News In Two: Week of 9/13/2026

Host Adam Russo invites Matt Rhenish, SVP, COO Health Plan Operations, Powering Healthtech to discuss the challenges and complexities of the healthcare industry. Adam and Matt share insights on the lack of education on healthcare costs in business schools, the emotional and personal nature of healthcare decisions, and the difficulty of implementing cost-saving solutions due to the diverse needs of different populations. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Ambient AI for Nurses: From Early Adopters to Standard Practice 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. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Why Healthcare Still Has a Paper Payment Problem Healthcare has made enormous progress in digitizing revenue cycle transactions, yet paper checks, remittances, and manual payment workflows remain surprisingly common. Host Stuart Newsome talks with Monte Sandler, COO of WebPT, about why these processes persist, where automation can reduce administrative work, and why modernizing the basics may sometimes matter more than chasing the latest technology. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Epic UGM and Health IT Australia To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Three Decades and a Passion for Patient Access to Health Data On this episode host Tom Testa sits down with Lee Barrett, the new Executive Director for Carequality. Lee emphasizes his passion for patient access to health data and the importance of trust in the digital healthcare ecosystem. The discussion also covers the critical nature of trust, the challenges of digital identity and authentication in the face of AI-driven cyber threats, and the current lack of federal guardrails for AI. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

Airing the week of 9/13/2026, news from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), The Sequoia Project, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Juno Health, SlicedHealth, CARPL.ai, GenServe.AI, Centauri Health Solutions, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, AvaSure, VirtuAlly

The Discipline Behind Digital Transformation: How Healthcare Organizations Create Real Capacity for Innovation Russ Branzell, President and CEO of CHIME, welcomes Shane Cronin, Head of ITAM Services at SHI Healthcare, for a timely discussion on how digital health leaders are effectively creating the operational discipline necessary to sustain ongoing digital transformation. While AI and cloud modernization continue to dominate industry initiatives, many organizations are discovering that long-term success depends on something less visible but equally critical: governance, optimization, and a clear understanding of their technology environment. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

PVEK and the Changing Treatment Landscape for BPDCN On this episode host Dr. Ryan Haumschild, Vice President of Pharmacy at Emory, is joined by Dr. Naveen Pemmaraju, Professor of Leukemia and founding director of the BPDCN program at MD Anderson, to discuss blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN), an ultra-rare and aggressive blood cancer. They examine the recent FDA approval of pivekimab sunirine-pvzy (PVEK), a CD123-directed antibody-drug conjugate, and results from the CADENZA trial in both treatment-naive and relapsed or refractory patients. The conversation explores where PVEK may fit within the evolving BPDCN treatment landscape, its safety and outpatient administration, and the role of targeted therapies in helping eligible patients reach stem cell transplant. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

The Dual Perspective of a Rural CMO and CMIO Host: Phil Sobol, Chief Commercial Officer at CereCore Guest: Tiffany Laurenz, Vice President of IT Delivery Operations, McLaren Health Care Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

How Current Health Improves Access to Advanced Therapies Chris McGhee, CEO & Co-Founder of Current Health, returns to share how the national dialogue about health at home programs, drug therapies, and empowered consumers has changed since he reacquired his company from Best Buy Health.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about the launch of the CMS ACCESS Model. Is CMS creating a framework for treating chronic conditions rather than just a short-term payment structure, and how does the model open up new partnerships that can help make preventive health a reality? Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/