Straight Outta Health IT

00:38:56

Your Doctor, Delivered: How AI & Satellites Are...

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2026/03/10

AI could become the greatest equalizer in healthcare if we use it the right way.In this episode of Straight Out of Health IT, Dr. Harvey Castro, a physician, entrepreneur, and CEO of 8 free-standing ERs, a medical billing and physician staffing company, and a strategic advisor to ChatGPT and healthcare, discusses how artificial intelligence is poised to transform global healthcare access and delivery. He shares how discovering ChatGPT in 2022 immediately convinced him that AI would reshape medicine

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00:53:28

The Real Talk on Value-Based Care: Why Most...

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2026/03/03

Value-based care can improve outcomes and lower costs, but only when the incentives, workflows, and data all pull in the same direction.In this episode of Straight Outta Health IT, Dr. Shannon Decker, founder and CEO of VBC One, unpacks the good, the bad, and the ugly of value-based care and what it takes to succeed beyond the buzzwords. She explains why many organizations struggle when they jump in without true readiness, especially when contracts shift risk faster than teams can build the

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00:58:43

The Caregiver's Voice: Technology, Advocacy, and the...

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2026/02/24

Caregiving for Alzheimer’s isn’t just hard; it’s isolating, invisible, and full of grief that never gets a clean ending.In this episode, Dr. Caron Leid, counselor, educator, author, and caregiver advocate, discusses how her mother’s early Alzheimer’s diagnosis and later aphasia changed everything and how the system largely left her to figure it out alone. She names the ambiguous grief of losing a parent in slow motion, and the emotional whiplash of being a daughter while also becoming the

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00:48:26

Signals, Not Noise: How Founders Can Become the...

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2026/02/17

Strategic credibility is what turns a strong health tech product into a clear yes for buyers, investors, and health systems.In this episode, Sabrina Runbeck, a healthcare media strategist, explores why innovative founders often remain invisible and how to become an obvious choice in a crowded market. She explains how many leaders mistake credentials for credibility, getting stuck in a “hyper-achiever” loop of collecting titles instead of demonstrating real market impact. Sabrina also highlights

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00:45:34

The State Of AI Analytics In Healthcare: A Global...

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2026/02/10

AI in healthcare has moved past the hype, and leaders are now demanding real value, accountability, and global perspective.In this episode of Straight Out of Health IT, Jeffery Heenan-Jalil, CEO of hunterAI, talks about the global evolution of AI analytics in healthcare and what it takes to move from experimentation to real impact. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience leading analytics and technology initiatives across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America, Jeffery explains why healthcare

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00:42:49

Exposing Dementia Through Creative Arts with Chuck Brown

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2026/02/03

Dementia is both a growing national crisis and a profound health equity issue, with African Americans facing nearly double the risk of Alzheimer’s disease compared to white Americans.In this episode of Straight Out of Health IT, Chuck Brown, founder of Expose Dementia, shares how his personal journey caring for his aunt with dementia led him to confront his own lack of awareness and ultimately to found Expose Dementia, an organization that uses the arts, media, and storytelling to educate, reduce

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00:43:54

Jelani's Legacy - Raising Awareness About Renal...

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2026/01/27

Rare diseases like renal medullary carcinoma demand earlier awareness, stronger advocacy, and faster specialist-driven care because delays can be deadly.In this episode, Tanisha Washington, the mother of Jelani Washington and a family advocate, shares her son’s sudden diagnosis and passing from renal medullary carcinoma (RMC), a rare and highly aggressive kidney cancer strongly linked to sickle cell trait. She recounts his first symptoms, abdominal pain and severe blood in the urine, and how imaging

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00:44:13

Cybersecurity in the age of artificial intelligence...

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2026/01/20

AI is revolutionizing healthcare, but it’s also giving cybercriminals unprecedented speed, scale, and precision.In this episode of Straight Out of Health IT, Ali Pabrai, Chief Executive Officer at ecfirst, explores how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing cybersecurity risk management in healthcare. While AI is accelerating innovation in diagnostics, workflows, and operations, it is also expanding attack surfaces through new data flows, third-party tools, and global supply chains. Despite

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00:40:46

Interviews from 2025 South Florida HIMSS IntegraTe...

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2026/01/13

Healthcare startups don’t fail because their tech isn’t cool, they fail because they don’t understand how healthcare actually buys, governs, and deploys change. In this episode, Sohail Azeem, principal consultant at South Star Consulting, discusses his path from Texas Children’s Hospital operations and NICU leadership to COO/CEO roles, then into entrepreneurship supporting telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and chronic care programs. He explains the most common startup pitfall he sees: obsessing

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00:26:59

Interviews from 2025 South Florida HIMSS IntegraTe...

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2025/12/30

AI, interoperability, and real-world readiness are converging to define the next era of healthcare IT. In this episode, Shaman Akhtar, Mike Costa, and Tom Stafford break down the challenges and opportunities shaping healthcare IT, as well as the growing need for true downtime resilience.Shaman Akhtar, senior leader at ELLKAY, discusses how interoperability remains a “data plumbing” problem, warning that even with HL7 and FHIR, vendors still “speak different dialects,” creating ongoing challenges in

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00:49:21

AI-Powered Real-World Data: Unlocking the EHR for...

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2025/12/23

What if the key to curing today’s most complex diseases has been hiding in plain sight inside electronic health records all along?In this episode of Straight Out of Health IT, Vish Srivastava, CEO of Century Health, explores how artificial intelligence can unlock the vast potential of real-world healthcare data that has long been trapped inside electronic health records. He explains why traditional clinical trials, although essential, often fail to accurately reflect how treatments perform across

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00:56:40

Navigating the Digital Health Legal Landscape with...

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2025/12/02

Brilliant digital health ideas die every day, not because of technology, but because founders ignore the legal and regulatory realities of healthcare.In this episode, Dr. Stephanie D. Barnes, Senior Counsel at Nixon Law Group, discusses how digital health entrepreneurs can navigate the complex intersection of law, regulation, and innovation without jeopardizing their company's growth before it scales. She shares her journey from traditional health law to innovation and explains why every startup

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00:26:10

Redefining Postpartum Care: From Pain to Purpose with...

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2025/11/18

The mother needs care too, not just the baby.In this episode, Brittany Starobin, founder of Haven Postnatal Retreat, discusses how her own battle with postpartum depression, including suicidal thoughts, led her to create a space that prioritizes mothers’ recovery during the “fourth trimester.” She explores the U.S. maternal health crisis, particularly its disproportionate impact on Black and Brown women, and how systemic inequities, lack of support, and cultural stigma contribute to worsening

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00:39:38

Care for the Caregivers: Technology, Training, and...

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2025/11/11

Family caregivers are the unsung heroes holding America’s healthcare system together.In this episode, Dr. Barry Jacobs, a clinical psychologist, family therapist, and author of The AARP Caregiver Answer Book, discusses the emotional, financial, and logistical realities faced by family caregivers, who often serve as the silent backbone of elder care in the U.S. Dr. Jacobs shares his deeply personal journey, from losing his father at 15 to years of caring for aging parents and in-laws, revealing how

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00:41:02

Digital Redemption: Technology as a Lifeline for...

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2025/11/04

What if technology could be the key to healing trauma instead of deepening it?In this episode of Straight Out of Health IT, Dr. Brook Bello, a champion against human trafficking, a national policy advocate, a technology thought leader, and founder of the More too Life Foundation, and the visionary behind VR Eval Incorporated and the Coming Home Platform, shares how she’s redefining trauma recovery through innovation. As the visionary behind VR Eval Incorporated and the Coming Home Platform, Dr

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01:03:24

Interviews from 2025 Southeasten Healthcare...

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2025/10/24

Disciplined, purpose-driven innovation, anchored in governance, data, and the human experience, beats shiny-object hype.In this mega-episode, Lisa Fry, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at SCP Health, discusses “purposeful innovation” that reduces clinician burden and elevates patient experience: ED-volume prediction to align coverage, early pilots of ambient scribing, and patient-preferred models like hospital-at-home. She explains the guardrails, an enterprise architecture review board,

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00:53:06

Interviews from 2025 Southeasten Healthcare...

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2025/10/24

From reshaping healthcare through innovation and AI to navigating complex mergers, regulations, and public health challenges, this special compilation brings together leading voices who are driving transformation in every corner of the healthcare ecosystem.At the Southeastern Healthcare Innovation Summit, attorney Benjamin Wilson explored the critical intersection of healthcare, technology, and regulation. He emphasized that success in mergers and acquisitions hinges on early collaboration between

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00:44:12

AI at the Crossroads: What Healthcare Leaders shared...

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2025/10/14

AI is rapidly reshaping healthcare, but the future will depend on how it is implemented responsibly, equitably, and intelligently.In this special crossover episode of Straight Outta Health IT and HIMSSCast, hosts Christopher Kunney, Mike Miliard, and Susan Morse sit down with two health innovation leaders, Dr. Ryan Sadeghian, Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer and practicing pediatrician at the University of Toledo, and Rachini Moosavi, Chief Analytics Officer at UNC Health. Together, they

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00:30:01

The AI Prescription: Redesigning Drug Development at...

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2025/09/22

The race to harness AI in biopharma is on, with billions invested to unlock faster, smarter drug discovery and development.In this episode of Straight Out of Health IT, Matthew Studney, SVP, Global R&D IT & Partnerships at Merck, shares how his team is strengthening foundational platforms, upgrading systems, and driving digital transformation across discovery, development, clinical research, and pharmacovigilance. He explains how Merck is reimagining the flow of data, ensuring access for

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00:33:38

The Startup Protocol: Building the Next Generation of...

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2025/09/09

The most common mistake healthtech founders make is building a great product without aligning it to market, regulatory, and reimbursement realities.In this episode, Sally Ann Frank, Global Health and Life Sciences Lead for Microsoft Startups, discusses her journey from computer science to healthcare innovation and how she helps early-stage companies thrive in the complex healthtech landscape. She reflects on milestones like IoT-driven remote monitoring, the growing centrality of AI, and the cultural

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