Data Liberation, Tech Debt, and the Road to AI-Ready | Executive Interview with Jim Jacobs
Episode 3329th April 2026 • The 229 Podcast • This Week Health
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  📍 📍 📍 📍 📍 📍 My belief is that complexity has slowed down healthcare for a long time, and this drive towards simplicity is key. I mean, it was gonna be key whether we were in the age of AI or not. But I still look out at these health systems and ask the question, you know, how many applications do you have and how many integration points do you have? And it's still through the roof.

How can we make more progress?

t a hospital system went from:

And I'm thinking shouldn't they be at 500

No, I'm with you on that.

We talked to a customer that's, they've got 60 million annual spend in software applications that they would like to turn off. So the numbers are breathtaking and the risk is very large. And I also think it puts unfair burden on the IT departments to try to support six different database technologies or 20 different database technologies. ​

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