Digital health, measured against real operations.
Slice of Healthcare brings healthcare executives into structured conversations about what breaks between strategy and real-world care delivery. Recent episodes move from discharge gaps and revenue-cycle waste to AI validation, care deserts, conference policy signals, and data silos.
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Slice of Healthcare is built around conversations with healthcare operators, executives, and digital health leaders. Its center of gravity is practical. Rather than treating technology as a standalone breakthrough, the show keeps returning to access, workflow, reimbursement, staffing, data, and measurable outcomes. Recent episodes show that pattern clearly. A conversation with Carrie Hodge frames discharge as a vulnerable transition, where patients leave institutional care before primary care access and clinical decision-making can fully resume. The discussion turns toward a new transitional-care model and an AI clinical teammate named Amy, but the point remains grounded in what happens to a patient at 2 a.m. Matt Seefeld’s episode shifts the lens to revenue cycle management, arguing that many back-end touches start with preventable front-end mistakes before care is delivered. That conversation treats metrics, automation, billing systems, and zero-touch rates as operational levers rather than abstract efficiency talk. Karthik Ganesh brings urgency to healthcare access, especially care deserts and delayed care, while tying OnMed’s work to a broader ambition for tech-enabled, AI-powered, human-delivered care. Aaron Sheedy’s HIMSS-focused discussion traces Xealth’s origins through Providence, Microsoft-era startup experience, Epic workflow frustration, and the challenge of improving the clinician interface. Dan D’Orazio’s ViVE 2026 preview brings policy into the room, including fee-for-service pressure, PBM reform, transparency, prior authorization, and signals from D.C. Another Sage Growth Partners conversation adds Christina Speck’s perspective on AI, consumer segmentation, women’s health, devices, Apple, Optum, the Blues, and public-health study. A live HLTH conversation about UpToDate’s clinical decision support business focuses on conversational search, trusted evidence, validation, quality standards, and the risk of weakening clinician judgment. The Medecision and Excell Healthcare Advisors discussion connects integration strategy to ROI, operational change, data silos, longitudinal patient views, and AI proof points. Across these episodes, the show’s strongest habit is narrowing broad healthcare themes into concrete operating questions. What data is missing? Who changes the process? What does the clinician see? Where does the money go? What happens to the patient when the handoff fails? The tone is measured, executive, and occasionally warm, with enough technical vocabulary for industry listeners and enough plain consequence to keep the stakes visible.
Made for: Healthcare executives, founders, operators, investors, consultants, and clinical leaders who want practical conversations about digital health implementation. It is especially suited to listeners tracking AI, access, care transitions, reimbursement pressure, and workflow change.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its insistence on moving from market language to operational detail. Guests are given room to explain, but the conversation keeps circling back to ROI, data quality, clinical workflow, policy pressure, and patient consequences.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Executive interviews make healthcare's hidden workflows, access gaps, payment pressures, and technology decisions easier to understand.
Slice of Healthcare turns executive interviews into clear tours of the machinery behind care. Jared asks guests to explain how hospitals get paid, why patients lose support after discharge, where access breaks down, and what happens when disconnected data meets AI.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A clear look at the fragile gap between hospital care and what comes next.
The episode stays with the uneasy stretch after patients leave the hospital, when length of stay keeps shrinking, primary care is harder to reach, and the next handoff still is not fully in place.
Front-end revenue cycle problems begin before care is delivered.
Matt Seefeld turns the conversation into a straightforward argument: revenue cycle problems begin before care is ever delivered. He keeps the attention on eligibility checks, authorization, deposits, and card-on-file collection, where one missed step can echo later as a bad debt…
A clear case for fixing healthcare access before polishing the rest of the system.
Slice of Healthcare keeps the focus on access, with the guest arguing that healthcare has to fix the broken door before anyone worries about upgrades.
A grounded look at healthcare data silos, operational change, and AI's shift from promise toward practical demos.
Healthcare technology runs into a familiar wall when a platform cannot be translated into day-to-day change. Ken and Mike use the MedDecision and Accel integration to look at that gap, with Ken laying out why software by itself only goes so far in helping customers reach ROI.
A clear look at how SmarterDx turns clinical data into reimbursement evidence.
SmarterDx centers on a high-stakes problem in hospital operations: care can be delivered without being fully reflected in the documentation and codes used for reimbursement.
A clear, measured look at using genetic risk to bring prevention earlier.
Genomics comes across as a practical case for moving healthcare further upstream, using genetic risk to guide screening and prevention before illness becomes harder to manage.
A grounded look at the post-discharge gap and the AI teammate proposed to help manage it.
The episode sits in the uneasy handoff after a hospital stay, when the hospitalist steps away, primary care may be hard to reach, and patients or caregivers are suddenly responsible for a changing health picture.
Healthcare markets without the gloss.
Healthcare value, stripped of polite fiction.
Women changing healthcare, one conversation at a time.
Healthcare strategy, translated into operational consequence.
Business fluency for anesthesia careers.
Healthcare reform from the operating room floor.
Carrie Hodge, CEO of Dimer Health, returns to discuss her company's $13.5 million funding round and vision for post-discharge care.
Sir Peter Donnelly, CEO and co-founder of Genomics, discusses his transition from academia to entrepreneurship.
Richard Lungen and Ken Goulet discuss HC9 Ventures' focus on providing go-to-market and commercialization support to healthcare startups beyond just capital.
Jared speaks with Carrie Hodge about the gap that opens once a patient leaves the hospital.
Matt Seefeld argues that revenue cycle problems begin before care is delivered.
Jared opens with a blunt access analogy.
Aaron Sheedy, COO of Xealth, shares the origin story of the company spun out of Providence in 2017 and discusses his upcoming HIMSS presentation.
Dan D'Orazio previews key healthcare policy topics at ViVE 2026, including the access program, PBM reform, and prior authorization.
Dan D'Orazio and Christina Speck discuss their backgrounds and insights on AI in healthcare as they kick off 2026 on Slice of Healthcare.
UpToDate's GM discusses their new conversational AI clinical decision support tool, emphasizing validation and quality.
Ken Young says healthcare needs "quality data and quality data management" before any AI rollout can work.
Mike Gao says SmarterDx moved from "concurrent CDI" to "pre-bill" because value had to be provable to the CFO.
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Sir Peter Donnelly, CEO and co-founder of Genomics, discusses his background in mathematics and genetics, and the impact of the genetic revolution on understanding common human diseases.