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Newsday

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Newsday

Hosted by Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, Sarah Richardson

A weekly roundup of the biggest healthcare IT news stories. Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson discuss the headlines and what they mean for the industry.

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Episodes (220)

A Finance Analyst's Agent, That No One Owns | Newsday with Elbridge Locklear and 229Project

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A Finance Analyst's Agent, That No One Owns | Newsday with Elbridge Locklear and 229Project

September 28, 2026: Sarah Richardson with Elbridge Locklear. A finance analyst, knowledgeable in finance, goes out and creates an agent. Elbridge has no knowledge of it. The agent can call other skills, including a way around security restrictions.

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My EHR Numbers Went Up 9,000% | Newsday with 229Project

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My EHR Numbers Went Up 9,000% | Newsday with 229Project

September 21, 2026: Bill Russell and Sarah Richardson. Ambient that used to write a note is now hitting the whole record. Request volume is up 9,000%. How do you even tabletop an agent swarm.

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Patient Portals Are Wiped Out in 3 Years | Newsday with 229Project

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Patient Portals Are Wiped Out in 3 Years | Newsday with 229Project

September 14, 2026: Bill Russell gives patient portals 3 years. Appointments go through the AI. Sarah Richardson already talks to her health there. NCH, tiny, already shipped a patient persona with nurse triage.

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ChatGPT Did Not Come Through Epic's Front Door | Newsday with 229Project

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ChatGPT Did Not Come Through Epic's Front Door | Newsday with 229Project

ChatGPT connected to UCSF Health's record. Silicon Valley called it game over. Bill Russell's read: they did not come through Epic's front door.

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43% Will Let an AI Give Patients Medical Advice | Newsday with 229Project

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43% Will Let an AI Give Patients Medical Advice | Newsday with 229Project

A week after UGM. 246 leaders. Patient access and rev cycle tied at 86. Then 43% said they will let an AI assistant talk to most of their patients.

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Epic's Pace Is Blistering: Can You Absorb the Roadmap? | Newsday with 229Project

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Epic's Pace Is Blistering: Can You Absorb the Roadmap? | Newsday with 229Project

Bill, Sarah, and Drex debrief Epic UGM: blistering pace, integration vs dependency, Rangers, and why the constraint is now absorption, cost, and operational owners.

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50 Agents on Paper. An Audit Finds 76. | Newsday with 229Project

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50 Agents on Paper. An Audit Finds 76. | Newsday with 229Project

August 17, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson come off a road week and into Epic UGM. Ask a shop how many agents they have deployed. They might say 50. An audit turns up 76. Every frontier lab just said their model got out of the sandbox, and health systems are about to invite the same class of software inside the four walls. Pete Marks at Wake Med cut 20 applications, then the inventory went up. Bill's test is older than AI: an electrician wanted a 300-amp service because of

Healthcare Doesn't Move in Seconds | Newsday with 229Project

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Healthcare Doesn't Move in Seconds | Newsday with 229Project

August 10, 2026: Bill Russell and Drex DeFord preview Epic UGM (Sarah is on a plane to Charlottesville). Bill opens with the reframe that sets the lens for the whole episode: don't mistake a single big announcement for the real pace of change — healthcare moves in months and years, not seconds. Then the preview itself: AI and Agent Factory framed around clinician experience, ambient documentation a year after the freeze, the Bridge/Epic interoperability standoff and the 3-year hedge, the entire

I Gave You Dollars. You Gave Me Capacity. | Newsday with 229Project

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I Gave You Dollars. You Gave Me Capacity. | Newsday with 229Project

August 7, 2026: Bill Russell sits down with Eric Utzinger (Revuud) while Sarah and Drex are out. The H1 2026 Signal Index put competing priorities and not enough capacity at the top of the list for 54% of leaders — and 43% said budgets are flat or declining. On this Newsday they dig into why AI ROI still feels muddy: tools return hours, not line-item dollars, and the CFO still needs the exchange rate. Along the way: operational transformation with real proof points, growth without growing, and a

Preparing for the 900 million dollar squeeze hitting healthcare IT | Newsday on This Week Health

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Preparing for the 900 million dollar squeeze hitting healthcare IT | Newsday on This Week Health

August 3, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson are fresh off a run of academic medical center events in Chicago, and the number that kept coming up in every room was staggering: $900 million in projected revenue coming out of the healthcare system over the next three years. On this episode of Newsday, the trio unpacks what that pressure is doing to CIOs, CMIOs, and revenue cycle leaders alike, from Epic anxiety and AI idea overload to the physician who quietly found her health s

Who Really Owns Healthcare's AI Future? | Newsday with This Week Health

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Who Really Owns Healthcare's AI Future? | Newsday with This Week Health

July 27, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson break down a week's worth of headlines, starting with Bill’s AI musings on the future "workhorse" models built for speed over depth. The conversation turns serious fast: healthcare doesn't own its AI platforms; it rents them, and that dependency carries real resilience risk. They dig into who's actually accountable when AI gets a clinical decision wrong, unpack the first fully autonomous ransomware attack, and revisit why CIOs keep reacting to agendas instead of setting them. Key Points: 05:16 Platform First and Shadow AI 13:13 Owning the Harness 15:57 Mayo AI Safety Lawsuit 18:33 Autonomous Ransomware Agents LinkedIn: 229 Project Donate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

Clinical AI on Trial: Shadow Tools and Governance Gaps | Newsday with Yaw Fellin and Matt Troup

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Clinical AI on Trial: Shadow Tools and Governance Gaps | Newsday with Yaw Fellin and Matt Troup

July 20, 2026: A new Nature of Medicine study claims general-purpose LLMs outperform specialized clinical AI, but is that the right benchmark to begin with? Bill and Drex are joined by Yaw Fellin , General Manager of UpToDate at Wolters Kluwer , and Matt Troup , Clinical Strategy Principal at Abridge , to break down what those benchmarks actually measure, why shadow AI is already spreading through health systems, and what "clinical grade" really means. Plus: the first-ever look at UpToDate's new drug dosing feature in Expert AI, and why automaticity bias may be the next liability crisis hiding in plain sight. Key Points: 03:18 Nature Study Breakdown 10:25 Shadow AI Reality Check 18:37 Transparency and Provenance 23:40 Human in the Loop Wrap Keep up to date on the latest in health IT: https://thisweekhealth.com/news/ X : This Week Health LinkedIn: This Week Health Donate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer