Rural hospitals are running on 15-year-old servers while the rest of healthcare races toward AI. Tim Buske, CRO of BridgeLink, is the guy walking into those buildings and telling the truth: you can’t build innovation on a rotting foundation. There’s federal money available right now to fix it — most hospitals just don’t know how to use it.→ Why funding almost always goes to MRI machines instead of the infrastructure that makes everything run→ What the Rural Health Transformation Program actually is and how hospitals can access it→ The data security risk hiding in every hospital that deploys AI without proper governance first→ Why smaller IT companies solve problems in weeks that big consulting firms take years to address→ The CEO who rebuilt in two days what 500 developers spent three years building🌟 Join Nikki Green’s Community! 🌟 Stay connected with Nikki Green for more empowering content, insights, and updates. 🔗 Join the free Business Foundations Community: https://qrco.de/BizFunFollow her on her platforms and be part of the conversation: Personal Site: https://www.thenikkigreen360.com 🌐 https://www.thenikkigreen.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_TheNikkiGreen TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thenikkigreen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/TheNikkiGreen Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/_TheNikkiGreen——Connect with our guest, TIm Buske, CRO of BridgeLynchttps://www.linkedin.com/in/timothybuske/https://www.linkedin.com/company/bridgelync/www.bridgelync.com——00:00 – S9 Intro: Season 9 Preview00:18 – Welcome: Meet Tim Buske01:39 – What BridgeLink does: relational vs. transactional technology03:33 – Why rural hospitals are critically underserved in technology05:27 – The Rural Health Transformation Program: federal funding available now07:20 ⭐ – The data center in the closet: why infrastructure always gets skipped09:47 – Nikki’s Cisco days and why network backbone matters more than new machines11:40 – HIPAA, data loss prevention, and the AI security risk nobody’s addressing14:06 – Where healthcare AI is heading: from software development to diagnosis16:16 – The CEO who rebuilt in 2 days what 500 developers spent 3 years building18:10 – Showing leaders the “art of the possible” — getting AI in their hands20:20 – What Tim stands up for: four years sober and coaching youth baseball21:58 – How to connect with BridgeLink
