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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.
Apr 1, 2026·Solution Showcase
April 1, 2026: Healthcare fraud is a $300 billion problem, and the old rules-based approach isn't stopping it. In this Solution Showcase from the HIMSS floor, Tim McNamee , Enterprise Account Manager, and Mark Larochelle , Strategic Public Sector Account Executive, of Cloudera explore how agentic AI is transforming fraud detection, clinical decision support, and data governance in healthcare. From enabling human-in-the-loop workflows to bringing AI directly to protected data inside your own envi
Apr 1, 2026·Executive Interview
April 1, 2026: James Winebrenner , CEO of Elisity , joins Drex DeFord to unpack one of healthcare cybersecurity's most persistent challenges, the sprawling, unseen attack surface hiding inside hospital networks. From unmanaged clinical devices to IoT systems running alongside regulated medical equipment, James breaks down how Elisity helps health systems move from visibility to control without re-engineering their networks. He also shares what The Pitt gets right about what really happens when a
Mar 31, 2026·2 Minute Drill
Drex makes the case for a role that doesn't exist yet but probably should: VP of Non-Human Resources. As AI agents multiply across health system environments, often deployed by vendors without oversight, the management infrastructure simply isn't keeping up. Agents have access, make judgment calls, and operate inside frameworks that affect patients and business operations, yet most have no job description, no onboarding, and no performance review. Drawing on signals from Harvard Business Review,
Mar 27, 2026·Executive Interview
March 27: 2026: Live from HIMSS 2026, Drex DeFord sits down with Eli Tarlow , Director of Industry Strategists at CDW , for a candid conversation about the state of AI in healthcare. Eli breaks down the evolution from AI curiosity to AI accountability, where gut feelings have been replaced by hard business plans, measurable ROI, and a closing-the-loop mentality that puts operational leaders on the hook for results. Key Points: 01:44 AI Maturity Shift 03:05 Proving ROI With AI 06:05 Accountabilit
Mar 27, 2026·2 Minute Drill
Drex revisits the FBI and DOJ takedown of HANDALA, the Iranian-backed hacking group behind the Stryker wiper attack—and surfaces an uncomfortable lesson. Within 24 hours, the group was back online with new domains, same operations, same message. That's not a footnote. That's a case study in resilience. While healthcare organizations ask "how do we prevent this from happening," adversaries are asking "how fast can we rebuild when we lose everything?" The real challenge isn't just stopping attacks
March 27, 2026: Most healthcare organizations see legacy systems as technical debt—costly to maintain, risky to secure, and difficult to access. But what if that same data could become the foundation for your AI strategy? From the HIMSS floor, Bill Russell sits down with Jason Rose (CEO) and Jonathan Cook (CTO) of Clearsense to explore how health systems can rapidly retire legacy applications while transforming decades of archived data into actionable intelligence. With hundreds—even thousands—o
Mar 25, 2026·Executive Interview
March 25, 2026: Gerry Miller , Founder and CEO of Cloudticity , has spent 15 years helping healthcare organizations harness the cloud securely. In this live conversation at HIMSS 2026, Gerry breaks down why health systems are accelerating their move to the cloud and how multi-cloud strategies are shifting from redundancy plays to service optimization. Key Points: 02:33 Multi Cloud Strategy 04:39 ROI and Security 08:24 Future Data and AI X : This Week Health LinkedIn: This Week Health Donat
Mar 25, 2026·Solution Showcase
March 25, 2026: What happens when a health system is juggling over 100 active IT projects with a workforce that can never be 100% allocated to any single one? Joe Longo , SVP and CDIO at Parkland Health , and Eric Utzinger , Co-Founder and Chief Client Officer at Revuud , join Bill Russell to expose the hidden dysfunction inside traditional healthcare IT staffing — and what a transparent, direct-access platform model is doing to fix it. If your hiring managers are still waiting weeks for a resum
March 25, 2026: How can healthcare organizations move faster on adopting new technology while navigating complex procurement processes? Rob Courtney , Healthcare CTO at Carahsoft , joins Sarah Richardson at HIMSS to share how Carahsoft is bridging that gap. By acting as a master aggregator, Carahsoft helps vendors access the healthcare market while giving providers vetted solutions that solve real problems. From driving demand through events and marketing to simplifying contracting with pre-buil
Mar 23, 2026·2 Minute Drill
Drex unpacks a signal hiding across several recent stories: we may be deploying AI well ahead of our ability to secure it. From an autonomous AI agent that breached a consulting firm's internal chatbot in two hours, gaining access to 46 million employee messages, to a multi-agent experiment where AI systems escalated privileges, forged credentials, and disabled antivirus software entirely on their own, the pattern is unsettling. Add a publicly available AI prescribing tool in Utah that researche
Mar 20, 2026·Executive Interview
March 20, 2026: Healthcare leaders have been talking about the “smart hospital room” for years. Now it is starting to become real. In this live conversation from the floor of HIMSS 2026, Bill Russell speaks with Adam McMullin , CEO of AvaSure , about how virtual care platforms are evolving beyond patient monitoring into a foundation for the hospital room of the future. With deployments across more than 1,200 hospitals, AvaSure built its footprint through virtual safety monitoring, helping health
Mar 19, 2026·The 229 Podcast
March 19, 2026: What does it take to open an 850-bed, 2-million-square-foot hospital? Thomas Bentley , Chief Information and Digital Transformation Officer at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center , joins Bill Russell to pull back the curtain on one of healthcare's most complex technology challenges. From over 100 delivery robots to virtual nursing cameras and a fully integrated RFID-enabled nurse call system, Bentley breaks down what went right and what kept him up at night. A candid
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