Patient Portals Are Wiped Out in 3 Years | Newsday with 229Project

September 14, 2026: Bill Russell and Sarah Richardson. The fight is the intelligence layer on top of the EHR. Epic put Art, Emmy, and Penny on the table. ChatGPT already pulled USCDI over FHIR at UCSF. Bill's read: CIOs did not open those APIs. 21st Century Cures did. The loser is the patient portal. He gives it 3 years. Appointments go through the AI. NCH, tiny, is already running a ChatGPT-like persona with nurse triage.Key Points:0:00 Patient portals, wiped out in 3 years0:24 Newsday open1:48 Who owns the intelligence layer4:44 Cloudticity10:54 Portals gone. Patients are in the AI16:29 No health system on the MCP list19:32 If tiny NCH can ship it28:22 Computer use inside Epic30:22 CloseLinkedIn: 229ProjectDonate: Alex's Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

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