Preparing for the 900 million dollar squeeze hitting healthcare IT | Newsday on This Week Health

August 3, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson are fresh off a run of academic medical center events in Chicago, and the number that kept coming up in every room was staggering: $900 million in projected revenue coming out of the healthcare system over the next three years. On this episode of Newsday, the trio unpacks what that pressure is doing to CIOs, CMIOs, and revenue cycle leaders alike, from Epic anxiety and AI idea overload to the physician who quietly found her health system hundreds of millions of dollars. It's a rare, unfiltered look inside three rooms most executives never get to sit in.Key Points:02:41 Rev Cycle Durable Value07:58 Epic Shifts and Transparency11:19 Data Foundations for AI15:55 Governance and Prioritization21:11 Executive Communication WrapLinkedIn: 229ProjectDonate: Alex’s Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer