The Beat

Healthcare and life sciences have a unique challenge when it comes to using AI for marketing, sales, and communications: accuracy isn't a nice-to-have. It's a must-have. In this episode of The Beat's AI at Health series, host Sandy Vance talks with Divya Srungaram, VP of Healthcare Solutions at WRITER, about how AI agents are helping healthcare organizations accelerate highly regulated workflows without sacrificing compliance, accuracy, or human oversight. Divya shares why healthcare marketing campaigns can take nine to 12 months to move from brief to launch, and how AI agents can embed legal and compliance requirements directly into the content creation process, reducing the back-and-forth that traditionally slows teams down. Some of the key takeaways include: organizations shouldn't start by trying to automate every step of an existing process. Instead, they should start with the outcome they need to achieve and then determine how AI can orchestrate the work. As healthcare organizations move from experimenting with AI to deploying it at scale, Divya sees an inflection point ahead, one where domain expertise combined with AI fluency could become a significant competitive advantage.

Millions of people struggle with behavioral health conditions that remain undiagnosed or undertreated. AI could help find those patients sooner and connect them to more effective care. In this episode of the AI at ViVE series on The Beat, host Sandy Vance talks with Jeremy Kreyling, the SVP of Healthcare Informatics at NeuroFlow, about where artificial intelligence genuinely belongs in behavioral health and where clinical judgment and human connection remain irreplaceable. Jeremy explains how NeuroFlow uses machine learning across claims, EHR, assessment, and engagement data to identify hidden behavioral health risk, and why models built around an organization's own population can provide greater confidence than a one-size-fits-all approach. They also discuss how AI can help reduce the number of patients lost between identification, referral, and effective treatment.

In this episode of Interop Now, host Sandy Vance chats with Dima Goncharov, co-founder & CEO of Metriport, about the evolving healthcare interoperability landscape, health information exchanges, FHIR, QHINs, and the challenge of bringing fragmented clinical data together. They discuss why interoperability is becoming table stakes in modern healthcare, the limits of building connections in-house, and how a stronger data foundation can help providers move from simply exchanging information to using it to improve care. They also explore how AI and large language models answer complex patient questions in real time when the underlying data is trustworthy, accessible, and properly organized.

In this episode, host Sandy Vance sits with Dawud Gordon, Ph.D. Founder & CEO at Twosense.AI, to unpack why passwordless projects in healthcare so often stall out and what it actually takes to get them across the finish line.

Ransomware remains one of the biggest cybersecurity threats facing healthcare, but the threat landscape is changing rapidly. Attackers are becoming more targeted, ransomware-as-a-service is making sophisticated tools more accessible, and artificial intelligence is giving cybercriminals new ways to identify vulnerabilities and craft convincing attacks. In this episode of The Beat's Cybersecurity at ViVE series, Sandy Vance speaks with Dave Bailey, VP of Consulting Solutions & Strategy at Clearwater, about the evolving ransomware threat and what healthcare organizations can do to stay ahead of it. Dave explains why smaller healthcare organizations and specialty practices are increasingly attractive targets, how attackers are using AI to improve social engineering and phishing, and why traditional cybersecurity approaches may not be fast enough for the threats ahead. The conversation also explores why healthcare organizations need to understand their AI risk, establish guardrails, inventory their AI use cases, and prepare defenses that can respond at machine speed. Dave shares practical advice for organizations beginning their AI journey, while emphasizing that cybersecurity can no longer be something organizations assess once a year. It has to become a continuously monitored, evolving process.