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Healthcare is full of pitches. Crew Talk isn't one of them. Every episode, we sit down with leaders of healthcare actually doing innovation and walk through the real story... the problem they saw, why nobody's solved it yet, what their solution actually looks like on a Monday morning, and whether the results hold up. 20 minutes. Looking at innovation beyond the pitch. A podcast by HealthCrewHQ.

  1. 7 de mai.

    Amissa Health:: 54 Million Women. Zero Infrastructure.

    Amissa Health CEO Sam Smith breaks down why menopause has been healthcare's blind spot and how a new data layer is helping clinicians actually see what their patients are experiencing. Guest: Sam Smith CEO & Co/Founder Amissa Health For more information check out Amissa.com or reach out to healthcrewhq.com

    Amissa Health:: 54 Million Women. Zero Infrastructure.

  2. 30 de abr.

    Betr Health : Maybe your budget problem is a belief problem

    Less than 8% of Americans are metabolically healthy... and your budget is absorbing all of it. Dr. Ferro from Betr Health joins Crew Talk to talk about it.

  3. 10 de mar.

    HTB:: The Rural Hospital Problem

    HIMSS 2026 kicks off in Las Vegas today. 25,000 healthcare leaders are on the ground, nearly a third from the C-suite. The big shift this year — AI conversations are moving from "should we" to "we're doing it, now what." Microsoft just turned Dragon Copilot into a clinical AI platform. What started as an ambient documentation tool is now an app store for clinical AI — with partners like Optum, Regard, and Canary Speech building directly inside the workflow. They're also offering a 60% discount to rural hospitals, which is not an accident given everything happening with Medicaid right now. Telehealth got the runway it's been asking for. Federal telehealth approvals extended two years, and hospital-at-home waivers run through 2030. If you've been waiting to make a real infrastructure commitment to virtual care, that hesitation just got removed. Hospitals are already closing units and laying off staff because of the Medicaid cuts — and we're still in the early innings. Maternity wards, community health centers, hospital clinics — the closures are happening this month, not in some future projection. Shelby breaks down what's driving it, what's still coming in 2027, and what healthcare leaders need to do right now before it gets worse.

  4. 4 de mar.

    HTB::The AI Therapist Problem

    AI therapy chatbots are everywhere and nobody's really in charge of them. A new Brown University study exposes serious ethical gaps in how general-purpose AI handles mental health conversations and what healthcare leaders need to do before it becomes a patient safety event. Plus Deep Thoughts on why too much sweet ruins the treat.

  5. 25 de fev.

    HTB:: The ChatGPT Health Study Every Leader Needs to Hear

    Special Episode: The ChatGPT Health Study Mount Sinai just published the first independent safety evaluation of ChatGPT Health—the AI tool 40 million people are using daily to decide whether they need emergency care. The findings are sobering: a 52% under-triage rate on true emergencies, anchoring bias that follows when family members minimize symptoms, and suicide crisis safeguards that triggered inversely to actual risk. But the story isn't all bad. An NEJM AI study shows what AI triage looks like when it's designed to support clinical judgment instead of replace it—and the results are genuinely encouraging. We break down what the research says, what's actually working, and what healthcare leaders should do right now. Plus, Deep Thoughts with Shelby on the difference between keeping the peace and making the peace.

  6. 17 de fev.

    HTB:: Big Announcement

    Check out Healthcrewhq.com Health Insurers Turn to AI to Cut Billions in Costs — Providers Should Be Paying Attention Squeezed margins are pushing major payers to deploy AI across utilization management and prior auth, raising concerns about rising denials and lack of transparency. Health Systems Go All In on Agentic AI for End-to-End Clinical Workflows The conversation has moved past scribes — systems like Mayo Clinic and Intermountain are investing in AI that handles scheduling, prior auth, care coordination, and follow-up without human intervention. Digital Therapeutics Finally Have a Path to Get Paid New Medicare billing codes and fresh funding signal that app-based treatments are moving from failed pilots to real budget line items for health systems and payers.

  7. 10 de fev.

    HTB:: My Personal Review of OpenClaw

    Headline 1: My Experience with Earl 2 Shelby returns after experimenting with OpenClaw (formerly MoltBot), the viral open-source AI agent that autonomously executes tasks on your computer. Despite security researchers calling it a "disaster waiting to happen," he installed it to understand firsthand what autonomous AI actually feels like. His experience provides crucial context for understanding the AI disruption hitting healthcare. Headline 2: Congress Passes Landmark PBM Reform On February 3rd, Congress passed comprehensive PBM reform requiring 100% rebate pass-through to plan clients starting in 2028. The law also bans spread pricing in Medicare Part D and mandates massive transparency requirements. After decades of PBMs operating in a black box, the rebate retention business model is dead. Headline 3: HHS Scraps 340B Rebate Pilot The Department of Health and Human Services abandoned its controversial 340B rebate model after hospitals sued and won. The proposed pilot would have required providers to front full drug costs and wait for rebates—creating massive cash flow problems for safety-net hospitals. While hospitals are relieved, the fight over 340B isn't over.

  8. 28 de jan.

    HTB:: When the Bottom Falls Out

    Headline 1: CMS 2027 Medicare Advantage Rate Shock Triggers $80B Market Wipeout—The Golden Era is Over CMS proposed just 0.09% rate increase for 2027 MA plans versus expected 4-6%, includes aggressive 1.53% cut from eliminating chart-review-only diagnoses, sending CVS, Elevance, and UnitedHealth stocks into freefall on January 27 and forcing health systems to rethink their entire MA strategy. Headline 2: Coalition for Secure AI Releases Security Framework for Model Context Protocol—AI's New Attack Surface Just Got Real Google, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA's security coalition released an MCP security taxonomy on January 27 as vulnerabilities multiply, MCP servers get exposed in production, and healthcare organizations realize they're deploying AI agents without the governance to contain them. Headline 3: Commure Raises $200M as Autonomous AI Delivers Real Revenue Cycle Results—The Pilot Era is Over While everyone's still talking about AI potential, Commure's autonomous coding is delivering 83% reduction in clinician time at scale across HCA Healthcare and Ob Hospitalist Group, with RCM customers seeing 20% revenue lift—proof that AI agents work when you actually deploy them right.

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Healthcare is full of pitches. Crew Talk isn't one of them. Every episode, we sit down with leaders of healthcare actually doing innovation and walk through the real story... the problem they saw, why nobody's solved it yet, what their solution actually looks like on a Monday morning, and whether the results hold up. 20 minutes. Looking at innovation beyond the pitch. A podcast by HealthCrewHQ.

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  • Criado por
    Health Crew HQ
  • Anos de atividade
    2025 - 2026
  • Episódios
    36
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    Crew Talk