The 229 Podcast
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The 229 Podcast
Some conversations are too important to stay in the room. The 229 Podcast, hosted by Bill Russell, continues the dynamic discussions from our community events, bringing together healthcare leaders who are actively transforming the industry.
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Rewriting and Overcoming the Burnout Narrative | Flourish Rerelease with Bree Bacon
June 5, 2026: Bree Bacon doesn't just talk about burnout; she survived it. Author, Speaker, & Elite Energy™ Coach, Bree spent years giving 110% to eve...
End the Wait: How AI Is Finally Fixing Patient Access | Executive Interview with Adnan Iqbal
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 pro...
Leading Change, Growing Leaders, and When AI Actually Works | Flourish with Crystal Broj
June 2, 2026: Crystal Broj, Enterprise CDTO at MUSC, is an IT executive, Becker's 2026 Digital Officer to Know, and Top 50 Women Leaders in Healthcare...
NYC Health + Hospitals Breach: The Biometric Data You Can't Take Back - 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...
Shadow AI, Shrinking Budgets, and the Agents Nobody Approved | Newsday
June 1, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson bring back the highlights from three simultaneous healthcare summits in Destin, Florida,...
Healthcare at Home is Closer Than You Think | Flourish Rerelease with Asim Malik
May 29, 2026: Asim Malik, VP of Health System Partnerships at DispatchHealth, joins Sarah to explore how high-acuity care is moving beyond traditional...
The Shelf Life of Leadership Knowledge Is Shrinking; Here Is What Replaces It | Newday
May 25, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson turn the episode into an informal review of Sarah's MIT AI Strategy and Leadership cours...
Innovating Beyond Frustration | UnHack the Podcast with Anahi Santiago and Krista Arndt
May 26, 2026: Krista Arndt, Associate CISO at St. Luke's University Health Network, and Anahi Santiago, CISO at ChristianaCare, join Drex DeFord for a...
26 Years, One Hospital: Gratitude and Agility | Flourish Sound Bytes with Laurie Wheeler
May 22, 2026: Laurie Wheeler, COO - IS&T of MultiCare Health System, is a leader whose philosophy centers on curiosity, humility, and genuine human c...
The Front Door Is Wide Open: Healthcare's IAM Wake-Up Call | Executive Interview with Mark Ferrari
May 20, 2026: Mark Ferrari, VP of Advisory Services at Fortified Health Security, joins Drex DeFord on UnHack for a candid conversation about the thre...
The Hidden First Step in Healthcare Ransomware Attacks Revealed | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord
Ransomware attacks don't always start with a ransomware gang. They start with someone who gets paid to find the door.
Aleksey Volkov, known onli...
Leadership Here, Near, and Far | Flourish Rerelease with Lisa Davis, Janet Malzone, and Kristine Jarvis
May 19, 2026: Three powerhouse executives tackle healthcare's most complex sourcing decisions in this essential conversation. Lisa Davis, Former CIO a...
Why Refusing to Change Is Riskier Than Embracing Agentic AI | Newsday
May 18, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson dig into Stanford Health Care's bold agentic AI strategy, and what it means for every he...
Why Refusing to Change Is Riskier Than Embracing Agentic AI | Newsday
May 18, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson dig into Stanford Health Care's bold agentic AI strategy, and what it means for every he...
Scattered Spider's $27M Hacker Got Caught Reusing His Username | 2 Minute Drill With Drex DeFord
Tyler Buchanan grew up in Dundee, Scotland and became one of the most consequential cybercriminals in the English-speaking world. His method was almos...
Attorney Insights on Elite Data Protection | Flourish Re-Release 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, F...
Rethinking Global IT Delivery and Co-Sourcing | Executive Interview With Jake Morrison
May 13, 2026: Jake Morrison, Global Healthcare Practice Head at Infinite Computer Solutions, joins Bill Russell for a candid executive conversation ab...
How to Work with Jerks in Healthcare IT | Flourish Rerelease with Eric Williamson
May 12, 2025: Ever wonder why empathy gets dismissed as a "soft skill" when it's actually your most powerful leadership tool? Eric Williamson went fro...
The Entry-Level Job Crisis, Consulting Collapse, and Shadow AI | Newsday
May 11, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson are back on Newsday, tackling the questions keeping healthcare IT leaders up at night. W...
From Healthcare Executive to Entrepreneur | Flourish Rerelease with Kim Garrett
May 5, 2026: When healthcare executive Kim Garrett left corporate America to launch Northern Skye Consulting, she discovered something unexpected: "Gr...
Flourish Rerelease: Healthcare's Shocking Gap in Pain Data with Martha Lawrence
May 5, 2026: Pain is the number one reason patients access healthcare, yet objective pain data is virtually absent from claims systems and EHRs. Marth...
Flourish Rerelease: From 11 Data Centers to Zero with Healthcare IT Leader Tyler Barhydt
May 1, 2026: In this inaugural episode of Flourish Sound Bytes, Sarah Richardson sits down with Tyler Barhydt, a seasoned technology executive who led...
Data Liberation, Tech Debt, and the Road to AI-Ready | Executive Interview with Jim Jacobs
April 29, 2026: Bill Russell sits down with Jim Jacobs, President and CEO of MediQuant, to confront one of healthcare's most expensive and underapprec...
Flourish Rerelease: Behind Frenemy Lines - Breaking Down Toxic Workplaces with Amber Tichenor
April 28, 2026: Female rivalry in the workplace is more than interpersonal drama — it's a culture problem with real consequences for teams, retention,...
Flourish Rerelease: Raising the Next Generation of AI Leaders with Kristen and Harper Schmidt
April 24, 2026: In this conversation, healthcare tech entrepreneur Kristen Schmidt and her 11-year-old daughter Harper explore what it means to prepar...
The 229 Podcast: New Host, New Format, Same Mission with Sarah and Bill
April 16, 2026: Something big is changing at This Week Health, and it starts with this episode. Bill Russell sits down with Sarah Richardson to announ...
Solution Showcase Live at HIMSS 26’: Fixing Broken Scheduling with Kory and Lindsay Hudson
April 3, 2026: Kory Hudson, Deputy CIO at University Health in San Antonio, Texas, and Lindsay Hudson, SVP of Client Partnerships at Nordic, join Bill...
Solution Showcase: Exploring Private AI Live at HIMSS Tim McNamee and Mark Larochelle
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 HIMS...
Executive Interview: The Healthcare Data Time Machine with Jonathan Cook and Jason Rose
March 27, 2026: Most healthcare organizations see legacy systems as technical debt—costly to maintain, risky to secure, and difficult to access. But w...
Solution Showcase: Finding a Better Solution to Staffing with Joe Longo and Eric Utzinger
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 sin...
Executive Interview Live From HIMSS 2026: The Smart Hospital Room Is Becoming Real with Adam McMullin
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 conver...
Executive Interview: Why Your Legacy Records Are an AI Goldmine with James Hammer
March 18, 2026: Most health systems treat EHR migrations as a checkbox, finish the project, move on. James Hammer, COO of Harmony Healthcare IT, says...
The 229 Podcast: AI Is Gullible, And Hackers Know It With Blake Sallé
March 17, 2026: Blake Sallé, Chief Revenue Officer at Proofpoint, joins us live from the HIMSS conference floor to break down why agentic AI may be he...
The 229 Podcast: Surviving and Understanding the AI Feature Flood with Joseph Evans
March 12, 2026: Joseph Evans, CMIO for Sentara Healthcare, joins Bill Russell fresh off the VIVE event to unpack what's really happening on the front...
Solution Showcase: The Freeing Power of Testing Automation with Phillip Furukawa and Chris Paravate
March 11, 2026: What if you could reclaim thousands of hours of IT staff time, without cutting corners on quality? Chris Paravate, CDIO at Northeast G...
Solution Showcase: Ambient AI Mythbusting and Successful Pilots with Kali Ihde
March 4, 2026: What happens when AI stops being a buzzword and starts showing up in your bottom line? Kali Ihde, Director of Ventures and Innovation a...
The 229 Podcast: CMIO 3.0 - The Role Nobody Trained You For with Veena Lingam
March 5, 2026: From EMR adoption to AI governance, the CMIO role has undergone three rapid transformations. Dr. Veena Lingam, ACMIO at Moffitt Cancer...
Executive Interview: Nursing's Biggest Challenges and the Tech Closing the Gap with Allison Morin
February 25, 2026: The nursing crisis is real, and the solutions may be closer than we think. In this executive Interview, Bill Russell sits down with...
Executive Interview: How Costa Rica Could Solve Healthcare IT's Staffing Crisis with Scott Gildea
February 23, 2026: Scott Gildea, EVP of Global Delivery at Optimum Healthcare IT, reveals why major healthcare organizations are turning to Costa Rica...
The 229 Podcast: The Golden Retriever Problem - AI Agents That Won't Stop Digging with Drex DeFord
February 19, 2026: Bill Russell and Drex DeFord dive deep into the explosive growth of AI agents in healthcare - and the controversial pricing models...