Dr. Tia Warrick started as a clinical research coordinator before founding Asus Consulting, a software platform that helps sponsors and providers get clinical trial coverage analysis right from the start instead of fixing billing problems after the fact.

In this episode, Tia breaks down what a coverage analyst actually does, why Medicare and Medicaid coverage rules are so hard to interpret, and how her software pulls CPT codes, NCD/LCD data, and peer-reviewed literature to build a defensible budget in minutes instead of months. She also talks about the guardrails she built into her AI to prevent hallucinations in a space where financial and compliance stakes are high, and why she believes automation should support coverage analysts rather than replace them.

Topics covered:

• Why clinical trial budgets can take up to 8 months to finalize
• What a coverage analyst does and why the process is so manual
• How AI and automation can speed up coverage determinations without sacrificing accuracy
• The guardrails needed to keep healthcare AI from hallucinating
• Why payers and providers are more connected than they realize, and what that means for closing claims faster

Your doctors don't have 26.7 hours in a day. So AtlantiCare stopped pretending the old system could work.

CIO Jordan Ruch joins HealthTech Edge to talk about what real transformation looks like inside a health system, from AI in the ED to rethinking the entire tech stack.

No hype, just what's actually working.

Rural healthcare is facing a breaking point.

In this episode, Mike Moore talks with Mitchell Fong about what’s really happening on the ground and why common solutions like telehealth and AI don’t always work the way people expect.

They unpack the realities of access, the risks of biased data, and the challenge of building sustainable care models. Mitchell also shares practical advice for healthcare leaders on where to start and how to avoid common mistakes.

A grounded conversation for anyone trying to apply AI and technology in real healthcare environments.