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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 #209. The First 12 Months That Define a Lifetime, with Hans Kullberg, CEO and co-founder of Avocado Health
Apr 1600:29:02Summary readyWhat if the most overlooked driver of lifelong health isn’t the healthcare system, but the confidence of a parent in the first year of a child’s life? In this episode, Hans Kullberg, CEO and co-founder of Avocado Health, discusses how parental confidence and competence shape lifelong health outcomes from birth. He shares how Avocado Health delivers 24/7, evidence-based support through text messaging, making trusted guidance accessible to all parents. He explains the critical gaps in early childhood development detection and how empowering caregivers can reduce long-term physical and mental health challenges. He also discusses how a hybrid AI-human approach can scale support while maintaining empathy and trust. Tune in to learn how empowering parents could be the most impactful innovation in healthcare! Resources: Connect with and follow Hans Kullberg on LinkedIn. Follow Avocado 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 #208. Innovation Without Oversight: Healthcare’s Next Risk, with Dr. Hamed Abbaszadegan, “The AI MD”
Apr 1400:34:43Tap to summarizeAI is moving faster than healthcare governance can keep up, and that’s a problem. In this episode, Dr. Hamed Abbaszadegan, an internal medicine–trained physician and clinical informatics leader known as “The AI MD”, talks about the urgent need for effective AI governance in healthcare. He explains why traditional governance structures fall short and require more diverse, technically skilled teams. He also explores how improving data quality is unlocking better decision-making and new AI use cases. At the same time, he emphasizes that while automation will expand, human connection in care remains irreplaceable. Tune in to hear how healthcare leaders can balance innovation, governance, and the human side of medicine! Resources: Connect with and follow Dr. Hamed Abbaszadegan on LinkedIn. 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 #207. Healthcare Has a Data Problem, Not a Technology Problem, with Inderpal Kohli, Chief Technology Officer at Healthix
Apr 1300:18:47Summary readyImagine a healthcare system where patient data from thousands of providers seamlessly comes together to improve care in real time. In this episode, Inderpal Kohli, Chief Technology Officer at Healthix, discusses the transformation of a large New York Health Information Exchange (HIE) into a data intelligence organization, managing data from 9,000 entities and 27,000 physicians. He highlights the challenge posed by messy, disparate data and the importance of normalizing and building trust to provide actionable insights for participants. Kohli shares how federal initiatives like TFCA could expand interoperability, while emphasizing that building value-added services and maintaining participant trust remain top priorities. He advises new healthcare tech professionals to deeply understand healthcare workflows and prioritize adoption alongside technical solutions. Tune in to hear how one HIE CTO is turning messy, multi-source data into actionable insights that could transform patient care and public health! Resources: Connect with and follow Inderpal Kohli on LinkedIn. Follow Healthix 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 #206. Healthcare Doesn’t Break in the Exam Room, with Aditya Bansod, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Luma Health
Apr 900:20:12Summary readyWhat if the real problem in healthcare isn’t clinical care, but everything that happens before it? In this episode, Aditya Bansod, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Luma Health, shares how his team is using operational AI to simplify how patients access care, focusing on everything outside the exam room. He explains a shift from point solutions like scheduling tools to outcome-driven models, in which AI agents coordinate across workflows to ensure patients complete their care journey. Rather than keeping humans constantly in the loop, he advocates exception-based intervention, in which people step in only when automation encounters ambiguity. Ultimately, he believes the biggest opportunity in healthcare lies in reducing operational complexity, compressing the support burden around clinicians, and improving access at scale. Tune in to hear why the future of healthcare AI isn’t about replacing doctors, it’s about fixing everything around them! Resources: Connect with and follow Aditya Bansod on LinkedIn. Follow Luma Health 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 #205. Healthcare’s Next Revolution Is… a Phone Call?, with Dr. Erin Palm, Medical Lead at Infinitus Systems
Apr 700:21:01Summary readyWhat if the biggest breakthrough in healthcare isn’t happening at the bedside, but on the phone? In this episode, Dr. Erin Palm, Medical Lead at Infinitus Systems, shares how AI-powered communication agents are transforming healthcare by automating phone interactions with payers, providers, and patients to reduce delays and errors. She explains how structured protocols, agent supervision, and human-led audits ensure safety and clinical quality as these systems scale. Drawing from her experience as a trauma surgeon, she highlights how staying grounded in clinical care informs her approach to building responsible AI in an unpredictable digital health landscape. Ultimately, she believes AI’s greatest impact will come from automating routine tasks, improving access, and allowing clinicians to focus on higher-value, human-centered care. Tune in to hear how AI is quietly reshaping healthcare operations, and what it takes to do it safely at scale! Resources: Connect with and follow Dr. Erin Palm on LinkedIn and check out her website! Follow Infinitus Systems 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 #204. What If Healthcare AI Is Making Burnout Worse?, with Dr. Jay Anders, CMO at Medicomp
Apr 600:14:10Summary readyWhat if the very technologies meant to reduce physician burnout are actually making it worse? In this episode, Dr. Jay Anders shares his journey from practicing internal medicine to becoming CMO at Medicomp, driven by early involvement in health IT and a desire to improve clinical systems. He discusses how his organization is cautiously leveraging AI, particularly voice-enabled commands powered by LLMs, while focusing on minimizing errors, such as hallucinations, to ensure reliability. From an industry perspective, he challenges the assumption that new technologies will reduce physician burnout, arguing that they may actually increase it if not implemented responsibly. He also highlights the serious risks posed by inaccurate data in medical records, emphasizing the need for accountability and careful oversight of healthcare technology. Tune in to hear a candid, experience-driven perspective on where healthcare technology and AI are truly headed! Resources: Connect with and follow Dr. Jay Anders on LinkedIn. Follow Medicomp Systems on LinkedIn and explore their website! Check out the Tell Me Where It Hurts IT Podcast 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 #203. Billions Spent, Barely Discussed: Healthcare’s Quiet Crisis, with Greg Miller, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Carta Healthcare
Apr 200:22:55Summary readyWhat if one of healthcare’s biggest expenses is something most executives barely even know exists? In this episode, Greg Miller, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Carta Healthcare, explains how hospitals spend billions on manual clinical data abstraction and how his company uses AI combined with clinical expertise to automate and improve this process. He emphasizes the importance of “hybrid intelligence,” where AI and human validation work together to ensure high-quality data for compliance, patient safety, and performance improvement. Carta offers flexible models to meet the diverse operational realities of health systems. Looking ahead, the company is focused on unlocking unstructured clinical data to enable more powerful analytics while staying committed to solving specific provider challenges rather than becoming a general AI company. Tune in to hear how AI and human expertise are coming together to unlock the most valuable data in healthcare! Resources: Connect with and follow Greg Miller on LinkedIn. Follow Carta Healthcare 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 #202. AI Is Everywhere… So, Why Is Everyone Still Confused? with Cambrey Ware, Chief Commercial Officer at Censinet
Mar 3100:24:01Summary readyAI is everywhere in healthcare right now, but many leaders are still trying to figure out what it actually means for their organizations. In this conversation at ViVE 2026, Cambrey Ware, Chief Commercial Officer at Censinet, shares what she’s hearing from health system leaders about AI, highlighting widespread confusion, mixed adoption strategies, and the growing need for governance. She reflects on how she unexpectedly entered healthcare through technology sales and built a career driven by competitiveness, problem-solving, and relationship-building. Ware also explains why relationships in healthcare tend to run deeper than in other industries due to the shared mission and personal connection everyone has to the system. She also discusses the opportunity to modernize cybersecurity and risk management, noting that many health systems still rely on spreadsheets and manual processes. Tune in to hear Cambrey’s insights on AI adoption, healthcare sales, and the future of cybersecurity in the industry! Resources: Connect with and follow Cambrey Ware on LinkedIn. Follow Censinet on LinkedIn and discover the 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 #201. The Day the System Goes Dark: Are You Ready? with Andrea Steele, the Associate Vice President of Information Technology and Business Intelligence for the Health Care District of Palm Beach County
Mar 3000:14:07Summary readyAre you ready to rethink resilience in healthcare IT? In this episode, Andrea Steele, the Associate Vice President of Information Technology and Business Intelligence for the Health Care District of Palm Beach County, talks about building resilience, preparing for system downtime, and the evolving role of AI in healthcare. She emphasizes the importance of proactively testing business continuity and disaster recovery plans and ensuring cross-departmental collaboration and operational buy-in. Steele also shares insights on navigating shadow AI, securing sensitive data, and fostering safe innovation while reflecting on her own career path and advice for newcomers to healthcare and IT. Tune in to hear Andrea’s expert insights and actionable strategies for healthcare leaders, available now on your favorite podcast platform! Resources: Connect with and follow Andrea Steele on LinkedIn. Follow the Health Care District of Palm Beach County 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 #200. AI Isn’t the Hard Part. Security Is, with Steven Ramirez, Chief Information Security & Technology Officer for Renown Health
Mar 2600:26:06Summary readyAs healthcare moves beyond the hype of AI, organizations are discovering that success depends just as much on governance, security, and people as it does on the technology itself. In this episode, Steven Ramirez, Chief Information Security & Technology Officer (CISTO) for Renown Health, discussed how healthcare organizations are moving beyond AI hype and focusing on practical implementation, governance, and adoption. Renown has prioritized early use cases, such as Microsoft Copilot, while emphasizing strong security guardrails and platform-based AI strategies. Steven highlighted identity management as the organization’s top cybersecurity priority, noting that identity-related threats account for most attacks and require stronger verification processes and zero-trust architecture. The health system is also investing in data infrastructure by deploying a new Databricks-powered data warehouse on Azure to support enterprise analytics. Throughout the conversation, Steven emphasized that technology success ultimately depends on people, encouraging leaders to prioritize team well-being, relationships, and a people-first culture. Tune in to learn about practical AI adoption, strengthening identity-based security, and building a people-first culture that supports innovation! Resources: Connect with and follow Steven Ramirez on LinkedIn. Follow Renown Health 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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