As we embark on another year of changes and advancements, we asked them, what major event, transformation, or innovation in 2025 had a lasting impact on healthcare, whether positive or negative, and is likely to shape its future trajectory? Here is what they had to say.
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Our 2025 Countdown Continues! #9 from Health UnaBASHEd and HealthLaw HotSpot. Follow us until the end of the year for our reveal of the top 10 played episodes from the radio and from the podcast network on Healthcare NOW Radio.
By Gil Bashe – At the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum, the energy was palpable, and the audience quiet and focused. This wasn’t a tech demo or a sales pitch. It was a gathering of health sector stewards—leaders seeking clarity amid the fog of anticipated disruption.
Now on demand, Health Unabashed episode with guest, former acting CEO of Global Genes and founder/CEO of the Orphan Therapeutics Accelerator Craig Martin, who discusses the urgent need to rescue clinically promising drugs for rare and ultra-rare diseases.
By Gil Bashe – Twenty-five months ago, I wrote for Medika Life after yet another school shooting shook the nation. My plea then was simple but searing: let lawmakers witness what first responders see when they enter a classroom turned crime scene—the chaos, the quiet after the sirens, the grief of parents confronting the unimaginable.
Now on demand, Health Unabashed episode with guest Sally Ann Frank, Microsoft Global Lead for Health & Life Sciences in its Microsoft for Startups program. She joins Gil to unpack how startups — when equipped with the right tools, mentorship, and mission — are reshaping the future of health care.
By Gil Bashe – This is not a crisis of scarcity. It is a crisis of priorities. The U.S. health system does not consistently organize its clinical, financial, or policy decisions around the shared goal of improving people’s health: their physical and mental well-being.
By Gil Bashe – Tom Lawry’s latest work is not just another entry in the crowded shelf of health reform manifestos. It’s a departure — a soulful, purposeful, and powerfully personal invitation for Americans to reclaim their role in shaping a sustainable, people-centered health system.
By Gil Bashe – In today’s data-driven world of medicine, we often equate better care with better technology and better outcomes with advanced diagnostics. And yet, one truth remains: the most powerful force in healing is not found in a test result but in the presence of another human being who truly sees you.