Access Amplified shares the real stories and strategies shaping the future of care with digital health. We shine a light on how digital health is transforming access to care and advancing health equity. Each episode features candid conversations with healthcare leaders from around the world who are reimagining care delivery through technology. From virtual care to AI and beyond, hear what’s working, what’s next, and how it’s impacting real lives, one innovation at a time. Access Amplified is brought to you by TytoCare.
Designing Digital Health for Every Language: Embedding Equity Into Virtual Care, with Carolina Daza of Corewell Health
For more than a decade, Carolina Daza has worked at the intersection of interpretation, patient advocacy, and telemedicine. Starting her career as a healthcare interpreter, she witnessed firsthand how vulnerable patients feel when they can’t fully understand what’s happening in a clinical setting. That experience now fuels her work inside Corewell Health’s virtual care ecosystem. In this conversation, Carolina explains why language access in digital health must go far beyond translation. It ...
10 Feb 2026
From Hospitals to Hallways: Building Virtual Care That Works in Rural Communities, with Dr. Bradley Anderson and Jared Droze of OSU
When most people think about virtual care, they picture video visits replacing in-person appointments. But at Oklahoma State University, virtual care is something much bigger — a distributed ecosystem designed to keep care local in a largely rural state. In this conversation, Jared Droze and Dr. Brad Anderson share how OSU built a virtual hospitalist program that supports rural and critical access hospitals with real-time clinical expertise. By combining direct virtual patient evaluatio...
20 Jan 2026
Nurse-Led Innovation Isn’t Optional, It’s the Future, with Dr. Bonnie Clipper
Bonnie Clipper is a nationally recognized innovation strategist, nurse leader, and founder of Innovation Advantage. In this episode, she shares why nurses are the key to meaningful digital transformation — and how healthcare systems can empower them to drive it. From breaking down organizational silos to building cultures of innovation that actually stick, Bonnie’s perspective is sharp, practical, and rooted in real-world change. Digital health is here to stay, but that doesn’t mean it’s wor...
6 Jan 2026
From Alone on the Night Shift to Always Connected: How Telehealth Transforms Rural Care, with Sheila Freed of Avel eCare
Sheila Freed has been a nurse for over forty years, from big-city hospitals to tiny rural clinics where she sometimes worked the night shift completely alone. Today, as Clinical Operations Director for School Health and Senior Care at Avel eCare, she’s helping make sure no clinician has to face those moments without backup. In this episode, Sheila shares her journey through the evolution of digital health, how virtual care is changing life in rural communities, and why supporting the people w...
16 Dec 2025
Frontier Care, Modern Tools: Bringing Access Home Across Rural South Dakota, with Lacey Finkbeiner of Horizon Health
Lacey Finkbeiner, Clinical Informatics Specialist at Horizon Health, joins Joanna Braunold to share how her team is redefining access across South Dakota’s rural and tribal communities. From broadband breakthroughs to telehealth-enabled school clinics, Lacey explains how digital innovation and community partnerships are helping families get care closer to home. Across 28,000 square miles of South Dakota, Horizon Health is often the only provider for miles. Lacey Finkbeiner explains how her te...
2 Dec 2025
Designing Belonging: How Radical Health Is Building a More Human System, with Ivelyse Andino of Radical Health
In this episode of Access Amplified, Ivelyse Andino shares how Radical Health is transforming care by blending tech with humanity. As the first Latina-owned public benefit corporation in New York, Radical Health isn't just designing apps, it's designing belonging. From rethinking how people navigate care, to creating trusted spaces for community-led conversations, Ivelyse unpacks how Radical Health is reaching people too often overlooked by traditional systems. Whether it’s shifting from a na...
11 Nov 2025
From Rotary Phones to Virtual Hubs: How Sanford Health Expands Rural Access
Dr. David Newman, Chief Medical Officer of Virtual Care at Sanford Health, is leading efforts to make digital health a lifeline for rural communities. In this episode, he shares how Sanford is training the next generation of physicians in virtual care, supervising behavioral health trainees remotely, and meeting patients where they are — whether that’s at a hub clinic, in a group home, or even on a ranch with a rotary phone. Sanford Health is the largest rural health system in the United Stat...
28 Oct 2025
Telehealth on the Brink: How the Government Shutdown Is Impacting Access to Care
As the U.S. government shutdown stretches into its fourth week, millions of Americans are feeling its ripple effects, especially when it comes to healthcare access. In this special edition of Access Amplified, Joanna Braunold sits down with Alexis Apple, Director of Federal Affairs at the American Telemedicine Association, to unpack what’s happening behind the scenes. From Medicare telehealth flexibilities lapsing to hospitals pausing virtual visits, Alexis offers an insider’s view of how the...
14 Oct 2025
Meeting Kids Where They Are: School-Based Care’s Impact on Access
Sam McGinnis, Associate Vice President – Practice Operations at Atrium Health Levine Children’s, leads one of the country’s most expansive school-based virtual care programs. In this episode, he shares how his team brings care to over 150 schools, and why school nurses are still at the heart of it all. In this episode, Sam McGinnis shares the origin, growth, and future of Advocate Health and Atrium Health Levine Children’s school-based virtual care model. It all started with a pilot at Graham...
30 Sept 2025
From Insight to Impact: Building Tech That Actually Works for Patients, with Sheila Phicil of Phicil-itate Change
Sheila Phicil has spent her career inside some of the country’s leading health systems before launching Phicil-itate Change, a new innovation studio focused on building tech that actually works for the patients it's meant to serve. In this episode, Sheila breaks down why so many digital health tools fail, what real-world patient engagement looks like, and how health systems can get closer to product-system fit by designing with, not just for, the people they serve. Sheila Phicil knows both ...
16 Sept 2025
From the Ground Up: Designing Digital Health That Starts With People
Michael Levy is the co-founder and CEO of DHIT, the Digital Health Institute for Transformation. In this episode, Michael shares why he believes we need to flip the model and build healthcare systems that start with the needs of the people, not the structures already in place. From health innovation sprints to the “periodic table of health,” Michael unpacks what it takes to move from talk to transformation. In a system built for volume, not value, Michael Levy is working to reimagine the ru...
2 Sept 2025
From Electronic House Calls to AI Robots: 50 Years of Telehealth
Dr. Jay Sanders has been called the “father of telemedicine,” but in this episode, he’s far more focused on the future than the past. As the architect of the first statewide telemedicine system and founding president of the American Telemedicine Association, Dr. Sanders has spent five decades advocating for a model of care that meets patients where they are, both physically and technologically. In this deep and wide-ranging conversation, he shares what the industry still hasn’t learned from i...
19 Aug 2025
Building Techquity: HLTH Foundation’s Global Push for Equitable Healthcare Technology
Janna Guinen, Executive Director of the HLTH Foundation, joins Access Amplified to talk about building a healthcare future where technology serves everyone, regardless of income, location, or background. She shares how the HLTH Foundation is leading the global techquity movement and unveils their upcoming database of real-world case studies designed to help innovators, payers, and providers turn equity from a concept into concrete action. The HLTH Foundation, under Janna Guinen’s leadership...
5 Aug 2025
From Grocery Stores to Broadband Gaps: Connecting Community Health in Hawaii
In this episode of Access Amplified, Joanna sits down with Chrissy Kuahine, Director of Tech Equity at Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center. Together, they explore what it means to deliver true whole-person care in a community with one road in, one road out, and a huge digital divide. Chrissy shares how her team uses creative strategies, like telehealth kiosks in grocery stores and youth-led digital literacy for elders, to bring healthcare and essential services directly to the people. ...
22 Jul 2025
Designing Care Around the Consumer in Rural Idaho, with Abby Losinski of St. Luke's Health System
Abby Losinski, Director of Telehealth at St. Luke’s Health System, is helping redefine what healthcare access looks like in rural communities. With over 18 years of experience across clinical, technical, and operational roles, she’s leading programs that bring care directly to patients, whether at home, in a library, or even through their local fire department. In this episode, Abby shares how her team is scaling virtual care, building trust in the community, and applying a startup mindset in...
22 Jul 2025
Revolutionizing Children's Healthcare in Schools, with Dr. John Jenkins of Cone Health
Dr. John Jenkins, Medical Director of School-Based Care at Cone Health, joins Access Amplified to explore how school-based telehealth is transforming healthcare access for children. From full-time telepresenters to behavioral health integration and family-centered support, Dr. Jenkins shares the innovations, partnerships, and passion driving one of the country’s most equitable care models. When most people think about school, they picture classrooms, cafeterias, and maybe the occasional nurse...
22 Jul 2025
Building Virtual Care with Purpose: ChristianaCare’s Strategy in Action, with Dr. Sarah Schenck
Dr. Sarah Schenck, Executive Director of ChristianaCare’s Center for Virtual Health, joins the show to share how her team is rethinking care delivery, from primary care to hospital-at-home. As both a physician and a leader, Dr. Schenck unpacks how ChristianaCare uses technology to stay connected to patients, improve outcomes, and make healthcare better for everyone, especially those most often left behind. ChristianaCare launched its virtual primary care program back in 2018, years before th...
15 Jul 2025
Trailer: Welcome to Access Amplified
What if digital health could finally close the care gap, for good? Digital tools are helping bring care into rural communities, support those historically excluded from the system, and makeequity a reality, not just an aspiration. Access Amplified, brought to you by TytoCare and hosted by Joanna Braunold, is a podcast about how digital health is helping increase access to care and equity, one innovation at a time. We’ll shine a light on what’s actually working to make care more access...
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