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Podcasts Hosted by Bill Russell, Sarah Richardson, and Drex DeFord
In-depth interviews with healthcare CIOs, CISOs, and technology leaders. Bill Russell explores the decisions, strategies, and innovations shaping healthcare transformation.
Jul 2, 2026·The 229 Podcast
Jul 2, 2026: Sarah Richardson, Lisa Johnson , and Tamara Havenhill-Jacobs spent thirteen weeks completing an MIT AI strategy course on planes, evenings, and what Tamarah calls her "AI Sundays." What they brought back wasn't hype. It was clear. In this conversation with Sarah Richardson, recorded live from a 229 CIO Summit in Napa, the two leaders get honest about what actually changed: how one built the confidence to defend AI's role to her board through a theological lens, why "can AI fix that"
Jun 25, 2026·2 Minute Drill
In February 2024, LockBit affiliates logged into their ransomware mothership and found it had been seized by the FBI and the UK's National Crime Agency. The countdown clock ran out, and the feds answered the one question LockBit spent years protecting: who runs this place? Dmitry Khoroshev, 31, going by LockBitSupp. Over $100 million in earnings. A $10 million bounty on his head. A clean win. Except the criminal world didn't fold. It fractured. When affiliates realized the FBI had been living inside Hive and the Brits inside LockBit for months, trust collapsed across the board. Paranoid criminals don't quit, they scatter. Researchers counted 41 brand-new ransomware gangs in a single year. Remember, Stay a Little Paranoid
Jun 18, 2026·The 229 Podcast
June 18, 2026: Shiv Rao , Co-founder and CEO of Abridge , has spent eight years building the company into something most people didn't see coming. Now live in 300+ health systems, touching 250 million patients and processing over 100 million clinical conversations a year. But Shiv isn't just a technologist. He still rounds at UPMC as a practicing cardiologist, and that dual lens shapes everything about how he thinks. In this conversation with Bill Russell, Shiv reframes what Abridge actually is:
Jun 17, 2026·2 Minute Drill
A dormant Instagram account tied to the Obama White House started posting pro-Iranian content. No hacked password. No malware. No phishing email. Just a polite conversation with Meta's AI support agent. Researchers are calling it out plainly: AI agents are built to be helpful, and that eagerness is exactly what attackers are starting to exploit. The attack surface isn't the password anymore -- it's the agent. Health systems are deploying AI right now for scheduling, intake, and benefit verificat
Jun 11, 2026·The 229 Podcast
June 11, 2026: Michelle Stansbury , Associate Chief Innovation Officer and Vice President of IT Applications at Houston Methodist , joins Bill Russell to unpack the health system's bold "Intelligent Healthcare System of the Future" initiative. 10 strategic bets built around the opening of their most advanced facility yet, Cypress Hospital. From RTLS-enabled smart spaces and AI-powered care traffic control to virtual nursing programs that transformed skeptical nurses into advocates, Houston Metho
Jun 10, 2026·2 Minute Drill
That UAC prompt -- the little shield asking you to approve a publisher -- is one of the most foundational trust signals in Windows security. Your tools rely on it. Your team relies on it. Two people figured out how to sell it. What they built, and which ransomware gangs bought access, has a direct line to at least one recent health system breach. Drex breaks it down. Remember, Stay a Little Paranoid
Jun 10, 2026·Executive Interview
June 10, 2026: In healthcare where downtime means lives, identity security is no longer just about who logs in. Bill Russell sits down with Peter Barker , Chief Product Officer at Ping Identity , to unpack why the agentic AI era demands a fundamental rethinking of identity. From giving AI agents first-class credentials to shifting the security boundary from login to the point of action. If your health system is deploying AI and you have not addressed non-human identity, this conversation is wher
Jun 9, 2026·2 Minute Drill
CISA -- the federal agency whose job it is to protect America's critical infrastructure -- had its own internal credentials sitting in a public GitHub repository for six months. Plain text passwords. AWS GovCloud keys. SSH access tokens. Visible to anyone on the internet with a browser.What makes this worse: the contractor who created the repository didn't slip up accidentally. They actively disabled the default GitHub protections designed to prevent exactly this from happening. And when the rep
Jun 3, 2026·Executive Interview
June 3, 2026: Adnan Iqbal , co-founder and CEO of Luma Health , joins Bill Russell for a direct conversation about one of healthcare's most stubborn problems: patient access. With 14-day average waits for a PCP appointment, 18% no-show rates, and call centers buried in fax workflows, the problems haven't changed, but the tools finally have. Adnan shares how Luma built a platform from scratch to orchestrate access, intake, financial experience, and patient engagement in one unified system, why de
Jun 1, 2026·2 Minute Drill
In late 2025, cyber attackers slipped into New York City Health + Hospitals through a third-party vendor and stayed undetected for nearly three months. When they left, they took more than records and Social Security numbers. They took fingerprints and palm prints -- biometric data belonging to some of the most vulnerable patients in the country. You can cancel a credit card. You can get a new password. You can even navigate a stolen SSN. You cannot get new fingerprints. What walked out of that n
May 21, 2026·Executive Interview
May 20, 2026: Mark Ferrari , VP of Advisory Services at Fortified Health Security , joins Drex DeFord on UnHack for a candid conversation about the threat landscape keeping healthcare security leaders up at night. From asset inventory gaps to the explosion of identity-based attacks, Mark brings a rare perspective shaped by military service, 30 years as an EMT, and deep healthcare IT experience. He pulls no punches on why healthcare keeps buying tools before defining the problem, and what it actu
May 21, 2026·2 Minute Drill
Ransomware attacks don't always start with a ransomware gang. They start with someone who gets paid to find the door. Aleksey Volkov, known online as ChewbaccaCore, was an initial access broker. His job was identifying vulnerable companies, exploiting their networks, establishing a foothold, and selling that access on dark web marketplaces. Over 16 months in 2021-2022, his work enabled attacks on seven confirmed US businesses, resulting in $9M in confirmed losses and $24M in intended ransom dema
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