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Podcasts Hosted by Bill Russell, Sarah Richardson, and Drex DeFord

Flagship interviews, security programming, and more from our community—strategy, operations, and what’s next in health IT.

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Feb 16, 2026·Newsday

Newsday: All About Moltbook, the Social Media for AI Agents with This Week Health

February 16, 2026: Bill, Drex, and Sarah discuss the explosion of autonomous AI agents around moltbook and CommonSpirit's stunning $1.9 billion decision to terminate their revenue cycle partnership. Moltbot (formerly ClaudeBot) has evolved into an unstoppable force, creating its own social network called moltbook where bots communicate, share knowledge, and even discuss consciousness. Meanwhile, CommonSpirit's massive buyout of its Conifer contract signals a seismic shift as health systems bet t

Feb 12, 2026·The 229 Podcast

The 229 Podcast: Leveraging DevOps for an Innovation Startup and Crisis Leadership with Jim Feen

February 12, 2026: Most health systems run Epic downtimes at 3 AM when the hospital is slowest. Jim Feen , SVP and Chief Digital and Information Officer at Southcoast Health , did the opposite. He intentionally took Epic offline at 10 AM on a Wednesday morning without warning staff. Jim reveals why 100% of surveyed leadership wanted to repeat the exercise, how he consolidated 37 separate call centers into a single unified operation, and what he learned from spending a decade at MEDITECH before l

Feb 12, 2026·Flourish Soundbytes

Flourish Sound Bytes: The Surprising Challenges of Diabetes Care with Sherita Golden

February 12, 2026: Dr. Sherita Golden , Physician Quality Improvement Strategist & Consultant at Johns Hopkins Medicine , reveals why insulin ranks alongside opioids and anticoagulants as one of the most dangerous medications in a hospital setting. From deadly transition-of-care failures to the surprising ways hospitals inadvertently create glucose emergencies, Sherita explains how thoughtful IT system design can mean the difference between patient safety and catastrophic outcomes. She share

Feb 11, 2026·2 Minute Drill

2 Minute Drill: Protecting Revenue from Cyber Attacks - The CFO-CISO Partnership with Drex DeFord

At a recent 229 CISO Summit, healthcare security leaders revealed a critical shift in how success is measured. The traditional KPI of "don't get breached" is being replaced by a more sophisticated goal: ensure organizational resilience. Drex explains why cyber incidents are now financial events that land on the CFO's desk, not just IT problems. With regulatory scrutiny intensifying, insurance requirements tightening, and boards asking harder questions about operational continuity, security has e

Feb 9, 2026·Newsday

Newsday: CxOs Being Ignored: Why Speaking Tech Instead of Business Fails in 2026

February 9, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson dissect J.P. Morgan healthcare presentations to reveal what's really being asked of technology leaders in 2026. The era of transformation talk is over; executives want friction reduced, margins improved, and growth enabled. Bill shares insights from CMIO conversations showing leaders moving beyond EHR optimization to solve real business challenges around patient access and clinical workflows. Drex and Sarah debate whether the shif

Feb 5, 2026·Flourish Soundbytes

Flourish Sound Bytes: Healthcare at Home is Closer Than You Think with Asim Malik

February 5, 2026: Asim Malik , VP of Health System Partnerships at DispatchHealth , joins Sarah to explore how high-acuity care is moving beyond traditional hospital walls. From pneumonia to COPD exacerbations, discover why this isn't just about convenience; it's about solving capacity constraints, improving margins, and giving patients back control. Asim breaks down the technology infrastructure, command center requirements, and clinical buy-in needed to make these programs succeed at scale. Ke

Feb 5, 2026·The 229 Podcast

The 229 Podcast: Inside the 229 CMIO Summit and Patient Access Innovation with Jennifer Goldman

February 5, 2026: Jennifer Goldman , VP, CMIO, and Chief of Primary Care at Memorial Healthcare System , reveals why most patient access initiatives fail before they start. The problem isn't technology; it's template management, physician engagement, and clinical escalation workflows that non-clinical call centers can't navigate. Jennifer shares how Memorial added 10,000 same-day access visits by standardizing primary care templates and creating bi-directional governance forums. But the real cha

Feb 4, 2026·2 Minute Drill

2 Minute Drill: When AI Agents Start Teaching Each Other: The Molt Book Issue with Drex DeFord

Drex explores a fundamental shift in AI: agents that don't wait for prompts, persist indefinitely, and now learn from each other through social platforms. Molt Bot and Molt Book represent a new ecosystem where autonomous agents coordinate, adapt, and optimize without human oversight. This isn't about sentient AI—it's about delegation without governance. For healthcare leaders, the urgent question isn't whether this matters, but whether you know which agents are already operating in your environm

Feb 4, 2026·Executive Interview

Executive Interview: Why Healthcare Systems Are Abandoning Manual Testing with Mark Scruggs

February 4, 2026: Mark Scruggs , President and COO of SureTest , reveals why healthcare organizations are achieving 80% reductions in testing time and why renewal rates are unprecedented. Mark discusses how automated testing for EHR upgrades and implementations delivers ROI within six to nine months, eliminates over 20,000 hours of manual work annually, and has created what KLAS calls the only true turnkey managed testing service in healthcare. From Epic and Cerner to UKG and ERP systems, discov

Feb 2, 2026·Newsday

Newsday: Are Health Systems Falling Behind in the Innovation Race? with Jason Rose

February 2, 2026: Are health systems being sidelined from healthcare's innovation revolution? Jason Rose , CEO of Clearsense , joins This Week Health fresh from the J.P. Morgan Conference to challenge the narrative that providers are absent from innovation discussions. Jason reveals what really happened inside JPM's exclusive health system presentations, from CEOs prioritizing AI transformation to CFOs rising as the new power players driving technology strategy. The conversation explores why app

Jan 29, 2026·The 229 Podcast

The 229 Podcast: 2026 AI Power Shifts with Reid Stephan and Sangeet Paul Choudary

January 29, 2026: Reid Stephan , VP and CIO of St. Luke's Health System , sits down with Sangeet Paul Choudary , author of “Reshuffle: Who Wins When AI Restacks the Knowledge Economy”, to challenge the way leaders look at how AI will affect their workflow. Sangeet reveals how AI doesn't just augment workers—it restructures entire organizational systems and redistributes power. From AI scribes to the lessons of Walmart's barcode revolution, this conversation exposes why task-level optimization mi

Jan 29, 2026·Flourish Soundbytes

Flourish Sound Bytes: 26 Years, One Hospital: Gratitude and Agility with Laurie Wheeler

January 29, 2026: Laurie Wheeler , COO - IS&T of MultiCare Health System , is a leader whose philosophy centers on curiosity, humility, and genuine human connection. Laurie shares about her 26 years at MultiCare through listening tours, transforming employee engagement, and leading without ego. From teaching high-reliability courses to creating clinical super user groups, Laurie demonstrates how operational excellence and compassionate leadership create workplaces where people want to

Jan 28, 2026·2 Minute Drill

2 Minute Drill: Data Privacy Day - Why Patient Trust Depends on Responsibility with Drex DeFord

On Data Privacy Day, Drexon challenges healthcare leaders to move beyond compliance checkboxes and recognize privacy as a core component of "do no harm." As patient data flows through EHRs, cloud platforms, and AI systems, the responsibility to protect that trust doesn't live in policies—it lives with leadership. When data is over-collected or loosely governed, patients start holding back, and the critical trust between medical teams and patients begins to fracture. This year, data privacy shoul

Jan 27, 2026·UnHack the Podcast

UnHack (the Podcast): Your Vulnerability Scanner Is Lying to You with Jack Kufahl & Gregory Garneau

January 27, 2026: Jack Kufahl , CISO at Michigan Medicine , and Gregory Garneau , System VP and CISO at Hospital Sisters Health System , join Drex for an unfiltered conversation about building cybersecurity programs that outlast their founders. From hiring curious minds over credentialed experts to ditching traditional vulnerability management for threat-driven exposure strategies, these battle-tested CISOs reveal what actually works in healthcare security. They challenge conventional wisdom on

Jan 26, 2026·Newsday

Newsday: The ROI Ultimatum: Healthcare's New Survival Rule for 2026 with Zahid Rathore

January 26, 2026: Fresh from J.P. Morgan 2026, the This Week Health team joins Zahid Rathore , Senior Partner at Chartis , to dissect healthcare's new reality. With Epic and Microsoft topping CFO spend lists and unpredictability replacing planning cycles, one thing is clear: vendors must prove bankable ROI immediately or lose the deal. The conversation explores how healthcare leaders are protecting the core while navigating AI agents, third-party risks, and the compression of innovation timeline

Jan 22, 2026·2 Minute Drill

2 Minute Drill: Cybersecurity Insiders Plead Guilty to Healthcare Ransomware Attacks with Drex DeFord

In a stunning betrayal of trust, two cybersecurity professionals—an incident response manager and a ransomware negotiator—pled guilty to operating as affiliates of the AlphaV/BlackCat ransomware gang. Between May and November 2023, they attacked five U.S. companies, including healthcare organizations, while simultaneously working in roles designed to help ransomware victims recover. The FBI's seizure of the gang's infrastructure exposed chat logs and payment records that led to their arrests. Bo

Jan 22, 2026·The 229 Podcast

The 229 Podcast: This White House Deal Changed Your Hospital Visits Forever with Aneesh Chopra

January 22, 2026: Aneesh Chopra , Chief Strategy Officer at Arcadia and former first U.S. Chief Technology Officer, joins Bill Russell to discuss the transformative health tech ecosystem. Aneesh reveals how major EHR vendors, tech giants like OpenAI and Google, and health systems have committed to democratizing patient data access by March 2026. The conversation explores how AI-powered health information fiduciaries will revolutionize healthcare delivery, the implications of the one big beautifu

Jan 22, 2026·Flourish Soundbytes

Flourish Sound Bytes: Attorney Insights on Navigating Privacy with Helen Oscislawski

January 22, 2026: Healthcare privacy laws just got flipped on their head, and most leaders don't realize it. Privacy Law Attorney Helen Oscislawski , Founder and Managing Partner at Attorneys at Oscislawski , reveals how information blocking rules fundamentally changed the game. But here's the twist: this shift is creating massive unintentional risks. Helen shares why even she had to escalate to legal when trying to access her own mother's medical records as a proxy, exposing the gap between pol

Jan 21, 2026·Executive Interview

Executive Interview: Stress-Free EHR Migration and Education with Abhishek Begerhotta

January 21, 2026: Abhishek Begerhotta , CEO of 314e Corporation , shares battle-tested insights from over 25 years in healthcare IT, including his pivotal role in Kaiser Permanente's landmark Epic implementation. From surviving IBM's clinical system cancellation to building a product-focused company specializing in EHR migrations, Abhishek reveals the hidden complexities of moving massive healthcare datasets and why the wave of Oracle Cerner migrations isn't slowing down. He discusses innovative

Jan 20, 2026·Flourish

Flourish: The Healthcare System Isn't Broken, It's Just Not for Patients - with Dr. Sarah Matt

January 20, 2026: Dr. Sarah Matt , Healthcare strategist and national best-selling author of “ The Borderless Healthcare Revolution," joins Sarah Richardson to explore how business becomes the common language for nonpartisan healthcare progress. Dr. Matt shares why America's multi-payer system works exactly as designed, and why that's the problem. From roller derby injuries to rural fire departments, her unconventional portfolio keeps her grounded in the real-world challenges of healthcare deliv