DGTL Voices with Ed Marx

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  Millions of Faxes (ft. Kesava Dinakaran) 30.07.2026 29min

  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/
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  Innovate With Constraints (ft. C.P. Gurnani) 23.07.2026 22min

  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
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  The Cost of Failure Has to Go to Zero (ft. Nish Khandwala) 16.07.2026 28min

  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
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  A Trillion Small Problems (ft. Andrew Gostine) 09.07.2026 28min

  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
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  Feel Whole (ft. David Banks) 02.07.2026 28min

  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
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  Transformation Is Not Always About the Technology (ft. Ashley Beecy) 25.06.2026 29min

  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
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  You Have to Fail to Succeed (ft. Jennifer Miles-Thomas) 18.06.2026 26min

  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
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  1% Better Every Day (ft. Ansh Singhal) 11.06.2026 23min

  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
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  Why Every Future Doctor Needs an Engineering Degree (ft. Lev Gonick) 06.06.2026 29min

  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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  AI Is a Tool, Not a Solution (ft. Rob Bart) 04.06.2026 28min

  Dr. Rob Bart is the Chief Medical Information Officer at UPMC, where he is leading one of the largest EHR consolidations in the country- bringing the entire health system onto a single Epic instance. A pediatric intensivist by training, Rob has been a pioneer in the CMIO role for more than two decades, with prior leadership at Cerner and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Rob tells Ed about growing up in Hawaii (his high school classmate happened to become President of the United States), the conversation that pulled him from research into medicine, why clinicians need to keep practicing to keep their credibility, and his case against the endless creation of new C-suite titles every time technology evolves. Plus: the trust framework he uses with his team, why recovering from a wrong decision matters more than being right the first time, and how bike rides through a cemetery near his home keep him grounded. 🔗 https://marxadvisory.com
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  Open Book, No BS (ft. Israel Krush) 28.05.2026 26min

  Israel Krush is the CEO and Co-Founder of Hyro, the responsible AI agent platform used by dozens of the largest US health systems to safely automate millions of patient interactions. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Israel tells Ed how mandatory military service at 18 reshaped his sense of responsibility, why his parents' insistence on eight extracurriculars was unintentional CEO training, and how Hyro shifted from a general AI agent company to an all-in healthcare bet. Along the way: the case for being strategically opportunistic, why "open book, no BS" is a way of operating rather than a slogan, and the lesson he learned the hard way about thinking before speaking. 🔗 https://marxadvisory.com
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  Spread Joy, Reduce Suffering (ft. Craig Scharton) 21.05.2026 28min

  Craig Scharton is the founding site director of Connect Labs Charlotte at The Pearl, an innovation district bringing together Wake Forest School of Medicine, IRCAD's surgical training facility, Siemens Healthineers, and Atrium Advocate Health in one collaborative space. In this episode, Craig tells Ed about getting cancer at 23 and again at 35, the five ideals that guide his life (love, truth, beauty, wisdom, peace), and why he believes Charlotte can become the most supportive place in the country for health innovators. Plus: holiday playlists with Adam Sandler, walking through giant sequoias to reset, and the case for making innovation fun. https://marxadvisory.com
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  That Little Extra Is Everything (ft. Luis Garcia) 14.05.2026 30min

  Dr. Luis Garcia is the President of Rush Medical Group in Chicago, leading 1,000 physicians and 500 APPs across the Rush footprint. He grew up in a poor neighborhood in Mexico City where his father started a medical practice in his grandmother's kitchen that eventually became a hospital. He applied to all 220 surgery residency programs in the US as a foreign medical graduate, got two interviews, and flew to Fargo, North Dakota in the middle of a blizzard because he refused to do a phone interview. In this episode, Luis talks about why he had to leave Mexico to stop being his father's son, why identifying your weaknesses matters more than knowing your strengths, and why the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is always that little 'extra.' https://marxadvisory.com
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  See the Human Being First (ft. Phoebe Yang) 07.05.2026 36min

  Phoebe Yang is the daughter of a single-parent Chinese immigrant father who raised three daughters in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She went to law school intending to become a law professor, until her father was diagnosed with late-stage colorectal cancer and given four months to live. That moment changed everything. From there, Phoebe built a career that spans AOL Time Warner (launching their China office), Discovery (turning around Discovery Health and doing early deals with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft when nobody else wanted them), the Obama administration's FCC, the Advisory Board Company, Amazon, and board roles at GE, Doximity, and CommonSpirit. She now teaches the business of AI at Stanford. In this episode, Phoebe talks about why healthcare is the only industry where the greatest predictor of success is tied to how well you see the human being first, what curious humility means in a board role, why Socrates feared the written word the same way we fear AI, and what it means to sit alone in a Roman church with two Caravaggio paintings all day. https://marxadvisory.com
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  No Experience Is Ever Wasted (ft. Avonia Richardson-Miller) 30.04.2026 25min

  Dr. Avonia Richardson-Miller is Senior Vice President at Hackensack Meridian Health. She grew up working the land on a family farm in North Carolina, earned a BS in Chemistry from Howard University, became a research chemist, an entrepreneur, an adjunct professor, and then found her way into healthcare leadership. Nine years ago, she underwent open heart surgery that changed everything. In this episode, Avonia talks about why faith isn't passive, why she chooses joy as an active daily decision, how the discipline she learned in a cucumber row is the same discipline she uses to break down complex business problems, and why the human factor in AI is no different from Whitney Houston transforming Chaka Khan's original into something new while honoring the source. https://marxadvisory.com
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  Replaceable at Work, Irreplaceable at Home (ft. Jenna Taglienti) 28.04.2026 29min

  Dr. Jenna Taglienti is the Psychiatry Residency Training Director at Mather Hospital, part of Northwell Health. The day before Thanksgiving, she went to the hospital thinking she had a kidney stone. A CT scan caught a tumor in her right lower lung. She's a lifelong non-smoker, a mother of three, and a physician who spent years putting everyone else first. After four rounds of chemo and a JAMA essay that resonated with thousands of healthcare professionals, Jenna is sharing what she learned: you are replaceable at work, but you are not replaceable at home. She talks about why doctors need sabbaticals, why modeling wellness matters more than preaching it, and why she didn't know she could write until cancer forced her to pause long enough to find out. https://marxadvisory.com
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  Have Courage, be Kind, Stay Curious (ft. Rachini Moosavi) 20.04.2026 24min

  Rachini Moosavi is the Chief Analytics Officer at UNC Health, an 18-hospital system serving the state of North Carolina. She's a first-generation American whose parents moved from Sri Lanka to Illinois. It took her until her late thirties to feel comfortable knowing exactly who she was, and that journey shaped how she leads today. Rachini started in consulting, fell into revenue cycle, and found her love of analytics there. She never planned to be a chief anything. Her career was a series of open doors she chose to walk through, and sometimes doors she had to make for herself by raising her hand and asking to be in the room. In this episode, Rachini talks about the Disney movie line that became her life mantra, leading UNC Health's sixth-largest Microsoft Fabric implementation worldwide, why vulnerability is a leadership superpower, and the advice she'd give every graduating class: it's perfectly okay to say "I don't know" when asked where you'll be in five years.     https://marxadvisory.com
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  Technology Done For You, Not To You (ft. Leigh Williams) 20.04.2026 32min

  Leigh Thomas Williams is Vice President and CIO at Augusta Health, a 255-bed community health system in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.   She's also President of the HIMSS Virginia Chapter and an Ambassador for the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation. Leigh started her career in law, got recruited into healthcare at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and found her calling in technology leadership during an EHR implementation when she realized IT was treating it like a software install and she was treating it like a chance to transform the way people work. Now she's leading Care Reimagined, a multi-year digital transformation built on three promises: meaningfully improve the professional workday, create compassionate patient journeys, and steward resources wisely for the community. When Augusta Health's Dr. Snodgrass told Leigh that their AI physician assistant was the first time technology had been done for her as opposed to to her, it became a watershed moment for the entire organization.   In this episode, Leigh talks about walkup songs for every day (not just keynotes), why she finally started baking brownies for her team, learning German at age 8 with no English-speaking teacher, and why now is not the time to take the foot off the pedal.   https://marxadvisory.com
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  Building Communities in Healthcare (ft. Renee DeSilva) 02.04.2026 29min

  On this episode of DGTL Voices, Ed interviews Renee DeSilva, CEO of The Healthcare Management Academy. This episode underscores the significance of community, feedback, resilience, and purposeful leadership in healthcare and beyond. Whether you're aspiring to be a CEO or looking to deepen your leadership impact, Renee’s insights provide valuable guidance to navigate your journey.
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  Healthcare's CIO of the Year (ft Ellen Wiegand) 26.03.2026 22min

  On this episode of DGTL Voices, Edward Marx interviews Ellen Wiegand, the CIO of VCU Health and the Healthcare CIO of the Year. They discuss Ellen's journey from her childhood in Albany, New York, to her pivotal career moments, including her decision to shift from pre-med to healthcare IT. Ellen shares her life philosophy centered on empathy, humility, and courage, and emphasizes the importance of mentorship in her career. The conversation also highlights the recognition she received through the Orbi award and the impactful work being done at VCU Health, especially during challenging times. Ellen offers insights on continuous learning, resilience, and advice for graduates entering the workforce.