HealthcareNOW Radio is excited to welcome a compelling new podcast to our lineup: AI Amplified, hosted by Dr. Heather Bassett, Chief Medical Officer of Xsolis. Produced in partnership with Xsolis, AI Amplified brings together healthcare leaders, experts, and innovators to explore how artificial intelligence is being applied responsibly and effectively across the healthcare landscape.
Launched on July 9, 2025, the show provides a space for real conversations about breakthrough innovations, industry challenges, lessons learned, and strategies for building a more sustainable, AI-powered healthcare system.
“As the healthcare industry continues to explore and embrace the potential of AI, it’s critical that we center the conversation on thoughtful, responsible implementation,” said Dr. Heather Bassett, Chief Medical Officer at Xsolis. “AI Amplified is a platform for those conversations focused on impact, accountability, and the people driving innovation forward.”
Dr. Bassett brings a rare blend of clinical and technical expertise to the microphone. In addition to her role as podcast host, she leads both the clinical services and data science teams at Xsolis and was instrumental in developing the company’s proprietary Care Level Score—an AI-powered algorithm that fuels the Xsolis Dragonfly utilization management platform used by hundreds of hospitals, health systems, and payers nationwide.
The debut episode, titled “From Med School to CMIO to CIO to AI Leadership,” features Stephanie Lahr, MD, CHCIO, CEO and Founder of Vital Thread Advisory. Dr. Lahr reflects on her journey from clinical care to C-suite leadership, and how her experience shapes her current work guiding health systems through AI strategy and digital transformation.
This launch also marks a continuation of Xsolis’ commitment to responsible, human-in-the-loop AI development. The company has been building AI solutions that streamline medical necessity decision-making for over a decade. Their Dragonfly platform and predictive AI models, along with new generative AI solutions, have collectively helped health systems and health plans save over $1.5 billion.
As a trusted destination for health IT and healthcare leadership conversations, HealthcareNOW Radio is proud to feature AI Amplified and offer our audience access to this timely, thoughtful series on the evolving role of AI in care delivery. New episodes of AI Amplified will be released every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month and will be available on HealthcareNOW Radio and all major podcast platforms.
Meet the Host
Heather Bassett, MD
LinkedIn: Heather Bassett
Dr. Heather Bassett continues to drive AI innovation in healthcare to address operational challenges for health systems and plans, guiding them toward positive operational and patient outcomes. Rare among Chief Medical Officers at healthcare technology companies, she leads both the clinical services and data science teams. She architected Xsolis’ Care Level Score, which integrates clinical expertise and data science to provide a numerical representation of the appropriate care status for each patient. This score and Xsolis’ AI-driven platform, Dragonfly, are uniting payers and providers during concurrent authorization processes to improve utilization management, patient outcomes, and reduce costs. Dragonfly is in use at hundreds of hospitals, health systems and health plans across America.
Dr. Bassett is passionate about advancing responsible AI in healthcare and is actively leading Xsolis’ involvement with the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), an organization advancing the responsible development, deployment, and oversight of AI in healthcare, which Xsolis joined as an Early Member. Dr. Bassett was recognized by Nashville Business Journal’s Health Care Innovation Awards as Chief Medical Officer of the Year 2021 and by Becker’s Hospital Review’s Women in Health IT to Know 2023-2025. She has contributed articles or been featured in Newsweek, Forbes, AARP Magazine, InformationWeek, Becker’s, Fierce Healthcare, Medical Economics, MedCity News, Physicians Practice, and Patient Safety Quality Healthcare.
She earned a B.S. in biological sciences from Carnegie Mellon University and her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, where she worked as a research associate in the field of DNA repair. She undertook her residency in internal medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and worked as a hospitalist at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., for eight years. She is board-certified in internal medicine.
