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Health Innovation Matters is a biweekly, 30-minute podcast focusing on the next generation of healthcare innovators and movers-and-shakers who are disrupting the healthcare space. This podcast is all about increasing awareness of future health trends, accelerating technologies, and art and design perspectives. The podcast also provides a forum for elevating public discourse on ways healthcare can be more accessible, less costly, and more efficient. You'll hear about dynamic collaborations, breathtaking technological breakthroughs, and cutting edge developments in the newest medical fields, including regenerative medicine, digital health, precision health, advanced cellular therapies, advances in nutrition, nutrigenomics and sustainable energy as it pertains to creating a health future that is equitable. You'll hear from innovators, entrepreneurs, leaders, decision-makers, policymakers, educators, investors, and inventors. This is a health innovation podcast about results, about success stories, about possibilities.
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From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Dr. Colin Banas, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst, and Jenna Hagan, Vice President of Product Marketing at NextGen Healthcare. Together, they discuss the significant scale of prescription abandonment, how DrFirst and NextGen Healthcare are addressing that issue, how prescribing workflow integration works inside NextGen's Enterprise EHR, how that engagement changes the dynamic between prescribers and patients, the future of the partnership between DrFirst and NextGen Healthcare, and much more. Learn more about DrFirst at www.drfirst.com. Learn more about NextGen Healthcare at www.nextgen.com.
From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Russell Teague, Chief Strategy and Security Officer of Fortified Health Security. Together, they discuss what's happening across the healthcare cybersecurity space right now; how the healthcare threat environment has evolved recently; trends in detection, containment, and overall impact of cyber incidents; how healthcare leaders are thinking about readiness and response; the biggest challenges healthcare organizations will face moving forward; and much more. Learn more about Fortified Health Security at www.fortifiedhealthsecurity.com.
From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Dr. Joel Salamon, Medical Director of Pain Management at ModMed. Together, they discuss ModMed's products and services, how they differ from other software providers, why specialty-specific software is critical in healthcare and how it differs from general-purpose AI solutions, how customers are using ModMed's tools, feedback from customers in the pain management space, how the company teaches real physicians how to code, how ModMed uses AI for how medicine actually works, and much more. Learn more about ModMed at www.modmed.com.
From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Dan McDonald, Co-Founder and CEO of 86Borders. Together, they discuss the impetus for starting 86Borders, what actually drives meaningful engagement with health plans, why members often struggle to connect with health plans, why human connection is important amid the automated outreach landscape, how Dan measures success for members and health plans, and much more. Learn more about 86Borders at www.86borders.com.
From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Michael Meucci, President and CEO of Arcadia. Together, they discuss Arcadia's role in the healthcare ecosystem, the biggest gaps between what vendors are promising and what organizations can operationalize, what accountable AI looks like in practice, the most common AI execution failures, what infrastructure must be in place to scale AI responsibly, and much more. Learn more about Arcadia at www.arcadia.io.
From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Dr. Rihan Javid, President and Co-Founder of Edge and Rinova AI. Together, they discuss the shift from clinical to administrative in healthcare's workforce crisis; Edge's recent survey findings on administrative workflows, compliance, revenue cycles, scheduling, and documentation; risks surrounding administrative backlogs; healthcare's struggles to find qualified administrative staff; innovative strategies to address administrative capacity gaps; and much more.
From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Jim Jacobs, President and CEO of MediQuant. Together, they discuss MediQuant's role in the healthcare ecosystem, problems the company is solving for CIOs and clinical leaders, how clinical summaries and AI change the way legacy data supports care, why it's important for health systems to think about applications and archived data together, and much more. Learn more about MediQuant at www.mediquant.com.
From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Eric Clauss, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at OmniTrust. Together, they discuss "hidden" security gaps in connected medical devices, how manufacturers should think about trust across the full device life cycle, what a secure update program looks like for medical devices, areas in which hospitals and manufacturers may disagree when it comes to security ownership, priority capabilities for health innovators in 2026, and much more. Learn more about OmniTrust at www.omnitrust.com.
Recorded live at HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael sits down with Sagnik Bhattacharya, CEO of Rhapsody, about the infrastructure healthcare needs to support the next wave of AI innovation. Together, they discuss the debut of Rhapsody Axon, the industry's growing shift toward agent-driven workflows, why solving interoperability challenges remains essential to scaling AI across clinical and operational systems, and much more. Learn more about Rhapsody at rhapsody.health.
From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Nihal Titan, Vice President of Claim.MD. Together, they discuss the role of clearinghouses in healthcare, the impact of the Change Healthcare cyber attack on the industry, what that attack led providers to realize about their billing infrastructure, what "strategic redundancy" is and why it's important in healthcare billing, blind spots in revenue cycle management, and much more. Learn more about Claim.MD at www.claim.md.
Michael chats with David Cottingham, President of rf IDEAS. Together, they discuss how health systems can protect themselves from the rising threat of cyber attacks, especially in the fast-paced age of AI; how more secure authentication methods can transform healthcare workflows; how rf IDEAS empowers organizations across industries to elevate efficiency while simplifying security; and much more. Connect with David and rf IDEAS at HIMSS at Booth #2258.
From ViVE 2026 in Los Angeles, Michael chats with Conrad Gudmundson, Chief Commercial Officer at Lucem Health about how health systems are navigating growing financial and operational pressure, and where AI is beginning to make a measurable difference. Together, they discuss why organizations are partnering with Lucem to invest in earlier risk identification, what some health leaders may be underestimating when it comes to moving AI from pilot to practice, how organizations will separate themselves through AI success, and much more. Learn more about Lucem Health at www.LucemHealth.com.
From ViVE 2026 in Los Angeles, Michael chats with John Kirkman, Vice President of Government, Healthcare, and Education at Island. Together, they discuss how CIOs and CISOs can show that their approach to AI governance is working; the playbook for securing AI-assisted workflows; overcoming the biggest "shadow AI" risk today; how CIOs are modernizing their systems while still relying on essential legacy applications; uncovering blind spots for managing third parties and contractor access; and much more.
From ViVE 2026 in Los Angeles, Michael chats with Rafiq Ahmed, CEO and Co-founder of Serif Health. Together, they discuss how Rafiq uncovered the need to make healthcare pricing more transparent; his vision amid launching Serif Health and price transparency regulation; why price transparency data lacks accessibility; what's at stake if organizations aren't taking advantage of good transparency data; how Serif Health's approach to data quality sets it apart from other platforms; what the future of healthcare price transparency looks like moving forward; and much more.
From ViVE 2026 in Los Angeles, Michael chats with Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, Chief Strategy Officer at DirectTrust. Together, they discuss DirectTrust's role in healthcare interoperability and trust; the biggest trust and interoperability challenges healthcare organizations are facing today; how the conversation around security and identity has shifted recently; how trust and governance fit into the healthcare AI landscape; and much more.
From ViVE 2026 in Los Angeles, Michael chats with Kassaundra McKnight-Young, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Zebra Technologies. Together, they discuss how Kassaundra's frontline clinical experience has shaped her approach to innovation at Zebra; workflow and patient safety challenges facing clinicians today; key features of Zebra's DS82-HC handheld scanner; how doctors, nurses, and other clinicians are using Zebra solutions in real-world settings and the impact on patient care; how Zebra's technologies can help reduce stress and support care teams under pressure; and much more. Learn more about Zebra Technologies at https://www.zebra.com/us/en.html.
Michael chats with Rick Pinero, General Manager of W&H North America. Together, they discuss why W&H's Piezo & Drill Combination Console, the first FDA-cleared system in the U.S. that combines piezo technology and a surgical drill, is so significant for facial plastic and rhinoplasty surgery. They also dive into how the combined system solves issues for surgeons, including how it improves precision and soft-tissue safety; how the combination console influences operative efficiency, control, and post-operative recovery; what this innovation could mean for the future of surgical technology; how W&H is shaping that future; and much more. Learn more about W&H's Piezo & Drill Combination Console: med.wh.com/en_na/medical-products/surgery/surgical-devices/piezomed-pro Available through W&H's exclusive U.S. distribution partner, Marina Medical: marinamedical.com/whpiezo Follow W&H Medical: LinkedIn / Instagram
Michael chats with Dr. Rohan Lall, Neurosurgeon and Medical Director of Community Neurosurgery for M Health Fairview. Together, they discuss Rohan's involvement in a key clinical trial for back pain treatment; what an e-TLIF procedure is and how patients and surgeons prep for it; achieving positive patient outcomes in robotic and other modern spinal surgeries; how SynerFuse, a Minneapolis-based medical device company, is developing effective neuromodulation for patients undergoing spinal surgeries; how these technologies are helping to reduce reliance on prescribed opioids; and much more.
Michael chats with Parker Phillips, Chief Technology Officer at InStride Health. Together, they discuss InStride's care model and how the company's tech platform is built to support it; how the company's tech and model have evolved in concert; how the technology enhances care team collaboration and coordination; AI's role in InStride's platform and where it could be headed; ensuring behavioral care stays human-centered moving forward; and much more. To learn more about InStride Health, visit InStride.Health.
Michael chats with Tara Murphy, Vice President of Marketing at Channel Medsystems, Inc. Together, they discuss Tara's background and how she came into her role at the company; the commercialization of the company's flagship product, Cerene, an endometrial cryotherapy device; how market development, brand strategies, and patient engagement have fallen short over the years and how they're evolving; and much more. To learn more about Cerene, visit www.cerene.com.
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