A weekly podcast featuring healthcare providers using technology to improve access to healthcare, patient experience, and clinical outcomes. Healthcare Technology leaders address big questions like what technologies are worth investing in today and how will technology change the future of healthcare? Hear how programs in telehealth, healthcare data analytics, cloud, 5G, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and social determinants of health are shaping the future of healthcare. Hosted by the HealthIMPACT Live Team Megan Antonelli, CEO, HealthIMPACT Live Janae Sharp, Founder, The Sharp Index Shahid Shah, Chair, HealthIMPACT Live, Publisher, Medigy
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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
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
June 2, 202625 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
May 26, 202638 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
May 19, 202636 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
May 12, 202637 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
May 5, 202651 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
April 27, 202629 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
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
April 14, 202630 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
March 31, 202633 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 CenterMegan Antonelli, Founder & CEO, HealthIMPACT Live
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