VBC Insights: Building a High-Performing Clinically Integrated Network

The Missing Piece in Your Practice Sale: How Using an Investment Banker Can Make the Difference Host Ericka Adler is joined by John Tiedmann, Jr. from Physician Growth Partners to discuss the role investment bankers play in helping physicians to not only to find the best buyer, but to navigate the many steps on the way to a successful sale of a practice. John discusses the state of the physician practice market in 2026 and what physicians looking to sell might expect from a buyer in terms of price and deal structure. John and Ericka also discuss how practices can best prepare for a transaction and how building the right team of advisors can help close a deal successfully. 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/

Propensity Modeling: How to Find Your Most Valuable Leads Does your team keep chasing more leads but can’t explain why the pipeline doesn’t turn into revenue? This episode is for you. On this episode host Adam Turinas speaks with Aaron Burnett, founder and CEO of Wheelhouse DMG, who built his agency specifically for privacy-first industries like healthcare and medtech, and he walked Adam through something most agencies can’t do: predicting the dollar value of a lead in real time, without ever touching protected health information.

On this episode host Raj Sundar explores the limitations of mechanistic models in medicine and emphasize the importance of seeing patients as whole beings shaped by history, context, land, and community. Through candid conversation among clinicians trained in somatic experiencing, compassionate inquiry, and research with Indigenous communities, he reflects on how social determinants, trauma, and systemic violence contribute to disease and impact the patient experience. We discuss the value and complexity of diagnosis—how it can be both validating and reductive—and address how healing is fostered through relationship, safety, and the recognition of environmental, emotional, and intergenerational influences on health. By sharing personal stories and practical challenges, he highlights the need for culturally responsive, holistic care and the ongoing journey to create safer, more healing spaces within healthcare. 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 State of AI in Home Care Agencies with John Atkinson On this episode host Tom Foley invites John Atkinson, CTO of AxisCare to discuss their 4500 home healthcare provider clients and their adoption of AI through their platform. He shares that over half of the 4,500 clients have adopted AI features in the past nine months, with one AI feature analyzing over 7.7 million care notes in the last four weeks, saving an equivalent of 21,000 hours of work. Host Tom Foley encourages listeners to read AxisCare's newest white paper on the subject. 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

On this episode host Daniel Marino discusses the stages of CIN maturity, from launching the network to optimizing operations and scaling for growth. He explores how organizations can define a strong value proposition, strengthen care management and utilization management capabilities, improve network integrity, and position the CIN for long-term high performance. Whether your organization is developing a CIN, improving an existing network, or expanding value-based opportunities, this episode offers practical insights for building the alignment, infrastructure, and capabilities needed to drive sustainable success. 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

The Power of Collaboration and Threat Sharing in Healthcare Cybersecurity On this episode host Jessica Davis invites Errol Weiss, Chief Security Officer, Health-ISAC to discuss how collective defense, threat intelligence sharing, and cross-industry collaboration make a real impact on healthcare cyber resilience despite longstanding sector challenges. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”.

The discussion includes: vaccine policy & AI regulation - please speak up on proposed vaccine changes and make your comments human; FDA is regulating AI, lets hope without stifling useful innovation; Health-maxing: More data, tests, and tracking don’t automatically mean better health; Sometimes it just create more things to obsess over; Your wearables CGMs and sleep trackers can be useful, but only if the data is accurate and you understand the data; Healthcare gets stranger as Costco moves deeper into Medicare while employers squeeze spousal health coverage; If you thought healthcare was a workplace calculus before it definitely is now; And the surveillance problem with Flock Cameras, (and wearables, AI and insurance increasingly know everything about us); While the technology gets smarter, we’re not necessarily getting wiser. 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

Defining micro and macro impacts of technology; defining clinical intelligence and layers to effective development; understanding that incremental progress can have a significant impact; how clinician involvement in development creates a better experience. 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

On this episode Gil welcomes emergency physician, AI futurist, and Chief AI Officer of Phantom Space Corporation, Harvey Castro, MD (DrGPT™) for a wide-ranging conversation on artificial intelligence's transformation of medicine - from the emergency room to orbit. Dr. Castro shares how he built a personal digital twin integrating wearable data, electronic medical records, and genomics to shift his own health management from reactive to proactive. He discusses his landmark series of AI-in-healthcare books, including AI for Everyone in Healthcare: The Clinician's AI Playbook, and makes the case that predictive analytics, continuous monitoring, and AI-assisted clinical decision support will redefine what "prevention" means for every patient. The conversation ranges from UTI detection via bathroom sensors to orbital data centers and challenges the U.S. healthcare system's persistent failure to move upstream of illness. 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