Ep 51: AI Can’t Fix Virtual Care’s 70% Lab Problem
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Virtual care is scaling. AI is everywhere. But when lab completion falls from ~70% in-clinic to ~30% in virtual care, the whole model breaks. Virtual Care Without Labs Is Just Zoom - Even with AI. In this Boombostic Health in the Wild episode from HLTH 2025, Bradley Bostic sits down with Maitham Dib, founder of Junction, to unpack the "real" bottleneck: turning lab orders into lab results. They dig into how Junction: * White-labels lab infrastructure so any virtual or hybrid care model can deploy labs across all 50 states * Uses data from ~3.4 million lab...
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Ep 50: 95% of Care From Home: The Virtual Model Changing Healthcare
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Virtual care isn’t a feature. It’s the future care model nobody in healthcare wants to admit is already here. At HLTH 2025, we sat down with Michael Dalton, CEO and founder of Ovatient, to unpack the real story behind why rural and urban patients alike are falling through the cracks and how Ovatient built the first truly integrated virtual multi-specialty practice on Epic. This conversation exposes three uncomfortable truths in healthcare: Access is still broken. Millions delay care because transportation, work schedules, stigma, or geography get in the way. Telemedicine wasn’t...
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Ep 49: The Real Healthcare Disruption Isn’t AI - It’s Your DNA
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AI will accelerate healthcare — but genomics will rewrite it. The minute DNA drives care decisions for everyone, the current system becomes obsolete. Gene by Gene quietly runs one of the most advanced, high-throughput genomics labs in the world — powering platforms like MyHeritage and rapidly transforming clinical medicine, oncology, pharmacogenomics, and ancestry. This conversation explores what happens when every person leaves the hospital with a genomic passport — a lifelong DNA profile they own, control, and use to prevent disease before it begins. This is preventive medicine...
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Ep 48: Time to Treatment Accelerating the Connection to Care
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Pharma Isn’t Broken — Access Is ixlayer x Sanofi Ventures @ HLTH 2025 Patients don’t suffer because we lack medical innovation — they suffer because it takes too long to access it. 🚀 Why This Matters Patients today are consumers — they expect speed, personalization, and access. Pharma, technology, and venture capital are aligning to deliver it. The future of healthcare is collaborative, data-driven, and patient-first. Live from HLTH 2025 in the Diagnostic Zone, we dig into the real barriers between patients and lifesaving therapies. This episode covers: How digital...
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Ep 47: Fixing Prescription Costs with E-Prescribing and Transparency
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Prescription costs are broken — and patients are the ones paying the price. In this episode of Boombostic Health, host Bradley Bostic sits down with Lathe Bigler of First Data Bank to unpack why e-prescribing hasn’t evolved in decades, how opaque pricing keeps patients in the dark, and why the next wave of pharmacy network innovation could flip the power dynamic back to patients. 💡 What We Cover: Why patients are frustrated with rising prescription costs How transparency empowers patients with real choices What most people don’t know about paying cash for prescriptions How...
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Ep 46: The Conversations You Need to Hear About AI in Healthcare
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Summary This conversation explores the transformative potential of AI in healthcare, emphasizing the importance of agentic AI, interoperability, and the need for a shift in medical education. The speakers discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by AI technologies, the necessity of upskilling healthcare professionals, and the economic models that must evolve to support these changes. They highlight the importance of viewing information as an asset and the role of AI in enabling personalized, longitudinal care for patients. Takeaways There's always a new challenge to overcome...
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Ep 45: Building an AI-Ready Future for Healthcare
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Summary The business of healthcare is broken — but intelligence might finally fix it. In this episode of Boombostic Health, Bradley Bostic and Jason Wenell reveal how to build an AI-ready healthcare system that learns, adapts, and delivers real value. Jason shares his three-layer framework — upskill people, automate workflows, and build AI-native systems that think. Discover how AI is becoming the engine behind value-based care and what it means for the future of healthcare innovation. Takeaways AI is revolutionizing healthcare and other industries. Value-based care relies heavily on data...
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Ep 44: Rethinking Telemedicine - How Digital Healthcare Can Bend the $5 Trillion Cost Curve
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Summary In this conversation, Craig Hittle discusses the evolving nature of telemedicine, emphasizing that it should not be viewed merely as a transactional service. Instead, he advocates for a model that fosters long-term relationships between patients and healthcare providers, enhancing the overall quality of care delivered through digital platforms. Takeaways Telemedicine is often misunderstood as purely transactional. The goal of telemedicine should be to build relationships. Long-term relationships with providers can improve patient care. Telemedicine can enhance accessibility to...
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Ep 43: The $528B Fix Healthcare Can't Ignore: Why Are We Still Guessing Meds?
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Every year in the U.S., 275,000 people die because of medication mismanagement — a failure that drains $528 billion annually from our $5 trillion healthcare system. It’s healthcare’s deadly hidden failure. That’s where DecisionRx comes in. Their coined Medication Therapy Optimization (MTO) approach goes far beyond Pharmacogenetics (PGx), combining AI-powered insights with pharmacist-led care to stop the guesswork, lower risk, and deliver results at scale. In this episode, host Bradley Bostic sits down with Mike Tilton, Chief Growth Officer at DecisionRx, to unpack the problem and...
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Ep 42: MedTechs's 10X Advantage - How Real-World Data Expands Device Impact
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Summary Pre-market clinical trials are essential — but they don’t reflect how devices truly perform once they’re in the real world. In this episode of Boombostic Health, host Bradley Bostic sits down with Dr. Amelia Hufford, Co-Founder and SVP of Clinical and Regulatory Science at 3Aware, to unpack why real-world data (RWD) is critical to the survival of medical devices — and why mindset, not science, may be the biggest barrier holding MedTech back. Amelia shares her 20+ year journey in scientific and clinical research, including a decade in MedTech leading regulatory and clinical...
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Episode 23: Accelerating Healthcare with Data Insights
Join us for an insightful conversation on Boombostic Health as Bradley Bostic sits down with Bridget Wegner, Director of Partnerships at Clarivate. Bridget shares her journey from aspiring forensic scientist to a leader in laboratory medicine and data analytics. Discover how her passion for diagnostics and data is driving advancements in healthcare.
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The pivotal role of data in accelerating healthcare, focusing on how laboratory information can be leveraged for predictive and preventative care.
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Clarivate's strategic focus on genomics for rare disease research, emphasizing the need for precision in data use cases.
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The critical importance of informed consent in data sharing, ensuring patients are aware of how their data is used for secondary research.
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Bridging the gap between laboratories and pharmaceutical companies to enhance patient outcomes, addressing the challenges of data quality and interpretation.
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Exploring the challenges and opportunities in leveraging diagnostic data, including the nuances of laboratory testing and the business landscape.
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How Clarivate is strategically partnering with labs and pharma to unlock insights from diagnostic data, transforming it into actionable information.
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The impact of genomic data on drug development and patient care, with examples of how specific genetic variants are used in diagnostics.
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Addressing patient data privacy and informed consent, highlighting the importance of clear communication and compliance in data partnerships.
Tune in to learn how data insights are transforming healthcare and the future of diagnostics.