Nurse Rosa's INsights
Rosa Hart interviews healthcare stakeholders to find out what needs they see in their specialty and learn about their proposed methods to meet them. Anyone can complain, but this podcast is for possibility thinkers who are ready to create solutions.
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Ambient AI for Senior Care with Julia Rizhevsky, VP PointClickCare
<p>Ambient AI for Senior Care with Julia Rizhevsky, VP - PointClickCare</p> <p>This episode is sponsored by PointClickCare.</p> <p>Julia Rizhevsky didn't start in healthcare. She built her product management career at American Express, Mastercard, and Amazon's AI team before being pulled into the industry. Now she leads Vox Advantage, PointClickCare's ambient AI documentation tool built specifically for skilled nursing, not adapted from hospital workflows.</p> <p>In this conversation, Rosa and Julia dig into the real cost of documentation burden (nearly three hours of a twelve-hour shift spent charting instead of with residents), how Vox Advantage...
Breaking Up Big Medicine: The Prior Authorization Crisis
<p>What happens when the companies that profit from denying care also decide what care you get? Nurse Rosa sits down with Hannah Garden-Monheit and Emma Freer, senior fellows at the American Economic Liberties Project and leaders of the Break Up Big Medicine Coalition, to talk about their report on prior authorization. Hannah shares the personal story behind her work: her father's cancer, his amputation, and the prior auth denials that followed. Emma explains the moral injury clinicians feel when paperwork pulls them away from the bedside. Together they walk through the numbers, the policy fixes, and what nurses, clinicians...
Cost & Care: Aligning Incentives with Dr. Hamad Husainy, CMO at PointClickCare
<p>This episode is sponsored by PointClickCare.</p> <p>What if two doctors could treat ten patients with the exact same outcome, one spending $100,000 and the other spending a million, and get paid the exact same amount? Dr. Hamad Husainy says that's the broken math at the heart of American healthcare.</p> <p>About the guest: Dr. Hamad Husainy, Chief Medical Officer at PointClickCare and a practicing emergency medicine physician with more than 15 years on the front lines. Dr. Husainy shares how his career moved from EMS and staffing to the payer side of healthcare, and now to leading PointClickCare's a...
The Rise of the Patient Informaticist with Grace Vinton
<p>What if the most valuable healthcare expert in the room is the patient?</p> <p>Host Rosa Hart sits down with Grace Vinton, PR pro, patient advocate, and host of HITea With Grace, to talk about what happens when patients stop being treated as passive recipients of care and start being recognized as informaticists in their own right.</p> <p>Grace shares the near-death experience that sparked her advocacy, the story behind coining the term "patient informaticist," and why paying patients and caregivers for their time and expertise is overdue. She also lays out her billion-dollar vision for a...
Medical Detective: Dr. Erin Nance on Misdiagnosis, and the App Changing Patient Care
<p>Hear from orthopedic hand surgeon, best-selling author, and social media educator Dr. Erin Nance to unpack misdiagnosis, medical mysteries, and the app she built to close the gap between patients and doctors: Takeaway MD. </p> <p>From a viral glomus tumor story to the diagnostic blind spots around Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and MCAS, this episode is a masterclass in why "rare" doesn't always mean rare, it often just means rarely diagnosed. </p> <p>Dr. Nance also opens up about medical gaslighting, fake accounts impersonating her online, and her billion-dollar vision for peer-to-peer patient support through Takeaway Connect.</p> <p> TikTok...
The Final Frontier Needs Nurses with Christine Rincon: The Space Nurse
<p>What does a critical care nurse have to offer the space industry? A lot more than you might think. In this episode of Nurse Rosa's INsights, Rosa Hart sits down with Christine Rincon, a critical care nurse and space medicine expert, to explore a career frontier most nurses don't even know exists. Christine shares her journey from the ICU to space health, and makes the case that nurses already belong in aerospace medicine; in fact, some are already there. Together they dig into how microgravity changes the human body, from blood volume to muscle mass, and why those profound...
Making Wearables Work for You with Aline Pedroso
<p>Heart disease is still the #1 killer, in a world where your watch monitors your heart 24/7. Something isn't adding up.</p> <p>In this episode, Nurse Rosa sits down with Dr. Aline Pedroso, Assistant Research Scientist at Yale School of Medicine, to explore the gap between what's possible in healthcare and what patients actually experience. </p> <p>Originally trained in Brazil, where she completed her master's and PhD in cardiovascular disease prevention, Dr. Pedroso now works at the intersection of cardiovascular data science, artificial intelligence, digital health, and wearable technology.</p> <p>Together they dig into how AI, wearables, and...
Can AI Patients Build Nursing Gut Instinct?
<p>What if new nurses could build gut instinct in months instead of years? Ryan Schmaltz, CEO and co-founder of PatientReady, joins Nurse Rosa to explore how AI-powered simulation is transforming clinical education and tackling the global nursing workforce shortage.</p> <p>Ryan spent two decades in emerging tech, from Uber's global expansion to immersive VR and AR, before turning his focus to healthcare's most urgent problem: preparing clinicians for high-stakes decisions at scale. In this conversation, he and Rosa dig into AI patient simulations, the pandemic-era experience gap, nurse skepticism about AI, the faculty shortage, and the one thing...
Networking for Nurses with Sara Fung
<p>In this episode, host Rosa Hart sits down with nursing thought leader, keynote speaker, and bestselling author Sara Fung to talk candidly about the realities of nursing career transitions - from the bedside to remote roles and everything in between.</p> <p>What we cover:</p> What networking actually is (and what it isn't) — and why nurses are already great at it Why LinkedIn is not just for job seekers, and how to build your presence before you need it The truth about remote nursing: what nurses assume vs. what it actually looks like How to pivot into non-bedside ro...
From Brain Cancer to Advocate Leading "We The Patients"
<p>What happens when a piano prodigy gets diagnosed with brain cancer at 21 - and never shuts up about it? </p> <p><br></p> <p>Matthew Zachary, founder of Stupid Cancer and author of the new book "We the Patients" , joins Nurse Rosa to talk about his extraordinary journey from Staten Island music prodigy to one of America's most fearless healthcare advocates. We cover his diagnosis, 30 years of fighting for patients, and his bold new proposal: organizing America's sick and angry into a bipartisan voter bloc to take on the health insurance industry.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Links & Resources 📖 We...
