Stay ConnectedDGTL Voices is your go-to podcast for all things digital innovation, healthcare technology, and leadership. Hosted by Ed Marx, the show features in-depth conversations with top leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries who are shaping the future of healthcare. Each episode dives into the latest trends, career insights, and real-world advice, providing a platform to learn, grow, and connect with like-minded professionals.
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David Banks is the President and CEO of AdventHealth, one of the largest faith-based health systems in the country, with 55+ hospital campuses, 2,000+ care sites, and 100,000+ team members serving communities across the nation.
In this episode of DGTL Voices, David sits down with Ed for a conversation that begins with cycling and ends with the philosophy that shapes how AdventHealth approaches whole-person care. He talks about his path from sweeping the sidewalks of a small community hospital in California to leading a national health system, what it means for every facility leader at AdventHealth to also carry the title of Chief Spiritual Officer, and the "feel whole" promise the organization makes to every patient. Plus a story from early in his career that taught him an important lesson about putting patient need ahead of financials, and how the team did some of its most important work in the middle of COVID.
Dr. Ashley Beecy is the Chief AI Officer at Sutter Health, a cardiologist, and a clinical informaticist. Before joining Sutter, she spent more than a decade at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, most recently as Medical Director of AI Operations. Her path into medicine took a less common route: she started as a computer systems engineer at IBM, then spent eight years at Citi in operational risk and product management before going to medical school while still working in finance.
In this episode of DGTL Voices, Ashley sits down with Ed to talk about what it takes to build an applied AI function inside a major health system. She walks through the three pillars guiding her work at Sutter, why organizational readiness matters as much as the technology itself, and the discipline required to scope and prioritize when the AI news cycle creates a constant pull toward urgency. Plus the seventh-grade math teacher who shaped her trajectory, the mantra her dad gave her about Brinks trucks and funeral processions, and why she defines success today by what teams achieve together rather than individual metrics.
Dr. Jennifer Miles-Thomas is Vice Chair of Integration and Innovation at Northwestern Medicine, Executive Treasurer of the American Urological Association, and a former CEO of one of the largest private urology groups in the country. She earned her MD at Northwestern, completed her residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and her MBA at MIT Sloan.
In this episode of DGTL Voices, Jennifer talks with Ed about the spinal meningitis diagnosis at age three that pointed her toward medicine, what changed when she got to MIT and started thinking alongside multinational CFOs and SpaceX engineers, and why she left a CEO seat for protected innovation time at a health system. She shares her perspective as a Black female urologist on what it took to navigate her training, how she leads through really listening, and why she believes failure is part of the path to anything worth building.
Ansh Singhal is 18 years old, a senior at Coppell High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and the founder and CEO of A1 Media, a digital marketing agency he's been growing for two and a half years. His client roster already includes Adidas and Paiwan Football, who recently flew him to Japan to lead marketing for an international tournament. He's headed to SMU's Cox School of Business in the fall.
In this episode of DGTL Voices, Ansh sits down with Ed for one of the show's occasional non-healthcare conversations. He talks about the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen, 1% better every day, and how it changed his trajectory. He shares why every high schooler trying to start something should start with a co-founder, what reverse mentoring looks like from the other side, and what he thinks executives twice his age are missing about social media and AI. Ed also asks him to weigh in on the future of healthcare from a tech-forward Gen Z perspective.
Dr. Lev Gonick is the Enterprise Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University, where he leads technology infrastructure, AI innovation, and smart city architecture for the nation's largest public university.
An academic and technology pioneer for more than three decades, Lev has been a sitting CIO for 25 years, with prior leadership at Case Western Reserve University and co-founding regional digital equity initiatives like DigitalC.
In this bonus episode of DGTL Voices, Lev tells Ed about growing up in an academic family, the pivotal 1993 university sabbatical that shifted his career into online learning, and why a university's success should be measured by who it includes rather than who it excludes. He also shares insight into ASU’s radical new medical school program where every future doctor also graduates with an engineering degree to navigate the upcoming AI economy.
Plus: the unique strategy he uses to stay ahead of tech trends by employing 350 student "coaches," why building true human relationships matters more than titles, and how getting lost in the kitchen as an amateur chef keeps him grounded.
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Dr. Rob Bart is the Chief Medical Information Officer at UPMC, where he is leading one of the largest EHR consolidations in the country- bringing the entire health system onto a single Epic instance.
A pediatric intensivist by training, Rob has been a pioneer in the CMIO role for more than two decades, with prior leadership at Cerner and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.
In this episode of DGTL Voices, Rob tells Ed about growing up in Hawaii (his high school classmate happened to become President of the United States), the conversation that pulled him from research into medicine, why clinicians need to keep practicing to keep their credibility, and his case against the endless creation of new C-suite titles every time technology evolves.
Plus: the trust framework he uses with his team, why recovering from a wrong decision matters more than being right the first time, and how bike rides through a cemetery near his home keep him grounded.
Israel Krush is the CEO and Co-Founder of Hyro, the responsible AI agent platform used by dozens of the largest US health systems to safely automate millions of patient interactions.
In this episode of DGTL Voices, Israel tells Ed how mandatory military service at 18 reshaped his sense of responsibility, why his parents' insistence on eight extracurriculars was unintentional CEO training, and how Hyro shifted from a general AI agent company to an all-in healthcare bet.
Along the way: the case for being strategically opportunistic, why "open book, no BS" is a way of operating rather than a slogan, and the lesson he learned the hard way about thinking before speaking.
Craig Scharton is the founding site director of Connect Labs Charlotte at The Pearl, an innovation district bringing together Wake Forest School of Medicine, IRCAD's surgical training facility, Siemens Healthineers, and Atrium Advocate Health in one collaborative space.
In this episode, Craig tells Ed about getting cancer at 23 and again at 35, the five ideals that guide his life (love, truth, beauty, wisdom, peace), and why he believes Charlotte can become the most supportive place in the country for health innovators.
Plus: holiday playlists with Adam Sandler, walking through giant sequoias to reset, and the case for making innovation fun.
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Dr. Luis Garcia is the President of Rush Medical Group in Chicago, leading 1,000 physicians and 500 APPs across the Rush footprint. He grew up in a poor neighborhood in Mexico City where his father started a medical practice in his grandmother's kitchen that eventually became a hospital. He applied to all 220 surgery residency programs in the US as a foreign medical graduate, got two interviews, and flew to Fargo, North Dakota in the middle of a blizzard because he refused to do a phone interview.
In this episode, Luis talks about why he had to leave Mexico to stop being his father's son, why identifying your weaknesses matters more than knowing your strengths, and why the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is always that little 'extra.'
Phoebe Yang is the daughter of a single-parent Chinese immigrant father who raised three daughters in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She went to law school intending to become a law professor, until her father was diagnosed with late-stage colorectal cancer and given four months to live. That moment changed everything.
From there, Phoebe built a career that spans AOL Time Warner (launching their China office), Discovery (turning around Discovery Health and doing early deals with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft when nobody else wanted them), the Obama administration's FCC, the Advisory Board Company, Amazon, and board roles at GE, Doximity, and CommonSpirit. She now teaches the business of AI at Stanford.
In this episode, Phoebe talks about why healthcare is the only industry where the greatest predictor of success is tied to how well you see the human being first, what curious humility means in a board role, why Socrates feared the written word the same way we fear AI, and what it means to sit alone in a Roman church with two Caravaggio paintings all day.
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