Healthcare technology after the hype check.
The Beat is a healthcare business interview series built around implementation, not hype. Its conversations ask how new tools survive real workflows, compliance pressure, cost strain, patient expectations, and the daily constraints of providers.
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The Beat is a polished healthcare technology interview series focused on the practical side of change. Its center of gravity is implementation. Recent episodes look at AI platforms, agentic automation, cybersecurity, blood testing, revenue cycle management, healthcare networking, and patient experience through conversations with company leaders and operators. The show rarely treats technology as a standalone breakthrough. Instead, it keeps asking what happens when a tool meets health system workflows, delayed data, limited staff time, procurement scrutiny, audit requirements, and patient-facing complexity. That gives the series a grounded business texture. A conversation about secure AI platforms turns into a discussion of data availability, missing records, latency, and the need to design around real clinical systems. A segment on agentic AI shifts quickly from software adoption to governance, traceability, accountability, and the new oversight roles needed when automation begins making operational decisions. Cybersecurity episodes separate compliance from security and treat HITRUST, SOC, HIPAA, PCI, FedRAM, and risk maturity as practical buying and trust signals. Other interviews widen the lens. Babson Diagnostics brings patient preference and outpatient competition into a discussion of fingertip blood collection. Experian Health frames denial management as a cost and margin problem that can move upstream into prevention. Hewlett Packard Enterprise connects AI-native networking to blind spots, utility-like reliability, and secure operations. CareNet Health frames AI around navigation, access, orchestration, and making healthcare feel less complicated for real people. The style is measured and interview-centric. Hosts ask straightforward framing questions, then let guests explain the operating model, customer pain, and path to adoption. It is not loose industry chatter. It is also not academic. The strongest moments come when abstract claims are translated into workflow, cost, trust, compliance, or patient experience. For healthcare leaders, founders, investors, and technology teams, The Beat offers a useful read on which problems companies are prioritizing and how they describe value in the market.
Made for: Designed for healthcare leaders, founders, investors, operators, and technology teams tracking AI, security, infrastructure, patient access, and revenue cycle change. It assumes industry awareness without requiring every acronym to be explained from scratch.
What sets it apart: The Beat stands out by pushing healthcare technology conversations toward deployment reality: data readiness, compliance maturity, workflow fit, provider economics, and patient experience. Its conference and interview format gives listeners direct access to company and operator thinking as products move toward adoption.
The Beat, powered by HLTH, is a weekly interview series dedicated to paving a better path forward for the future of health. Each week a variety of hosts bring you authentic conversations with prominent thought leaders. Through these interviews with people at the forefront of change in healthcare, we hope to spark new ideas and encourage new collaborations among listeners.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Beat tests healthcare technology against data quality, clinical workflow, security, and the realities of putting new systems into service.
The Beat keeps healthcare technology close to implementation. Its guest interviews examine what happens when new systems meet clinical workflows, imperfect data, compliance demands, and healthcare's cost pressures.
Healthcare AI meets missing data and workflow friction before you get anywhere near the victory lap.
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A practical check on whether healthcare AI can survive real-world constraints.
The Beat keeps its healthcare AI focus on the hard part: what it takes for a platform idea to hold up in real healthcare settings. Tushar Puri of Pegasus One and Sebastian Uslis of Chart Our Health spend the conversation on the factors that decide whether an AI system survives…
A patient-preferred blood test still has to clear clinic realities.
Recorded live from VIVE in Los Angeles, this conversation tracks Webb Golinkan as he recounts how Babson Diagnostics started as a Siemens skunkworks project in 2015, spun out in 2017, and built a fingertip blood collection system that patients have significantly preferred to…
A practical look at denial prevention, AI adoption, and the labor pressure inside healthcare billing.
Jason Considine's appearance on The Beat keeps its attention on a concrete healthcare problem: how Experian Health is pushing providers to prevent denials earlier in the revenue cycle instead of managing them after the fact.
HITRUST comes across as a fit-for-purpose choice, not a trophy chase.
The episode presents HITRUST as a fit-for-purpose choice, not a trophy. Shreesh Bhattarai, director of HITRUST at Align, makes the case for matching certification to compliance maturity and risk profile, and for moving from E1 to I1 and R2 as risk changes.
A payer-data conversation that treats quality as infrastructure, not cleanup.
Charlie Harp, CEO and founder of Clinical Architecture, anchors the discussion in a plain but durable idea: AI is only as useful as the data behind it.
Health technology, tested against real-world constraint.
Medtech lessons from inside the build.
AI strategy without the hand-waving.
Healthcare strategy from the industry floor.
Digital health after the pitch deck.
Heather Grey, Senior Vice President at Omega Healthcare, discusses why clinical trials often fail due to operational challenges rather than scientific issues.
Sandy Vance interviews Adam Siskind from ZS about AI's role in closing healthcare gaps, discussing the company's journey and insights from the HLTH conference.
Hari Bala from Solventum discusses building clinician trust in AI for healthcare, based on a global survey revealing demand and concerns about AI increasing stress.
Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture, discusses the critical role of data quality in healthcare's evolution.
The Beat episode with Pegasus One centers on Tushar Puri’s claim that about 80% of healthcare AI initiatives never reach production, usually because interoperability, latency, and workflow design are treated as afterthoughts.
Matt Roberts discusses HPE's AI-native, self-driving networking approach for healthcare, aiming to make networks as reliable as utilities.
Webb Golinkin discusses Babson Diagnostics' development of a patient-preferred fingertip blood collection system and its commercialization in Austin.
KJ, CEO of Risa Labs, explains why healthcare's digital tools haven't improved efficiency due to time constraints and software requiring too much user effort.
Jason Considine, President of Experian Health, discusses shifting from denial management to denial prevention to simplify healthcare reimbursement and reduce administrative costs.
Peter Bonis says unauthorized AI use exposes healthcare enterprises to clinical, legal, compliance, and security risks.
Sandy Vance and Shreesh Bhattarai argue that compliance is only the baseline and that the bigger risk is passing an audit while still being insecure.
Dan Schur, Chief Product Officer at CareNet Health, discusses how the company partners with clients to use AI to improve healthcare access, experience, and outcomes.
Sandy Vance interviews Gary Salmon, CEO of Black Talent Security, about cybersecurity challenges in healthcare and how his law enforcement background informs his approach.
Sandy Vance interviews Parminder Bhatia, Chief AI Officer of GE Healthcare, about how AI is addressing healthcare challenges like staff shortages and data overload.