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RADIO FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY Healthcare NOW Radio and Podcast Network offers discussions on the latest developments and trends impacting the industry including: health tech, health IT, healthcare innovation, healthcare policy, healthcare data security, telehealth, interoperability, biotech, med tech, value-based care, pharma, healthcare compliance, and much more. Shows are hosted by industry thought leaders. Guests are a "who's who" across the healthcare spectrum. The listening audience is predominantly physician and hospital-based, and the healthcare industry at large.
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- StandardSummaries onlyDigital Health Talks: Direct Contracting Explained On How Northwell Direct Cut Employer Costs 20%
Published Sep 21, 2026
Digital Health TalksDirect Contracting Explained: How Northwell Direct Cut Employer Costs 20% | Nick Stefanizzi, CEO, Northwell Direct Every health system that considers selling directly to employers hits the same wall. The discounted rate lands on patients you may already have, and nobody can prove the trade works. Nick Stefanizzi says it does. He is the CEO of Northwell Direct, Northwell Health's for-profit direct-to-employer company, where an employer or union agrees on price with the health system and no carrie
- StandardSummaries onlyDigital Health Talks: Stop Building That. A CIO's Test for Buy, Build, or Partner
Published Sep 14, 2026
Digital Health TalksStop Building That. A CIO's Test for Buy, Build, or Partner When Edmund Siy became chief information and technology officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health in May 2025, he told Becker's his opening move was cybersecurity and infrastructure, with AI to follow. Plenty of systems were pointing at pilots that year. He pointed at the plumbing. Fifteen months later the foundation is largely built and AI has stopped being a differentiator. Ambient documentation, governance committees, an AI officer on the
- StandardSummaries onlyDigital Health Talks: Ambient AI for Nurses From Early Adopters to Standard Practice
Published Sep 12, 2026
Digital Health TalksAmbient AI for Nurses: From Early Adopters to Standard Practice Ambient AI earned its early reputation in the exam room, easing physician documentation. The bigger opportunity, and the harder build, is nursing. Geri Hansen, Vice President of IS Applications at Baptist Health and an informatics nurse by training, joins Megan Antonelli to talk about what it really takes to move ambient AI for nurses from early-adopter experiment to standard practice. They get into where it delivers value today, wh
- StandardSummaries onlyDigital Health Talks: From Roadmap to Runway For What Speed to Value in Healthcare AI Actually Takes
Published Aug 28, 2026
Digital Health TalksFrom Roadmap to Runway: What Speed to Value in Healthcare AI Actually Takes Every health system has an AI roadmap. Far fewer have a runway. Vendors sell the destination. Getting there, on time and on budget and actually live, is the part nobody demos. Scott Raymond, former CIO at Nebraska Medicine and a longtime health IT leader who still holds an active nursing license, gets specific on virtual nursing, predictive staffing and scheduling, the workflows you have to solve first, and why the gap b
- StandardSummaries onlyDigital Health Talks: Five Good Things
Published Aug 27, 2026
Digital Health TalksFive Good Things Join us for Five Good Things with Janae Sharp and Megan Antonelli: A rapid-fire segment highlighting positive developments in digital health. Janae and Megan share insights on recent innovations, successful implementations, and emerging trends that are driving progress in healthcare technology. 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/
- StandardSummaries onlyDigital Health Talks: From Undervalued to Unavoidable By Treating Women's Health as Infrastructure
Published Aug 19, 2026
Digital Health TalksFrom Undervalued to Unavoidable: Treating Women's Health as Infrastructure Host: Megan Antonelli Guest: Marissa Fayer, CEO, DeepLook Medical Women's health isn't a cause, it's infrastructure. Join host Megan Antonelli and her guest, Med tech founder Marissa Fayer, CEO of DeepLook Medical as she breaks down why closing the women's health gap is worth a trillion dollars a year, and why capital still isn't following. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to
- StandardSummaries onlyDigital Health Talks: Female Founders Series On When the EHR Goes Down
Published Aug 14, 2026
Digital Health TalksFemale Founders Series: When the EHR Goes Down: Building Real-Time Resilience Before the Next Outage Host: Janae Sharp Guests: Chao Cheng Shorland When the EHR goes down, care doesn't stop, but the chart, the meds, and the allergies do. Chao Cheng Shorland explains why EHR downtime is a patient safety problem, not just an IT one, and how her team is working to end pen-and-paper charting during outages. In this conversation: Why EHR downtime belongs under patient safety, and how mortality risk cl
- StandardSummaries onlyDigital Health Talks : Pediatric AI at Scale On How Valley Children's Is Closing the Care Gap
Published Aug 7, 2026
Digital Health TalksPediatric AI at Scale: How Valley Children's Is Closing the Care Gap in California's Central Valley Host: Janae Sharp Guests: Joe Egan, CIO of Valley Children's Healthcare AI in pediatric healthcare is often talk, not delivery. Joe Egan, CIO of Valley Children's Healthcare, walks through the three layers of AI his team runs today, and how each one turns clinician time back into access for kids. In this conversation: • The three-layer AI model Valley Children's uses: assist, inform, and act, sort
- StandardSummaries onlyDigital Health Talks: Pediatric Telehealth That Actually Works
Published Jul 30, 2026
Digital Health TalksPediatric Telehealth That Actually Works: 24/7 Access, All 50 States, Real Outcomes Host: Janae Sharp Guests: Lyndsey Garbi, MD, co-founder and CMO of Blueberry Pediatrics Pediatric access is broken, and parents, payers, and health systems are all feeling it. Lyndsey Garbi, MD, co-founder and CMO of Blueberry Pediatrics, joins Megan Antonelli to talk about what 24/7 pediatric telehealth actually looks like at national scale, what the at-home diagnostic kit changes for families, and why the licen
- StandardSummaries onlyDigital Health Talks: Winning Mobility On How AVA Mobility Is Redefining Aging in Place
Published Jul 24, 2026
Digital Health TalksWinning Mobility: How AVA Mobility Is Redefining Aging in Place Host: Janae Sharp Guests: Hamed Tabkhi and Mona Azarbayjani, Foresight Cares. Winners of the Charlotte Innovation Day Pitch Competition Join host Janae Sharp for a conversation with Hamed Tabkhi and Mona Azarbayjani, as they explore how ForesightCares is transforming the future of aging with AI-driven mobility insights for older adults, caregivers, and clinicians. We'll dive into AVA Mobility, their AI-powered, at-home mobility awar