HeyJaredUnHack 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.
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The DOD Searched the Chart and Built a Target List | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord (opens the original)
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Army Major Kara Corcoran wears a Ranger tab and two Afghanistan tours. This summer she sat in a separation board five days short of 18 years. The board was not there to weigh her combat record. It was there for one line in her medical record. On July 31, an internal Air Force email said the Secretary of Defense's office had identified service members who may have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria in their electronic healthcare record. The DO
Patient Portals Are Wiped Out in 3 Years | Newsday with 229Project (opens the original)
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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 years 0:24 Newsday open
ChatGPT Did Not Come Through Epic's Front Door | Newsday with 229Project (opens the original)
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September 7, 2026: Bill Russell and Sarah Richardson take the ChatGPT-UCSF headline apart. Silicon Valley called it game over. Bill's read: they did not come through Epic's front door. Read-only USCDI over FHIR. No write-back. No warranty. A badly built agent can fire 75 API calls into production Epic and slow the EHR. Doctors want a predictable system. Key Points: 0:00 Does it really change everything? 0:16 Newsday open 2:48 Tegria 3:17 ChatGPT at UCSF 6:51 75 calls into production Epic 12:54 U
43% Will Let an AI Give Patients Medical Advice | Newsday with 229Project (opens the original)
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August 31, 2026: Bill Russell, Sarah Richardson, and Drex DeFord come off a pulse survey of 246 health system leaders. Where the AI cannon points next: patient access and revenue cycle, 86 votes each. Bill's read: you have to win on the financial side before you get licensed to do anything else. Then 43% said AI assistants will be available to most of their patients. 4% said they will not. A clinician CIO at the forum had just flagged a MyChart golf answer as medical advice. Key Points: 03:32 Pu
A Fake Job Offer Put a Children's Hospital on North Korea's List | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord (opens the original)
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A recruiter offers a developer a remote job. Good money. Just run a coding test first. The test is malware, and the people sending it work for the North Korean government. The trick has a name: Contagious Interview. You think you're getting hired. You're getting infected. Vangelis Stykas, a security researcher in Greece, got inside the attackers' own servers after they infected their own machines. He sat there nearly two years and counted 1,640 companies across 57 countries. Seven or eight hundr
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