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Risk Never Sleeps Podcast
Hosted by Ed Gaudet · EN
Hosted by Ed Gaudet, CEO and Founder of Censinet, The Risk Never Sleeps Podcast highlights the people protecting patient safety in today's fast-paced, high-demand, increasingly digital healthcare environment.
Through conversations with CIOs, CISOs, and Risk Leaders we highlight their insights and best practices around one core question: What must we do to protect patient safety?
For more information and ways you can increase your risk awareness and safety, visit us at www.censinet.com
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Episode #160. The Hidden Cost Of Siloed Data And How AI Finally Breaks It Open, with Doug Fridsma, CMIO at Health Universe
Dec 1100:18:33Summary readyThe future of healthcare hinges on unlocking siloed data and enabling agentic, AI-driven innovation. In this episode, Doug Fridsma, CMIO at Health Universe and former federal leader in health IT, discusses the historic shift from paper to electronic records, the challenges of data consolidation, and why lazy data must be activated to improve patient care. Doug breaks down how modern agentic AI, ambient technologies, and orchestration layers can ultimately make health systems more agile, much like the transition from mainframes to personal computing. He also explores the creation of horizontal platforms that integrate once and deploy multiple solutions, the importance of standards such as FHIR and CDA, and the need to empower bottom-up innovation within large healthcare systems. Finally, Doug argues that future transformation depends on patients themselves, just as the automobile reshaped medicine a century ago. Tune in and learn how AI, data accessibility, and patient-centered innovation are reshaping the next era of healthcare! Resources: Connect with and follow Doug Fridsma on LinkedIn. Follow Health Universe on LinkedIn and visit their website! For more information and ways to increase risk awareness and safety, visit us at www.censinet.com. Music by David Cosgrove an accomplished composer, musician, producer, and engineer. Listen to his latest project Del Piombo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Episode #159. Why Clinicians Must Stop Waiting and Start Building with AI, with Hassan Bencheqroun, CEO of the Medical AI Academy
Dec 1100:21:55Summary readyAI won’t replace clinicians, but clinicians who embrace AI might. In this episode, Hassan Bencheqroun, CEO of the Medical AI Academy, talks about what it means to become an “AI-ready doctor.” He breaks down common misconceptions among clinicians who fear AI will replace human connection. He shares real examples of AI improving care, from hospital fall-prevention tools to enhanced medical education. He also reflects on his journey from Morocco and urges innovators to take action, learn intentionally, and stop waiting to be “ready.” Tune in to hear how clinicians and builders can lead the future of AI in medicine! Connect with and follow Hassan Bencheqroun on LinkedIn. Check out the AI-Ready Doctor podcast! Follow the Medical AI Academy on LinkedIn and explore their website! For more information and ways to increase risk awareness and safety, visit us at www.censinet.com. Music by David Cosgrove an accomplished composer, musician, producer, and engineer. Listen to his latest project Del Piombo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Episode #158. The Path To Faster Medicines Starts With Better Trial Access, with Chris Brigham, founder of Smart Medical History AI
Dec 1000:19:11Summary readyA patient’s story is the key to better care, yet modern healthcare rarely gives people the time to tell it. In this episode, Chris Brigham, founder of Smart Medical History AI, explains how AI-driven, adaptive patient interviewing can enhance the depth and accuracy of clinical history-taking. He shares his unusual journey from IT pioneer to physician and editor, emphasizing that decades of experience reaffirmed patient history as the cornerstone of good care. Chris describes how his platform conducts a one-hour multilingual interview, verifies the story with the patient, and generates an eight-page clinical summary before the physician enters the room, offering far more insight than passive scribe tools. He also explores global scalability, behavioral health use cases, physician burnout, health literacy, and closes with personal reflections on risk, sailing, music, faith, and a life spanning medicine and technology. Tune in and learn how AI-driven history-taking can transform patient care from the ground up! Connect with and follow Chris Brigham on LinkedIn. Follow Smart Medical History AI on LinkedIn and explore their website! For more information and ways to increase risk awareness and safety, visit us at www.censinet.com. Music by David Cosgrove an accomplished composer, musician, producer, and engineer. Listen to his latest project Del Piombo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Episode #157. The Doctor-to-Doctor Movement: Putting Patients First in a Profiteering System, with Dr. Kianor Shah, Founder and Chair of the Global Summits Institute
Dec 1000:14:07Summary readyDoctors are rising to reclaim healthcare from third-party profiteers. In this episode, Dr. Kianor Shah, Founder and Chair of the Global Summits Institute, talks about the “doctor-to-doctor” movement and how it’s restoring physicians to the center of healthcare. He explains how AI can level the playing field, removing unnecessary intermediaries to benefit doctors and patients. Shah shares how global summits engage leading medical and dental figures to foster collaboration and consensus on AI regulation. He also discusses the Institute’s efforts to integrate healthcare, bringing doctors together worldwide to shape a patient-centered future. Tune in to hear how doctors are reshaping the future of healthcare! Connect with and follow Dr. Kianor Shah on LinkedIn. Visit the Global Summits Institute website! For more information and ways to increase risk awareness and safety, visit us at www.censinet.com. Music by David Cosgrove an accomplished composer, musician, producer, and engineer. Listen to his latest project Del Piombo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Episode #156. What AI Is Really Learning From Us, and Why It Matters, with Robin Farmanfarmaian, co-founder and CEO at i-GENTIC AI,
Dec 900:24:43Summary readyAgentic AI is evolving fast, and it’s learning far more about us than we realize. In this episode, Robin Farmanfarmaian, co-founder and CEO at i-GENTIC AI, explores both the promise and the dangers of agentic AI, emphasizing that generative models learn human flaws as well as human knowledge. She explains how her company, i-GENTIC, helps organizations stay compliant amid rapidly evolving AI regulations and privacy requirements. Robin also warns about growing cybersecurity threats and the disruptive potential of quantum computing. Despite these risks, breakthroughs in longevity technology and stem cell innovation keep her optimistic about AI’s impact on human health. Tune in to hear Robin Farmanfarmaian break down AI’s promise, its risks, and how we can stay compliant and secure in a rapidly shifting landscape! Connect with and follow Robin Farmanfarmaian on LinkedIn and visit her website! Follow i-GENTIC AI on LinkedIn and discover their website! For more information and ways to increase risk awareness and safety, visit us at www.censinet.com. Music by David Cosgrove an accomplished composer, musician, producer, and engineer. Listen to his latest project Del Piombo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Episode #155. Healthcare’s AI Inflection Point: Why Everything Is About to Accelerate, with Nilesh Bhandari, Chairman and CEO at the Advanced Health Academy
Dec 900:21:57Summary readyHealthcare is hitting an inflection point where AI is no longer a curiosity; it’s becoming the engine driving the next decade of clinical transformation. In this episode, Nilesh Bhandari, Chairman and CEO at the Advanced Health Academy, explains that this year marks a turning point in healthcare's embrace of AI, with unprecedented enthusiasm from clinicians, administrators, and even boardrooms. He notes that AI experts and clinicians are finally having productive, in-depth conversations that bridge their once-separate worlds. With EHR infrastructure now mature, he predicts massive efficiency gains and personalized clinician workflows by 2030. He also outlines his work on deterministic lab-interpretation algorithms and a whole-person autoimmune care model. Tune in to hear how healthcare is finally embracing AI at full speed, and what that means for efficiency, patient care, and the future of clinical workflows! Connect with and follow Nilesh Bhandari on LinkedIn, or reach out to him via email. Follow the Advanced Health Academy on LinkedIn and explore their website! For more information and ways to increase risk awareness and safety, visit us at www.censinet.com. Music by David Cosgrove an accomplished composer, musician, producer, and engineer. Listen to his latest project Del Piombo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Episode #154. The Human Code: Embedding Compassion into Technology, Leadership, and Care, with Dr. Apurv Gupta, Founder and Board Member of A Loving Organization
Dec 800:20:52Summary readyHow do you build AI that actually feels loving to the people it serves? In this episode, Dr. Apurv Gupta, Founder and Board Member of A Loving Organization, explains that the Loving Organization Consortium aims to bring more love and compassion into healthcare by improving nine interconnected systems, people, processes, culture, workflows, and especially technology, through a framework called INTEGRATE. He and Ed Gaudet discuss how “loving AI” can ease clinician burden through tools like ambient listening, workflow automation, and emerging burnout-prediction technology, while emphasizing that tech alone is only 10–20% of the solution. Dr. Gupta stresses that effective technology requires human oversight, governance, feedback loops, and involvement from clinicians and patients in the design process. He highlights that organizations often miss these elements due to lack of awareness and capabilities, which the INTEGRATE framework seeks to build. Ultimately, he argues that love must be the foundational intention shaping systems, leadership, and AI, because technology is neutral but becomes “loving” only when embedded in a loving human environment. Tune in to explore how compassion-driven systems and “loving AI” can transform clinician well-being, patient care, and the future of healthcare! Connect with and follow Dr. Apurv Gupta on LinkedIn. Follow A Loving Organization on LinkedIn and visit their website! Last Apurv Gupta RNS episode here! For more information and ways to increase risk awareness and safety, visit us at www.censinet.com. Music by David Cosgrove an accomplished composer, musician, producer, and engineer. Listen to his latest project Del Piombo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Episode #153. How Tiny Workflow Tweaks Can Reduce Massive Physician Burdens, with Jason Hill & David Leingang
Dec 800:27:06Summary readyThoughtful, problem-first innovation—not hype—drives real clinical impact in healthcare. In this episode, Saul Marquez and Ed Gaudet from Censinet host Dr. Jason Hill, Innovation Officer at Ochsner Health, and David Leingang, Director of Innovation Data Science at Ochsner Health, to discuss how their team uses machine learning, workflow redesign, and data-driven insights to reduce physician message burden, improve patient routing, and guide clinical programs. They explain how analyzing 2.4 million annual inbox messages uncovered that 4% were related to weight-loss drugs, which led to a new weight-management digital medicine program rather than an AI tool. Both guests describe how reorganizing message flows and using e-visits reduced unnecessary back-and-forth, how machine learning helps uncover root causes of system strain, and how predictive deterioration models saved lives but required retraining once interventions changed patient outcomes. They also explore value-based care, the challenges of identifying solvable problems, and why the first and last mile of AI—defining the problem and integrating into workflows—remain the hardest. Jason and David close with a discussion of the AHEAD Network, connecting universities, healthcare systems, and industry to accelerate innovation. Tune in and learn how practical AI, smarter workflows, and cross-industry collaboration are reshaping modern healthcare! Resources: Connect with and follow Jason Hill on LinkedIn. Follow and connect with David Leingang on LinkedIn. Follow Ochsner Health on LinkedIn and explore their website! For more information and ways to increase risk awareness and safety, visit us at www.censinet.com. Music by David Cosgrove an accomplished composer, musician, producer, and engineer. Listen to his latest project Del Piombo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Episode #152. AI Is Hungry: Feeding the Beast Without Burning Out the Grid, with Neil Morris, Head of IT at Redaptive
Dec 400:31:52Summary readyThe fastest way to stay relevant in tech is to understand the business before the technology. In this episode, Neil Morris discusses the evolution of energy-as-a-service, the rising strain of AI-driven power consumption, and why scaling energy independence is becoming essential for hospitals, manufacturers, and beyond. He explains how aging U.S. infrastructure, AI’s exponential growth, and the emergence of micro-nuclear solutions are reshaping long-term strategy. Neil also reflects on the unprecedented speed of innovation in AI, the overwhelming pace of model development, and the workforce disruption that follows when algorithmic tasks can be automated. Tune in and learn how energy, AI, infrastructure, and deep technical expertise converge to redefine the future of work and innovation! About Neil Morris: Neil D. Morris is an enterprise technology executive with a long record of turning complex business goals into measurable outcomes at a multi-billion-dollar scale. With deep expertise in compliance, governance, risk management, and cloud-first architecture, he has led large organizations through transformative change across aerospace, defense, renewables, telecommunications, and SaaS. Known for building AI implementation frameworks that drive revenue and operational efficiency, he pioneered a 7-pillar AI model that became the foundation for enterprise-wide governance and ROI measurement. His leadership includes modernizing manufacturing and engineering workflows through digital thread and digital twin systems at Ball Aerospace, enabling real-time visibility and predictive quality that sharpened engineering cycles and production performance. At Maxar Technologies, he architected and executed a cloud-first transformation that unlocked $30M in new revenue opportunities while overseeing a global IT organization of 200+ professionals and $50M+ in annual budgets. Across every role—from CIO at Fortune 500-scale companies to Head of IT in high-growth sectors—Neil aligns technology with mission, strengthens cybersecurity and PII compliance, and designs scalable architectures that future-proof operations. He is known for leading complex integrations, optimizing enterprise systems, and mentoring high-performing teams. With full professional fluency in English and decades of hands-on execution, Neil brings a rare combination of strategic clarity, technical depth, and operational discipline to every environment he leads. Resources: Connect with and follow Neil Morris on LinkedIn. Follow Redaptive on LinkedIn and visit their website! For more information and ways to increase risk awareness and safety, visit us at www.censinet.com. Music by David Cosgrove an accomplished composer, musician, producer, and engineer. Listen to his latest project Del Piombo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Episode #151. Cracking the Hypertension Code: One Patch, No Limits ,with Jay Heimsoth, National Director of Sales at Biobeat
Dec 300:41:49Summary readyA life-saving technology finally solves the biggest flaw in hypertension care, and it’s as simple as wearing a patch. In this episode, Jay Heimsoth, National Director of Sales at Biobeat, explains that Biobeat has launched the first FDA-cleared cuffless 24-hour blood pressure monitor, addressing a massive unmet need for hypertension management where 74% of 120 million U.S. patients remain uncontrolled. Unlike traditional cuff-based monitors, Biobeat’s wearable patch improves comfort, compliance, and data quality while integrating features like digital diaries for actionable insights. He highlights strong clinical validation, including a Mayo Clinic study demonstrating near-beat-by-beat agreement with arterial line measurements. Looking ahead, Jay’s priorities include building Biobeat’s culture, developing a strong team, and creating an organization people want to join and stay in. Tune in to hear how Biobeat’s cuffless BP monitor is reshaping diagnostics and redefining what’s possible in cardiovascular care! About Jay Heimsoth: Jay Heimsoth is the National Director of Sales at Biobeat, leading the launch of the first FDA-cleared cuffless 24-hour blood pressure monitor. Passionate about addressing hypertension, the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease, Jay focuses on bringing disruptive technology to a massive, underserved patient population while improving physician decision-making through actionable data. He is also dedicated to building strong, people-first teams and a culture where employees can grow, thrive, and feel inspired to be part of a shared mission. Things You’ll Learn: Hypertension remains massively undertreated, with 74% of 120 million U.S. patients still uncontrolled. Biobeat has launched the first FDA-cleared cuffless 24-hour blood pressure monitor, solving the comfort, compliance, and data-gap problems of traditional cuff-based devices. The wearable chest patch provides continuous, highly accurate data, validated in 26 clinical studies, including Mayo Clinic research showing 96–99% agreement with arterial line measurements. New digital features like an integrated patient diary give physicians actionable insights by linking symptoms, medications, and activities to blood pressure changes. There is strong reimbursement and clinical guideline support for 24-hour monitoring, making the market ready for disruption. Biobeat focuses specifically on BP and heart rate, filling a technology gap not addressed by existing cardiac monitoring companies. Jay’s leadership priorities center on building a strong, people-first culture, where accountability, growth, and genuine embodiment of company values drive success. Biobeat aims to become a place where people want to join and stay, emphasizing mentorship, internal promotion, and supporting employees in reaching their career goals. Resources: Connect with and follow Jay Heimsoth on LinkedIn. Follow Biobeat on LinkedIn and explore their website! For more information and ways to increase risk awareness and safety, visit us at www.censinet.com. Music by David Cosgrove an accomplished composer, musician, producer, and engineer. Listen to his latest project Del Piombo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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