutes. He is the Principal Investigator of the RISE Study, devel...

Every night in the US, a child enters a new home with no medical records, no doctor, and no continuity of care. Michelle Turner decided to fix that. Michelle Turner is the Founder and CEO of Here Now Health, the first virtual healthcare company built exclusively for children and families impacted by the child welfare system. Before building this company, she fostered more than 40 children, served...

What does it actually take to move independent physicians from fee-for-service to value-based care, and why is it still this hard? In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Michael Kopko, CEO of Pearl Health, a company built to help providers succeed in value-based care, particularly in Medicare programs where the operational complexity is...

What does it really look like to lead hospitals for nearly 30 years, starting at 27 years old, and walk away still standing? In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Tom McDougall, a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and author of "Karma Doesn't Need My Help: 11 Weekly Leadership Lessons for Success and Peace." Tom be...

What actually happens inside health plans? In this episode of the Advancing Health Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Mike McCabe, CEO of On Advisors and a seasoned health plan executive who has spent his career inside health plans, not just advising them from the outside. Mike pulls back the curtain on what actually happens inside health plans when things go sideways...from n...

Every parent knows the moment. It's 2am. Your child has a fever. Something feels off. And you're standing in the dark trying to decide...wait until morning? Urgent care? The ER? That moment is exactly what today's guest has dedicated her career to solving. In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Michael Stamatinos sits down with Dr. Shannon Henning, Chief Operating Officer at...

What does it really look like when a healthcare system proves innovation is possible, then chooses to go backwards the moment the pressure lifts? In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Frank Sawyer, founder of Health Forward and former hospital COO with over 20 years of experience inside some of the most complex health systems in the cou...

What does it really look like to lead a hospital when there is no cushion, limited resources, and every decision affects your neighbors? In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Aidan Hettler, the CEO of Sedgwick County Health Center, a county-owned critical access hospital serving rural communities. Aidan became a hospital CEO at 22 years...

Most people talk about healthcare innovation. Very few people have to make it work inside a real health system. In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Michael Stamatinos sits down with Justin Brueck, System Vice President of Innovation and Research at Endeavor Health, to explore what it actually takes to move ideas through a complex healthcare organization. Justin didn’t arri...

Leadership in healthcare is often framed in headlines. Big strategies. Big bets. Big promises. But most of it does not look like that. In Episode 175 of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Michael Stamatinos sits with Regine Villain, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Oschner Health for a conversation about the part of leadership that rarely gets named. The pressure. The energy drain. The moral wei...

What does it really mean to lead a safety-net health system? In this powerful episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Michael Stamatinos sits down with Dr. Ngozi Ezike, President and CEO of Sinai Chicago, to talk about leadership, health equity, innovation under constraint, and what transformation actually looks like on the ground. Before leading Sinai Chicago, Dr. Ezike served as Dir...

Healthcare has more data than ever. So why do so many leaders still feel stuck? In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Michael Stamatinos sits down with Khan Siddiqui, MD, CEO and Chairman of HOPPR and former Founder and CEO of higi. This conversation is not about trends. It is about judgment. Khan shares how growing up with a mother who still runs a clinic in Pakistan shaped...

In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Effie Carlson, CEO of Watershed Health, for a candid conversation on why healthcare struggles with coordination and what it truly takes to align complex systems around patients. Effie Carlson shares her unique perspective, shaped by decades of experience across payers, providers, and healthcare oper...

Healthcare runs on people who keep showing up. This episode asks a simple question: who is taking care of them? On this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Brian Ferguson, CEO of Arena Labs and former Navy SEAL officer, for a grounded and personal conversation about service, pressure, and what it takes to last in healthcare. Brian has spent o...

In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Aber Whitcomb, CEO of Salt AI and co-founder of MySpace, for an in-depth conversation on building at massive scale, navigating pressure, and applying real AI engineering to healthcare and life sciences. Aber Whitcomb has been at the center of multiple technology inflection points. From helping archi...

In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Elaine Shi, Co-Founder and CEO of BodySpec, for a deep, honest conversation about preventive health, access, and what it really takes to build a durable healthcare company.   Elaine shares the rarely told story behind BodySpec’s journey, including more than a decade of bootstrapping before raising o...