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Recorded live at ViVE 2026 in Los Angeles, Bradley Bostic sits down with Dave Newman (Digital Health) and Brad Reimer (CIO) from Sanford Health to explore how one of the nation's largest rural health systems is redefining care delivery.

Serving 2 million patients across 320,000 square miles, Sanford Health is proving that innovation doesn't only happen in major urban health systems. From virtual care infrastructure funded by a $350M investment to AI tools that restore the human connection between doctors and patients, Sanford is building a new model for rural healthcare.

The conversation explores how virtual care, AI, and data governance are helping clinicians spend more time with patients while expanding access across the Upper Midwest.

A key insight: technology works best when it returns healthcare to what matters most — the relationship between doctor and patient.

Recorded live at ViVE, Marcus Gordon guest hosts for Bradley Bostic and talks with Amy Gleason about where healthcare AI is actually headed—and what has to be true for it to work.

We've been "empowering patients" for a long time in theory. AI is the first thing that's made it feel real at scale. But Amy makes a key point: if AI doesn't have the right data under it, it's basically just a faster version of "Dr. Google."

This episode gets into interoperability, why standards still matter, what privacy and consent should look like in plain English, and how patients could use AI to navigate care anytime—like a Saturday night when you're not sure if something is urgent.

Amy also shares a personal story about her daughter using AI to review old records, spot a misclassification, and reopen a path into a clinical trial. It's a great reminder: the future isn't just chatbots. It's access + context + trust.

• Why AI is finally making patient empowerment real
• The "Dr. Google" problem (and how to get past it)
• Why interoperability is the foundation for personalized AI
• Why standards like FHIR still matter
• What "clear consent" should look like for patients
• How AI can surface insights buried in years of medical history
• What healthcare could look like when patients can get help anytime 

Recorded live at ViVE, Bradley Bostic sits down with Aneesh Chopra, the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States, entrepreneur, and former Obama administration tech leader who helped open up Medicare data to the public.

This conversation explores what happens when government transparency, private-sector innovation, and AI collide.

Aneesh shares:

• Why "open data" in healthcare became the default and why it was always bipartisan

• How his company CareJourney turned Medicare data into physician performance intelligence and why it mattered

• What "outcomes as a service" could mean for the next era of payment reform

• A real-world example of AI voice agents helping a medical center jump from 2 to 4 Stars in 90 days

• Why actuarial math alone won't scale value based care

• The concept of a "health information fiduciary" aligned with patients, not billing codes

• How AI front ends could deliver high-touch engagement to every patient, not just the highest risk 10 to 15 percent

Aneesh makes a bold claim:

We constrain care today because it is labor intensive.

But if AI agents can deliver hundreds of touchpoints per week, escalate when necessary, and guide patients along protocol driven pathways, value based care becomes abundant and scalable at a fraction of the cost.

He is not talking about theory. He is already using conversational AI to securely summarize his own medical record and labs.

The infrastructure is here. The data is open. The agents are live.

The only question is whether we will align incentives fast enough to let this scale.

Blood Health Is the Bottleneck (with Sherri Ozawa) — World Anemia Awareness Day Special

Summary

Ahead of World Anemia Awareness Day (Feb 13), we're resurfacing a timely conversation with Sherri Ozawa, Director of Clinical Operations and Delivery at hc1, on blood health and Patient Blood Management (PBM). We unpack why blood health is often overlooked, where decisions break down in real workflows, and what it takes to make PBM programs stick.

Note: This is an updated video cut. Audio is unchanged from the original release.

In this episode

• PBM in plain English: what it is and why it matters
• Why anemia and iron deficiency are often missed
• Where blood-related decisions break down (screening, handoffs, follow-through)
• What "good" looks like when PBM is built into workflow—not added on
• Practical steps teams can take to improve consistency and execution

About the guest

Sherri Ozawa is the Director of Clinical Operations and Delivery at hc1. She works at the intersection of clinical execution and operational adoption—helping teams turn good ideas into repeatable workflows.

Resources

• World Anemia Awareness Day: https://worldanemiaawareness.com/
• ASPBM: https://aspbm.net/
• CAP TODAY (Aug 2025): https://www.captodaymag.com/captoday/...

Disclaimer This episode is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice.

Insurance funded therapy often ends fast. Recovery does not.

In this follow up episode, Bradley Bostic talks with Chris Leeuw, CEO of NeuroHope, about the "rehab cliff" facing spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, and MS patients when they leave inpatient care and quickly run out of covered visits.

Chris shares what NeuroHope is building in Indianapolis to keep recovery going: a model that blends skilled therapy, trained kinesiologists, adaptive fitness, and a true community so patients can continue progressing long after insurance stops paying.

They also unpack the expanding vision behind the Driven Neuro Recovery Center, developed with the Conquer Paralysis Now, and why this kind of recovery ecosystem is becoming essential infrastructure for the disability community.

• Why "30 visits" is not neuro recovery

• How NeuroHope makes long term therapy more affordable after coverage runs out

• What's changed since last year including 30 percent growth in services

• Early outcomes from a two year study tracking complications and readmissions

• Why community is often the difference between surviving and thriving

• What's emerging in rehab tech including trans spinal stimulation and what it could unlock

• The bigger campus vision and what partners could help make possible

  Help NeuroHope close the rehab gap

  If you believe recovery should not end when insurance does, here are three simple ways to help:

  1. Watch and share this episode
     Send it to one person navigating stroke, spinal cord injury, or brain injury recovery, or to a clinician who needs a better option to refer to.

  2. Support NeuroHope's mission
     NeuroHope relies on community support to keep long term therapy accessible after coverage runs out. If you're able, consider donating or becoming a sponsor.

  3. Partner in Indianapolis
     NeuroHope is building a broader recovery ecosystem and is looking for aligned partners across adaptive sports, mental health, vocational rehab, DME, and innovative rehab technology.

     Guest

     Chris Leeuw is the CEO of NeuroHope, focused on expanding access to long term neuro recovery through therapy, wellness, and community.

   

• View the NeuroHope Wellness Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k5p3kLL2_A
• Learn more about NeuroHope: https://www.neurohopewellness.org/

🤔 Did you know that 30-50% of Americans lack access to primary care? That's a staggering number!

Bradley Bostic sits down with Matthew Holt (The Health Care Blog) for a blunt diagnosis of what's broken in U.S. healthcare and a concrete, numbers-driven proposal to fix it. Holt doesn't just complain. He names incentives, calls out the money flows, and lays out a primary-care "voucher" model designed to cut downstream costs while making primary care a top-tier, high-status job again.

If your organization is still treating primary care like a loss leader and "leakage" like a KPI, this one will sting (in the right way).

Timestamps

00:00 – 01:20 HLTH 2025 setup + dark humor about "keeping subscribers alive"

01:20 – 05:30 Holt's blunt system diagnosis + "nonprofit" and executive pay critique (UPMC example)

05:30 – 08:45 Primary care access crisis + why the ER becomes the default front door

08:45 – 10:50 "Leakage" + the referral-engine reality inside employed primary care

10:50 – 13:15 The concierge-for-all voucher model (the simple math)

13:15 – 16:30 Bradley connects it to value-based care + incentive shifts

16:30 – 18:10 Wrap: fewer complaints, more solutions + where to follow Holt

What you'll hear

Why the U.S. system is expensive by design — and why consumers carry the anxiety.

The uncomfortable truth about "nonprofit" health systems, executive comp, and transparency.

How primary care got turned into a referral engine for high-margin services. 

Holt's two-step path to reform, including a "concierge-for-all" model with simple math behind it.

Where this intersects with value-based care… and where today's versions still fall short.

To learn more about The Healthcare Blog, visit here: https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/category/health-tech/matthew-holt/

Guest: Fawad, Founder & CEO, Penguin AI (former CDO/data leader across major payer/provider organizations)

Healthcare isn't broke because we lack innovation. It's broke because we spend a staggering amount of money moving paper, arguing over rules, and chasing "documentation" instead of outcomes.

From the HC1 booth at Health 2025 in Vegas, Bradley sits down with Fawad—a veteran healthcare data operator turned founder—to talk about the real enemy: administrative waste at trillion-dollar scale… and why slapping GPT on top of messy systems just gives us a confident-sounding parrot.

Penguin AI is building an AI-first healthcare platform designed to run workflows end-to-end across payers and providers—prior auth, revenue cycle, claims, coding, and more—without forcing teams to become AI engineers.

• Why "AI in healthcare" is mostly theater if your data is fragmented, dirty, and politically guarded

• The uncomfortable truth: administration is the cost center eating the system alive

• Why GPT can sound brilliant and still be dangerously wrong ("a very smart fairy")

• The case for healthcare-specific platforms (not generic clouds + hope)

• Why "payer vs provider" is an outdated segmentation—and processes prove it

• Founder reality: leaving big-title comfort for the zero-to-one grind

• The Penguin story: branding that grabs attention and signals how hard healthcare change really is

1) If your AI strategy starts with a chatbot, you're already late.
Start with the workflow. Start with the administrative bottlenecks. Then decide what intelligence belongs inside.

2) "Dr. GPT" is confident, not accountable.
Fawad's warning is simple: models generate plausible language from what they've seen. In healthcare, plausible can still be wrong—and wrong has consequences.

3) The real prize isn't automating tasks. It's removing friction across the payer–provider boundary.
Prior auth doesn't "belong" to one side. Neither does claims. Neither does adjudication. The process crosses the membrane—so the platform has to, too.

4) Healthcare doesn't need more AI demos. It needs clean, longitudinal records and execution.
Better models require better inputs—and partnerships that unlock high-quality, de-identified, longitudinal patient data for real learning (not internet noise).

• 00:00 — Live from Health 2025 in Vegas: meet Fawad, founder of Penguin AI

• 00:26 — From big-company data leadership to startup founder

• 01:48 — The brand: why "Penguin" (and why most tech names are nonsense)

• 04:34 — The core problem: admin work at massive scale (prior auth, claims, RCM, scheduling)

• 06:00 — "Dr. GPT": why it sounds right even when it's wrong

• 07:31 — Funding + momentum: Penguin's Series A and growth

• 08:00 — Building better clinical intelligence requires real healthcare-grade data

• 09:28 — Operator-to-founder: why more insiders need to jump into the arena

• 11:50 — What Penguin actually does: agents, customization, and "platform-level" scale

• 14:05 — Why payer vs provider is a false divide

• Health system and payer leaders drowning in prior auth, claims, RCM, coding, and operational drag

• Operators skeptical of hype who want real automation + measurable cost reduction

• Founders building AI in healthcare who are ready to confront the data + workflow reality

• Investors looking for platforms that can win beyond "pilot purgatory"

If your team is "doing AI" but still living inside manual workflows, this is your wake-up call:
Stop demo-chasing. Start workflow-owning.

🎧 Watch/listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/j_Fsuy-BfTM
📌 Learn more about Penguin AI: https://www.penguinai.co

IU Health CEO Dennis Murphy joins Bradley Bostic to unpack what it takes to drive innovation at scale—across 16 hospitals and 300+ clinical sites. They cover values-based culture, platform-first AI strategy, statewide data collaboration, philanthropy as a "margin of excellence," and IU Health's new flagship campus—set to see its first patients in December 2027.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Healthcare Innovation
01:56 Leadership and Organizational Values
04:50 Flagship Hospital Project Overview
08:18 Optimism in Healthcare
12:08 Technology and AI in Healthcare
17:40 Philanthropy and Community Impact
23:13 Data Utilization in Healthcare
28:37 Personalization of Healthcare Experience
34:53 Future of IU Health and Closing Remarks

In this episode of the Boombostic Health podcast, host Bradley Bostic interviews Dennis Murphy, CEO of IU Health, discussing his extensive experience in healthcare leadership, the importance of organizational values, and the innovative projects at IU Health, including a new flagship hospital. They explore the optimism surrounding advancements in healthcare technology, the role of philanthropy in enhancing patient care, and the significance of data aggregation in improving health outcomes. The conversation emphasizes the need for personalized healthcare experiences and the future of healthcare delivery.

Takeaways

• Dennis Murphy has a diverse background in healthcare leadership.
• Organizational values are crucial for guiding employee behavior.
• Philanthropy plays a significant role in enhancing healthcare programs.
• Technological advancements are improving patient outcomes significantly.
• Data aggregation is essential for effective healthcare delivery.
• IU Health is focused on attracting top talent in the healthcare industry.
• The new flagship hospital aims to consolidate resources and improve care.
• Healthcare innovation is driven by both institutional providers and entrepreneurs.
• Personalized healthcare experiences are becoming increasingly important.
• Optimism in healthcare is fueled by ongoing advancements and creative solutions.

At-home diagnostics isn't "a kit." It's an operating system.

From the outside, it looks simple: order → kit arrives → collect → mail back.
Behind the scenes, scaling that experience requires automation, reliability, and speed.

In this conversation, Jeff Shattuck explains how DOT Corp uses automation, robotics, and AI to reduce the time from order to shipment, expanding what's possible for home diagnostics and precision medicine.

• DotCorp transitioned from printing to healthcare logistics.
• AI and robotics are streamlining healthcare processes.
• At-home testing is becoming more prevalent post-COVID.
• Less invasive testing methods are emerging.
• Precision medicine will rely on at-home diagnostics.
• Accountable care programs are driving demand for home testing.
• Collaboration with major labs enhances service delivery.
• The healthcare landscape is rapidly evolving.
• Patient empowerment is key in modern healthcare.
• Future innovations will focus on accessibility and efficiency.

Chapters

00:00 The Entrepreneurial Journey of DotCorp
05:19 Transforming Diagnostics: Home Testing Revolution
07:46 The Future of Precision Medicine and Home Testing

Connect

Jeff Shattuck: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffoshattuck/

Bradley Bostic: https://linktr.ee/BradleyBostic

Boombostic Health: https://www.boombostichealth.com/

Show Notes

Healthcare keeps talking about AI, affordability, and outcomes…
But most systems are still ignoring the front door that drives care decisions: diagnostics.

Recorded In the Wild at HLTH 2025 in Las Vegas, Bradley Bostic sits down with James York (Chief Commercial Officer + Head of Government Affairs, Molecular Testing Labs) to unpack a hard truth:

If you can't make testing accessible, convenient, and trackable… you can't build reliable care pathways.

In this episode, James breaks down why diagnostics is a flywheel—the top-of-funnel that activates patients—and why "we have Quest/Labcorp, so we're good" is the exact mindset keeping innovation stuck. He also shares how Molecular Testing Labs attacked the hardest access problem first (HIV/STI), what happened when they removed friction from PrEP care, and why lab-based at-home testing matters because it protects the integrity of the data (not just the experience).

You'll also hear a forward-looking take on self-collection, routine testing for chronic disease + wellness, cost transparency, and where AI could take us next—toward forecasting health like we forecast weather.

What you'll learn:

• Why James calls diagnostics "the flywheel" for activating patients

• The two stats that should change how leaders budget for labs ("70% of clinical decisions" vs "7% of spend" — as James cites)

• Why self-collected, lab-processed testing beats "rapid-only" testing when data/reporting matters

• How at-home testing can reduce stigma and improve public-health surveillance

• What "patient-as-decision-maker" healthcare could look like in the next 5–10 years

If you care about prevention, care gaps, data integrity, and making healthcare actually work for more people—this one's for you.

00:00 — Boombostic Health "In the Wild" @ HLTH 2025 (Vegas)
00:45 — Baseball dads, real life, and the cost of ambition
02:05 — "Everyone should have access to diagnostics" (mission)
03:00 — Why the "Diagnostic Zone" is a signal moment
04:30 — The stat gap: labs drive decisions, not spending
05:45 — Why they started with HIV/STI (the hardest use case)
07:30 — Self-collection scale + what it unlocked for access
08:10 — PrEP friction: stigma + testing barriers (and the unlock)
09:45 — The Abbott at-home multiplex test: what's new + why it matters
11:05 — Rapid vs lab: the real issue is data integrity + reporting
12:40 — What's next: routine tests, chronic disease, wellness expansion
16:15 — AI, avatars, and "forecasting health like weather"
18:10 — Bradley's lens: signals, patterns, and getting patients on the right interventions
20:34 — Wrap + why data in will determine everything

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