{"podcast":{"title":"Healthtech Talks with Fexingo: Digital Health, Telemedicine, and Medical Software","slug":"healthtech-talks-with-fexingo-digital-health-telemedicine-and-medical-software-7871821","podcast_index_feed_id":7871821,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/healthtech-talks.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/healthtech-talks/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":104,"summary":"Every day, a new health technology company claims to reinvent healthcare. Which ones actually improve patient outcomes, and which are just repackaging old inefficiencies with better user interfaces? In Healthtech Talks with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna cut through the hype to examine the real economics and clinical evidence behind digital health, telemedicine, and medical software. They analyze specific companies — from telemedicine platforms like Teladoc to AI diagnostic tools from Aidoc — dissecting their business models, regulatory hurdles, and adoption curves. Lucas brings a journalist's precision to revenue numbers, clinical trial data, and policy changes (e.g., FDA digital health guidance, CMS telehealth reimbursement rules). Luna challenges assumptions about scalability, patient privacy, and equity of access, grounded in real-world case studies like Babylon Health's rise and fall or the integration of Epic Systems across hospital networks. Each episode focuses on a single topic: how remote patient monitoring platforms affect readmission rates, whether AI scribes actually reduce physician burnout, why some digital therapeutics succeed while others fail FDA clearance. This show is…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-11T14:19:18.527325+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/healthtech-talks-with-fexingo-digital-health-telemedicine-and-medical-software-7871821"},"episode":{"title":"How AI Is Predicting Patient Wait Times in Emergency Rooms","slug":"how-ai-is-predicting-patient-wait-times-in-emergency-rooms","published_at":"2026-07-06T20:32:35+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/healthtech-talks-with-fexingo-digital-health-telemedicine-and-medical-software-7871821/how-ai-is-predicting-patient-wait-times-in-emergency-rooms","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/healthtech-talks-with-fexingo-digital-health-telemedicine-and-medical-software-7871821","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/healthtech-talks/episode-0095.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/healthtech-talks/episode-0095.mp3","summary":"Emergency rooms are chaotic by design, but AI is starting to bring order. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how hospitals are using machine learning to predict how long you'll wait before seeing a doctor — and why that matters for both patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes. They break down a real deployment at a major health system: how the model ingests real-time data from triage notes, bed availability, staffing schedules, and historical patterns to generate wait-time estimates that are actually useful. They also discuss the ethical tension between transparency and anxiety — is it better to tell someone they'll wait four hours if it's accurate, or does that just drive patients to leave? Featuring specific examples from hospitals in Ohio and California, including the surprising finding that AI-driven wait-time predictions reduced left-without-being-seen rates by 17 percent in a six-month pilot. This is Episode 95 of Healthtech Talks with Fexingo. #AI #MachineLearning #EmergencyMedicine #PatientExperience #WaitTimes #PredictiveAnalytics #Healthtech #HospitalOperations #Triage #ClinicalDecisionSupport #PatientSatisfaction #RealTimeData #OperationalEfficiency #LeftWithoutBeingSeen #OhioHealth #KaiserPermanente #Business #FexingoBusiness Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Emergency rooms are chaotic by design, but AI is starting to bring order. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how hospitals are using machine learning…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":699,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/healthtech-talks-with-fexingo-digital-health-telemedicine-and-medical-software-7871821/episodes/how-ai-is-predicting-patient-wait-times-in-emergency-rooms/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/healthtech-talks-with-fexingo-digital-health-telemedicine-and-medical-software-7871821/how-ai-is-predicting-patient-wait-times-in-emergency-rooms.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}