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Better evidence lands every year. The win is getting it to the bedside while the patient is still in the room, and that is now solvable.Cambrian Health turns a published guideline into a working protocol and surfaces the next right step inside the EHR, at the visit. First target is cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic care, where the first ever CKM guideline gives cardiology, nephrology, endocrinology, and primary care one shared framework to work from. Co-Founder and CEO Sarah Schmidt walks through what makes it stick: choosing the right patients for a protocol, assigning clear ownership so it stays current, closing the cost and prior auth gaps that keep proven therapies from patients, and building the CFO case for prevention. Pick the right patient population for a protocol before you build itAssign protocol ownership so guideline updates land in weeksClose the cost and prior auth gaps keeping proven therapies from patientsBuild the CFO case for prevention that survives a budget reviewDecide what to buy and what to build for clinical AISarah Schmidt, CEO, Cambrian Health Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, 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.

because the patient had two other conditions, or was seventy-eight, or was pregnant, and got excluded from the trial. Then they showed up anyway, and somebody had to decide.Brigham Hyde co-founded Atropos Health out of research that began at Stanford, where a doctor could ask what the data said about the patient in front of them and get an answer back in a day or two. This year that work moved into the EHR workflow itself. We get into what that takes. What a health system needs in place before go-live, who reviews the evidence before a clinician sees it, which specialties adopted first, and how the conversation with CMIOs has changed in three years. Know which clinical questions your literature tools answer, and which they never will.Understand what evidence in the EHR workflow needs from informatics before go-live.Learn how clinician review fits in without adding steps to the visit.Hear how CMIOs are evaluating this category right now.Brigham Hyde, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder, Atropos Health Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, 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.

Every AI agent a health system deploys is a new identity with standing access to clinical and financial systems, and most security programs were not built for a non-human workforce. As agents multiply, identity becomes the control plane, and leaders have to govern machine access with the same rigor they apply to people, before an auditor or attacker does it for them. But no identity program stops everything, and the systems that recover fastest treat resiliency as the other half of the same discipline: immutable backups that survive the attack, tested recovery playbooks, segmentation that contains the blast, and third-party risk that does not become an outage. This session covers both, how machine access gets provisioned, revoked, and governed, and how care comes back online in days rather than weeks when prevention fails anyway. Put a model to work for governing non-human identities with the same discipline you apply to clinical staffImplement zero trust built around real clinical workflow instead of bolted on after deploymentSee where standing agent access creates exposure most systems have not mapped, and adopt the backup and recovery architecture that holds if it gets exploited anywayKnow the security, audit, and recovery terms to require from any vendor shipping agents or infrastructure into your environmentUnderstand what a tested recovery playbook includes that an untested one misses, and how segmentation contains the blast so one breach does not take down the enterpriseBen Smith, CISSP, Strategic Agentic Technology Specialist, Sailpoint Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, 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.

Every health system has AI pilots. Far fewer have systems that scale past them, and the difference is rarely the model. Nicole Sanders and Christine Williams left large enterprise and platform roles to start Foxtrot Services, a firm built to take AI implementations from prototype into production in regulated, high stakes environments. They work across healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, and supply chain, including the implementation work behind Surgence, the ecosystem connecting providers, distributors, and suppliers on shared supply and demand data. In this conversation they get specific about the call every CIO is weighing right now, whether to wait for the EHR vendor to build the capability or to move without them, and what it actually takes to convert saved hours into money. They also go at the part nobody puts in the case study: what compute and licensing cost at scale, why the architecture underneath determines the bill, and how permissions and governance break when a pilot becomes a system. Nicole Sanders, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Foxtrot Services Christine Williams, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Foxtrot Services Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, 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.

Every health system that considers selling directly to employers hits the same wall. The discounted rate lands on patients you may already have, and nobody can prove the trade works. Nick Stefanizzi says it does. He is the CEO of Northwell Direct, Northwell Health's for-profit direct-to-employer company, where an employer or union agrees on price with the health system and no carrier sits in the middle. Since its first customer in 2022, Northwell Direct reports serving more than 300,000 employee members across more than 75 employers and unions, with a network that now spans more than 55 hospitals, over 125 urgent care centers and more than 5,000 behavioral health providers. In December, it signed the 170,000-member 32BJ Health Fund, the largest direct contract of its kind in the country, with the fund projecting 20% savings in year one. Stefanizzi told HFMA the business contributes more net-new volume and margin than it cannibalizes, and is profitable on its own P&L. Before Northwell Direct, he was chief administrative officer and interim CEO of Formativ Health, and spent eight years in operating roles across Northwell Health. How Northwell measures cannibalization against net-new volume, and how to run that analysis before signing anyone What a system should own outright versus rent, and what Stefanizzi says they deliberately chose not to build Why stop-loss economics turned into an unexpected sales driver Where technology actually produces the savings, since a lower rate alone does not lower total cost Whether any of this counts if the contract itself stays private For CFOs, CIOs and the executives weighing whether to become a network operator instead of a network participant. Nick Stefanizzi, CEO, Northwell Direct Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, 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.

When Edmund Siy became chief information and technology officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health in May 2025, he told Becker's his opening move was cybersecurity and infrastructure, with AI to follow. Plenty of systems were pointing at pilots that year. He pointed at the plumbing.Fifteen months later the foundation is largely built and AI has stopped being a differentiator. Ambient documentation, governance committees, an AI officer on the org chart. Table stakes. Which means the hard call is no longer whether to adopt. It is where a forty seven hospital system spends its own engineering hours, where it co-develops with somebody else, and where it should admit a capability has gone commodity and just buy the thing. This is Edmund's actual test for making that call. Audit your build list. Anything three vendors already do well is payroll, not strategy.Fix the foundation before you scale AI. Infrastructure sets the ceiling on what you can safely deploy.Before signing a co-development deal, write down what you do when their roadmap slips.Put a review date on the three-year roadmap and name who is allowed to break it.Edmund Siy, FHIMSS, FCHIME, CHCIO, CDH-E, Chief Information & Technology Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, 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.

Ambient AI earned its early reputation in the exam room, easing physician documentation. The bigger opportunity, and the harder build, is nursing. Geri Hansen, Vice President of IS Applications at Baptist Health and an informatics nurse by training, joins Megan Antonelli to talk about what it really takes to move ambient AI for nurses from early-adopter experiment to standard practice. They get into where it delivers value today, where it still falls short, how to prove ROI inside structured nursing workflows, and what separates a pilot that scales from one that stalls. A candid, operator-level conversation for the CIO, CMIO, and CNIO planning their next move. Geri Hansen, MSN, RN, NI-BC, Vice President, IS Applications, Baptist Health Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, 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.

AI in healthcare is starting to deliver on its promise, from Epic's ambient documentation tools to a new AI model pulling fresh insights out of routine sleep studies. Megan Antonelli and Janae Sharp break down the good news in healthcare technology this August, plus a few reality checks along the way. How Epic's AI-generated summaries and ambient listening tools are reducing documentation burden at Mayo Clinic, Parkview Health, and Riverside HealthWhy a recent study found burnout reduction from ambient AI wasn't as strong as expectedHow UC Davis is expanding telehealth access with a new tele-nephrology program and an at-home HPV testing pilot with Teal HealthWhat Cleveland Clinic's new AI model can detect in routine sleep study dataWhy "AI slop" is becoming a bigger conversation in healthcare content and marketing, and what LinkedIn is doing about itJanae Sharp, Founder, The Sharp Index Megan Antonelli, 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.

Every health system has an AI roadmap. Far fewer have a runway. Vendors sell the destination. Getting there, on time and on budget and actually live, is the part nobody demos. Scott Raymond, former CIO at Nebraska Medicine and a longtime health IT leader who still holds an active nursing license, gets specific on virtual nursing, predictive staffing and scheduling, the workflows you have to solve first, and why the gap between promise and production is where most AI quietly stalls. Scott Raymond, MHA, INF, BSN, RN,, CIO, CDIO Strategist, Prinicipal, Rouleur Healthcare Consulting Megan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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   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.