Best Klas Podcasts (2026)

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KLAS Explains Why Cloud Confusion Is Slowing Down Enterprise Imaging 23:05

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Cloud imaging should feel like a clear next step, yet most teams still can’t agree on what “cloud strategy” actually means. In this interview, Monique Rasband, Vice President of Strategy & Research for Imaging and Oncology at KLAS Research, breaks down what she’s hearing directly from providers in the new KLAS Enterprise Imaging 2025 Report. We tal…

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NASCAR Nostalgia, Daytona Dreams & Racing Reality 28:20

9d ago28:20

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Racing With KLAS is back to kick off the 2026 racing season, and with Daytona right around the corner, the crew dives straight into racing goals, fan debates, and the realities of modern NASCAR. Hosted by Aaron Inman and ARCA Menards Series driver Andy Jankowiak, this episode covers New Year’s racing resolutions, why it’s time for KLAS Motorsports …

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A New HIPAA Compliant LLM Focused on Health Literacy 26:31

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The Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA), a non-profit with the mission of helping individuals obtain and understand the health care information they need, found that some healthcare organizations were having trouble getting started with implementing effective, scalable health literacy solutions. But two months ago they released the AI-based …

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#119: The Real Stakes Behind the “Professional” Label Debate (Feat. Dana Strauss) 43:41

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This week on Strata Stories, Part 2 of Dana Strauss’s "State of the State," she breaks down the uproar around the “professional” designation, dispels common myths about what it means for the DPT, and connects it to the real issue beneath the surface: how education costs, loan caps, and workforce access intersect. In Part 2, she covers: ✅ What the d…

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Farzad Mostashari's Aledade Helps Doctors Get Paid for Prevention 28:24

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CMS provides numerous avenues to implement value-based care. Dr. Farzad Mostashari, who was the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology during a critical period of EHR implementations in the U.S., co-founded Aledade 11 years ago to make value-based care feasible—or as he puts it in this interview, “make it more profitable to prevent …

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Healthcare Cloud Hosting and Innovation at Rackspace 13:58

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Rackspace is one of the world's most prominent hosting services, going back long before the term "cloud" was applied to these offerings. In our recent interview, Vice President of Healthcare Tim Lankes says that healthcare is the largest industry segment covered by Rackspace, and that it is the largest private cloud hoster of Epic outside of Epic i…

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Priming the Ambient AI Medical Scribe with Skriber 30:03

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Many companies promoting AI-driven medical scribe products boast that the physician doesn't have to change their behavior in order to use the product. In contrast, Skriber trains the physician how to use it well, and offers guidance as the physician goes along. The chief advice is to prime the scribe in advance of a medical session by telling it ab…

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Seeing What’s Been Missing: How Surescripts Is Making Medication Gaps Visible 12:51

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Millions of prescriptions go unfilled every year and until now, the system had no way to see them. In this interview, Dr. Lynne Nowak, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Surescripts, joins Healthcare IT Today to discuss how her team is surfacing invisible medication gaps and tackling healthcare’s biggest workflow frustrations: prior authorization …

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Optum Real Delivers Clarity in Claims and Reimbursement 13:53

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The vision for Optum Real is to create real-time transparency between payers and providers in the moments of care that matter. Current AI technology, according to Puneet Maheshwari, SVP, GM of Optum Real is making this possible now. Optum is a major force in health care, serving nine out of ten health care systems and four out of five payers in the…

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Racing with KLAS Holiday Extravaganza - Best Christmas Movies of All Time 41:27

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This episode takes a festive turn with "A Very Merry Klas Christmas," blending holiday cheer with candid discussions on "Over-Romanticizing Old School NASCAR?" We bring back some of that classic nascar race feel, reminiscent of a time when every motorsports event felt like a story, all while enjoying the seasonal spirit. It's a journey through auto…

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IBM and enGen Collaborate to Eliminate Errors in Member Enrollment 16:16

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According to research by enGen, a healthtech company that serves payers and providers with automated solutions, they found that each error in member enrollment data costs an average of $172 in fixes and downstream problems. A new solution called enGen enRoll(TM), an AI-driven collaboration between enGen and IBM, was designed to address this problem…

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Sound Physicians’ Rapid Pivot: Why APIs Won the Day for CharmHealth 23:12

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What do you do when your EHR vendor suddenly shuts down and you only have months to find a replacement? For Sound Physicians, that deadline sparked a bold pivot - one that put APIs and collaboration at the center of their technology strategy. In this interview, Dria McCluskey, SVP of Innovation and Technology at Sound Physicians, and Venky Chellapp…

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#118: Policy Signals Shaping Rehab’s Future (Feat. Dana Strauss) 29:38

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This week on Strata Stories, Part 1 of Dana Strauss’s "State of the State" breaks down what’s happening at the federal level and what it means for rehab therapy right now. Dana cuts through the policy noise and shows how these programs and models actually affect clinics on a day-to-day basis. In Part 1, she covers: ✅ The most important federal prog…

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Billings Clinic on AI in Healthcare: Why Trust Beats Speed 14:45

20d ago14:45

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Everyone talks about AI fixing documentation. But the real story is whether patients and clinicians will trust it enough to use it every day. In this interview, Dr. Randy Thompson, Chief Health Analytics Officer at Billings Clinic, shares what it takes to bring Oracle Health’s AI tools into daily practice across Montana’s largest independent health…

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Remembering Greg Biffle & What’s Next for This Podcast 28:26

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This episode of Racing with KLAS is a special one. We take time to remember Greg Biffle, his impact on NASCAR, and what he meant to fans, drivers, and the racing community. From his on-track legacy to the respect he earned throughout the garage, Greg Biffle’s name will always be part of NASCAR history. We also open up about the future of this podca…

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What Drives EHR Innovation in Prescription Management and How Technology Can Help 18:04

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Few patients take a paper prescription down to the local pharmacy any more. The modern era of prescribing is shockingly complex and getting more so, according to Dr. Colin Banas, Chief Medical Officer, and Drew Hunsinger, Head of Growth, at DrFirst. Banas says that the goal at DrFirst, a 25-year-old company, has always been to provide an end-to-end…

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Making AI and NLP Affordable and Trusted in Health Care 16:02

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emtelligent offers a variety of AI-based services in health care. In a recent interview at the HLTH conference with Tim O’Connell, MD, Co-Founder and CEO of emtelligent, explains how they ensure a good ROI, keep deployments affordable, and make each pilot a success. The three services offered by emtelligent are: * Medical Document AI: ingests docum…

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RapidClaims’ LLM-Powered RCM Solution Seeks Truth in Billing & Fewer Denials 17:29

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Although providers and payers feel like they're engaged in an epic, ongoing battle over claims, Abhinay Vyas, Co-Founder and Chief Data Officer at RapidClaims, believes that approvals can increase when both realize that they are fundamentally interested in truth. RapidClaims' AI-driven revenue cycle tools help to uncover the complexities in care an…

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The BEST Moments So Far Part 1 | Racing with KLAS Podcast 38:55

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From the garage to the grid, this episode brings together the best moments so far from the Racing with KLAS podcast, highlighting the conversations, laughs, and behind-the-scenes stories that make KLAS Motorsports more than just a race team. Hosted by Aaron Inman and featuring Andy J, Racing with KLAS dives into the people, partnerships, and passio…

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Leveraging Unstructured Data to Improve Care and Reimbursement at PointClickCare 12:58

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PointClickCare is a major EHR service with a 25-year history, originally focused on post-acute care settings such as skilled nursing and assisted living but has expanded to provide health it services to the full spectrum of healthcare provider organizations. As they've expanded their services, one of the areas they wanted to help was care transitio…

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Making Sure a Physician Advisory Program Improves Both Care and ROI 21:40

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Physician advisory programs, which educate clinicians in peer-to-peer fashion, are growing in several ways. This video at the AHIMA Annual Conference explores the many uses of these programs, as well as how to implement them and make sure they're effective. The speakers are Dr. Adriane Martin, Vice President of Physician Services at Enjoin, a CDI c…

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#117: The Smart Start Clinic Playbook (Expert Series with Paul Singh) 34:03

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Successful practice ownership isn’t about passion or fancy equipment — it’s about understanding demand and reducing risk. In this episode of Strata Stories, Paul Singh breaks down some fundamentals every new grad and clinic owner should master: 1️⃣ How to identify real market gaps — and secure the right early funding 2️⃣ Why passion isn’t enough to…

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eClinicalWorks Analytics Dramatically Reduce FQHC No-Shows 10:04

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T.H.E. Clinic, a federally qualified health center serving a low-income communmity in Los Angeles, recently reduced missed patient visits ("no-shows") from 25-28% to 13-14%. To learn more about this exceptional improvement, we sat down with CIO Wilson Santos who describes how the healow AI-Powered No-Show Prediction Model helped their clinic achiev…

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MORE Wild Stories and Buying a Race Car from Ken Schrader I Episode 8 36:46

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Episode 8 of The Building of a Race Team dives into one of the most pivotal and unpredictable chapters of Andy Jankowiak’s racing journey — from the wild chaos of Sportsman racing to the life-changing moment he bought an ARCA Series car from NASCAR legend Ken Schrader. In this episode, Andy J shares never-before-told stories from his early racing d…

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Tight Collaboration Between Vyne Medical and Client Drives Continuous Improvement 18:10

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AI has proven itself as a way to remove the burden of scanning, identifying, and uploading information. For Nemours Children's Health, AI solutions from Vyne Medical completely restructured and optimized their document handling practices. Cathy Murphy, HIM Operations Manager at Nemours Children’s Health, gives an account in this video of what data …

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From Ambient Voice Documentation to Care Partner at Heidi 22:39

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Although ambient voice transcriptions driven by AI are seeing widespread adoption in healthcare institutions, only 20%-40% of clinicians adopt it in each institution, according to Dr. Thomas Kelly, CEO & Co-Founder at Heidi. However, when Heidi's AI medical scribe is brought in, they achieve an average 60-70% adoption by clinicians. This is because…

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Making RCM Part of the Clinical Interview 17:23

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Dr. Mike Gao, President of Smarter Technologies, says that the distinction between clinical care and revenue cycle management (RCM) was a historical decision that is no longer valid. Clinical care is determined partly by what payers cover and what proof they require of the patient condition. In turn, the codes and other information used for billing…

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NEVER Before Told Racing Stories! Andy Jankowiak I Episode 7 56:52

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Never-before-heard stories. Raw memories. The real beginning. In this brand-new episode of The Building of a Race Team, presented by KLAS Motorsports, we dive deep into the untold early racing journey of Andy Jankowiak — the scrappy, blue-collar driver who refused to quit long before he ever showed up on an ARCA Menards Series grid. For the first t…

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Hyro Sees Health System Call Centers as Potential Revenue Generators 17:29

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Hyro's Responsible AI Agent platform enables health systems to safely automate patient workflows and conversations across key channels such as call centers, websites, SMS, and mobile apps, supporting use cases like scheduling, appointments, and prescription refills and more. But CEO and Co-Founder Israel Krush thinks that providers should look beyo…

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Achieving Patient-Centered Excellence Through Process Improvement 25:11

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Thibodaux Regional Health System, a Louisiana health system with both a hospital and clinics, has focused on process improvement to pursue what they call “patient-centered excellence.” In this video, CEO Greg Stock and CIO Bryan Samaha talk about their use of the MEDITECH EHR and how they are reducing errors and improving clinical quality. Advantag…

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#116: The Best Way To Monetize Your Expertise as a Therapist (Feat. Rafael Salazar) 31:33

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Some conversations age well — and this is one of them. I sat down with Rafael Salazar, Owner & CEO of ProActive Rehab & Wellness, to talk about a challenge I see across the therapy world: Most clinicians were trained to treat patients… not to monetize their expertise or build additional revenue streams that create real financial breathing room. In …

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Innovation at Community Health Centers in America 21:16

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Community health centers make up the largest primary care network in the U.S. health care system, serving 1 out of 7 Americans—and in rural areas, 1 out of 3. Dr. Kyu Rhee, President and CEO of the National Association of Community Health Centers, says that their patient base has tripled over the past 20 to 25 years, and he expects it to triple aga…

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The Making of Andy J — A Racer Built, Not Born I Episode 6 55:27

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Before Klas Motorsports existed, before the cameras, before the team shop — there was simply Andy Jankowiak, chasing a dream the hard way. In Episode 6 of The Building of a Race Team, we go back to the beginning of Andy J’s journey and uncover the early struggles, sacrifices, and defining moments that shaped the driver he would become. Through Andy…

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Healthcare Billing Complexities Call For Consistency and AI Support 10:31

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Reimbursements in health care have gotten more complex with the growing importance of risk-based, value-based plans and behavior change. In this video interview, Tiffany Waltos, Director of Revenue and Analytics at Community Health Care in Northern Ohio, discusses today’s pressures on revenue cycle management and ways health care providers can resp…

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How Oracle Is Bringing Retail Supply Chain Lessons to Healthcare 14:42

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[SPONSORED] Empty shelves in a hospital aren’t just an inconvenience—they can delay care. Other industries solved this problem years ago with predictive tools and smarter supply chains. At the 2025 Oracle Health Summit, Kristen Miles, Vice President of Healthcare Product Strategy at Oracle, discusses how automation, robotics, and AI are reshaping s…

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Time Saving Features in eClinicalWorks That Help Clinicians Be More Efficient 17:10

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In a recent interview at the eClinicalWorks National Conference, Josh Baker, Operations Manager at Orthopaedic Institute of Ohio, reports on some time-saving features offered by the eClinicalWorks EHR. A combination of mobile device support, rules engines, and AI takes administrative burdens off of clinical and support staff alike. The Orthopaedic …

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A Childhood Passion Turned Arca Series Owner - Kevin Lapierre I Episode 5 42:19

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Klas Motorsports didn’t just come together through passion — it came together through people willing to take risks when no one else would. In Episode 5 of The Building of a Race Team, we shift the spotlight to team co-owner Kevin Lapierre, whose story is one of quiet dedication, relentless belief, and the kind of behind-the-scenes leadership that r…

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Clinician Surveys and EHR Workflow Improvements Drive Improved Satisfaction and Efficiency 15:16

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Our recent interview was all about measurements. The Wooster Community Hospital Health System in Wayne County, Ohio achieved a 20% improvement in their nurses’ satisfaction with their MEDITECH EHR after a six-month effort. This video, interviewing Eric Gasser, Vice President of Information Systems and CIO, shows how statistics and survey data made …

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#115: How Smart Clinics Build a Golden Claim (Feat: Casey Peters) 23:06

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We tried something new in this week’s Strata Stories: a straight-talking deep dive into billing. Our COO, Casey Peters, exposes the hidden billing mistakes that quietly eat up 15–20% of clinic revenue...and how to fix them. He breaks down: 💡 The blueprint for your ideal billing workflow ⚙️ What a “golden claim” actually looks like 📉 How to stop mon…

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Moving Health Care Providers Away from Paper Checks to Automated Payments 17:10

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Every organization—large and small—can benefit from automating payments versus printing, signing, and sending paper checks. ECHO is helping health care provider organizations and their vendors move away from paper checks to electronic payments like ACH, and providing better security in the process. In our latest video interview, we talk with Bill C…

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The Modified LEGEND Andy Seuss Tells Us Where It All Started I Episode 4 58:15

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Before Klas Motorsports became a team — it was a belief shared by racers who had lived the grind. In Episode 4 of The Building of a Race Team, Andy Seuss shares his personal journey through the world of racing: from his roots in Northeast Modified racing to competing at the national level in NASCAR. Told in his own words, Seuss reflects on the high…

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Oracle Health’s AI Bet and Why Playing Nice Matters 19:23

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[SPONSORED] Every vendor is talking about AI—but who’s actually making it work in healthcare? At the Oracle Health Summit, we pressed Seema Verma on how Oracle plans to turn promises into real-world change for clinicians and patients. Seema Verma, EVP and GM of Oracle Health, sat down with us to go beyond the headlines. From automation in revenue c…

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A Rural Hospital Embedded in the Community Benefits from a Consolidated EHR 15:35

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Morris Hospital and Healthcare Centers is quite small: an independent, rural system of clinics including an 89-bed hospital. Yet the system is the largest employer in Morris, IL. In this interview, Kim Landers, their Vice President of Patient Care and Chief Nurse Executive, explains how they remain relevant and solvent, and the aid provided by movi…

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What's the BEST Way to Name Your PRODUCTS? | AEP091 26:16

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The smart strategies of naming your products for brand building and brand growth.Learn techniques to create unique, memorable, and effective product names that capture your brand's essence and resonate with your target audience.Whether you're a startup or an established business, finding the perfect product name can be daunting, but with the right …

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From Vision to the Foundation of a ARCA Contender I Episode 3 20:33

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In Episode 2, we watched a shared dream start to take real shape. Now, in Episode 3 of The Building of a Race Team, presented by Klas Motorsports, that dream begins to gain structure and direction. Told through candid interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, this chapter dives into the moment when ideas turned into action. As Andy Jankowiak pushes…

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AI Scribes: Why Mental Space Matters More Than Minutes 16:08

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Everyone’s talking about how AI scribes save clinicians time. But what if the bigger win isn’t the clock—it’s the relief of finally walking out of the exam room without a head full of notes to write later? In this conversation, Dr. Scott Eshowsky, Chief Medical Information Officer at Beacon Health System and a practicing family physician, shares ho…

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#114: What the Best Tech Businesses Can Teach PT Owners: A PPS Preview (Ft. Paul Singh & Jerry Durham) 13:19

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Competition is fierce in therapy—but what if clinics approached their operations like top-performing businesses in any industry? In this short episode of Strata Stories, Paul Singh shares a sneak peek of his upcoming presentation at the APTA PPS Conference. He breaks down how 80% of all successful businesses follow the same core principles—regardle…

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Benefits of Outsourcing and AI in Revenue Cycle Management 11:02

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As healthcare gets more complex, revenue cycle management has gotten more complex as well as it becoming more difficult to find high quality RCM staff. That’s why it’s no surprise that many medical practices are outsourcing their RCM efforts. This was the case for Heather Boone, Clinical Supervisor at Orlando Heart and Vascular Institute, who decid…

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A Racing Team Begins to Take Shape I Episode Two 15:10

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In Episode 2 of The Building of a Race Team, presented by Klas Motorsports, we look back at how a shared dream started to take real shape. While Andy Jankowiak continues to chase his lifelong racing ambitions, Andy Seuss and Kevin Lapierre begin laying the groundwork that would ultimately become Klas Motorsports. Told in retrospect, this episode di…

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Sustainability in Fashion: A Roadmap or a Roadblock? | AEP090 1:13:11

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In this episode of the Apparel Entrepreneurship Podcast, we discuss the pressing issues of sustainability within the fashion industry. Together with Samantha Taylor, founder of The Good Factory, we discover how brands can navigate the challenges of ethical practices, traceability, and circularity. Learn about the importance of transparency and the …