The Gist Healthcare Podcast

Utah is expanding its AI regulatory sandbox program to test new clinical applications while strengthening oversight. On The Gist Healthcare Podcast, Fierce Healthcare executive editor Heather Landi discusses the state's latest healthcare AI pilots and lessons learned from its inaugural clinical AI pilot from earlier this year.

Read more: Utah expands healthcare AI sandbox with August AI, Nolla Health pilots, adds third-party evaluators (Fierce Healthcare)

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Rural communities across the United States are facing a sustained decline in access to primary care. Since 2017, the number of family physicians practicing in rural areas has dropped by more than 10%, according to a report published late last year. In many regions, that reduction has implications for care capacity, hospital stability and long-term workforce planning.

In the second part of the conversations, host J. Carlisle Larsen speaks with Colleen Fogarty, M.D. of the University of Rochester about the structural factors shaping the rural physician workforce and what it will take to strengthen it, examining rural residency programs, medical training pipelines, immigration pathways and loan repayment incentives as policy levers aimed at stabilizing rural access to care.

You can listen to the first half of the conversation here.

This conversation originally aired on February 23, 2026

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Rural America has lost more than 10% of its family physicians since 2017, according to a report published late last year. What does that mean for patients and communities? On today's episode, host J. Carlisle Larsen speaks with Dr. Colleen Fogarty, the William Rocktaschel Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and lead author of the national study, about what the data reveals — and what happens when even one doctor leaves town.

This episode originally aired on February 16, 2026

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A Washington Post investigation found that Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk paid more than $270 million to physicians and other prescribers between 2018 and 2025. On The Gist Healthcare Podcast, Washington Post data reporter Lydia Sidhom discusses how the companies’ outreach has expanded across the medical community and what the federal data can and cannot tell us about those payments. 

Further reading: The largely hidden force helping drive America’s craze for weight-loss drugs (Washington Post) 

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Rural healthcare providers face significant opportunities and difficult choices about the future. On The Gist Healthcare Podcast, Kenny O’Neill, managing director at Kaufman Hall, discusses how leaders can approach transformation amid mounting pressure. 

Further reading: Rural health needs big, transformative bets, not small pilots  

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