Becker’s Healthcare Podcast

Qualenta Kivett, EVP and Chief People and Talent Officer at Tampa General Hospital, leads workforce development and talent strategy. She talks about using ambient listening and AI to reduce documentation burden. She discusses AI governance and involving bedside staff in solutions. She highlights expanding research partnerships and a new recognition platform to uplift staff.

Dr. William Scharf, Executive Clinical Director of Quality and Safety at AdventHealth and surgeon, discusses building system-wide safety programs. He talks about psychological safety, frontline engagement, and cross-functional collaboration. He describes training initiatives like a Patient Safety Academy and daily practices such as debriefs and shared monitors to strengthen culture.

Kyle Kaiser, former Arrive Health CEO and advisor to Interra Health, brings real-time benefit and pharmacy network expertise. Josh Wiener, former DoseSpot CEO and Interra Health CEO, offers deep e-prescribing and affordability experience. They discuss the merger creating unified medication access. Topics include real-time benefits at point of care, workflow integration, provider tools to reduce clicks, and patient-facing price transparency.

Marion Spears Karr, founder of In-FLOW Executives with 30+ years in healthcare executive search and leadership development. She explores embedded search paired with leadership coaching. She highlights gratitude as an intentional leadership practice. She explains flow-based development and practical ways to align roles with strengths to help emerging leaders thrive.

Frankie Hamilton, VP of Nursing Operations at Maimonides Medical Center, leads night-shift engagement, throughput and Magnet preparation. He discusses launching 9:30 p.m. safety huddles, hybrid governance to involve night nurses, nurse-driven discharge checklists, and strategies to handle more uninsured and sicker patients while supporting staff through moral distress.

Josh Lumbley, MD, a practicing anesthesiologist and senior leader at NorthStar Anesthesia, shares practical perspectives on changing anesthesia partners. He discusses why transitions matter beyond selection. He covers on-site leadership, recruitment pipelines, 90-day plans, retention strategies, and early warning signs of failing transitions.

Dr. Joseph Pazona, board-certified urologist and founder/CEO of VirtuCare who builds outpatient specialty programs for rural hospitals. He discusses rural physician shortages and how new care models expand specialty access. He covers scaling partnerships with hospitals, restoring joy for clinicians by enabling top-of-license practice, and plans to extend the model beyond urology.

James Murray, Managing Director at BDO Center for Healthcare Excellence and Innovation with 25+ years in healthcare tech. He discusses how health systems are moving from pilots to disciplined execution. Governance and data-driven prioritization steer tool rationalization. High-ROI AI and automation use cases and fast feedback with human-in-the-loop design are highlighted.

In this episode, Robin Roberts, Director of Health IT Regulatory Affairs, PointClickCare & Novella Thompson, Hospital Administrator, Population Health, UVA Health, explore how health systems are transforming care coordination from hospital to post-acute settings through interoperability, real-time data, and AI. They share practical challenges, including discharge handoffs and medication accuracy, and highlight how predictive tools and stronger partnerships are improving outcomes across the continuum of care.This episode is sponsored by PointClickCare.

FJ Campbell, MD, an emergency physician and Ardent Health CMO who builds virtual care and AI solutions. He discusses virtual nursing and physicians that ease nursing workload and expand specialist access. He covers AI scribes for documentation relief and automated monitoring to detect deterioration earlier. The focus is on practical tech that reduces clinician burden and strengthens rural hospitals.