Brought to you by Health Data Movers, the QuickHITs podcast wants to bring you inside the world of healthcare technology. We'll cover industry trends, news, conferences as well as interviews with leaders in the industry.
In this episode of QuickHITs, guest host Abby Polich, SVP of Client Services at Health Data Movers, sits down with Laura Marquez, VP of Applications at Sharp HealthCare.
Laura shares how Sharp is tackling application rationalization at scale, including the organization's goal to reduce its application portfolio by 20% over the next four years. She explains why a clean, living CMDB is the foundation for that work, how engaging the people closest to the day-to-day use of an application surfaces the best opportunities to consolidate, and why contract hygiene, including addending BAAs and MSAs as vendors roll out new AI features, has become essential to protecting patient data.
The conversation also covers how Laura evaluates new AI tools against real operational pain points rather than novelty, what the next five years could mean for revenue cycle automation and the call center, and why she believes the patient is the most underutilized member of the care team. From application rationalization to AI-ready vendor contracts to rethinking the physical and virtual exam room, this episode covers a lot of ground for anyone thinking about how to modernize a complex health system's application landscape responsibly.
22 Jul 2026
Building an AI-Ready Health System with Simon Nazarian
In this episode of QuickHITs, Tyler Smith sits down with Simon Nazarian, System EVP and Chief Digital and Technology Officer at City of Hope, and guest co-host Maroussia Petryk.
Simon shares how one of the nation's largest cancer research and treatment organizations is turning decades of complex oncology data into a strategic asset, and how that foundation led to the development of Hope LLM, City of Hope's proprietary generative AI platform. He explains why data migration should be treated as clinical and operational infrastructure rather than an IT checkbox, what AI readiness really requires beyond having a model, and how governance built into the architecture from day one is what earns clinician trust.
The conversation also covers ROI versus return on opportunity, where organizations tend to overestimate or underestimate AI's impact, and Simon's outlook on the next three to five years of clinical innovation, including a blended intelligence model where technology surfaces insight, and humans keep the final say. From treating data migration as strategic infrastructure to reducing administrative burden through Hope LLM to building AI governance in from the start, this episode covers a lot of ground for anyone thinking about what it takes to modernize a complex health system responsibly.
24 Jun 2026
Closing the operational gap: how Mount Sinai builds digital health that scales with Dr. Nicholas Gavin & Dr. Robbie Freeman
In this episode of QuickHITs, Tyler Smith sits down with Dr. Nicholas Gavin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholaspgavin/), Chief Clinical Innovation Officer at Mount Sinai, and Dr. Robbie Freeman, Mount Sinai's Chief Digital Transformation Officer.
Nicholas and Robbie unpack what it actually takes to move a digital health tool from a small pilot to system-wide scale, including the operational gap, the Hawthorne effect, and why Mount Sinai builds for scale from day one rather than treating pilots as an endpoint. They share how a culture of bottom-up idea submission, paired with rigorous co-design with patients and clinicians, has led to products like an AI tool that predicts pressure injury risk and a digital triage platform shaped directly by patient focus groups.
The conversation also covers interoperability, standardizing on a single EMR across seven hospital campuses and 400-plus ambulatory locations, and where Nicholas and Robbie see the next wave of healthcare technology heading, including agentic AI and computer vision.
They close with a candid take on healthcare's long struggle with administrative burden, and why current tools may finally offer a real path forward for clinicians and patients alike.
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