The DocBuddy Journal

There's a disconnect between what physicians think private equity wants and what private equity actually wants. The headlines scream "corporate takeover," but the reality on the ground is different. Host Erik Sunset, CRO at DocBuddy, sits down with John Tiedmann Jr., Managing Director at Physician Growth Partners, to break down the M&A landscape for physician practices in 2026. This isn't about whether PE is good or bad for healthcare - it's about why PE partnerships might be one of the ...

Host Erik sits down with Dr. Peter Stetson, Chief Medical Information Officer at TigerConnect, to discuss the unsolved problem that's been hiding in plain sight: care orchestration. This isn't about better EHRs or more tech tools. It's about what happens when doctors, nurses, surgeons, and entire care teams can't effectively communicate with each other—and what it costs patients when they can't. Clinicians shouldn't be middleware. Yet that's exactly what healthcare systems have forced them t...

Healthcare organizations want AI. Everyone does. But there's a problem: they're waiting for a guarantee that's never coming. Host Erik sits down with Marten den Haring, Ph.D., MSc, CEO of Lirio, to address the elephant in the room. Health systems are showing up to conferences asking, "What AI product should we buy?" when they should be asking, "What problem are we actually trying to solve?" That's not a subtle difference - it's the difference between transformation and a new expense on the P...

In this episode of the DocBuddy Journal, host Erik Sunset digs into a new real-world case study showing what happened when DocBuddy Op Note rolled out across all 12 sites. Every center improved. Every center landed between 1.66 and 2.82 days to bill. The network average dropped from 9.31 days down to 2.21 — a 76% reduction. Erik explains why the transcription step is the hidden source of variability in ASC billing performance, what it means to make a network predictable rather than just fast...

Host Erik Sunset sits down with Marc Ryan, Strategic Advisor and GM at MediSolv and author of The Healthcare Labyrinth, to break down a serious, bipartisan healthcare reform proposal that's actually achievable. Links from the show: https://www.healthcarelabyrinth.com/ https://lilacsoftware.com/ https://go.medisolv.com/medisolv-here-conference-2025?utm_term=&utm_campaign=QualityIQ+Risk+Assessment&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=8432151558&hsa_cam=23680795648&a...