Healthcare Doesn't Move in Seconds | Newsday with 229Project

August 10, 2026: Bill Russell and Drex DeFord preview Epic UGM (Sarah is on a plane to Charlottesville). Bill opens with the reframe that sets the lens for the whole episode: don't mistake a single big announcement for the real pace of change — healthcare moves in months and years, not seconds. Then the preview itself: AI and Agent Factory framed around clinician experience, ambient documentation a year after the freeze, the Bridge/Epic interoperability standoff and the 3-year hedge, the entire state of Washington on Epic, pharmacy as Epic's next growth line, and the leadership exodus — including Bill's real odds on Judy Faulkner's succession at UGM.

Key Points:

• 0:00 Healthcare Doesn't Move in Seconds

• 5:23 Sponsor: Cloudticity

• 7:09 Epic vs the Federal Government

• 12:43 The 3-Year Hedge

• 20:32 Epic Leadership Exodus

• 22:48 Judy's Exit, on Bill's Terms

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