Nurse Rosa's INsights

Cooking fires are the number one cause of residential fires in America, and older adults are among the most vulnerable. In this episode, Nurse Rosa sits down with an AI-driven kitchen safety innovator and a leading occupational therapy researcher to talk about what aging in place actually requires and the tools making it possible right now.

Guests:

David Eby, CEO of CookTop Safety Corp., developed an AI-powered smart kitchen sensor that predicts and prevents cooking fires before they happen. As a personal caregiver to his own parents in their mid-eighties, his work is as personal as it is innovative.

Dr. Pamela Toto, PhD, OTR/L, BCG, FAOTA, FGSA is an occupational therapist, professor, and director of the Healthy Home Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on strength-based, evidence-driven solutions that extend older adults' ability to live independently.

In This Episode:

Why cooking fires are a critical and underestimated risk for older adults

How AI and IoT technology protect independence without removing autonomy

The gap between clinical best practice and real-world aging care

What caregivers need from technology to do their jobs better

Connect with Our Guests:

David Eby: www.CookTopSafety.com | linkedin.com/in/davidmeby |

Dr. Pamela Toto: healthyhomelaboratory.pitt.edu | linkedin.com/in/pamela-toto

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What does it really take to deliver equitable care to the most vulnerable Medicare patients -- virtually, across all 50 states?

Rosa Hart sits down with Bonnie Sloma, SVP of Clinical Services at CareTalk Health, a national virtual care organization serving patients in all 50 states and D.C. With 42 years of nursing experience -- from the NICU to large-scale telehealth leadership -- Bonnie brings frontline wisdom and systems-level vision to one of healthcare's hardest problems.

In this episode:

How CareTalk delivers Annual Wellness Visits entirely virtually

Using face-scan technology to catch dangerously high blood pressure early

Why 50% of their patients have no primary care provider

CCM, RPM, and RTM -- explained in plain language

The loneliness and depression crisis among seniors

What "clinical prejudice" means and why naming it matters

Bonnie's vision for a $1 billion solution: equitable care for every American, regardless of zip code

The bottom line: Virtual care isn't a lesser version of in-person care. For millions of Americans, it's the only care.

Connect:
Bonnie Sloma on LinkedIn | caretalkhealth.com
Rosa Hart: @NurseRosaSpeaks

Nurse Rosa's INsights is a nurse-led podcast exploring healthcare leadership, policy, clinical innovation, and bold solutions from the people changing the system from the inside out. New episodes weekly on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and the Health Podcast Library.

What happens when a physician with 15 years of frontline experience stops waiting for healthcare to fix itself, and builds the fix himself?

In this episode of the Nurse Rosa's INsights Podcast, host Rosa Hart sits down with Zaman Shah, MD MBA, founder and CEO of Medway, a physician-led AI infrastructure company transforming EHRs into AI-first platforms.

Dr. Shah brings a rare combination most health tech founders simply don't have: clinical credibility from 15 years of frontline practice, business training from an MBA at UAB, and specialized Harvard training in healthcare AI. His mission is direct : restore the human connection in healthcare by making every EHR intelligent, interoperable, and effortless through a clinician-designed, compliant AI layer.

What Medway actually solves:
Small-to-mid-size and specialty EHRs often lack the time, talent, or capital to build AI in-house. Medway provides plug-and-play AI infrastructure — delivered under the EHR vendor's own brand — that brings ambient documentation, smart data access, and validated order entry to market in weeks, not years.

In this episode, you'll hear:

How 15 years of frontline medicine shaped Dr. Shah's vision for Medway

Why small and specialty EHRs are being left behind in the AI race — and how Medway closes that gap

The real cost of fragmented data, redundant workflows, and manual administrative work on clinical care

Why interoperability is still broken and what universal, standards-based access would actually look like

How ambient documentation and conversational retrieval can give clinicians back their time with patients

Dr. Shah's billion-dollar vision: a modern operating layer for healthcare that eliminates waste, closes care gaps in real time, and reduces friction for both clinicians and patients

Dr. Shah's billion-dollar answer:
If given a $1B grant, Dr. Shah would build and scale a modern operating layer for healthcare — starting with universal interoperability so clinicians and patients can access the right information instantly, without faxing or chasing records. He would embed ambient documentation and guided order entry directly into care delivery, invest in real-time quality and care-gap closure during the visit rather than after, and fund patient-facing access tools that reduce administrative burden. Across all of it: trust, transparent governance, measurable outcomes, and adoption incentives built for sustained ROI.

Connect with Zaman Shah:
On LinkedIn

Find out more about Medway.ai

Connect with Rosa Hart:
https://nurserosaspeaks.com/

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What happens when a stroke survivor becomes the most credible voice in the room? In this episode of the Nurse Rosa's INsights Podcast, Rosa Hart, RN sits down with David Dansereau — physical therapist, stroke survivor, digital health innovator, and co-founder of the Know Stroke Podcast — for a candid conversation about what the healthcare system is getting wrong and what it takes to fix it from the inside out.

What you'll learn in this episode:

Why upstream investment in health education outperforms downstream treatment spending

How stroke survivors and nonprofit support groups are doing the heavy lifting the system won't fund

Where technology, storytelling, and community intersect to actually change patient outcomes

What "patients as partners in research" really looks like — and why it matters for stroke recovery

Why physical therapists risk being left behind in the digital health revolution (and how to catch up)

Featured guest: David Dansereau, MSPT, CAPS — Founder of SmartMovesPT, co-host of the Know Stroke Podcast, national AHA stroke spokesperson, and patient stakeholder for PCORI, Mass General Hospital, and the Stroke and Young Adult Consortium (SAYA).

Connect with David:
🔗 smartmovespt.com | know-stroke.org
📱 @knowstroke | @smartmoves_pt
🔗 linkedin.com/in/daviddansereau/

Connect with Rosa:
🔗 nurserosaspeaks.com
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Healthcare is changing faster than most people realize.

In this episode of Nurse Rosa's INsights, Rosa Hart sits down with physician, healthcare strategist, and author Dr. Sarah Matt to explore how technology is reshaping the future of care. Dr. Matt shares her remarkable journey from practicing general surgeon to becoming a leader in healthcare technology and digital health strategy, including her work at Oracle Health and with emerging healthcare startups.

Their conversation dives into one of the most urgent issues in healthcare today: access to care. Dr. Matt explains how geographic barriers, financial challenges, and outdated systems continue to limit care for millions of patients. She also discusses how innovations like telemedicine, remote surgery, ambient AI, and digital health platforms are helping bring care directly to patients, no matter where they live.

Rosa and Dr. Matt also discuss the often overlooked role of nurses in shaping healthcare innovation. Nurses are uniquely positioned to identify gaps in care delivery, advocate for patients, and help design technology that actually works in clinical settings.

Another major theme of the conversation is medical debt and how financial barriers prevent patients from seeking the care they need. Dr. Matt shares insights from her new book, The Borderless Healthcare Revolution, which outlines practical strategies for breaking down geographic, financial, and systemic barriers to healthcare.

From community clinics serving uninsured populations to global telehealth models that connect patients with specialists across continents, this episode explores what it will take to build a more equitable, accessible, and human-centered healthcare system.

Dr. Matt has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of clinical medicine, enterprise technology, and healthcare strategy, advising health systems, digital health companies, and policymakers on building scalable solutions that improve patient access.

She is the author of the national bestselling book:

The Borderless Healthcare Revolution: The Definitive Guide to Breaking Geographic Barriers Through Technology

The book offers practical frameworks for expanding healthcare access through telemedicine, remote care, and emerging technologies while addressing physical, financial, and cultural barriers to care.

Learn more:drsarahmatt.com

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