Welcome to the Empowered Patient Podcast with Karen Jagoda. This show is a window into the latest innovations in applying generative AI, novel therapeutics and vaccines, and the changing dynamics in the medical and healthcare environment. One focus is on how providers, pharmaceutical companies, and payers are empowering patients. In addition, conversations are often about how providers, care facilities, pharmaceutical companies, and payers are being empowered by technology to improve patient outcomes and reduce friction across the healthcare landscape.
Popular Topics
- Virtual and digital health
- Use of AI, ML, and LLM in healthcare and drug discovery, development, trials
- Value-based healthcare
- Precision and stratified medicine
- Integration of digital technology into existing workflow and procedures
- Next-generation immuno, cell, and gene therapies
- Vaccines
- Biomarkers, sequencing, and imaging
- Rare diseases
- MedTech and medical devices
- Clinical trials
- Addressing Social Determinants of Health
- Treating chronic conditions like obesity and pain
- Clinician and staff burnout
The audience includes life science leaders, researchers, medical professionals, patient advocates, digital health entrepreneurs, patients, caregivers, healthcare solution providers, students, journalists, and investors.
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AI-Driven Platforms Breaking Down Healthcare Data Silos with Ram Sahasranam Fold Health TRANSCRIPT
Download PDFOct 22, 2025
Ram Sahasranam, President and Co-Founder of Fold Health, has created a platform that integrates with the EHR to create an AI-driven interface that streamlines workflows, improves communication across the care team, and helps better manage patient care. Traditional EHR systems, while effective for documentation, were...
Oct 22, 2025
Ram Sahasranam, President and Co-Founder of Fold Health, has created a platform that integrates with the EHR to create an AI-driven interface that streamlines workflows, improves communication across the care team, and helps better manage patient care. Traditional EHR systems, while effective for documentation, were...
Healthcare Lab Sample Logistics and Need to Identify and Eliminate Errors with Javier Cuello H+Trace TRANSCRIPT
Download PDFOct 8, 2025
Javier Cuello, Founder and CEO of H+Trace highlights the significant and often overlooked problem of errors in the handling of medical samples. Issues like mislabeling, contamination, and improper shipping conditions are responsible for a majority of lab result errors, potentially leading to patient misdiagnoses....
Healthcare Lab Sample Logistics and Need to Identify and Eliminate Errors with Javier Cuello H+Trace
Oct 8, 2025
Javier Cuello, Founder and CEO of H+Trace highlights the significant and often overlooked problem of errors in the handling of medical samples. Issues like mislabeling, contamination, and improper shipping conditions are responsible for a majority of lab result errors, potentially leading to patient misdiagnoses....
How Agentic AI is Transforming Healthcare Call Centers with Pat Michael Nebraska Medicine TRANSCRIPT
Download PDFOct 1, 2025
Pat Michael, Director of Patient Contact Services at Nebraska Medicine, highlights the challenges of high-volume patient contact centers and how agentic AI can improve operational efficiency, enhance patient access, and allow human agents to focus on more complex and critical calls. The AI agent offers patients...