Healthcare has more data than ever.

So why do so many leaders still feel stuck?

In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, Michael Stamatinos sits down with Khan Siddiqui, MD, CEO and Chairman of HOPPR and former Founder and CEO of higi.

This conversation is not about trends.

It is about judgment.

Khan shares how growing up with a mother who still runs a clinic in Pakistan shaped his view of service, responsibility, and care. He explains how that foundation led to an early decision to aim his life’s work at impacting one billion people, and why that goal forced him to think differently about scale, technology, and leadership.

Michael and Khan talk honestly about what breaks when healthcare grows. Why pilots succeed but systems fail. Why trust erodes even when the data improves. And why many leaders confuse more tools with better decisions.

This episode is for people who carry responsibility in healthcare. People making decisions with real consequences. People who want systems that hold up when pressure is real.

You will not leave with a checklist.

You will leave thinking more clearly about what actually matters.

👥 Who This Episode Is For

* Leaders who feel the weight of decisions that do not have clean answers

* Operators tired of tools that promise change but do not follow through

* Founders trying to build for scale without losing trust

* Investors who care about durability, not noise

* Anyone trying to lead with judgment under pressure

https://www.hoppr.ai/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/hopprai/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/khansiddiqui/

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About the Show

The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show is hosted by Michael Stamatinos, a nationally recognized connector, strategist, and advocate for innovation with purpose. Each week, Michael interviews healthcare leaders who are driving meaningful change—highlighting stories of access, resilience, equity, and transformation.

The AHI Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

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In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Effie Carlson, CEO of Watershed Health, for a candid conversation on why healthcare struggles with coordination and what it truly takes to align complex systems around patients.

Effie Carlson shares her unique perspective, shaped by decades of experience across payers, providers, and healthcare operations, as well as her personal journey as a parent navigating the NICU. Together, they explore why healthcare often breaks down at transitions of care, why alignment remains elusive despite good intentions, and how fragmented incentives continue to slow progress.

The conversation goes beyond technology buzzwords and dashboards. Effie explains how Watershed Health was built to serve the people doing the work on the front lines, focusing on workflow realities, trust, and community-level collaboration. She discusses why details matter in healthcare, how belief impacts adoption, and why sustainable innovation requires patience, discipline, and strong fundamentals.

Listeners will also hear real-world examples of healthcare ecosystems working together, including community-driven collaboration efforts in Austin, Texas. The episode touches on leadership, growth, resilience, and the balance between strong business outcomes and meaningful patient outcomes.

This episode is ideal for healthcare executives, operators, founders, clinicians, and investors who want a grounded, real-world view of healthcare innovation, care coordination, and leadership in complex systems.

Topics covered include:

Healthcare care coordination and system alignment

Leadership lessons from healthcare operators

Digital health infrastructure and adoption

Frontline workflows and technology design

Building trust across healthcare ecosystems

Lessons from community-based healthcare collaboration

About the guest and Watershed Health:

Effie Carlson is the CEO of Watershed Health, a healthcare technology company focused on enabling real-time collaboration across payers, providers, public health, and community organizations. Her work centers on building infrastructure that supports continuity of care and shared accountability across healthcare systems.

https://watershedhealth.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/watershed-health/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/effie-carlson-04b52986/

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About the Show

The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show is hosted by Michael Stamatinos, a nationally recognized connector, strategist, and advocate for innovation with purpose. Each week, Michael interviews healthcare leaders who are driving meaningful change—highlighting stories of access, resilience, equity, and transformation.

The AHI Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

🔗 Michael’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelstamo

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Healthcare runs on people who keep showing up. This episode asks a simple question: who is taking care of them?

On this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Brian Ferguson, CEO of Arena Labs and former Navy SEAL officer, for a grounded and personal conversation about service, pressure, and what it takes to last in healthcare.

Brian has spent over two decades inside elite teams across national security, special operations, and professional sports. In this conversation, he draws clear parallels between those worlds and the frontlines of healthcare—emergency rooms, ICUs, and operating rooms—where there is no offseason and little room to recover.

Together, they explore what Brian calls the Service Archetype. The small group of people in any society who raise their hand to serve others. In healthcare, that calling is constant. And without the right tools, it comes at a cost.

This episode covers:

* Why healthcare has normalized exhaustion

* The difference between endurance and real strength

* How performance science from the military and sports can help clinicians recover

* What Predictive Performance means in real life

* The meaning behind Teddy Roosevelt’s Man in the Arena

* Why standards only matter if they protect people when no one is watching

This is a quiet, honest conversation about leadership, burnout, recovery, and responsibility. It speaks directly to clinicians and healthcare leaders who carry the work and rarely talk about the toll.

If this episode resonates, consider subscribing, sharing it with someone you care about, or taking a moment to reflect on how you protect the people who serve.

🔗 Follow Arena Labs:

🌐 https://arenalabs.co/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/arena-labs/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-ferguson-arena-labs/

https://www.instagram.com/arenalabs/?hl=en

https://x.com/arena_labs

👥 Who This Episode Is For

* Clinicians who feel tired but stay committed

* Healthcare leaders responsible for teams under pressure

* Operators trying to balance outcomes with human cost

* Founders and investors focused on long-term impact

* Anyone who believes service deserves protection

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If this conversation moved you, challenged your thinking, or sparked an idea, share it with someone who needs to hear it. Subscribe for more episodes with healthcare leaders who are not just thinking differently, they’re building differently.

About the Show

The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show is hosted by Michael Stamatinos, a nationally recognized connector, strategist, and advocate for innovation with purpose. Each week, Michael interviews healthcare leaders who are driving meaningful change—highlighting stories of access, resilience, equity, and transformation.

The AHI Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

🔗 Michael’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelstamo

🎧 Subscribe for more episodes that move beyond theory and into the heart of what’s really possible in healthcare.

Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/