Data Liberation, Tech Debt, and the Road to AI-Ready | Executive Interview with Jim Jacobs

April 29, 2026: Bill Russell sits down with Jim Jacobs, President and CEO of MediQuant, to confront one of healthcare's most expensive and underappreciated problems: runaway application complexity. Jim makes the case that software rationalization isn't an IT to-do list item; it's a board-level imperative. With health systems carrying $60 million in unwanted software spend and cyber risks piling up in legacy systems that no one is maintaining, the urgency has never been higher. And with AI demanding clean, accessible data, the cost of delay is about to get a lot steeper.Key Points:03:01 Rationalization Playbook07:14 Simplicity Security Resilience11:02 Headless Software and Wrap UpKeep up to date on the latest in health IT:https://thisweekhealth.com/news/X: This Week HealthLinkedIn: This Week HealthDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer