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05/14/2026

Have you ever walked into an exam room knowing the medicine… but struggling with HOW to communicate it?

How do you communicate a grim medical prognosis?
How do you talk about a $5,000 treatment plan without losing the client?
How do you prepare for those conversations before having them with a real client?

This week on the Veterinary Innovation Podcast, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak welcome Neshmeen Faatimah, the founder of Nuzzle Technologies, Inc.

After losing her cat to a communication breakdown, Neshmeen built a platform that helps veterinarians practice high-stakes conversations around diagnostics, costs, treatment plans, and client resistance using AI-simulated pet owners.

Communication isn’t just a soft skill. It directly impacts trust, compliance, burnout, and patient care.

If you’ve ever left a room thinking, “I could have handled that better,” this episode is for you🎧: https://veterinaryinnovationpodcast.com/episodes/training-better-vet-conversations-with-ai-simulations/

05/07/2026

🐾 How could pet owners spot meaningful health changes before they become urgent problems?

This week on the Veterinary Innovation Podcast, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak sit down with Guilherme Coelho, CEO of Maven Pet, to discuss how AI-powered wearables are helping pet owners better understand their pets’ health 24/7.

Maven combines collar-based sensor data, mobile app inputs, and AI to build a personalized “digital paw print” for every pet. The result? More context, earlier signals, and better-informed decisions about when something may need attention.

Guilherme also shares Maven’s fascinating go-to-market journey from building for veterinarians first to seeing consumer adoption drive new interest from clinics.

Discover:
✅ How wearable data can help detect subtle health changes earlier
✅ Why contextualized insights matter more than raw numbers
✅ How Maven tracks sleep, activity, heart rate, respiratory rate, and more
✅ Why pet owners now want to bring this data into the veterinary visit
✅ What the future of pet wearables could look like

🎧 Listen here: https://veterinaryinnovationpodcast.com/episodes/the-digital-paw-print-ai-wearables-for-pet-health-insights/

04/30/2026

Front-desk triage may be one of the most underappreciated risk points in veterinary practice.

This week, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak speak with Dr. Lisa Beagan, founder of Your Vet Direction, about how AI-supported triage can make veterinary intake safer, smarter, and more consistent.

Drawing from more than 20 years in practice, Lisa explains why front-desk teams are often asked to make high-stakes decisions without the right tools — and how structured, decision-tree-based AI can help guide those conversations in real time.

The episode explores how her platform, Your Vet Direction, helps CSRs ask the right questions, identify urgency, and reduce variability, all while keeping the human firmly in the loop.

Dr. Beagan shares:
✅ Why LLMs like ChatGPT need "guardrails" for clinical safety.
✅ How to prevent life-threatening triage errors at the CSR level.
✅ What open APIs and better integrations could unlock for practices
✅ Where veterinary workflow automation may be heading next

🎧 Listen here: https://veterinaryinnovationpodcast.com/episodes/how-ai-can-improve-safety-and-consistency-in-veterinary-intake/

04/23/2026

🌍 Is international travel paperwork becoming a high-stakes headache for your clinic?

This week on the Veterinary Innovation Podcast, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak welcome Marisa Hoskins, founder of Paws Abroad Inc. Marisa is building the infrastructure layer for global pet mobility, turning confusing airline and country regulations into structured, automated workflows.

In this episode, we cover:
✅ Why pet travel is more complex than it looks
✅ Where clinics lose time and why mistakes happen
✅ How structured workflows can simplify compliance
✅ The role of tech in reducing admin burden
✅ What better collaboration between clinics and pet owners could look like

🎧 Listen now: https://veterinaryinnovationpodcast.com/episodes/a-better-way-to-manage-international-pet-travel/

04/16/2026

🐱 Could home monitoring help pet parents catch changes earlier and give veterinarians better context between visits?

This week on the Veterinary Innovation Podcast, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak sit down with Dr. Ragen T.S. McGowan from Petivity powered by Purina to talk about how the brand’s AI-powered litter box monitoring is helping veterinarians and cat owners spot subtle health changes earlier.

From weight shifts and elimination patterns to insights on stress cystitis, constipation, and urinary blockages, this episode explores how at-home data can give clinics a much clearer picture of what is really happening between visits.

🎧 Listen now to see how we’re giving the "quietest" pets a voice: https://veterinaryinnovationpodcast.com/episodes/using-ai-to-spot-hidden-health-changes-in-cats/

04/09/2026

Is your practice software actually helping your team or just giving them one more thing to manage? 😤

This week on the Veterinary Innovation Podcast, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak chat with Brendan Baker from PawthosX about the shift from "systems of record" to "systems of orchestration". Brendan shares how an AI-native operating system can coordinate 45+ unique agents to handle the admin stuff, allowing your team to focus on what actually matters: patient care.

Discover:
✅ Why the future may be about better orchestration, not just more software
✅ How a "Persona Engine" adapts the software to the way YOU work eliminating context switching
✅ What it means to reduce cognitive load for veterinary teams
✅ How to unite your favorite tools into one seamless user experience

🎧 Tune in to see how the next generation of operational infrastructure is being built: https://veterinaryinnovationpodcast.com/episodes/ai-native-systems-for-veterinary-teams-beyond-more-software/

04/02/2026

Most veterinary decisions are based on a 15-minute exam, but a dog's health happens at home.

This week on the Veterinary Innovation Podcast, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak welcome Eric Humbert, Head of Science & AI at Invoxia, to discuss how continuous at-home monitoring is changing the game.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:
✅ How wearable data may help detect worsening heart disease earlier
✅ Why at-home baselines can be more useful than occasional in-clinic vitals
✅ How remote monitoring could support patient retention and recurring revenue
✅ What veterinary teams need in order for this technology to fit into real practice life

🎧If you’ve been wondering whether wearable health data is truly useful in veterinary medicine, listen to the full episode here: https://veterinaryinnovationpodcast.com/episodes/beyond-the-clinic-visit-how-continuous-dog-monitoring-drives-earlier-detection-and-client-retention/

03/19/2026

📊 How much are you missing between visits?

This week on the Veterinary Innovation Podcast, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak welcome Dr. Asaf Dagan, Chief Veterinary Scientist and Co-Founder of PetPace, to explore how continuous monitoring is changing what veterinarians can actually see.

From tracking vitals like HRV, temperature, and respiration to identifying early signs of pain or neurological events, the conversation focuses on how real-world data can complement what happens in the exam room.

The episode also looks at how this data is being used in practice today and what it means for earlier intervention and more informed follow-ups.

In this episode:
✅ How continuous monitoring helps detect changes before clinical signs become obvious
✅ Why point-in-time exams limit visibility into chronic conditions
✅ How monitoring supports better follow-ups between visits
✅ Where this fits into real clinical workflows today

🎧 Stop guessing and start measuring. Tune in to hear how proactive biometrics are changing the game for clinicians and pet parents alike: https://veterinaryinnovationpodcast.com/episodes/how-wearable-data-is-changing-early-disease-detection-in-pets/

03/12/2026

🤖 How can AI tame the mountains of data generated by veterinary hospitals and turn it into proactive care?

This week on the Veterinary Innovation Podcast, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak welcome back Sebastian Gabor, co-founder of Digitail, to talk about what the latest wave of AI investment means for veterinary medicine and why, in today’s economy, hospitals may need technology more than ever.

They chat about Digitail’s recent Series B, the company’s approach to holistic AI, and how hospitals can leverage their data to reactivate clients when visits are down.

Discover:
✅ How AI is saving time across 20+ clinic workflows
✅ How a Continuous Care Dashboard helps reach the right patient at the right time
✅ Where AI fits in veterinary workflows, from human-in-the-loop support to autonomous processes
✅ Why your next great hire in your clinic might be an internal "AI Engineer."

🎧 Tune in to hear how technology can help practices strengthen client relationships, bring patients back for care, and run more connected hospitals:
https://veterinaryinnovationpodcast.com/episodes/turning-hospital-data-into-proactive-care-with-ai/

03/05/2026

As corporate consolidation continues and the "middle class" of pet owners shrinks, how do we balance $120k starting vet salaries with the desperate need for affordable care?

This week on the Veterinary Innovation Podcast, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak catch up with growth consultant Ryan Leech, the founder of the First 100 and host of the Bird Bath, to look at the hard truths of 2026.

Ryan shares his perspective on why affordability isn’t just a corporate issue, why operational discipline may matter more than the next shiny technology, and what clinics may need to rethink if they want to stay both sustainable and accessible.

🎧 Tune in for a reality check on the future of the profession: https://veterinaryinnovationpodcast.com/episodes/veterinary-medicine-in-2026-affordability-salaries-and-whats-next/

02/19/2026

🚀 Is your clinic feeling the shift? After years of more patients than staff, the industry is entering a new era where marketing and lead generation are becoming essential.

This week on the Veterinary Innovation Podcast, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak welcome Tanika Hall, the founder of ZooDoc. Tanika is bridging the gap between pet parents and specialized care with a platform that focuses on transparency, trust, and accessibility.

From solving the struggle of finding an exotic vet to helping clinics monetize tele-triage, Tanika shares how ZooDoc is helping veterinarians recapture lost revenue and connect with the right clients at the right time.

🎧 Tune in to hear how the "ZocDoc of Pet Care" is scaling: https://veterinaryinnovationpodcast.com/episodes/how-zoodoc-connects-the-right-pet-to-the-right-vet/

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