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Straight Outta Health IT

Straight Outta Health IT
AI In Healthcare
Alzheimer's Disease
Value-Based Care
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Expose Dementia
AI Analytics In Healthcare
Health Tech
Caregiving
Satellite Technology
Renal Medullary Carcinoma
Caregivers
Digital Health
South Florida HEMS Integrate Conference
Interoperability
South Florida HIMSS Integrate Conference
African American Community
Dementia
Hunter AI
Trauma-Informed Counseling

This is Straight Outta Health IT, an unfiltered dialogue of healthcare leaders and influencers covering a wide variety of issues affecting healthcare & the health tech industry. Host Christopher Kunney covers tech in a fresh and candid way you won’t want to miss.

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Cybersecurity in healthcare is no longer just an IT issue. It is a leadership, operations, and trust issue that can disrupt care, expose sensitive data, and test whether an organization is truly prepared for a crisis.

In this episode, Zach Lewis, CI... more

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The American healthcare system has extraordinary talent, advanced technology, and unmatched spending, yet it too often fails the very people it is meant to serve.

In this episode of Straight Outta Health IT, Gil Bashe, Chair Global Health and Purpos... more

AI could become the greatest equalizer in healthcare if we use it the right way.

In this episode of Straight Out of Health IT, Dr. Harvey Castro, a physician, entrepreneur, and CEO of 8 free-standing ERs, a medical billing and physician staffing com... more

Value-based care can improve outcomes and lower costs, but only when the incentives, workflows, and data all pull in the same direction.

In this episode of Straight Outta Health IT, Dr. Shannon Decker, founder and CEO of VBC One, unpacks the good, t... more

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Gil Bashe
Chair of Global Health Purpose at FINN Partners; former combat medic; healthcare policy veteran; editor-in-chief of Medica Life; author
FINN Partners
Episode: Why People Matter - Healing The Sick Care System
Harvey Castro
Emergency medicine physician, AI innovator, advisor
Advisor for Singapore Ministry of Health; AI expert in healthcare
Episode: Your Doctor, Delivered: How AI & Satellites Are Reinventing Healthcare Access
Shannon Decker
Founder and CEO of VBC One, value-based care expert
VBC One
Episode: The Real Talk on Value-Based Care: Why Most Organizations Are Still Faking It
Dr. Shannon Decker
Dr. Shannon Decker, PhD, MBA, expert on health equity and population health management
VBC One
Episode: The Real Talk on Value-Based Care: Why Most Organizations Are Still Faking It
Caron Leid
Foremost expert on caregiving for Alzheimer's and dementia; author and advocate
Author; Educator; Advocate
Episode: The Caregiver's Voice: Technology, Advocacy, and the Human Side of Alzheimer's Care with Dr. Caron Leid
Sabrina Runbeck
Health care media strategist who helps health tech companies cut through the noise
PulsePoint Health Board Advisor / Health Board Advisor
Episode: Signals, Not Noise: How Founders Can Become the Obvious Choice in Their Category
Jeffery Heenan-Jalil
CEO of Hunter AI, an emerging AI analytics company
Hunter AI
Episode: The State Of AI Analytics In Healthcare: A Global Snapshot
Chuck Brown
Founder of Expose Dementia, filmmaker and activist focused on dementia in the African American community
Expose Dementia
Episode: Exposing Dementia Through Creative Arts with Chuck Brown
Tanisha Washington
Mother of Jelani; advocate
Kfare—Jelani Washington Seeds of Hope Foundation (foundation founder)
Episode: Jelani's Legacy - Raising Awareness About Renal Medullary Carcinoma

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Christopher Kunney
Host of Straight Outta Health IT

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 19 ratings
  • Really enjoy the episodes with Christopher!

    Chris invites awesome guests to share many ideas that can disrupt and transform healthcare. It’s a great resource and I highly recommend!

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    United Statesa year ago

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AI-Powered Real-World Data: Unlocking the EHR for Drug Development"
Q: What are the privacy safeguards when extracting patient data for research?
Data is de-identified before use, with strict governance to minimize re-identification risk, and Century Health works with providers to ensure compliance with HIPAA and protective data pipelines.
AI-Powered Real-World Data: Unlocking the EHR for Drug Development"
Q: How does Century Health approach the challenge of unstructured data in EHRs to make it usable for research?
Century Health uses AI to automate abstraction and normalize data from unstructured sources like clinical notes and PDFs, with rigorous validation to ensure outputs match what a human would extract, thereby enabling scalable, research-grade data from existing records.
AI-Powered Real-World Data: Unlocking the EHR for Drug Development"
Q: So let's set the stage for real-world data—what exactly are we talking about and why should people care?
Real-world data is anything outside of the tightly controlled clinical trial data; it includes routine care data from EHRs and other sources. It's crucial because it helps us understand how treatments perform in everyday practice across diverse patient populations, which can accelerate drug development and improve outcomes.
Your Doctor, Delivered: How AI & Satellites Are Reinventing Healthcare Access
Q: How did you get started with ChatGPT and AI in health care?
I started using ChatGPT in late 2022, quickly realizing it could transform every layer of healthcare delivery—from staffing and ER operations to education and patient engagement; this sparked a fast-moving journey into publishing, advising governments, and building AI-powered health tools.
Jelani's Legacy - Raising Awareness About Renal Medullary Carcinoma
Q: What do you think needs to change in order to raise awareness and improve outcomes for rare diseases like RMC, especially in communities of color?
There needs to be more proactive outreach, testing, and education about sickle cell trait and related rare cancers, plus stronger research funding and collaboration across institutions to identify and treat these diseases earlier.

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What is Straight Outta Health IT about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A recurring series exploring how technology, policy, and leadership intersect in health IT and healthcare innovation. Conversations frequently center on AI, data interoperability, value-based care, cybersecurity, and the human realities of caregiving and postnatal support, with industry leaders, researchers, and founders sharing practical insights, battlefield stories, and forward-looking strategies for delivering better patient outcomes. Noteworthy angles include real-world governance and ethics in AI, the startup path in health tech, and the power of storytelling and credibility to cut through noise and accelerate adoption.

The show stands out for its candid, practitioner-focused approach—often weaving personal experiences with technical... more

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