Healthcare mergers and acquisitions often focus on financial alignment and clinical integration, but physical infrastructure can play an equally critical role in long-term success.

Christy Fetsch, healthcare vertical market strategy leader at Trane, shares why building systems and facility performance are frequently overlooked during M&A and how that oversight can introduce unexpected risks.

Drawing on her experience advising health systems, Fetsch explains how infrastructure assessments can reveal hidden capital needs. She also outlines how these challenges can influence integration timelines and overall deal value.

Additionally, the conversation offers strategies for aligning building systems across newly combined organizations, while highlighting opportunities to improve energy efficiency, advance sustainability goals and modernize facility operations.

Ambient AI has quickly moved from buzzword to bedside.

In this new Healthcare Insider Podcast, Simon Kos, chief medical officer of Heidi, shares why he believes this moment represents a true turning point for clinicians.

Unlike past top-down digital initiatives, ambient voice technology "returns time and attention back into their clinical workflow and frees them up for what they want to do, which is spend time and attention with their patients," he says.

Kos explains why the ambient scribe is just the beginning — and how the next wave of AI care partners will address cognitive burden, regulatory demands and global scalability. He also outlines what health systems should measure during pilots, from activation and adoption rates to clinician and patient satisfaction.

To learn more about Heidi's AI care partner and its approach to expanding healthcare capacity, visit heidihealth.com.

AI is poised to support value-based care by improving outcomes, reducing administrative burden and helping clinicians focus on what matters most: patient care.

In this episode, Dr. Rob Bessler, CEO of Honest Health, and Seema Verma, Executive Vice President and General Manager at Oracle, explore how AI can be applied responsibly and effectively to advance healthcare transformation.

Tune in for expert insights on:

• How AI is reducing administrative burden and helping clinicians focus on care
• What health systems should consider when evaluating AI solutions
• Guiding principles for making smart, sustainable AI investments