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”

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 resume that three other firms already sent you, this one is worth your time.

Key Points:

• 01:14 Traditional Staffing Pain Points
• 07:26 What’s Broken for Agencies
• 13:00 How Revuud Works
• 19:33 Transparent Pricing and Hiring

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March 23, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson are back with a packed Newsday covering three big conversations: the AI security crisis no one is talking loudly enough about, what HIMSS 2026 actually delivered for healthcare leaders, and the real question facing every CIO and CMIO right now: Is your time worth attending two major conferences each spring?

Key Points:

• 01:03 AI Chatbot Security
• 04:25 MIT AI Strategy Class
• 06:55 HIMSS Takeaways and Trends
• 10:40 Conference Value and Wrap Up

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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 systems reduce fall risks while dramatically lowering costs. Now that same infrastructure is expanding into physician access, computer vision, and AI driven patient monitoring that could detect deterioration hours before a patient crashes.

Adam shares how health systems are rethinking the hospital room as a connected care platform. Virtual nursing, family engagement, Epic integrations, and emerging capabilities like contactless vital monitoring are all becoming part of the same environment. The result is not simply new technology. It is a shift toward safer rooms, better staffing models, and new ways to extend care from the hospital into the home.

For health system leaders navigating workforce shortages and rising costs, the question is no longer whether virtual care will scale. The real question is how quickly the hospital room itself will transform.

Key Points:

• The Evolution of Virtual Safety Monitoring
• Building the Smart Hospital Room
• Computer Vision and Early Patient Intervention

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 conversation every health system CIO needs to hear.

Key Points:

• 01:31 Opening the New Tower
• 06:31 Future Proofing and Network
• 10:38 Safety Systems and Closing Advice

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