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Introduction: In this episode of the AI at ViVE series on The Beat Podcast, host Sandy Vance sits down with Rachel Chen , Senior Director of Engineering at Plaud , to discuss how Plaud’s wearable AI note-taking technology helps clinicians reduce documentation burden and stay focused on patient conversations. Rachel also shares how Plaud is scaling its voice intelligence platform for professional a...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Brad Schoffstall , Vice President of Health and Compliance Programs at CGI , and Dr. James Peake , Senior Vice President and former Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Army Surgeon General. They have a wide-ranging and practical conversation about what it actually takes to modernize data infrastructure at federal health agencies. With Brad's 35 years at C...

For years, healthcare organizations focused on securing digital channels while treating phone calls as a trusted service channel. That assumption no longer holds true.  In this episode, Sandy sits with Jason Barr , the Vice President of Strategic Sales for Healthcare at Pindrop , who explains how AI-powered voice cloning, deepfakes, and synthetic identities are transforming the cybersecurity lands...

In this episode of the AI at ViVE series on The Beat Podcast, host Sandy Vance welcomes back Peter Horadan , CEO of Vouched , for a fascinating and forward-looking conversation about one of the most consequential shifts happening in digital identity right now. Digital driver's licenses are no longer a curiosity at TSA checkpoints. They are becoming a global standard, and healthcare is one of the i...

Workforce security in healthcare is no longer just about compliance—it’s about creating a seamless, secure digital experience for employees and patients.  In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Chandramouli Dorai , Chief Evangelist - Cybersecurity Solutions and Digital Signatures at Zoho.com . Today, they will explore how password management, secure browsers, multi-factor authentication (MFA...

Cybersecurity in healthcare isn’t just about keeping attackers out anymore. It’s about what happens after they get in. In this episode, Chris Boehm , Field CTO of Zero Networks , breaks down how organizations can move toward “Zero Trust” without disrupting clinical operations. From legacy systems and third-party access to the growing risks of AI, Chris shares how visibility, identity-based segment...

AI may be the hottest topic in healthcare, but most organizations still aren’t ready to use it at scale.  In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with the CEO of Hart , Dominique Gross . Together, they break down the real barriers holding healthcare back: from fragmented data and legacy EHR systems to inconsistent standards and limited access. Dominique shares how building a semantic data layer is...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance sits down with Mike Fisher , the CEO of MyFitnessPal , for an exciting and passionate conversation about what happens when twenty years of nutrition data meets modern AI. With over 300 million people impacted worldwide and a brand that has been a household name for two decades, MyFitnessPal is not resting on its laurels.  From an AI coach backed by two decades of...

In this episode of the AI at Health series on The Beat Podcast, host Sandy Vance sits down with Venky Ananth , Executive Vice President and Head of Healthcare at Infosys , for a wide-ranging and energizing conversation about what it actually means for AI to transform healthcare at scale. Venky brings a refreshingly honest and structured perspective to a conversation that is often dominated by hype...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Isaiah Granet , co-founder and CEO of Bland , for a sharp and eye-opening conversation about one of the most overlooked bottlenecks in healthcare: the phone call. Bland now handles 3.5 million phone calls a week, has raised over $100 million, including a $40 million Series B, and is backed by Emergence Capital, Scale, and Y Combinator. Isaiah brings a r...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance sits down with Patricia Thaine, co-founder and chair of Limina (formerly known as Private AI), for a fascinating conversation about one of the most underappreciated bottlenecks in healthcare AI adoption: the privacy of unstructured data.  With a background in natural language processing and privacy research, Patricia built the company from the ground up to solve a...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance sits down with Aaron Patzer , the founder & CEO of Vital.io , for one of the most energizing and candid conversations in the series. Aaron built Mint.com, saved consumers $9 billion in bank fees, and then turned his attention to one of the most anxiety-inducing experiences a person can have: sitting in an emergency room not knowing what is happening.  Vital now gu...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance welcomes back Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser , Chief Strategy Officer at DirectTrust , for her third time on the show. This time the conversation goes deeper than ever, covering three major developments: DirectTrust's role in vetting apps for the new CMS Medicare App Library, the launch of a groundbreaking AI accreditation program built on the NIST AI Risk Management...

In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Matthew Stern , the CEO at MyStart Health , and Nick Mortek , Strategic Consultant at Vouched . They have a practical and energizing conversation about one of the most underestimated problems in telehealth: patient identity verification. Matt built MyStart Health to help patients access GLP-1 medications and other telehealth services, only to discover t...

Healthcare has more data than any industry in the world—but without trust in that data, it’s almost useless. In this episode, Clay Ritchey , Chief Executive Officer of Verato , breaks down why identity is the missing foundation behind interoperability, AI, and better patient experiences. From fragmented records to failed digital transformation promises, Clay shares how solving “who is who” unlocks...

What does it really take to get a healthcare AI product past the proof-of-concept stage and into production? In this episode of the AI at ViVE series on the BEAT Podcast, host Sandy Vance sits down with Tushar Puri , CEO of Pegasus One , and Sebastian Ouslis , Co-Founder of ChartR Health , to find out. Together, they pull back the curtain on how ChartR is building an autonomous analytics platform...

What if the biggest barrier to better healthcare outcomes is… the blood draw itself? In this episode, Web Golinkin, President at Babson Diagnostics, discusses how his company is reinventing blood testing with a patient-friendly, fingertip-based system. He explains why traditional venipuncture drives anxiety and non-adherence, and how BetterWay improves both experience and outcomes. He also shares...

The network is no longer just a hidden utility. It is becoming an intelligent engine for safer, smarter healthcare operations. In this episode, Matt Roberts, Healthcare Business Lead at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, discusses how AI-native networking is changing the role of infrastructure in healthcare. He explains why traditional networks have created operational blind spots, how self-driving netwo...

In this episode of the AI at Health series on The Beat Podcast, host Sandy Vance sits down with Vadiraj Guttal , VP and Business Head for Infosys Helix , for a thoughtful and candid conversation about why health plans are still stuck in batch processing, what it actually means to be cloud native versus just cloud hosted, and how a platform-centric approach is delivering two to three times the impr...

Healthcare doesn’t have a technology problem; it has a workflow problem. In this episode, Kshitij Jaggi discusses why healthcare’s digital tools have failed to improve efficiency and how agentic AI can transform operations by completing work rather than creating more of it. He explains the critical difference between task automation and system-level orchestration, and why administrative bottleneck...

Simplifying the complex world of healthcare reimbursement. In this episode, Jason Considine, President of Experian Health, discusses shifting the industry's focus from denial management to denial prevention by leveraging AI at the point of registration. He discusses the implementation of the Patient Access Curator, a tool that automates insurance discovery and validation to reduce human error and...

AI is advancing rapidly in healthcare, but speed without governance can create serious clinical, legal, and enterprise-level risks. In this episode, Peter Bonis, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Wolters Kluwer Health, explores how his team is developing reliable, evidence-based AI tools to support frontline clinicians without compromising trust or safety. He explains why clinicians are adopting AI fas...

What if the biggest opportunity in healthcare reimbursement is finally having a clear view of what “fair” actually looks like? In this episode, Dilpreet Sahota, CEO and founder of Trek Health, discusses how his company is helping health systems and health plans turn price transparency data into a strategic tool for payer negotiations. He explains why publicly available reimbursement data is still...

Healthcare payments are often discussed as a transparency problem, but the deeper issue is structural fragmentation across contracts, claims, remittances, and workflows. In this episode, Ted Ferrin, Senior Vice President of Payments Innovation at Zelis, explains how the acquisition of Rivet is bringing provider-facing payment intelligence into Zelis’s broader infrastructure. He discusses why achie...

AI in healthcare is moving fast, but what does real, operational impact actually look like? In this episode, host Sandy Vance chats with Aditya Bansod , CTO and co-founder of Luma Health , and Michelle Winfield-Hanrahan , RN BSN MHA MSN about this very topic. They share how the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is scaling AI beyond the call center and into complex, high-friction workflow...