The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show

What really happens when a health system finally sees the truth behind its payer contracts? In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Jacob Little, Co-Founder of Payerset, and Jerry DiMaso, CEO and Co-Founder, for an unfiltered conversation about healthcare price transparency, payer negotiations, margin pressure, and the real dynamics shapi...

In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Sean O’Connor, a retired Navy officer and the President and Co-Founder of DexCare. This conversation explores one of the most pressing issues facing the country today: access to care for veterans and the urgent need to modernize the VA. Over the past several months, Sean has met with more than a doz...

In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Michelle Zimmerman, CEO and cofounder of Previvor Edge, for a rare look at the future of cancer prevention, early detection, and personalized risk management. Michelle brings a uniquely human and deeply informed perspective. With a strong family history of cancer and years of experience building the...

In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Michael Stamatinos sits down with Zaw Thet, CEO of Exer Labs. Exer is one of the most interesting companies in the AI and healthtech space today. They use computer vision and AI to turn any camera into a motion coach. With a simple phone or tablet, clinicians can evaluate gait, tremors, balance, strength, mobility, and recovery in a way...

What if access to money was access to health? In this powerful episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Sabrina Lamb, Founder and CEO of Wekeza and World of Money, for a deep conversation about how financial inclusion is the next frontier of public health. Sabrina is a force for access and equity. As the first Black woman to launch a global invest...

Anthony DeSena, CEO and Co-Founder of Pax Health, joins Michael Stamatinos on The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show to share the remarkable journey of how a physical therapist from Brooklyn built one of the Northeast’s most dynamic behavioral health platforms. This is a story about discipline, compassion, and conviction. Anthony began his career treating patients one-on-one in a small physical...

In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Timothy Nobles, Chief Product Officer at Integral, to explore one of the most misunderstood topics in healthcare: how compliance can actually accelerate innovation rather than slow it down. Tim shares his fascinating journey from professional musician in Nashville to leading commercial strategy at I...

What if the key to innovation, leadership, and opportunity isn’t technology or capital, but people? In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Michael Stamatinos sits down with Pat Hedley, investor, advisor, and author of Meet 100 People, to explore how genuine connection, curiosity, and trust open doors that most people never see. Pat spent nearly 30 years at General Atlantic he...

In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Dr. Matt Cybulsky, PhD, a clinical psychologist by training, an Eagle Scout by foundation, and the Co-Founder of Tessellate, a platform designed to give physicians back clarity, control, and voice in their careers. The conversation weaves together Matt’s journey from psychology to entrepreneurship,...

On this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with James Wallace, innovator, executive, author, and senior researcher at Harvard Business School for an in-depth conversation about the future of healthcare, the rise of precision medicine, and the role of AI in reshaping how we deliver care. James has built a career at the crossroads of science, techn...

What if patients paid $0 out-of-pocket and everyone still won? In this powerful episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with James Millaway, Co-Founder and CEO of ZERO Health (formerly The Zero Card, Inc.), to unpack how a radically different healthcare model is quietly transforming the way employers and employees access care. They explore how a radic...

What does it really take to lead with courage, clarity, and conviction...especially in one of the most overlooked sectors of healthcare? In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Cristina Negrón-Oliveri, MHA, joins host Michael Stamatinos for a powerful behind-the-scenes look at what operational leadership looks like in the real world of community health. Cristina serves as the...

When the traditional levers for growth no longer move the needle, what comes next? In this episode, Michael Stamatinos sits down with Bo Wilkes, a healthcare strategist who has spent nearly 15 years inside the machinery of a traditional health system and is now reshaping the way Ballad Health approaches innovation, investment, and rural transformation. Bo leads the Ballad Health Innovation Center...

What does it take to move a healthcare idea from paper to product, and from product to public market success? Greg Downey has lived it and built the playbook along the way. In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Greg Downey, Managing Director of Purim Ventures, for a rare behind-the-scenes conversation that explores what it really takes...

What does it take to redesign one of healthcare’s most broken and overlooked processes without asking clinicians to do more? In this powerful episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Michael Stamatinos sits down with Lindsay Joseph, CPA and former hospital CFO turned startup founder, to unpack the human, operational, and cultural realities behind care transitions and what it takes to f...

In this powerful episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos welcomes Dr. April Joy Damian, a national voice in health equity, systems transformation, and trauma-informed care. Dr. Damian currently serves as Vice President and Director of the Weitzman Institute, a national research, education, and policy center focused on advancing primary care innovation for under...

What if your child’s prescription had a one in three chance of containing an error? That is the reality in the United States today, and most parents have no idea. In this powerful episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Dr. Jena Quinn, PharmD, BCPPS and Lyle Mioduszewski, RN, the co-founders of Perfecting Peds. Together, they are on a mission to...

This might be the most hopeful conversation of the year. In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Sarah Elizabeth Ippel, the visionary Founder and Executive Director of the Academy for Global Citizenship and the Cultivate Collective. At just 23 years old, Sarah Elizabeth biked to the Chicago Board of Education with a 400-page proposal and...

In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Rachel Kern, Senior Vice President at First Trust Capital Partners, for a candid and compelling conversation that explores the real dynamics of venture capital, healthcare innovation, and what it takes to build companies that endure. Rachel brings a rare blend of academic curiosity, operational insi...

On this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos welcomes Dr. Navin Goyal, MD, a trained anesthesiologist who left the comfort of clinical medicine to become an entrepreneur, founder, and investor who is helping shape the future of healthcare innovation through purpose-driven capital. Dr. Goyal is the co-founder of LOUD Capital, an alternative investment firm th...

In this powerful and wide-ranging conversation, Michael Stamatinos welcomes Dr. Trisha Henwood, Chief Clinical Officer at Jefferson Health, to the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show for a masterclass in clinical leadership, system transformation, and values-driven innovation. With responsibility for the clinical operations of a 32-hospital system, Dr. Henwood is pioneering what clinical excellen...

In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Shara Cohen, JD, CEO of Carallel, for a candid and deeply resonant conversation about a topic that is far too often overlooked: caregiving. For more than two decades, Shara has been at the forefront of efforts to redesign how healthcare organizations support people, not just patients, but the often...

In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver, ER physician, PhD in epidemiology, and VP of Innovation at Inflect Health, for a deep and refreshing conversation at the intersection of clinical care, technology, and entrepreneurial grit. Dr. Tamayo-Sarver is not just a practicing emergency physician with a PhD in epidemi...

In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos welcomes Justin Quall, founder and CEO of Oler Health, for a candid conversation about one of healthcare’s most overlooked yet mission-critical challenges: documentation overload in post-acute and long-term care. Oler Health isn’t building flashy tech for headlines. It’s building infrastructure that works. In a fr...

In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Dr. William Paiva, a leader who doesn’t just talk about transforming healthcare. He builds it. Piece by piece. From the ground up. As Executive Director of the Center for Health Systems Innovation at Oklahoma State University and Managing Partner of the Oklahoma Life Science Fund, Dr. Paiva has spen...