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DGTL Voices with Ed Marx

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx

Marx Advisory 100 Episodes Oct 8, 2026

Digital Voices and Ed Marx bring industry leaders to discuss the future of healthcare technology.

Episodes

What You Should Have Been Paid (ft. Xinan Rahman)
What You Should Have Been Paid (ft. Xinan Rahman) Oct 8, 2026 1686 Xinan Rahman founded a company that matches incoming payments against payer contracts, catching underpayments as they happen rather than months later. His father named him with an X instead of the usual Z, because his kids were going to be different. He did the same with Xinan's sister. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Xinan tells Edward Marx about growing up in Bangladesh, why he studied computer
Surgery Without an Incision (ft. Gianluca Torregrossa)
Surgery Without an Incision (ft. Gianluca Torregrossa) Oct 1, 2026 2154 A week in the hospital used to be standard after heart bypass surgery. Dr. Gianluca Torregrossa sends his patients home in a day or two, and they are back at work within a week. One of them played 36 holes of golf two weeks out and sent a photo. He does the operation robotically, without cutting the chest open. Surgeons tried this in the early 2000s and abandoned it as too difficult and too expens
One Hundred Percent Gut (ft. Sabré Cook)
One Hundred Percent Gut (ft. Sabré Cook) Sep 24, 2026 1773 Sabré Cook is a professional racing driver and a mechanical engineer. She was the first woman to compete in the Porsche Carrera Cup North America, won a world karting championship at 13, and worked as a suspension composite design engineer for the Renault F1 team while racing in W Series. Edward Marx steps outside healthcare for this one. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Sabré tells him about growi
Nobody Asks About Ibuprofen (ft. Joel Selanikio)
Nobody Asks About Ibuprofen (ft. Joel Selanikio) Sep 17, 2026 1982 Dr. Joel Selanikio is a practicing pediatrician, a former CDC epidemiologist, and a TED speaker who keynotes for health system boards and C-suites. Twenty years ago you needed a physician's judgment to get ibuprofen. Joel points out that the entire purpose of over-the-counter drugs was to eliminate a doctor visit, and that in thousands of conversations nobody has ever asked him whether Advil is go
The CEO Swap (ft. Gil Peri)
The CEO Swap (ft. Gil Peri) Sep 10, 2026 1498 Gil Peri is the CEO of Children's Wisconsin, the only children's health system in the state. It is independent, so he reports directly to the board, and he is the third CEO it has had in 45 years. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Gil tells Edward Marx about the CEO swap he runs every month, where he takes over a frontline manager's job for the day and hands her the health system. He explains why he
Everybody Is a Caregiver (ft. Toby Cosgrove)
Everybody Is a Caregiver (ft. Toby Cosgrove) Sep 3, 2026 1501 Dr. Toby Cosgrove is the former President and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, where he now serves as Executive Advisor. A cardiac surgeon and inventor, he is a member of the Cleveland Medical Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Business Hall of Fame, and has addressed the World Economic Forum at Davos and the Senate HELP Committee. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Toby tells Edward Marx about nearly flunking o
The Executive Longevity Plan (ft. Tony Medrano)
The Executive Longevity Plan (ft. Tony Medrano) Aug 27, 2026 1520 Tony Medrano is the CEO and Co-Founder of LongevityPlan.AI, a platform that uses AI, lab results, genetic testing, biomarkers, health records, and wearable data to help personalize longevity and peptide plans. His interest in health optimization began after accepting a challenge to complete an Ironman with only 90 days to prepare. Six weeks before the race, he was hit by a car and separated his sh
Waiting for the Wrong Bed (ft. Alan Portela)
Waiting for the Wrong Bed (ft. Alan Portela) Aug 24, 2026 1626 Alan Portela is the CEO and Co-Founder of DEPTH Health. Before this he spent 12 years running AirStrip, deployed in 750 US hospitals, and has advised Masimo, Bain Capital, and Apollo Hospitals. Touring hospitals after the pandemic, a Vanderbilt physician took him past the emergency department waiting room and into the hallway where admitted patients board. Portela treated it like a traffic jam and
Even If They Feel Ready, They're Not (ft. Hooman Rashidi)
Even If They Feel Ready, They're Not (ft. Hooman Rashidi) Aug 20, 2026 2236 Dr. Hooman Rashidi is Associate Dean of AI in Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and Executive Director of CPACE. Before Pitt, he founded Cleveland Clinic's Center for AI and Data Science and directed AI at UC Davis Medical Center. Ed asks him whether medical staff are prepared for AI. His answer is that even the ones who feel ready are not, because people bundle every kind of AI together an
Don’t Rush Anywhere Ever (ft. Diane Sliwka)
Don’t Rush Anywhere Ever (ft. Diane Sliwka) Aug 13, 2026 1852 Dr. Diane Sliwka is a hospitalist physician, professor, and Chief Physician Experience Officer at UCSF Health. Her work focuses on improving the healthcare experience by helping clinicians communicate more effectively, find greater professional fulfillment, and deliver better care without sacrificing their own well-being. She believes healthcare leaders must do more than measure burnout. They must
The Next Right Action (ft. John Erwin)
The Next Right Action (ft. John Erwin) Aug 6, 2026 1936 John Erwin is the CEO and Founder of Carenet Health, a health engagement and virtual care company serving more than 400 healthcare organizations across telehealth, patient access, and clinical navigation. He describes Carenet's job as walking alongside the patient and making sure they take the next right action. Whether they need the ER or don't. Whether they picked up the prescription. The parts
Millions of Faxes (ft. Kesava Dinakaran)
Millions of Faxes (ft. Kesava Dinakaran) Jul 30, 2026 1767 Kesava Dinakaran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Luminai, an AI platform that moves manual administrative work at large health systems over to agents. Luminai has raised $60M to date and works with health systems including Cleveland Clinic. Kesava spent seven years of his childhood solving Rubik's Cubes eight hours a day, broke the world record for most cubes solved in one hour, then cycled from Turk

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