DGTL Voices with Ed Marx

Marx Advisory

DGTL Voices is your go-to podcast for all things digital innovation, healthcare technology, and leadership. Hosted by Ed Marx, the show features in-depth conversations with top leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries who are shaping the future of healthcare. Each episode dives into the latest trends, career insights, and real-world advice, providing a platform to learn, grow, and connect with like-minded professionals.

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#334
October 8 · 28 min
What You Should Have Been Paid (ft. Xinan Rahman)
Xinan Rahman founded a company that matches incoming payments against payer contracts, catching underpayments as they happen rather than months later. His father named him with an X instead of the usual Z, because his kids were going to be different. He did the same with Xinan's sister. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Xinan tells Edward Marx about growing up in Bangladesh, why he studied computer science as a practical decision rather than a passion, and how reading his own hospital bill in college made him curious about what health systems actually get paid. He also explains why revenue cycle staff are not the problem and what he thinks comes after underpayments. Connect with Marx Advisory at https://bio.marxadvisory.com/
#333
October 1 · 35 min
Surgery Without an Incision (ft. Gianluca Torregrossa)
A week in the hospital used to be standard after heart bypass surgery. Dr. Gianluca Torregrossa sends his patients home in a day or two, and they are back at work within a week. One of them played 36 holes of golf two weeks out and sent a photo. He does the operation robotically, without cutting the chest open. Surgeons tried this in the early 2000s and abandoned it as too difficult and too expensive. He picked it up anyway and has now done more than 100, including the first ever performed on a pregnant patient. Gianluca is Director of the Robotic Coronary Artery Surgery Program at Cleveland Clinic. Before that he trained in Italy and spent nine months in Sudan operating with the humanitarian organization EMERGENCY. In this episode of DGTL Voices, he tells Edward Marx why he thinks technology's job is to simplify technique rather than replace the surgeon, what Sudan taught him that medical school could not, and why he believes healthcare is running out of time to fix its leadership problem. Connect with Marx Advisory at https://bio.marxadvisory.com/
#332
September 24 · 29 min
One Hundred Percent Gut (ft. Sabré Cook)
Sabré Cook is a professional racing driver and a mechanical engineer. She was the first woman to compete in the Porsche Carrera Cup North America, won a world karting championship at 13, and worked as a suspension composite design engineer for the Renault F1 team while racing in W Series. Edward Marx steps outside healthcare for this one. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Sabré tells him about growing up at a go-kart track in Grand Junction, winning that first championship with her dad as her mechanic, and why the engineer in her runs on gut once she's in the car. She also talks about the season she raced injured, what she agreed to that she shouldn't have, and the lesson it took a year of surgery and rehab to learn. Connect with Marx Advisory at https://bio.marxadvisory.com/
#331
September 17 · 33 min
Nobody Asks About Ibuprofen (ft. Joel Selanikio)
Dr. Joel Selanikio is a practicing pediatrician, a former CDC epidemiologist, and a TED speaker who keynotes for health system boards and C-suites. Twenty years ago you needed a physician's judgment to get ibuprofen. Joel points out that the entire purpose of over-the-counter drugs was to eliminate a doctor visit, and that in thousands of conversations nobody has ever asked him whether Advil is going to replace doctors. Everyone asks about AI. In this episode of DGTL Voices, he tells Ed why he thinks healthcare has a blind spot about its own shrinking, what the data does and doesn't show about physician shortages, and what the food industry is doing about GLP-1s that healthcare isn't. Connect with Marx Advisory at https://bio.marxadvisory.com/
#330
September 10 · 24 min
The CEO Swap (ft. Gil Peri)
Gil Peri is the CEO of Children's Wisconsin, the only children's health system in the state. It is independent, so he reports directly to the board, and he is the third CEO it has had in 45 years. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Gil tells Edward Marx about the CEO swap he runs every month, where he takes over a frontline manager's job for the day and hands her the health system. He explains why he went into pediatrics after what happened to his younger brother in college, what a CEO once told him that he still repeats 25 years later, and why 800 of his 8,000 team members never set foot in a hospital building. Plus: the parameters he put in place after nearly burning out, and what he thinks makes the CEO and CIO relationship work. Connect with Marx Advisory at https://bio.marxadvisory.com/
#329
September 3 · 25 min
Everybody Is a Caregiver (ft. Toby Cosgrove)
Dr. Toby Cosgrove is the former President and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, where he now serves as Executive Advisor. A cardiac surgeon and inventor, he is a member of the Cleveland Medical Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Business Hall of Fame, and has addressed the World Economic Forum at Davos and the Senate HELP Committee. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Toby tells Edward Marx about nearly flunking out of Williams College before anyone discovered he was dyslexic, running a hundred-bed casualty staging flight in Vietnam at 28, and the two decisions he's proudest of from his tenure at Cleveland Clinic, both about purpose and language rather than buildings. Plus: the three problems he thinks AI has to solve in healthcare, and his advice for people who want the C-suite. Connect with Marx Advisory at https://bio.marxadvisory.com/
#328
August 27 · 25 min
The Executive Longevity Plan (ft. Tony Medrano)
Tony Medrano is the CEO and Co-Founder of LongevityPlan.AI, a platform that uses AI, lab results, genetic testing, biomarkers, health records, and wearable data to help personalize longevity and peptide plans. His interest in health optimization began after accepting a challenge to complete an Ironman with only 90 days to prepare. Six weeks before the race, he was hit by a car and separated his shoulder—but still finished the race with one functioning arm. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Tony tells Ed how that experience shaped his approach to experimentation, why executives need to manage their health as intentionally as they manage their businesses, and how AI could make longevity strategies more personal, practical, and data-driven. https://bio.marxadvisory.com/
#327
August 24 · 27 min
Waiting for the Wrong Bed (ft. Alan Portela)
Alan Portela is the CEO and Co-Founder of DEPTH Health. Before this he spent 12 years running AirStrip, deployed in 750 US hospitals, and has advised Masimo, Bain Capital, and Apollo Hospitals. Touring hospitals after the pandemic, a Vanderbilt physician took him past the emergency department waiting room and into the hallway where admitted patients board. Portela treated it like a traffic jam and asked where the accident was. It was triage. Most boarding patients score ESI 3, and roughly half are stable enough for a bed they aren't waiting for. In this episode of DGTL Voices, he tells Ed why pilots don't work, why he spent a year with St. Luke's University Health Network defining what to measure before claiming anything, and how he started this company the same week he started treatment for recurrent prostate cancer. Connect with Marx Advisory at https://bio.marxadvisory.com/
#326
August 20 · 37 min
Even If They Feel Ready, They're Not (ft. Hooman Rashidi)
Dr. Hooman Rashidi is Associate Dean of AI in Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and Executive Director of CPACE. Before Pitt, he founded Cleveland Clinic's Center for AI and Data Science and directed AI at UC Davis Medical Center. Ed asks him whether medical staff are prepared for AI. His answer is that even the ones who feel ready are not, because people bundle every kind of AI together and the newer generative tools don't behave like the predictive models the field has been using for decades. In this episode of DGTL Voices, he explains what's missing from tumor boards, why he leads with education before deployment, how Pitt runs a hybrid strategy rather than committing to vendors alone, and why his center puts junior contributors on patent filings when most institutions don't. https://bio.marxadvisory.com/
#325
August 13 · 30 min
Don’t Rush Anywhere Ever (ft. Diane Sliwka)
Dr. Diane Sliwka is a hospitalist physician, professor, and Chief Physician Experience Officer at UCSF Health. Her work focuses on improving the healthcare experience by helping clinicians communicate more effectively, find greater professional fulfillment, and deliver better care without sacrificing their own well-being. She believes healthcare leaders must do more than measure burnout. They must listen to the people on the front lines and act on what they hear. That philosophy helped UCSF earn the American Medical Association’s highest Joy in Medicine recognition. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Diane tells Ed how her parents’ immigrant story shaped her resilience, why her guiding mantra is “Don’t rush anywhere ever,” and how aligning our professional lives with our true selves can transform the way we lead, work, and live. https://bio.marxadvisory.com/
#324
August 6 · 32 min
The Next Right Action (ft. John Erwin)
John Erwin is the CEO and Founder of Carenet Health, a health engagement and virtual care company serving more than 400 healthcare organizations across telehealth, patient access, and clinical navigation. He describes Carenet's job as walking alongside the patient and making sure they take the next right action. Whether they need the ER or don't. Whether they picked up the prescription. The parts of care that happen outside the clinic, where most of a patient's health actually gets decided. In this episode of DGTL Voices, John tells Ed about growing a business from 20 people, why he believes the healthcare consumer has more leverage now than at any point in his career, and the two skills he credits for everything that worked. https://bio.marxadvisory.com/
#323
July 30 · 29 min
Millions of Faxes (ft. Kesava Dinakaran)
Kesava Dinakaran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Luminai, an AI platform that moves manual administrative work at large health systems over to agents. Luminai has raised $60M to date and works with health systems including Cleveland Clinic. Kesava spent seven years of his childhood solving Rubik's Cubes eight hours a day, broke the world record for most cubes solved in one hour, then cycled from Turkey to China having never ridden a bike before. He skipped college entirely. In this episode of DGTL Voices, he tells Ed how a family health event in 2023 turned a general interest in automation into a specific obsession with healthcare, why he thinks the point solution era created more admin work than it removed, and what happens when a health system stops treating its fax volume as somebody's full-time job. He also makes a case most CEOs would not make out loud: that vulnerability is an operating requirement, not a personality trait. https://bio.marxadvisory.com/
#322
July 23 · 22 min
Innovate With Constraints (ft. C.P. Gurnani)
C.P. Gurnani is the Founder of Aionos, an AI-enabled company he launched in April 2024 after a 44-year career in the global technology industry. He is best known for leading Tech Mahindra, and his earlier career took him through HCL under Shiv Nadar and Perot Systems under Ross Perot Sr. He continues to serve as Chair of Mahindra Holidays and founder of Mahindra University. In this second appearance on DGTL Voices, C.P. sits down with Ed for a conversation that starts with a Bollywood song about perseverance and ends with why the world's real innovation is happening in places most people aren't watching. He walks through India's advantage at the intersection of talent, data, and the willingness to work within constraints, telling the story of a friend making cancer diagnostics affordable for under one dollar. He shares the three biggest misconceptions about AI, why he thinks the world is measuring it wrong, and what it takes to build a company where the mission is to have fun and create real impact. Plus his leadership formula: discipline, determination, dedication, and the two-way street of giving and taking that made him the leader he is. https://marxadvisory.com
#321
July 16 · 28 min
The Cost of Failure Has to Go to Zero (ft. Nish Khandwala)
Nish Khandwala is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bunkerhill Health, an AI agent platform for health systems backed by Sequoia and deployed at Cleveland Clinic, Stanford, UCSF, and more than 25 other institutions. A Stanford CS grad with a Master's in AI and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Nish built Bunkerhill after a Nature-published research algorithm he helped build at Stanford sat unused on his laptop for two years, then found its real-world moment when his own father had a heart attack. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Nish talks with Ed about the calcium-scoring model that inspired the company, why healthcare has to stop imposing drug-development timelines on modern software, and the governance shift he thinks hospital CEOs need to make: drive the cost of failure toward zero, iterate fast, and stop treating AI like a five-year plan. Plus his origin story from India to Saudi Arabia to Stanford, the difficult-conversations lesson he's learned about leadership, and why he doesn't buy the false dichotomy between clinical and administrative AI. https://marxadvisory.com
#320
July 9 · 28 min
A Trillion Small Problems (ft. Andrew Gostine)
Dr. Andrew Gostine is the CEO of Artisight, a smart hospital platform now deployed in more than 470 hospitals across the country. Trained as an anesthesiologist at Georgetown, Northwestern, and Stanford, he still practices medicine while running a company of nearly 200 employees distributed across 38+ states. Artisight's platform uses computer vision, NVIDIA GPUs at the bedside, and AI to reduce falls, extend nursing capacity, and automate documentation in patient rooms and operating rooms. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Andrew talks with Ed about the winding path from Grand Rapids to Georgetown to a venture capital detour at a high-frequency trading firm before starting Artisight, why he believes starting a company is really about solving a trillion small problems, and the one question he keeps asking his team, his advisors, and himself: what is the next step? Plus his hard-won lesson about why hospitals need vendors to be prescriptive rather than collaborative, and why the future of smart hospitals depends on physicians and nurses having a seat at the innovation table. https://marxadvisory.com
#319
July 2 · 28 min
Feel Whole (ft. David Banks)
David Banks is the President and CEO of AdventHealth, one of the largest faith-based health systems in the country, with 55+ hospital campuses, 2,000+ care sites, and 100,000+ team members serving communities across the nation. In this episode of DGTL Voices, David sits down with Ed for a conversation that begins with cycling and ends with the philosophy that shapes how AdventHealth approaches whole-person care. He talks about his path from sweeping the sidewalks of a small community hospital in California to leading a national health system, what it means for every facility leader at AdventHealth to also carry the title of Chief Spiritual Officer, and the "feel whole" promise the organization makes to every patient. Plus a story from early in his career that taught him an important lesson about putting patient need ahead of financials, and how the team did some of its most important work in the middle of COVID. https://marxadvisory.com
#318
June 25 · 29 min
Transformation Is Not Always About the Technology (ft. Ashley Beecy)
Dr. Ashley Beecy is the Chief AI Officer at Sutter Health, a cardiologist, and a clinical informaticist. Before joining Sutter, she spent more than a decade at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, most recently as Medical Director of AI Operations. Her path into medicine took a less common route: she started as a computer systems engineer at IBM, then spent eight years at Citi in operational risk and product management before going to medical school while still working in finance. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Ashley sits down with Ed to talk about what it takes to build an applied AI function inside a major health system. She walks through the three pillars guiding her work at Sutter, why organizational readiness matters as much as the technology itself, and the discipline required to scope and prioritize when the AI news cycle creates a constant pull toward urgency. Plus the seventh-grade math teacher who shaped her trajectory, the mantra her dad gave her about Brinks trucks and funeral processions, and why she defines success today by what teams achieve together rather than individual metrics. https://marxadvisory.com
#317
June 18 · 26 min
You Have to Fail to Succeed (ft. Jennifer Miles-Thomas)
Dr. Jennifer Miles-Thomas is Vice Chair of Integration and Innovation at Northwestern Medicine, Executive Treasurer of the American Urological Association, and a former CEO of one of the largest private urology groups in the country. She earned her MD at Northwestern, completed her residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and her MBA at MIT Sloan. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Jennifer talks with Ed about the spinal meningitis diagnosis at age three that pointed her toward medicine, what changed when she got to MIT and started thinking alongside multinational CFOs and SpaceX engineers, and why she left a CEO seat for protected innovation time at a health system. She shares her perspective as a Black female urologist on what it took to navigate her training, how she leads through really listening, and why she believes failure is part of the path to anything worth building. https://marxadvisory.com
#316
June 11 · 23 min
1% Better Every Day (ft. Ansh Singhal)
Ansh Singhal is 18 years old, a senior at Coppell High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and the founder and CEO of A1 Media, a digital marketing agency he's been growing for two and a half years. His client roster already includes Adidas and Paiwan Football, who recently flew him to Japan to lead marketing for an international tournament. He's headed to SMU's Cox School of Business in the fall. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Ansh sits down with Ed for one of the show's occasional non-healthcare conversations. He talks about the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen, 1% better every day, and how it changed his trajectory. He shares why every high schooler trying to start something should start with a co-founder, what reverse mentoring looks like from the other side, and what he thinks executives twice his age are missing about social media and AI. Ed also asks him to weigh in on the future of healthcare from a tech-forward Gen Z perspective. 🔗 https://marxadvisory.com
#315
June 6 · 29 min
Why Every Future Doctor Needs an Engineering Degree (ft. Lev Gonick)
Dr. Lev Gonick is the Enterprise Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University, where he leads technology infrastructure, AI innovation, and smart city architecture for the nation's largest public university. An academic and technology pioneer for more than three decades, Lev has been a sitting CIO for 25 years, with prior leadership at Case Western Reserve University and co-founding regional digital equity initiatives like DigitalC. In this bonus episode of DGTL Voices, Lev tells Ed about growing up in an academic family, the pivotal 1993 university sabbatical that shifted his career into online learning, and why a university's success should be measured by who it includes rather than who it excludes. He also shares insight into ASU’s radical new medical school program where every future doctor also graduates with an engineering degree to navigate the upcoming AI economy. Plus: the unique strategy he uses to stay ahead of tech trends by employing 350 student "coaches," why building true human relationships matters more than titles, and how getting lost in the kitchen as an amateur chef keeps him grounded. https://marxadvisory.com

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