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Episode 200

Episode 200: Ambient AI's Real Wins, Cybersecurity's Quiet Losses, and Healthcare's Double Standards - What the PITT Season Finale Tells Us about Where We are Today and Where we are Heading

Apr 27, 2026
29:32

Episode Description

Two hundred episodes. One season finale. Everything in between.

If you watched The Pitt this week, you saw something the healthcare industry doesn't usually let the public see. The impossible standards, the double standard, the small wins nobody celebrates, and an entire staff on a roof crying for reasons they can't quite explain.

Megan Antonelli and Janae Sharp have spent 200 episodes having the real version of that conversation. For this milestone, they're using The Pitt's Season 2 finale as the mirror and asking what it reflects back at digital health right now.


The biggest change nobody saw coming. The win that actually moved the needle. The loss nobody wants to own. And the double standard that's been hiding in plain sight the whole time.

No guests. No filter. Just the honest shift report.
 

Episode 1: View From the Top- What Does Sustainable Innovation look like in a Post Pandemic World

  • Aashima Gupta, Director, Global Health Solutions, Google
  • Rasu Shrestha, MD, EVP, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Atrium Health
  • Chris Waugh, Chief Design and Innovation Officer, Sutter Health
  •  Shahid Shah, CEO Netspective Media (Moderator)

Episode 40: Healing - Our Patients, Our Healthcare System, Ourselves

  • Theresa Brown, PhD, BSN, RN
  • Janae Sharp, Founder, The Sharp Index
  • Megan Antonelli,  Chief Executive Officer,  HealthIMPACT Live

Episode 56: Burnout Isn’t the Whole Story – And Repair Is About More Than Individual Resilience

  • Wendy Dean, MD
  •  Janae Sharp

Episode 78: Navigating the Intersection of Equity and Innovation in AI-driven Healthcare

  • Chris Gibbons, Entrepreneur in Residence, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center
  • Janae Sharp

Episode 89: From Process-Centric to Patient-Centric - Mayo Clinic CIO Realizing Seamless Integration, Personalized Care, and Empowered Patient Experiences 

  • Cris Ross was at Mayo
  • Megan Antonelli

Episode 137: Beyond the Change Healthcare Breach: Redefining Healthcare Cybersecurity for 2025

  • Rob Sebaugh, Identity Strategist, Healthcare Solutions Engineering, Sailpoint
  • Megan Antonelli

Episode 176: From Pilot to Platform - How Sutter Health is Scaling AI Across 3.5 Million Lives

  • Dr. Ashley Beecy, Chief AI Officer at Sutter Health
  • Megan Antonelli

 

Hosts:

Janae Sharp, Founder, The Sharp Index. 

The Sharp Index is a nonprofit dedicated to reducing suicide and burnout and improving physician and clinician mental health.

Megan Antonelli, Founder & CEO, HealthIMPACT Live

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