Healthcare earnings season is offering a mixed picture of the industry.

In the latest episode of "Podnosis," Fierce Healthcare's Dave Muoio and Paige Minemyer break down the highlights from fourth-quarter earnings, where providers signaled growth while payers warned of financial headwinds amid a shifting policy landscape.

The episode also features an interview from the Lake Nona Impact Forum, where Fierce Healthcare’s Anastassia Gliadkovskaya spoke with Jeff DiLullo, head of Philips North America, about how health systems are thinking about AI, technology and the push to bring care closer to home.

To learn more about the topics in this episode:

• UnitedHealth Group was the most profitable payer in a difficult 2025 for the industry
• After 2025's volumes shortfall, Universal Health Services says capacity, headcount investments will pay off in 2026
• Community Health Systems' hospital divestiture streak likely isn't over
• Tenet Health outperforms in Q4, projects solid 2026 despite ACA exchange headwinds
• HCA Healthcare unveils bullish 2026 guidance despite $600M-$900M ACA exchanges hit
• Lake Nona Impact Forum: There can't be longevity without tech
• Philips to invest $150M in US manufacturing base, including ultrasound site expansion
• Philips rolls out major AI upgrades for cardiac ultrasound platforms
• Philips launches new point-of-care ultrasound system for critical care

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In five to 10 years, a hospital room could look very different. Advocate Health is beginning to build that room of the future today. The concept integrates advanced artificial intelligence capabilities, virtual nursing and audio, video and sensor data for intelligent patient monitoring, creating an extra set of eyes and ears for care teams. Nurses and clinicians can respond more quickly and proactively, while patients receive real-time assistance. Virtual technology also allows family members to participate in care from outside the room.

Advocate Health is piloting the room of the future at two hospitals in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Fierce Healthcare got a firsthand look at the initiative. On site, Executive Editor Heather Landi spoke with Molly McColl, Advocate Health’s vice president of virtual health and clinical transformation, about how the tech-enabled hospital room supports care teams, improves the patient experience and expands access to care, particularly in rural communities.

To learn more about the topics in this episode:

• A conversation with Eugene Woods, the architect of 'Applied Hope'

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Measurement-based care is increasingly referenced in conversations across the behavioral health industry. Providers recognize the value of patient-reported outcomes as a way to track progress.

Yet there are important considerations in doing measurement-based care well.

To understand what those are, Senior Writer Anastassia Gliadkovskaya speaks with Two Chairs’ Chief Clinical Officer Colleen Marshall about the company’s approach to clinician training, its internal culture of measurement and the outcomes it has seen.

To learn more about the topics in this episode:

• Employers can do more to track the efficacy of mental health benefits, study says

• How tech, incentives could push measurement-based care in behavioral health
• A closer look at the impact of measurement-based care in behavioral health

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.