The 229 Podcast

September 24, 2026: Bill Russell sits down with Derek De Young of Epic, the research and development lead Judy named as owner of Agent Factory at UGM. What CIOs keep calling a low-code builder is still a development preview. Epic staff are building alongside the sites. Early adopter is a checklist at the end of October. GA is a Q1/Q2 goal. One webinar produced over 600 ideas in a week. Inova ran measles chart reviews 15 times faster and asked to share the agent. Two teams at the first build-a-thon built the same job: $1.10 a run vs 10 cents.

Key Points:

0:00 Agent Factory is still early

7:45 What's actually available

11:18 A code-status agent in production

20:13 Chart reviews 15 times faster

22:17 Take it, shape it, make it

24:14 Who should build

26:49 Cost, traces, kill switches

45:29 600 ideas in a week

48:53 What to do in the next 90 days

LinkedIn: 229Project

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September 23, 2026: Christian Boucher (Healthcare CTO, Island) sits down with Sarah Richardson. He came into healthcare because his wife is a nurse. He watched clinical systems move to the browser while security got bolted on around them, and the workflows broke. One customer said they had 25 AI tools locked down. Island looked at every browser in the shop. 250. A remote clinical analyst team was waiting a minute to reach a usable EHR. On Island: 20 seconds.
Guest: Christian Boucher (Island)
Key Points:
0:00 They thought they had 25 AI tools

0:06 Welcome

0:56 Why the browser had to be rethought

5:09 Island

6:31 Browser as a control point

11:53 A minute became 20 seconds

16:21 25 tools were 250

20:17 What to ask an enterprise browser

21:20 Security that improves the experience

25:08 Close

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September 22, 2026: Sarah Richardson sits down with Drex DeFord for a special UnHack. No CISO guest this month. Drex is 24 hours off the Black Rock Desert and into the New Orleans regional staff roundtable, where three people told him they were there for the Burning Man stories. He answers how the city actually works. Then the picture he sent Sarah: a tardigrade on the playa. Heather Costa made that microscopic survivor the mascot for healthcare IT resilience. Same question the RSR afternoon is built on: what do you do when the bad thing happens, so patients, families, and staff still get care.
Key Points:
00:06 A Special UnHack

02:56 Fortified Health

03:30 How the City Works

08:38 Art, the Man, and the Temple

12:42 The Tardigrade

15:03 When the Bad Thing Happens

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September 17, 2026: Jennifer Jones (former system CNIO and VP, Integris Health), Kay Burke (VP and CNIO, UCSF Health), and Rachael Hill (CNIO and Director of Clinical Systems, North Mississippi Health Services) sit down with Sarah Richardson. What changes when clinical informatics helps shape enterprise strategy from the beginning, not after the technology is already chosen. Jennifer's IV pump work cut adverse infusion events 56%, returned 2,000 nursing hours, and avoided about $500,000 in harm cost.

Key Points:

0:00 Why the CNIO belongs at the strategy table

4:20 Harmony HIT

4:50 Informatics in from the start

8:12 Don't design the hospital as an island

16:08 If we were designing this today

20:13 There were no nurses in the room

28:26 56% fewer IV harm events

31:20 AI acceptance is not generational

36:02 Go-live is not the ROI

LinkedIn: 229Project

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September 16, 2026: Nish Khandwala, Co-Founder and CEO of Bunkerhill Health, and Dr. Peter McCaffrey, Chief Digital and AI Officer at UTMB Health, join Bill Russell. UTMB started with an FDA-cleared incidental coronary artery calcium algorithm. The next question was the workflow: who sees the flag, who acts, do you hire a navigator. Agents now pull the image, the chart context, and the downstream tasks. In 12 months UTMB went from one live agent to 22 on a single instance: missed patients, prior auth, care pathways, referral access.
Key Points:
0:00 Open

0:06 Solution Showcase

0:39 What Bunkerhill is

3:10 Incidental calcium, then what

5:56 Open systems vs Epic

9:10 What's this going to cost

11:25 22 agents in 12 months

13:29 You can also build expensive RPA

16:55 If the agent is a toy

20:05 Forward-deployed engineers

23:17 Close

LinkedIn: 229Project
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