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Jack Needham

Jack Needham

Co-founder/Co-CEO of AI patient-education company Sanctuary Health and host of the Daily Journal's "In the Counsel's Chair" and Healthtech Pigeon podcasts.

Sep 6, 2026

18:23
Yeah.
18:26
You know, the canonical story that scars me from this is the one of Epic where, you know, Obama passed this very famous like digital health bill in like 2007 or 8 or something that basically was like every hospital in this country will be digital within the next decade.
18:41
And they provided these massive incentives, like they were paying 10 grand per clinician at a hospital to like sign up to an EPR.
18:49
So massive government subsidies were flowing into these hospitals to move on to these EPRs.
18:54
And the person that advised on that bill was Judy Faulkner, who's the CEO of Epic.
18:59
And so she literally wrote this bill that... essentially got the government to fund the procurement of her technology company across the country.
19:07
There's a really good talk on this online by Bill Gurley at a summit.

6 MINS LATER

25:22
For people that might not have been to the event, what's the situation that we are staring down the barrel of when it comes to sovereignty or lack thereof?

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