Health Innovation Matters

Michael sits down with Professor Rachel Dunscombe, the new CEO of HL7 International, to explore why data is at the center of healthcare's next chapter. Together, they discuss where AI is delivering real value today, the infrastructure and interoperability challenges holding it back, and what it will take for health systems to move from pilot programs to scalable impact. Rachel also shares her perspective on HL7's role in shaping the future of AI and digital health globally.

Learn more about HL7 International at www.hl7.org.

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Dr. Colin Banas, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst, and Jenna Hagan, Vice President of Product Marketing at NextGen Healthcare. Together, they discuss the significant scale of prescription abandonment, how DrFirst and NextGen Healthcare are addressing that issue, how prescribing workflow integration works inside NextGen's Enterprise EHR, how that engagement changes the dynamic between prescribers and patients, the future of the partnership between DrFirst and NextGen Healthcare, and much more.

Learn more about DrFirst at www.drfirst.com.

Learn more about NextGen Healthcare at www.nextgen.com.

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Russell Teague, Chief Strategy and Security Officer of Fortified Health Security. Together, they discuss what's happening across the healthcare cybersecurity space right now; how the healthcare threat environment has evolved recently; trends in detection, containment, and overall impact of cyber incidents; how healthcare leaders are thinking about readiness and response; the biggest challenges healthcare organizations will face moving forward; and much more.

Learn more about Fortified Health Security at www.fortifiedhealthsecurity.com.

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Dr. Joel Salamon, Medical Director of Pain Management at ModMed. Together, they discuss ModMed's products and services, how they differ from other software providers, why specialty-specific software is critical in healthcare and how it differs from general-purpose AI solutions, how customers are using ModMed's tools, feedback from customers in the pain management space, how the company teaches real physicians how to code, how ModMed uses AI for how medicine actually works, and much more.

Learn more about ModMed at www.modmed.com.

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Dan McDonald, Co-Founder and CEO of 86Borders. Together, they discuss the impetus for starting 86Borders, what actually drives meaningful engagement with health plans, why members often struggle to connect with health plans, why human connection is important amid the automated outreach landscape, how Dan measures success for members and health plans, and much more.

Learn more about 86Borders at www.86borders.com.

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Michael Meucci, President and CEO of Arcadia. Together, they discuss Arcadia's role in the healthcare ecosystem, the biggest gaps between what vendors are promising and what organizations can operationalize, what accountable AI looks like in practice, the most common AI execution failures, what infrastructure must be in place to scale AI responsibly, and much more.

Learn more about Arcadia at www.arcadia.io.

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Dr. Rihan Javid, President and Co-Founder of Edge and Rinova AI. Together, they discuss the shift from clinical to administrative in healthcare's workforce crisis; Edge's recent survey findings on administrative workflows, compliance, revenue cycles, scheduling, and documentation; risks surrounding administrative backlogs; healthcare's struggles to find qualified administrative staff; innovative strategies to address administrative capacity gaps; and much more.

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Jim Jacobs, President and CEO of MediQuant. Together, they discuss MediQuant's role in the healthcare ecosystem, problems the company is solving for CIOs and clinical leaders, how clinical summaries and AI change the way legacy data supports care, why it's important for health systems to think about applications and archived data together, and much more.

Learn more about MediQuant at www.mediquant.com.

From HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael chats with Eric Clauss, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at OmniTrust. Together, they discuss "hidden" security gaps in connected medical devices, how manufacturers should think about trust across the full device life cycle, what a secure update program looks like for medical devices, areas in which hospitals and manufacturers may disagree when it comes to security ownership, priority capabilities for health innovators in 2026, and much more.

Learn more about OmniTrust at www.omnitrust.com.

Recorded live at HIMSS in Las Vegas, Michael sits down with Sagnik Bhattacharya, CEO of Rhapsody, about the infrastructure healthcare needs to support the next wave of AI innovation. Together, they discuss the debut of Rhapsody Axon, the industry's growing shift toward agent-driven workflows, why solving interoperability challenges remains essential to scaling AI across clinical and operational systems, and much more.

Learn more about Rhapsody at rhapsody.health.