Health Care

How AI-Powered Physican Initiated Healthcare Platforms are Helping Patients Comply with Nutrition and Exercise Directives

Fjorino Musaku of Friska.Ai who is a health and wellness coach responsible for assessing patients’ health status, developing personalized care plans, and coordinating with other healthcare professionals to ensure delivery of comprehensive and integrated care joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Nutrition Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Fjorino Musaku discuss the following:
Talk about FriskaAi and your role there - along with Friska NutriAi.
Why is it important to have a lifestyle healthcare platform that leverages advanced AI technology to enhance patient care and wellness – in between doctor appointments?
How do such remote AI-powered healthcare platforms help inspire patients to comply with nutrition and exercise advice from physicians?
It’s not always about the technology – but the kind of advice and the approach – can you comment on that?
Let’s get some great advice on diet and exercise. How do you recommend people approach lowering carbs and approach a low fat diet – and how can we get people to exercise more?
Fjorino Musaku recently joined FriskaAi as a health and wellness coach responsible for assessing patients’ health status, developing personalized care plans, and coordinating with other healthcare professionals to ensure delivery of comprehensive and integrated care. He also provides nutritional guidance and educates patients and their families on diabetes self-management strategies for Friska NutriAi, FriskaAi’s AI-powered personalized nutrition platform.
Possessing a wealth of experience in academic, clinical, and athletic performance settings, Musaku is a professor of exercise science at Henry Ford College and a health educator with Henry Ford Health. He is also an award-winning diabetes care and education specialist, strength and conditioning expert, and ultra-distance marathon runner. Previous positions include strength and conditioning coach with 2SP Sport Performance, where he worked with Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Lions players, and health and wellness manager at Michigan Endocrine.
“Joining FriskaAi is an incredible opportunity to merge evidence-based wellness with cutting-edge technology,” said Musaku. “I’m passionate about helping people take charge of their health through personalized nutrition, movement, and education. With Friska NutriAi, we’re making expert guidance more accessible than ever and empowering individuals with chronic conditions to live healthier, more balanced lives.”
Website: https://friska.ai 
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/friskaai 
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Revenue Integrity and Health Information: Building a Stronger Foundation for Financial Stability

 
Ritesh Ramesh, the CEO of MDaudit offering their flagship revenue integrity software platform, enabling organizations to reduce compliance risk, improve efficiency and retain more of their revenue stream joins eHealth Radio. and the Health News and Health Care Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Ritesh Ramesh discuss the following:
What is the “Health Information: Making Every Patient’s Story Matter” campaign and why was it important for MDaudit to participate?
How do coding accuracy and billing compliance impact patients, patient care, and hospital operations?
What does it mean to achieve revenue integrity, and why is it important in the current environment?
How are AI and automation transforming revenue cycle management, and what sets MDaudit’s approach to their integration into other technologies apart?
Why do provider organizations need to embrace AI as part of their revenue cycle strategies?
What advice do you have for providers that want to integrate AI and automation into RCM processes to avoid disaster?
As CEO of MDaudit, Ritesh Ramesh focuses on driving the company’s growth and profitability with a customer-centric vision, strong team culture, and platform innovation. Ritesh has spent his entire career at the intersection of data, analytics, and emerging technologies, transforming business models across various retail and consumer-focused industries, including healthcare. He has more than 22 years of experience working for leading professional services firms.
Before joining MDaudit in 2020 as Chief Technology and Operating Officer, he held leadership positions with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Hewlett-Packard (HP), and Knightsbridge Solutions. Ritesh graduated with a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Website: https://www.mdaudit.com 
Social Media Links: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mdaudit-software X: https://twitter.com/mdaudit  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MDauditSoftware 
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Cloudbound: Navigating the Road of EHR Migration

 
Scott Mayo, the CEO of OptaFi with a mission to modernize Healthcare environments with a secure, cloud-first, high speed and cost-controlled digital landscape joins eHealth Radio and the Health News, Healthcare and Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Scott Mayo discuss the following:
Tell me about OptaFi and your relationship to Infinite.
How do you start planning for a cloud migration?
How do you assess the full impact and cost?
How do you get the entire organization trained?
How do you maintain security?
How do you ensure compliance?
Scott Mayo is the CEO of OptaFi, where he leads the company’s mission to modernize healthcare environments with secure, cloud-first, high-performance, and cost-efficient digital solutions.
OptaFi, LLC—a joint venture between Sentara Healthcare and Infinite Computer Solutions—draws on the expertise, scale, and industry knowledge of its partners to deliver transformative outcomes for clients across the healthcare spectrum.
With more than 20 years of consulting and leadership experience, Scott brings both deep technical expertise and strategic insight to every client engagement. His portfolio spans providers, payers, and life sciences organizations, with a focus on cloud transformation, operations, technology strategy, joint venture governance, and pre-/post-merger integration. This breadth of experience uniquely positions him to help healthcare leaders navigate today’s most pressing challenges.
Before joining OptaFi, Scott served as President of LeapIT, Senior Vice President of Customer Success at Impact Makers and SVP of Sales and Operations at Keane, Inc.
Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Susquehanna University and studied at the University of Miami Herbert Business School.
Website: https://optafi.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/optafi
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The Unseen Threat to Patient Privacy: Your Printers

 
Jim LaRoe the CEO of Symphion, a software and services company specializing in print fleet cybersecurity for healthcare joins eHealth Radio and the Health Care & Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Jim LaRoe discuss the following:
Let’s talk about the original mission you set out to achieve when you created Symphion. Could you share more about the industry challenge you saw a need to solve?
What has changed since that time and what has stayed the same in terms of the printers’ vulnerabilities within healthcare and the unseen threat to patient privacy?
Securing electronic health records and medical devices are seen as positive advancements in healthcare, but why are providers still overlooking the dangerous liability of printers when they are used frequently every day?
Could you illustrate some real-world scenarios of how print-related vulnerabilities can be exploited in healthcare?
Could you share more about the approach your team takes by offering cybersecurity services to print fleets?
You provide a solution for this challenge, but as an educator, why do you think it’s important to bring light to this issue and what do you recommend healthcare leaders do to address it? 
Jim LaRoe is Symphion’s dynamic leader with a special combination of skills, experience and insight that has driven Symphion’s success since inception to the world’s leader in print fleet cyber security. With a specialty in protecting the healthcare industry, Symphion’s focus has been on continual innovation, seamless delivery, affordability of its solutions and a dedication to excellence in customer service. 
Website: https://symphion.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symphion
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Why Facilitation is Key for Effective Telehealth

 
Michael J. Reidy, a senior consultant at Interaction Associates that has more than 25 years of experience in consulting and responding to the learning needs of individuals & groups in the healthcare, biotech, financial services, power, and service industries joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare & Health News Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Michael J. Reidy discuss the following:
How did you come to work in the healthcare space as an educator?
What challenges have you seen arise in the digital healthcare space from the organizations you serve?
How are these challenges unique within tele-health and telemedicine in terms of building trust?
What sort of facilitation techniques are used for in-person patient care that can be adapted for the virtual environment?
What tips and strategies do you suggest for providers to train their teams at all levels to enhance connection and empathy in online care? 
Michael J. Reidy, a senior consultant at Interaction Associates, has more than 25 years of experience in consulting and responding to the learning needs of individuals & groups in the healthcare, biotech, financial services,, power, and service industries. Michael’s interest is in adult education, and his belief is that the workplace has become the ‘third place’ of learning and development for the 21st century. Michael holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from the HKS, Harvard University. Interaction Associates is best known for introducing the concept and practice of group facilitation to the business world in the early 1970’s. For over 50 years, IA has provided thousands of leaders and teams with practical, simple, and effective programs, tools, and techniques for leading, meeting, and working better across functions, viewpoints, and geographies.
Website: https://www.interactionassociates.com
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How Specialists & General Providers Together Can Drive Early Detection of MASLD/MASH to Transform Patients’ Liver Health

 
Dr. Angelo Paredes, a Board-Certified Gastroenterologist and Transplant Hepatologist joins eHealth Radio and the eHealth Radio and Health News and Liver Health Channels. His practice focuses on the management of MASLD and MASH, liver cirrhosis, and hepatitis, and he also enjoys caring for patients with the entire spectrum of digestive diseases.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Angelo Paredes discuss the following:
Tell us more about your experience and how you became involved in liver health and passionate about this area of medicine.
Can you walk us through why early detection of MASLD (metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease) is so critical, and why general practitioners in primary care, family and internal medicine should start assessing for this disease and not just gastroenterologists and hepatologists?
What risk factors are visible in patients who should be screened?
In your experience, when is the right moment for a primary care practitioners and endocrinologists to refer a patient with suspected or confirmed MASLD to a specialist?
What tools or screening methods do you believe should be more widely adopted in primary care/family medicine to help identify patients at risk for advanced liver disease?
How can primary care/family medicine and GI/hepatology work more collaboratively to catch MASLD earlier and prevent disease progression? 
Dr. Paredes, a Queens NY native, came to us from Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX, after a fourteen-year career as an Active-Duty Medical Officer in the US Army. After completing his undergraduate degree at Cornell University, he obtained his Doctor of Medicine at Georgetown University in 2006. He completed his Internal Medicine Internship, Residency training, and Gastroenterology Fellowship training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He then spent a year in the Transplant Liver Program at Virginia Commonwealth University learning to care for patients with advanced liver disease.
Following his Fellowship training, Dr. Paredes became the Hepatology Section Chief at Brooke Army Medical Center. He has an accomplished background in research, with more than 25 scientific peer reviewed publications, and more than 50 presentations at international meetings. During his time in the Army, he participated in a medical mission to Honduras (2007), and served overseas in Iraq (2009-2010). He was Honorably Discharged as a Lieutenant Colonel in January 2020.
Dr. Paredes is board certified in both Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology and is an active member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease. His practice focuses on the management of liver cirrhosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune hepatitis, and viral hepatitis but he also enjoys caring for patients with the entire spectrum of Digestive Diseases.
Website: https://middlesexgastro.com
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Transforming Healthcare Risk with AI-Driven Strategies

 
David Hamilton, the Chief Growth Officer at Zyter|TruCare where they drive better health outcomes at lower costs with holistic and equitable experiences creating happy patient and providers joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Health Care Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest David Hamilton discuss the following:
Tell us about Zyter|TruCare and how does your company help payers and providers.
What is “rising risk?” and why is it important to get ahead of it?
So if AI can help us intervene and help patients potentially stay out of hospitals, why are healthcare providers/payers so slow to adopt AI?
Explain the different types of AI and how it can help the healthcare industry become more efficient - including agentic AI - and why that is such a buzz word these days? How can AI help Star Ratings?
David Hamilton is the Chief Growth Officer at Zyter|TruCare, leading strategic initiatives to drive business growth, expand market presence, and strengthen partnerships with key payer and provider organizations. With extensive leadership experience from organizations such as Randstad Digital, Datavant/Ciox, DXC/Gainwell, and Cognizant, David brings deep expertise in healthcare technology, services, and business process solutions.
Throughout his career, David has successfully led digital transformation, AI/ML adoption, and enterprise-scale initiatives across both public and private healthcare sectors. His proven ability to manage high-value client relationships, particularly with top-tier payers and providers, positions him effectively to identify and execute growth opportunities aligned with market needs. At Datavant/Ciox, he significantly grew the digital health plans network, achieving exceptional client retention and substantial annual growth. Additionally, during his tenure at Cognizant, he oversaw the delivery of complex IT outsourcing and business process solutions for some of the nation’s largest healthcare organizations.
David’s leadership focuses on enhancing healthcare data interoperability, risk adjustment strategies, and payer-provider collaboration, ensuring that organizations navigate regulatory shifts and operational complexities effectively. At Zyter|TruCare, he leverages this background to deliver impactful solutions designed to improve connectivity, streamline administrative processes, and enhance patient-centric care.
Website: https://www.zyter.com
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Reimagining Agentic AI in Healthcare

 
Ganesh Padmanabhan, the CEO and Co-Founder of Autonomize AI, a pioneering company enabling knowledge workers in regulated industries to have access to trusted, safe AI solutions joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare and Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Ganesh Padmanabhan discuss the following:
What is Autonomize AI, and the value it brings to different healthcare stakeholders?
Give us a working definition of the term Agentic AI—and a few of the biggest improvements/use cases it will bring to healthcare?
Let's talk about the challenges and opportunies around data in healthcare: First, what type of size and challenges are we dealing with? What is 'unstructured data', and the challenges that it brings? And what are the opportunities and possibilities to meaningful transform our health system?
Autonomize has an important differentiator called "Compound AI”  i What does this mean? Walk us through a real example of how these specialized agents collaborate to solve a complex administrative challenge that’s impacting healthcare organizations and patients?
Ganesh, one of the areas you're most passionate about is what you call the AI-driven Enterprise. Paint a picture for how you see this evolving and integrating into healthcare, and what impact do you see it having on healthcare organizations, patients, and the system as a whole?
How can our listeners learn more about what Autonomize AI is doing, and how it can help.
Ganesh Padmanabhan is the CEO and co-founder of Autonomize AI, a pioneering company enabling knowledge workers in regulated industries to have access to trusted, safe AI solutions. Under his leadership, Autonomize develops AI copilots that organize, contextualize, and summarize unstructured healthcare data, reducing administrative burden while enabling data-driven decisions that improve patient outcomes.
A visionary in healthcare AI, Ganesh founded Autonomize AI in January 2022 after successful ventures in explainable AI and data aggregation. The company serves an impressive roster of clients including Top 20 pharmaceutical companies, Fortune 100 payers, and leading value-based care organizations. Autonomize AI is also a founding member of CancerX, part of the U.S. President's Cancer Moonshot initiative.
With over 20 years of experience in technology and artificial intelligence, Ganesh brings deep expertise in leveraging AI to unlock value from clinical and biomedical data. He is committed to developing patient-centric innovations that prioritize data privacy and ethical AI practices. His vision centers on making AI a catalyst for extending human cognition in healthcare, enabling organizations and individuals to reach their maximum potential.
Beyond Autonomize, Ganesh founded Stories in AI, a podcast and edutainment platform exploring AI's transformative impact through storytelling. His extensive career includes scaling venture-backed AI companies like Molecula and CognitiveScale, as well as leading growth initiatives during a 15-year tenure at Dell Technologies and Intel Corporation.
Ganesh is an active investor and advisor for multiple startups and serves as a mentor in Austin's entrepreneurial ecosystem. In 2020, he served on Texas Governor Greg Abbott's COVID-19 Strike Force on Innovation, helping leverage data for pandemic response decision-making.
A sought-after keynote speaker, Ganesh has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Fast Company, and other leading publications. He was recognized by Enterprise Management 360 as one of the 10 tech experts revolutionizing AI in 2018.
Ganesh holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Calicut, India, and an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
Website: https://autonomize.ai
Social Media Links: X: https://x.com/AutonomizeAILinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/autonomizeai
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Friska.Ai - Creating an AI-driven healthcare platform for patients from doctors – the ultimate preventative tool

 
Shaji Nair, the CEO & Founder of Friska.AI that provides an innovative healthcare platform leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and mobile technology to empower individuals to partner with their physicians to take control of their health journey joins eHealth Radio and the Health Care and Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Shaji Nair discuss the following:
Studies show that preventive care is essential for promoting longevity, reducing healthcare costs, and minimizing emergency room visits, but it’s still not widely practiced. What are the barriers that stand in the way of broader adoption of preventative health?
What is Friska.AI is and why is this an important development in preventative care?
How is artificial intelligence—AI—transforming healthcare and preventive care in particular?
What sets Friska.AI apart from other applications? After all, there are more mobile fitness and health apps than ever -- measuring heart rate, hydration, steps, diet, and sleep.
Can you speak to any practices or healthcare organizations currently using Friska.ai? How are patients and doctors reacting to it? 
Shaji Nair is committed to leveraging the power of technology and human networks to address our most urgent healthcare challenges. He brings nearly three decades of international, executive-level leadership experience in information technology, business improvement, and project management to his role as Founder and CEO of several successful ventures including HWFL Company, Frisk.AI, and Kalari Corp.
Nair’s latest innovation, Friska.AI, provides an innovative healthcare platform leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and mobile technology to empower individuals to partner with their physicians to take control of their health journey. HWFL offers EndocPM, a state-of-the-art AI-driven practice management platform specifically designed for endocrinologists by endocrinologists. Kalari Corp. is dedicated to empowering individuals, particularly school employees, to take control of their health, reduce stress, and enhance their overall well-being through personalized, preventive care, with a primary focus on diabetes, pain management, and geriatric concerns.
Nair divides his time between India and Arlington, Virginia. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Bharathiar University. He is a SAFe® 4 Certified Advanced Scrum Master and PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®.
Website: https://friska.ai
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What needs to change or improve moving forward in the healthcare sector for 2025

 
Christina Foxwell, Global CEO & Founder of Ignite Purpose joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare & Health News Channels to discuss her recent trip to the UK and why well-being in the workplace is so important.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Christina Foxwell discuss the following:
Ignite Purpose is a global consulting firm founded in 2012 and you are dedicated to enhancing performance and well-being in the workplace through a human-centric approach. How did you find yourself working with the healthcare sector?
You've just come back from speaking at the NHS Conference on bridging the mental health gap through resilience building. How was the visit?
Your white paper outlines how the A.R.I.S.E Resilience Program addresses this
gap, because the statistics are quite alarming aren't they?
Burnout is a major issue across the healthcare system. How do we tackle this?
What needs to change or improve moving forward in the healthcare sector for 2025?
Christina Foxwell, founder of Ignite Purpose, is a speaker, coach, and author passionate about helping leaders and teams align purpose with performance. With 20+ years in HR and executive roles, she supports organisations worldwide, including major healthcare and corporate organisations, empowering them through empathy, clarity, and connection. Her latest book, The Glass Angel, explores her journey from trauma to building a values-driven business.
Website: https://www.ignitepurpose.com.au
Social Media Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ignitepurposeLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinafoxwell 
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