HIMSSCast
HIMSSCast is a podcast produced by the HIMSS Media editorial team behind Healthcare IT News, MobiHealthNews, and Healthcare Finance News. In each episode, our editors are joined by special guests from around the health tech industry to discuss major news stories or trends in the space. The aim of the show is to add depth, analysis and color to our ongoing coverage of the digital health, health tech and healthcare finance realms, as well as to facilitate lively conversations about hot health tech topics.
Episodes
600 episodes
HIMSSCast: How to choose the right AI fit for the revenue cycle (brought to you by SuperDial)
How Northwell derives ROI from applying artificial intelligence that fits the system.
HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders 1: Why Cross-Border Healthcare?
Formal cross-border care in Europe accounts for less than 1% of health spending, but that number doesn’t tell the whole story. For some 150 million European patients living near internal borders, the nearest care, the shortest wait, or the best...
HIMSSCast: With ambient AI scribes are on the rise, these legal and regulatory questions need answers
Beyond issues relating to HIPAA, many questions about rules around consent, storage and archiving and many state and federal laws need to be considered, says Jennifer Geetter, partner at McDermott Will & Schulte..
Intel presents: Closing healthcare’s innovation gap
Healthcare transformation increasingly depends on solving deployment challenges, not just inventing new technology. The Mayo Clinic-ASU Health Care Accelerator offers clinical validation, expert mentorship and commercialization support to help ...
Health Catalyst presents: How to turn industry headwinds into transformation in 2026
Healthcare’s long-standing silos — finance, clinical, and consumer — present a barrier to progress. Discover how partnering with the right vendor can help health systems break down these silos, turn their vast data reserves into actionable insi...
HIMSSCast: Medicaid as a platform for innovation
Medicaid may be the most underappreciated health IT innovation platform in the country, says Dr. Christopher R. Cogle, director, Florida health policy leadership academy, at the University of Florida. Here's what providers can learn.
HIMSSCast: Expanding behavioral healthcare in the tech age
Behavioral health technology and analytics company discusses mental healthcare access and the need for caution when using ChatGPT for care
HIMSSCast: The AI Guiding Principles of Elevance Health
The world's seventh largest healthcare company based on revenue shares how it validates AI models as safe for approvals and denials.
HIMSSCast: Adopting AI with purpose as a health system
AI is continuously being used within healthcare with the aim of easing workforce burnout, but providers must be cautious on which AI to implement
HIMSSCast: How the expiration of ACA subsidies is affecting hospitals
Self-pay is an issue even for patients with insurance, says Seth Cohen, president of Cedar.
HIMSSCast: Developing national standards for AI in nursing
The Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium, a national coalition, is working to guide responsible AI use. Reengineering workflows with AI should be led by nurses who use them, says Jing Wang, dean of FSU College of Nursing.
Intel Presents: Scaling AI to improve clinician and patient experiences
In today’s healthcare system, even patients with good insurance and strong support systems struggle to schedule appointments and get treatment approvals, while health systems face staffing shortages and operational drag. Digital Medicine So...
HIMSSCast: How AI agents will reshape healthcare in 2026
Ashkan Afkhami of Boston Consulting Group discusses how AI agents and tech will transform healthcare, including how agentic AI will reshape the sector's workforce.
HIMSSCast: South Shore Health innovates with AI-enabled MRI scanner
The independent health system's new technology can help physicians get better views of diagnostic images while saving time on the scanning end. The CIO explains these and other benefits.
HIMSSCast: AI governance through Obama, Biden and Trump
Data integration was an integral part of the first CTO of the U.S.'s work under President Obama, and as AI has evolved, so have the changing administrations' priorities.
HIMSSCast: Understanding consumer behavior around GLP-1 medications
Providers can integrate medication adherence and positive behavior change strategies into patient care plans, says Dr. Amy Bucher, chief behavioral scientist at Lirio.
HIMSSCast: The challenges for Medicare Advantage health plans in 2026
Low reimbursement, high utilization, star ratings and risk adjustment have formed a perfect storm.
Health Catalyst presents: Patient access is the KPI you may not be measuring
Ambulatory leaders may believe care access problems are solved because their utilization metrics are high. However, these numbers may be hiding demand mismatches at the patient, provider, and clinic level. Discover how examining patient mix...
HIMSSCast: How home health and hospice agencies are dealing with new compliance requirements
Technology is helping them from falling below the new 90% submission threshold, says Sandy Griffiths, senior product manager for Homecare Homebase.
HIMSSCast: Frontline health equity tech in 2026
In this view from the frontline, Tom Gillette, CIO, and Erich Glasbrenner, VP and chief nursing informatics officer, at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, discuss how patient access and experiences will continue to transform in the year a...
HIMSSCast: Virtual care proves resilient moving into 2026
"It's a positive moment," says Kyle Zebley, CEO of ATA and executive director of ATA Action, in a conversation about policy and healthcare advances. The organization plans to focus on its role as a catalyst for change at the state and federal l...
HIMSSCast: Besting legacy medical device data migration challenges
Moving more than 19,000 patient cardiac devices across 15 locations to a cloud-based management platform was a big lift that improved clinical administration and patient care, says Amy Tucker of Advocate Health's Sanger Heart & Vascular Ins...
HIMSSCast: Creating AI agents for healthcare
UnityAI discusses use cases for AI agents in healthcare and the challenges the company has faced training the AI models.
HIMSSCast: How AI-powered, real-time platforms are reshaping pharma-to-provider communication
Impiricus works with over 30 pharma companies.
HIMSSCast: AI search in EHRs improves clinical trial metrics
Using health data to rapidly identify clinical trial participants wherever they are broadens the reach of leading-edge oncology care and frees up nurses' time for patient care, says Dr. Aaron Gerds at the Cleveland Clinic’s Cancer Institute.