HITea With Grace

Today I'm honored to welcome to the pod Olivia Osborn, Clinical AI Success Consultant at Kontakt.io. Olivia brings a rare blend of frontline and strategic experience - from her days as an EMT to leading operational transformations at Boston Children's Hospital and advising health systems nationwide with Huron Consulting - before landing at the forefront of AI-powered hospital operations. In this e...

Grace Vinton sits down with James Hamrick, MD, MPH, Chairman of the Caris Precision Oncology Alliance™, live from ASCO. Dr. Hamrick's mission is clear: how important it is to share molecular data to drive the science of cancer forward. What has him most energized right now is multi-modal data - the convergence of molecular studies, digital pathology, and clinical data - into powerful decision tool...

Grace Vinton sits down with Milan Radovich, PhD, SVP and Chief Scientific Officer at Caris Life Sciences, live from ASCO. Dr. Radovich captures the energy in the hallways this year: the convergence of agentic AI with massive genomic datasets is inspiring a new era of care: better prediction algorithms, more powerful diagnostic tools, and research happening at a scale we've never seen before. He hi...

Grace Vinton sits down with George Sledge, MD, breast medical oncologist and Chief Medical Officer at Caris Life Sciences, live from ASCO. Dr. Sledge reflects on one of the most historic moments in oncology: the first drug ever approved to treat pancreatic cancer. For a disease that has represented some of the darkest corners of oncology for decades, this breakthrough is giving the entire industry...

In this episode of HITea, Grace welcomes Chelsie Rohrscheib, PhD, sleep expert and scientist at Wesper, whose work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, sleep medicine, and diagnostic innovation. Women are diagnosed with sleep apnea at roughly half the rate of men, and yet the consequences of going undetected are just as serious. Dr. Rohrscheib is on the front lines of changing that. Together,...

In this episode of HITea, Grace Vinton welcomes Robin McLeod, PhD, LP, CEO of the National Society of Autism Professionals (NSAP), clinical psychologist, and systems-level leader whose career has spanned clinical practice, executive leadership, and field-wide transformation. Dr. McLeod is building something the autism field has never had: a unified professional home for the multidisciplinary commu...

Welcome to HITea With Grace, where we spill the tea on healthcare IT, innovation, leadership, and the people transforming healthcare. In this episode, Grace welcomes Julie Wood, MD, MPH, Senior Medical Director at Linus Health, family physician, public health leader, and longtime advocate for advancing patient-centered care. After nearly three decades in family medicine and executive leadership ro...

Welcome to HITea with Grace, where we spill the tea on all things health IT—and the moments shaping the future of care. In this episode, Grace sits down with Dr. Bridget Duffy, the nation’s first Chief Experience Officer, longtime patient experience leader, and co-chair of the AI Care Standard™, for a timely conversation at the intersection of AI and human-centered care. Dr. Duffy shares the journ...

In this special episode of HITea, Grace sits down with Havy Ngo-Hamilton, PharmD, a pharmacy innovation leader at Buzz Health, to unpack what’s really happening between the moment a prescription is written and when a patient actually gets their medication. Havy brings a front-line perspective on where the prescription journey breaks down most—whether it’s access barriers, affordability challenges,...