Reviving Community Hospitals and Rethinking Healthcare M&A with Radha Savitala

In this episode, Mike Fancher, Division Vice President for Kindred Hospitals Coastal Region, shares strategies for improving ICU to long-term acute care transitions, addressing compounding capacity challenges, and emphasizing proactive processes, transparency, and stronger collaboration among hospitals, LTACs, and payers to boost efficiency and outcomes.This episode is sponsored by ScionHealth.

In this episode, Nick Wilson of Philips Ambulatory Monitoring and Diagnostics and Darren Batara of a leading academic medical center share how health systems can elevate cardiac care through interoperability, operational AI, and strong clinical partnerships that keep patients and clinicians at the center of innovation.This episode is sponsored by Philips.

This episode features Teresa Ash, Director of System Operations for Digital Health at UC Health, who shares how her team is using AI to improve patient flow and operational efficiency while balancing innovation with governance, strategy, and process improvement across the health system.

This episode features Radha Savitala, CEO of Tenor Health Foundation, who shares how her organization is reopening closed hospitals and redefining sustainable, community-focused healthcare. She discusses the challenges facing hospital M&A, lessons from Pennsylvania’s distressed markets, and Tenor’s mission to preserve vital local care.

In this episode, David Harding, Senior Vice President of Pipeline Product Management at Exact Sciences, discusses a new survey of healthcare executives on multi-cancer early detection. He shares insights on system readiness, patient demand, and the barriers health systems face in adopting this transformative approach to cancer screening.This episode is sponsored by Exact Sciences.

In this episode, Yaw Fellin, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Clinical Decision Support and Provider Solutions, Wolters Kluwer Health discusses how clinical intelligence and AI are transforming care delivery, the importance of transparency, expert oversight, and governance in trustworthy AI adoption, and how organizations can experiment responsibly to improve outcomes and clinician support.This episode is sponsored by Wolters Kluwer.

In this episode, Jim Jacobs, President and CEO of MediQuant, joins the podcast to discuss how hospitals can streamline their IT environments through application rationalization. He explains how this approach reduces cyber risk, cuts costs, and supports smarter decision-making, while sharing insights on managing cultural change and adopting a responsible approach to AI.This episode is sponsored by MediQuant.

This episode recorded live at the 10th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Annual Meeting features Deepan Kamaraj, Director, Analytics & Informatics, UPMC Enterprises. Kamaraj shares how UPMC is testing and deploying AI responsibly through data governance, closed-container evaluations, and cross-functional collaboration, while offering guidance for leaders balancing innovation, regulation, and operational efficiency.

This episode features Colleen Briggs, President of the Blue Cross NC Foundation and Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at Blue Cross NC. She discusses the Feed Your Health initiative, how food-based interventions are improving outcomes for members with diabetes, and what it takes to move these programs from pilot to sustainable, systemwide solutions.

Joshua Geltman, MD, MBA, Physician Chair of the Sepsis Committee at Northern Westchester Hospital, discusses the seriousness of sepsis and its growing impact in inpatient care. He highlights current trends, the role of predictive analytics in improving early detection, and how data-driven approaches can drive meaningful change in sepsis management and patient outcomes.