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UnHack with Drex DeFord

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UnHack with Drex DeFord
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    Newsday: CxOs Being Ignored: Why Speaking Tech Instead of Business Fails in 2026

    2026/2/09 | 28 mins.
    February 9, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson dissect J.P. Morgan healthcare presentations to reveal what's really being asked of technology leaders in 2026. The era of transformation talk is over; executives want friction reduced, margins improved, and growth enabled. Bill shares insights from CMIO conversations showing leaders moving beyond EHR optimization to solve real business challenges around patient access and clinical workflows. Drex and Sarah debate whether the shift toward operational excellence means CIOs should prepare to run pharmacy and lab departments next.
    Key Points:
    04:26 Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare IT
    10:17 Cybersecurity and Operational Focus
    17:17 EHR Systems and Operational Efficiency
    23:11 Hostage Crisis and Final Thoughts
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    2 Minute Drill: When AI Agents Start Teaching Each Other: The Molt Book Issue with Drex DeFord

    2026/2/04 | 9 mins.
    Drex explores a fundamental shift in AI: agents that don't wait for prompts, persist indefinitely, and now learn from each other through social platforms. Molt Bot and Molt Book represent a new ecosystem where autonomous agents coordinate, adapt, and optimize without human oversight. This isn't about sentient AI—it's about delegation without governance. For healthcare leaders, the urgent question isn't whether this matters, but whether you know which agents are already operating in your environment. The shift from "human in the loop" to "human on the loop" is already happening.
    Remember, Stay a Little Paranoid
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    Newsday: Are Health Systems Falling Behind in the Innovation Race? with Jason Rose

    2026/2/02 | 25 mins.
    February 2, 2026: Are health systems being sidelined from healthcare's innovation revolution? Jason Rose, CEO of Clearsense, joins This Week Health fresh from the J.P. Morgan Conference to challenge the narrative that providers are absent from innovation discussions. Jason reveals what really happened inside JPM's exclusive health system presentations, from CEOs prioritizing AI transformation to CFOs rising as the new power players driving technology strategy. The conversation explores why app rationalization remains the unglamorous financial lever that unlocks innovation budgets, and why simplification might be healthcare's most underrated competitive advantage in 2026.
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    Key Points:
    02:20 JPM Conference Insights
    07:07 CEO and CFO Perspectives
    13:54 Application Rationalization Challenges
    22:40 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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    2 Minute Drill: Data Privacy Day - Why Patient Trust Depends on Responsibility with Drex DeFord

    2026/1/28 | 4 mins.
    On Data Privacy Day, Drexon challenges healthcare leaders to move beyond compliance checkboxes and recognize privacy as a core component of "do no harm." As patient data flows through EHRs, cloud platforms, and AI systems, the responsibility to protect that trust doesn't live in policies—it lives with leadership. When data is over-collected or loosely governed, patients start holding back, and the critical trust between medical teams and patients begins to fracture. This year, data privacy should be about ownership: who decides what data we truly need, and who's willing to say no even when technology makes it easy?
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    UnHack (the Podcast): Your Vulnerability Scanner Is Lying to You with Jack Kufahl & Gregory Garneau

    2026/1/27 | 36 mins.
    January 27, 2026: Jack Kufahl, CISO at Michigan Medicine, and Gregory Garneau, System VP and CISO at Hospital Sisters Health System, join Drex for an unfiltered conversation about building cybersecurity programs that outlast their founders. From hiring curious minds over credentialed experts to ditching traditional vulnerability management for threat-driven exposure strategies, these battle-tested CISOs reveal what actually works in healthcare security. They challenge conventional wisdom on staffing models, vendor relationships, and the real cost of forcing extraordinary people into ordinary roles. If you're tired of the same workforce shortage statistics and ready for actionable strategies, this conversation delivers.
    Key Points:
    05:09 Creating a World-Class Cybersecurity Team
    19:50 Disruptive Startups in Cybersecurity
    20:51 Importance of Vendor Partnerships
    22:48 Training and Career Development
    27:18 Leadership and Management Insights

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About UnHack with Drex DeFord

Cyber-safety is patient-safety. On “UnHack,” Drex DeFord, veteran healthcare CIO and infused strategist, breaks down the biggest cybersecurity and risk challenges facing healthcare today. Drex and expert guests explore what happened, why it matters, and how to build real-world resilience. The show's a mostly plain-English, mostly non-technical discussion that dives into the people, process, and technology making healthcare more secure; and it's NOT just for cyber-professionals; it’s for everyone in a healthcare organization, because modern cybersecurity is a team-sport.
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