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April 13, 2026: Jacob Hansen, Chief Product and Technology Officer at AvaSure, joins Bill, Drex, and Sarah on Newsday for a conversation about the data governance battles quietly reshaping AI. From who owns AI model improvements derived from a health system's environment to whether EHRs should have control over how that data is used, Jacob pulls no punches. The conversation also tackles the evolving CIO title, the future of computer science careers in an AI-driven world, and why nursing may be one of the most AI-resilient roles in healthcare.
Key Points:
01:07 CIO to CTDO Shift
06:52 Data Ownership and Governance
13:24 AI Transparency and Governance
21:00 Careers and AI Future

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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 Russell live from HIMSS to share how a candid assessment, a governance overhaul, and a return to scheduling best practice transformed patient access and unlocked millions in net revenue.
Key Points:
02:57 Back to Best Practice Scheduling
04:08 Nordic Assessment and Key Gaps
06:30 Foundation Rebuild and Change
09:53 Early Results and CIO Advice

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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 environment, Cloudera is redefining what private AI looks like at scale.
Key Points:
01:12 Cloudera Origins And AI Shift
03:30 Fraud Detection With Agentic AI
07:17 Explainability, Private AI, And Governance
11:26 Surprises, Cost Benefits, and Wrap Up

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March 30, 2026: Bill Russell and Drex DeFord dig into three of the biggest stories shaping healthcare IT right now. From the seismic Sutter Health and Allina Health merger, the Stryker cyberattack carried out by an Iranian-linked group Handala, and the sobering reality that threat actors like Tycoon 2FA are back online within 15 days of being taken down, this episode covers the frontlines of healthcare IT.
Key Points:
00:23 Sutter Allina Merger Realities
07:29 Advice for Staff During M&A
11:17 Stryker Hack and Cyber Resilience
19:21 AI and Healthcare Jobs
29:38 Patient Experience Reimagined

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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—of systems sitting idle across clinical, financial, and operational domains, Clearsense is rethinking archiving as more than storage. By applying AI across ingestion, data normalization, and intelligent querying, they’re enabling organizations to reduce costs, lower cyber risk, and unlock entirely new insights from historical data.
From summarizing hundreds of documents in seconds to embedding archive intelligence directly into clinical workflows, this conversation highlights how legacy data is evolving from a burden into a strategic AI asset—and why the organizations that act now may gain a lasting advantage.
Key Points
Accelerating Legacy Data Ingestion with AI
Making Unstructured Data Actionable
Building a Healthcare “Time Machine”