Digital Health Talks - Changemakers Focused on Fixing Healthcare

Digital Health Talks - Changemakers Focused on Fixing Healthcare

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Digital Health Talks - Changemakers Focused on Fixing Healthcare episodes

  • From Undervalued to Unavoidable: Treating Women's Health as Infrastructure

    Women's health isn't a cause, it's infrastructure. Med tech founder Marissa Fayer breaks down why closing the women's health gap is worth a trillion dollars a year, and why capital still isn't following.

    In this conversation:

    • Why dense breast tissue affects up to 70% of women, and how software can cut repeat scans
    • Why only about 6% of private healthcare capital goes to conditions that affect women
    • How menopause and perimenopause hit during women's most productive career years, and what employers get wrong
    • Why the women's health market is mispriced, not unproven
    • How the funding conversation looks different across the US, Africa, and Asia

      • Marissa Fayer, CEO, DeepLook Medical

      Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live

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      33 min
    • Female Founders Series: When the EHR Goes Down: Building Real-Time Resilience Before the Next Outage

      When the EHR goes down, care doesn't stop, but the chart, the meds, and the allergies do. Chao Cheng Shorland explains why EHR downtime is a patient safety problem, not just an IT one, and how her team is working to end pen-and-paper charting during outages.

      In this conversation:

      • Why EHR downtime belongs under patient safety, and how mortality risk climbs when systems go dark
      • The difference between continuity during failure and disaster recovery after failure
      • How ransomware turned downtime from a two-hour event into a 24-day average
      • What a lightweight downtime system needs to do: charting, orders, medications, ADT, and ED tracking with no user training
      • How a passive, read-only system flips to active over HL7 and syncs back when the primary EHR returns

        • Chao Cheng-Shorland, CEO and Co-Founder, ShelterZoom

        Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live

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        33 min
      • Pediatric AI at Scale: How Valley Children's Is Closing the Care Gap in California's Central Valley

        AI in pediatric healthcare is often talk, not delivery. Joe Egan, CIO of Valley Children's Healthcare, walks through the three layers of AI his team runs today, and how each one turns clinician time back into access for kids.

        In this conversation:

        • The three-layer AI model Valley Children's uses: assist, inform, and act, sorted by risk and human oversight
        • Why ambient documentation earned a clinician wait list, and the metrics that prove it (pajama time, time in notes)
        • How Epic Cosmos and shared de-identified data help with rare pediatric disease
        • Why an adult-trained AI model can't be assumed safe for children
        • The governance and ownership model that makes technology actually stick

          • Joe Egan, Chief Information Officer, Valley Children’s

          Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live

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          37 min
        • Pediatric Telehealth That Actually Works: 24/7 Access, All 50 States, Real Outcomes

          Pediatric access is broken, and parents, payers, and health systems are all feeling it. Lyndsey Garbi, MD, co-founder and CMO of Blueberry Pediatrics, joins Megan Antonelli to talk about what 24/7 pediatric telehealth actually looks like at national scale, what the at-home diagnostic kit changes for families, and why the licensing patchwork is quietly costing kids access to care.

          In this conversation:

          • What buyers should actually look for in a pediatric telehealth network
          • How at-home diagnostics turn a 2am panic into a clinical encounter
          • Lessons from the YouthCare partnership: nearly 30% fewer avoidable ER visits for youth in foster care
          • The reality of being licensed in all 50 states, and what the system gets wrong about interstate care
          • Where payer-provider alignment makes or breaks a pediatric model
          • What's making Dr. Garbi optimistic about the next 24 months in pediatric care

            • Lyndsey R. Garbi, MD, Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Blueberry Pediatrics

            Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live

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            36 min
          • Winning Mobility: How AVA Mobility Is Redefining Aging in Place

            Join us for a conversation with Hamed Tabkhi and Mona Azarbayjani, as we explore how ForesightCares is transforming the future of aging with AI-driven mobility insights for older adults, caregivers, and clinicians. We'll dive into AVA Mobility, their AI-powered, at-home mobility awareness and wellness platform that makes movement screening simple, accessible, and proactive. Trusted by independent living communities and valued by everyday consumers, AVA Mobility helps people stay informed, confident, and independent.

            Hamed Tabkhi and Mona Azarbayjani, Foresight Cares. Winners of the Charlotte Innovation Day Pitch Competition

            Janae Sharp, Founder, The Sharp Index

             

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            25 min
          • Five Good Things with Janae Sharp and Megan Antonelli

            A rapid-fire segment highlighting positive developments in digital health. Janae and Megan share insights on recent innovations, successful implementations, and emerging trends that are driving progress in healthcare technology.

            • Learn about cutting-edge solutions improving patient outcomes
            • Discover how technology is enhancing healthcare accessibility
            • Gain insight into successful digital health implementations
            • Stay informed about positive industry trends shaping the future of care

              • Janae Sharp, Founder, The Sharp Index

              Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live

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              24 min
            • Why AI and Digital Health Pilots Die Before They Scale | Dr. Sarah Matt, The Borderless Healthcare Revolution

              Health systems spend billions on transformation that works in the boardroom and collapses at the clinical unit. Dr. Sarah Matt, a surgeon turned health technology executive, explains why most AI and virtual care initiatives fail at adoption rather than design, and how her Five Pillars of Access give leaders a practical way to evaluate what will actually scale. A direct conversation about trust, financial sustainability, and building care models that stick.

              The Borderless Healthcare Revolution: The Definitive Guide to Breaking Geographic Barriers Through Technology

               

              Sarah Matt, MD, MBA, Health Technology Strategist, Growth Catalyst, Author, The Borderless Healthcare Revolution

              Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live

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              33 min
            • Before the Next Crisis: A Preventioneer's Framework for AI, Trust, and Healthcare Leadership

              Healthcare leaders know the pattern. Warning signs appear. Evidence accumulates. Institutions hesitate. And by the time action is taken, the cost, human and financial, is already enormous. Right now, that pattern is playing out across AI deployment, eroding public trust, and simultaneously weakening fragile health systems.

              In this episode of Digital Health Talks, physician-scientist and biostatistician Dr. Barry R. Davis brings a framework health leaders can actually use. Drawing on decades leading landmark prevention trials and his new book The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, and the Discoveries That Changed Our World (Johns Hopkins University Press, May 2026), Dr. Davis breaks down why evidence alone rarely drives action, what trust has to do with it, and what the leaders who successfully broke the cycle actually did differently.

              If you are responsible for AI governance, patient trust, or building a prevention-first culture inside your health system, this conversation is for you.

              Dr. Barry Davis, Professor Emeritus, UTHealth

              Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live

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              40 min
            • Ebola, AI, and Prevention as the Real Cost Cure with Dr. Ashish Jha

              Right now the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda are responding to an Ebola outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus, a strain with no licensed vaccine and no approved treatment. WHO declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on May 17. Dr. Ashish Jha calls it one of the largest Ebola outbreaks on record and believes it spread largely undetected for two to three months before anyone caught it, with confirmed cases turning up hundreds of miles apart.

              That detection lag lands squarely on hospital leaders. As Dr. Jha puts it, a two week head start on an outbreak headed for your emergency room is the difference between adjusting staffing and guidance in advance and scrambling after patients arrive. His new company, BioRadar, is building what he describes as the biosurveillance system the country needs, something closer to a National Weather Service for biological threats.

              Dr. Ashish Jha, former White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, joins Megan Antonelli to connect early detection to the cost and quality levers health system leaders pull every day. The take-home is simple and underused: prevention is not only good medicine, but it is also one of the strongest cost-control strategies in healthcare.

              Highlights

              🦠 On the outbreak: he expects it to get worse before it gets better, and sees a real risk of a traveler carrying it to a major city in Europe or the US. He points to last year's USAID cuts and the WHO withdrawal as reasons we have fewer eyes on the ground than we used to.

              🏥 On AI and ambient documentation: his own primary care doctor uses it. The upside is real, the doctor pays more attention. But everything gets documented, the billing codes climb, and as he says, that is not saving the system money. His fix is to reduce complexity first, then deal with prices.

              📋 On prior auth: payers and providers share the same frustration. Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands run fully private insurance with standardized billing and shared rules on what needs authorization. He argues there is a deal to be cut, less prior auth and faster payments, and everyone comes out ahead except the administrative layer.

              💸 On what is coming: aging demographics and a wave of cell and gene therapies, some priced at three to four million dollars per patient, are about to put enormous pressure on budgets. His advice is to get your house in order now, before the crisis forces indiscriminate cuts.

              🔬 On value-based care: once a skeptic, now a believer. He wants longer contracts, more two-sided risk over time, and programs that are physician and clinically led rather than another administrative layer.

              Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, Senior Fellow, Harvard Belfer Center, Co-Founder & CEO, BioRadar

              Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live

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              32 min
            • The Long View: Building a Health Organization Ready for the Next Decade of AI

              What does it take to build a health organization that will still be running on a strong digital and AI foundation in five years, ten years, or twenty? In this closing conversation, John Henderson, Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer at Rady Children's Health, takes the long view. Drawing on his work leading the digital integration of CHOC into Rady Children's Health, launching private generative AI platforms to support clinical and administrative work, and building an AI-ready data infrastructure that reaches beyond the EHR, John shares what it actually takes to align your organization around a multi-year digital vision.

              John Henderson, VP and CIO, Rady Children's Health

              Janae Sharp, Founder, The Sharp Index

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              33 min

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