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 Clinic to Consumer: How AI Is Reshaping the Entire Health Experience

    Health systems are no longer asking whether to deploy ambient AI. They are asking how to scale it across roles, connect it to revenue cycle, and avoid building another layer of fragmented tools. Kenneth Harper, General Manager of Dragon at Microsoft, joins Megan Antonelli to unpack what separates the organizations actually moving the needle from those stuck in pilot mode, what ambient AI's expansion from physicians to nurses and radiologists has revealed about clinical workflow design, and how CIOs should think about building a coherent clinical AI architecture in 2026.

    Kenneth Harper, GM, Dragon Product, Microsoft

    Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live

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    34 min
  • 1 in 3 Women Unscreened: Closing the Cervical Cancer Gap

    Despite cervical cancer being nearly 100% preventable through routine screening, almost one in three U.S. women are behind, and the numbers have been moving in the wrong direction for a decade. Kara Egan, CEO and Co-Founder of Teal Health, left a career as a health tech investor to fix one of the most overlooked gaps in women's preventive care. In May 2025, Teal received the only FDA authorization for at-home cervical cancer screening, and just seven months later had scaled to all 50 states. In this conversation, Kara breaks down what it actually takes to redesign a screening process that hasn't meaningfully changed in 80 years, how regulatory alignment and updated clinical guidelines are reshaping the landscape, and what at-home diagnostics signal for the future of preventive care and women's health access broadly.

    Kara Egan, CEO and Co-Founder, Teal Health

    Megan Antonelli, CEO, HealthIMPACT Live

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    31 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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      Learn more about HealthIMPACT Live events, virtual forums, and healthcare leader conversations at healthimpactlive.com.

      Interested in being a guest, sponsoring, or joining the HealthIMPACT community? Visit healthimpactlive.com/digital-health-talks.

      26 min
    • Nursing at the Center: How AI, Virtual Care, and Human-Centered Design Are Transforming the Bedside at Advocate Health

      Tracy Breece, VP of Nursing, Innovation, AI and Emerging Technologies at Advocate Health, joins Megan Antonelli on Digital Health Talks to share how nurses are leading AI adoption from the bedside up.

      Tracy breaks down how Advocate Health is using ambient documentation to reduce cognitive burden, cut thousands of EHR clicks per week, and give nurses back hours of time with their patients. She also talks about why nurse-led design matters, what fusion teams look like in practice, and how adaptive leadership is helping nurse managers lead through uncertainty.

      Topics covered:

      • Ambient documentation outcomes and nurse feedback
      • Building the hospital room of the future
      • Why nurses must be at the table for workflow transformation
      • Change management vs. implementation science in AI rollout
      • Virtual nursing and the future of nursing practice
      • Training nurse managers for the era of AI

        • Tracy Breece, MSN, RN, CENP, NI-BC, CPHIMS, VP, Nursing Informatics, AI and Emerging Technology, Advocate Health

        Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live

         

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        39 min
      • From FDA-Cleared Wearables to AI Caregivers: Rune Labs CEO on Closing the Gap in Parkinson's Care

        For the nearly one million Americans living with Parkinson's disease, the space between neurology appointments can feel like a void — symptoms shift, medications need adjusting, and urgent questions pile up with nowhere to turn. That gap in continuous care is exactly the problem Rune Labs set out to solve.

        With its StrivePD app, Rune Labs has built a platform powered by FDA-cleared movement analysis and one of the largest real-world Parkinson's datasets in existence. Now, the company is going further — launching an AI caregiver directly inside the app: a coordinated system of specialized AI agents, including a Medication Assistant, Symptom Expert, and PD Coach, that deliver personalized, evidence-based guidance based on each patient's own real-time data.

        In this episode of Digital Health Talks, host Megan Antonelli sits down with Amy Gordon Franzen, the new CEO of Rune Labs, to explore how the company is redefining what it means to support patients not just in the clinic, but every moment of every day. From the science behind the platform to the policy, trust, and ethical questions that come with deploying AI in a chronic disease setting, this is a conversation about what the future of neurological care can actually look like — and who gets to shape it.

        Amy Gordon Franzen, CEO, Rune Labs

        Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT

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        37 min
      • FQHCs Are Infrastructure: What HR1 Means for Health System Leaders

        Join us for this episode of Digital Health Talks, where Megan Antonelli, CEO of Health Impact Live, sits down with Dr. Adam Aponte, CEO of East Harlem Council for Human Services and Neighborhood Health Center. A board-certified pediatrician with 25 years of experience, Dr. Aponte was born and raised in East Harlem and has dedicated his career to serving one of America's most underserved communities. In this conversation, he makes a compelling case for why the fight to protect federally qualified health centers is not just a community health story. It is a health system leadership story.

        In this episode:

        • How FQHCs serve over 35 million Americans and why they are the backbone of primary care for underserved communities
        • The real impact of HR1 on Medicaid recipients, including $300 million in projected funding losses for New York FQHCs alone
        • Why continuous pediatric coverage matters and what is at stake when children lose access to early care
        • The role of trust in health care delivery and how policy changes compound existing distrust in marginalized communities
        • Telehealth adoption challenges in East Harlem and the reimbursement barriers that limit its potential for FQHCs
        • Why investing in early childhood health care is the most effective strategy for reducing long-term health care costs

          • Adam Aponte, MD, MSc, FAAP, CEO, East Harlem Council for Human Services

          Megan Antonelli, Founder & CEO, HealthIMPACT Live

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          Interested in being a guest, sponsoring, or joining the HealthIMPACT community? Visit healthimpactlive.com/digital-health-talks.

          38 min
        • Cognitive Atrophy Is a Leadership Crisis: Mohan Nair on Why Healthcare's AI Obsession Is Costing Us Our Best Thinking

          In this episode of Digital Health Talks, host Megan Antonelli, CEO of Health Impact Live, sits down with Mohan Nair, innovator, author, and former Chief Innovation Officer at Cambia Health Solutions, to explore what it truly means to stay human in an AI-obsessed world. Mohan's newest book, Unreachable: How Not to Lose Your Mind in an AI-Obsessed Era, is already an Amazon bestseller, and the conversation is as timely as it is thought-provoking.

          In this episode, you'll hear about:

          • Why AI adoption is creating cognitive atrophy and how the concept of "inconvenient learning" means removing friction from work may be costing us our most valuable skills
          • How healthcare leaders should distinguish between AI enablement and AI obsession, and why the physician-patient relationship remains fundamentally unreachable by any machine
          • Mohan's take on the rise of Chief AI Officers and how to find your own AI-unreachable value, the insights and instincts no technology can replicate

            • Mohan Nair, CEO, Emerge Inc

            Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live

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            Learn more about HealthIMPACT Live events, virtual forums, and healthcare leader conversations at healthimpactlive.com.

            Interested in being a guest, sponsoring, or joining the HealthIMPACT community? Visit healthimpactlive.com/digital-health-talks.

            52 min
          • Episode 200: Ambient AI's Real Wins, Cybersecurity's Quiet Losses, and Healthcare's Double Standards - What the PITT Season Finale Tells Us about Where We are Today and Where we are Heading

            Two hundred episodes. One season finale. Everything in between.

            If you watched The Pitt this week, you saw something the healthcare industry doesn't usually let the public see. The impossible standards, the double standard, the small wins nobody celebrates, and an entire staff on a roof crying for reasons they can't quite explain.

            Megan Antonelli and Janae Sharp have spent 200 episodes having the real version of that conversation. For this milestone, they're using The Pitt's Season 2 finale as the mirror and asking what it reflects back at digital health right now.


            The biggest change nobody saw coming. The win that actually moved the needle. The loss nobody wants to own. And the double standard that's been hiding in plain sight the whole time.

            No guests. No filter. Just the honest shift report.
             

            Episode 1: View From the Top- What Does Sustainable Innovation look like in a Post Pandemic World

            • Aashima Gupta, Director, Global Health Solutions, Google
            • Rasu Shrestha, MD, EVP, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Atrium Health
            • Chris Waugh, Chief Design and Innovation Officer, Sutter Health
            •  Shahid Shah, CEO Netspective Media (Moderator)

              • Episode 40: Healing - Our Patients, Our Healthcare System, Ourselves

              • Theresa Brown, PhD, BSN, RN
              • Janae Sharp, Founder, The Sharp Index
              • Megan Antonelli,  Chief Executive Officer,  HealthIMPACT Live

                • Episode 56: Burnout Isn’t the Whole Story – And Repair Is About More Than Individual Resilience

                • Wendy Dean, MD
                •  Janae Sharp

                  • Episode 78: Navigating the Intersection of Equity and Innovation in AI-driven Healthcare

                  • Chris Gibbons, Entrepreneur in Residence, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center
                  • Janae Sharp

                    • Episode 89: From Process-Centric to Patient-Centric - Mayo Clinic CIO Realizing Seamless Integration, Personalized Care, and Empowered Patient Experiences 

                    • Cris Ross was at Mayo
                    • Megan Antonelli

                      • Episode 137: Beyond the Change Healthcare Breach: Redefining Healthcare Cybersecurity for 2025

                      • Rob Sebaugh, Identity Strategist, Healthcare Solutions Engineering, Sailpoint
                      • Megan Antonelli

                        • Episode 176: From Pilot to Platform - How Sutter Health is Scaling AI Across 3.5 Million Lives

                        • Dr. Ashley Beecy, Chief AI Officer at Sutter Health
                        • Megan Antonelli

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                          Hosts:

                          Janae Sharp, Founder, The Sharp Index. 

                          The Sharp Index is a nonprofit dedicated to reducing suicide and burnout and improving physician and clinician mental health.

                          Megan Antonelli, Founder & CEO, HealthIMPACT Live

                          Subscribe to Digital Health Talks on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.

                          Learn more about HealthIMPACT Live events, virtual forums, and healthcare leader conversations at healthimpactlive.com.

                          Interested in being a guest, sponsoring, or joining the HealthIMPACT community? Visit healthimpactlive.com/digital-health-talks.

                          30 min
                        • Five Good Things With Janae Sharp and Megan Antonelli

                          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, Founder & CEO, HealthIMPACT

                            Subscribe to Digital Health Talks on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.

                            Learn more about HealthIMPACT Live events, virtual forums, and healthcare leader conversations at healthimpactlive.com.

                            Interested in being a guest, sponsoring, or joining the HealthIMPACT community? Visit healthimpactlive.com/digital-health-talks.

                            31 min
                          • From Bedside to the Build: A Nurse-Turned-IT Leader on What HIMSS Got Right and What Health Systems Still Need to Fix

                            Join us for a conversation with someone who has actually done the clinical work. Mario Magsaysay started as a bedside nurse in med-surg oncology before moving into clinical informatics, and now leads IS applications for Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, where he bridges what clinicians need with what technology can deliver. Fresh from HIMSS 2026, Mario shares what stood out on the show floor, what hallway conversations revealed about where health systems are really struggling, and what he is actively building at his own organization right now. If you are navigating AI, EHR optimization, and operational complexity with limited resources, this one cuts through the noise.

                            Mario Magsaysay, MBA, MHA, RN, CPHIMS, Information Systems Applications Manager, Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center
                            Megan Antonelli, Founder & CEO, HealthIMPACT Live

                            Subscribe to Digital Health Talks on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.

                            Learn more about HealthIMPACT Live events, virtual forums, and healthcare leader conversations at healthimpactlive.com.

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                            34 min

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                          Digital Health Talks is a weekly, no-BS podcast for healthcare leaders across the provider, payer, digital health, and innovation markets.