Digital Health Talks is a weekly, no-BS podcast for healthcare leaders across the provider, payer, digital health, and innovation markets. Hosted by the HealthIMPACT Live team, each episode features candid conversations with the people using technology, data, AI, and new care models to improve access, patient experience, clinical outcomes, and the business of healthcare. For leaders deciding what to scale, stop, fund, secure, buy, build, and govern next. Hosted by the HealthIMPACT Live Team Megan Antonelli, CEO, HealthIMPACT Live Janae Sharp, Founder, The Sharp Index Shahid Shah, Chair, HealthIMPACT Live, Publisher, Netspective Media
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August 11, 202636 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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August 4, 202635 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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July 28, 202624 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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July 21, 202623 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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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.
July 14, 202632 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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July 7, 202639 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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June 30, 202631 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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June 23, 202632 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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June 16, 202633 min
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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June 9, 202630 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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