42 standout conversations with the executives, clinicians, and founders building the future of care — curated from across the industry.
NVIDIA's healthcare lead maps how AI and robotics could offset clinician shortages — spanning ambient documentation, agentic imaging workflows, drug discovery, and surgical robotics across the patient journey.
“This is essentially giving superpowers.”
How miniaturized metasurface optics deliver real-time imaging from inside a biopsy needle to cut lung cancer biopsy error rates — plus funding and the path to commercialization.
“Lung cancer kills more than the next three cancers combined.”
Reflections on integrating Spectrum Health and Beaumont Health into one system — culture-building, quality gains, financial pressures, and a lab joint venture with Quest Diagnostics.
Concrete AI deployments across a major system — from flagging patients due for preventive screenings to ambient documentation and automated insurance appeal drafting, alongside an Epic EHR transition.
“It's here. It's real.”
Why AI represents a bigger transition than the move to EHRs — building flexible infrastructure, setting an AI vision and governance, and why executives should personally use AI tools.
“We are at the beginning of a third era – the AI era.”
The physician-comedian on using his platform to spotlight corporate consolidation in medicine, medical misinformation, and how physicians behave on social media.
“We need to keep medicine local.”
Why AI will ease the radiologist shortage by handling routine reads cheaply and accurately — as an augmentation of physicians, not a replacement.
“AI can read that correctly 99.97% of the time.”
How a community health system pursues AI adoption without weakening its security posture — cloud migration, AI governance and ethics, ransomware threats, and automation against clinician burnout.
“Our independence hinges on being innovative yet resilient.”
Why healthcare AI succeeds only when embedded in real clinical and operational workflows — compliance, clinician trust, change management, and the cross-functional teamwork needed to scale.
“AI in healthcare only works when it is built for real workflows.”
Treating a migration to Oracle Health as a chance to redesign workflows and the hospital's whole operating model, layering in AI-driven documentation to improve clinician experience.
“The EHR decision wasn't a software decision.”
A deliberately two-speed AI strategy — moving quickly where value is proven while keeping governance and ethics reviews slow and careful, favoring tools that augment staff over autonomous ones.
“Our strategy is more augmented AI.”
AI's potential for public health analytics, gaps in federal health data collection, privacy concerns, and eroding public trust in the public health system.
“These new technologies are game changers in terms of analyzing data.”
Steering a medical imaging device company through a decade-long FDA clearance path — and lessons on raising venture money in tightly regulated health markets.
Building a consumer-facing 'storefront' for healthcare — applying PillPack's lessons on price transparency, AI, and ease of access to a much bigger slice of medicine.
“It's a very similar strategy to PillPack.”
Debunking common physician fears about AI — why ambient documentation cuts administrative burden but must never erode clinicians' own judgment.
“If people give up critical thinking, that's gonna be a real problem.”
Why health systems face more danger from slow AI adoption than hasty rollouts — and the case for platform-level automation across the enterprise instead of scattered point tools.
“The risk is not moving too fast with AI, but moving too slow.”
Using AI to automate referral intake and insurance verification so patients aren't stuck waiting weeks — and why fax remains stubbornly embedded in healthcare operations.
“No one should have to wait weeks to get care.”
How fragmented healthcare data infrastructure is holding back AI — and what a functioning national data ecosystem for research and life sciences would look like.
Rightway's growth numbers and its pitch as a transparent, aligned alternative to the big three pharmacy benefit managers — with member experience and drug cost savings at the center.
“Become the clear alternative to the Big 3 PBMs.”
Why Weight Watchers' calorie-counting model collapsed on its own merits rather than because of GLP-1s — and the case for durable weight loss as a metabolic problem treated through nutrition-based care.
Applying AI and analytics to physician recruitment and graduate medical education — from residency interview scheduling to broader workforce and retention tools.
“The average hospital spends $250,000 in direct costs recruiting a doctor.”
Building membership-based concierge clinics for diabetes with continuous coaching, easier specialist access, and neighborhood locations — a fix for episodic traditional chronic care.
“Diabetes doesn't clock in and out—it's with you every day.”
Fraud patterns in non-emergency medical transportation — and how GPS tracking and automated eligibility checks cut waste while keeping patients safer.
GE HealthCare's digital portfolio at HIMSS25 — cloud-first and hybrid strategies for imaging, enterprise and vendor-neutral archives, edge computing, and a forthcoming cloud diagnostic viewer.
Bringing frontline nurses into technology decisions — change management for new clinical tools, streamlining documentation, and nurse well-being during digital transformation.
“It is all about vetting it with nurses; it is the change management.”
How Samsung's devices integrate with EHRs, its smart patient room concept, and how mobile touchpoints and AI make clinicians more efficient at the point of care.
athenahealth's AI product line — its Ambient Notes documentation tool, how it positions against ambient AI competitors, and what it showcased at HIMSS25.
“It truly changes how that physician engages with the patient.”
The ambient AI documentation company's rapid revenue growth, opening its platform to other health tech firms, and a strategic pivot toward service quality over pure sales.
“The biggest competition I have is me. Can I serve myself?”
How hospitals' attitudes toward digital transformation have matured, where AI can realistically help amid workforce shortages, and why interoperability remains a stubborn obstacle.
“People get it now. They see it.”
The case for vendor-neutral interoperability and connected hospital environments — workflow automation, virtual care's evolution, and where AI fits into care-team operations.
“The future of healthcare depends on vendor-neutral interoperability.”
Optimism about AI in clinical documentation and virtual nursing at ViVE 2025 — and how the system hardened its cybersecurity after a 2023 ransomware attack.
How the interoperability company is adapting to TEFCA and the QHIN ecosystem, securing data exchange, and its cloud partnership plans.
“We think of QHINs as another way to connect.”
A JPM sit-down on which AI applications interest one of America's most innovative systems — ambient documentation, AI-assisted nurse-patient engagement, and easing nursing shortages while keeping care human.
“Tools will create space that allow clinicians to do their job better.”
A year-end review of the digital health market — funding settling near $10B, AI absorbing most investor attention, muted M&A, and incumbents plus large VCs consolidating influence.
The scale of ransomware attacks against healthcare, their measurable harm to patient outcomes, the cybersecurity talent shortage, and AI's dual role in attack and defense.
“If this were a disease, it would be a pandemic.”
Why the health system raised its AI budget, its shift from experimentation to a mature AI strategy, and the governance guardrails managing bias, privacy, and workforce anxiety.
“AI will replace physicians that do not use AI.”
Why legacy systems and weak standardization still block clean data exchange — and how no-code integration tools plus managed services can close the gap.
The growing burden of claim denials and prior authorization on US providers — and where automation, AI, and payer-provider collaboration can relieve the administrative load.
“Providers spend, on average, 35% of their time on prior authorizations.”
Helping female scientists move from academia into digital health leadership — and reconciling scientific rigor with startup product timelines and evidence-building.
“Product development IS science!”
Moving an insurer's core operations to cloud infrastructure with Microsoft and Salesforce — and how real-time data powers its Care Connect platform to close care gaps.
“The cloud can bring the healthcare sector into the digital age.”
Why most stumbling blocks in clinical AI rollouts trace back to data governance and change management rather than the technology itself — and balancing innovation with reliability.
“That's not a technology issue. It's a data issue.”
Priorities from Delta Dental's first female CEO — provider partnerships, employee engagement, and the overlooked links between oral health and whole-body health.
“The ability to listen, to discern, and then to lay out a vision.”
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