The 229 Podcast

June 30, 2026: John Helvey, CEO of SacValley MedShare, has spent five-plus years building one of California's leading regional health information exchanges. He sits down with Sarah Richardson to unpack why national data networks still fall short: patient-matching gaps, geofencing blind spots, and the 60 to 90 seconds patients and providers spend waiting for data that should already be there. John explains how his team is turning raw interoperable data into something clinicians can actually use, why health systems need better incentives to share, and what it will take to build a true patient-centered data home.
Key Points:
01:44 Why Interop Is Hard

09:17 Push vs Pull Data Sharing

11:36 Consumer Access and Identity

14:55 From Movable to Usable Data

20:06 Future Vision and Closing

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July 27, 2026: Clay Maddox, Healthcare Horizon Practice Manager at CrowdStrike, to unpack a threat that's quietly reshaping healthcare security: adversary-in-the-middle attacks. These aren't your old-school man-in-the-middle exploits. Adversaries are stealing session tokens after a legitimate login, then pivoting straight into SaaS applications and browsers, no credentials needed. Clay breaks down the increasing supply chain risk and the identity problem everyone's still fighting, and what CrowdStrike's healthcare team is teaching in a free session on August 13th.
Key Points:
00:40 What Is Adversary in the Middle

02:03 Key Takeaways Overview

05:02 Who’s Speaking and Unified View

06:06 Register and Closing Thanks

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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

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Picture this. You're the CISO at one of the world's largest healthcare companies, and Monday morning brings a call about a cybersecurity incident in a legacy diagnostics environment. Before the briefing even wraps, someone walks in with news of a second incident. Different system, different root cause, same day.
Drex breaks down why that scenario isn't hypothetical, using a recent real-world healthcare giant's dual cyber battles as the wake-up call. Between sprawling app portfolios, aging infrastructure, and an expanding web of AI-powered partners, the attack surface has changed and so has the shape of a breach.
So here's the question for your team this week. If two incidents hit at once, could you actually handle both?
Remember, Stay a Little Paranoid

July 24, 2026: Dr. Jen McKay spent 20-plus years as an internal medicine hospitalist in rural South Dakota before becoming CMIO at a major Midwest health system, and now she's the Senior Clinical Specialist at Google for Health. Jen explains why so many AI governance efforts stall out, and it usually comes down to one missing ingredient: clinical leadership at the table from day one. She unpacks why physicians serve as the real "API" between fragmented healthcare data inputs, whether AI will ever replace doctors, and what she'd tell a CMIO whose organization is adopting AI faster than policy can keep up with.
Key Points:
03:16 Where Governance Fails

05:12 Humans Are the API

06:17 Will AI Replace Doctors?

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