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
518 episodes
HIMSSCast: How health systems can find AI's opportunity and promise
Tom Kiesau, chief innovation officer and leader, digital and technology transformation, at healthcare consulting firm Chartis, shows how AI will address the nation's rapidly aging population amidst ever-increasing financial pressures.
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16:21
HIMSSCast: A consultant expert on improving the patient experience and practitioner workflows
Chris Whelchel, CEO of HealthTok, discusses overcoming challenges healthcare organizations face in adopting new technologies and how emerging technologies like AI are transforming healthcare.
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12:08
HIMSSCast: Lessons from UNC, Part 3 - How data governance paves way for AI success
In the third episode of our three-part series, UNC analytics director Greg Kuhnen is joined by his colleague Ram Rimal for a discussion about artificial intelligence must-haves.
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32:26
HIMSSCast: Lessons from UNC, Part 2 - Governance as a Strategic Force
Once you've got a handle on your data – where it is, who needs it and how it can be accessed – it's time to put it all to work. Greg Kuhnen, system director for analytical solutions at UNC Health Care, offers some insights.
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20:49
HIMSSCast: Lessons from UNC, Part 1 - Data Governance Fundamentals
Greg Kuhnen, system director for analytical solutions at UNC Health Care, offers an up-close look at the health system's years of hard work to make the most of its data – and explains how HIMSS Analytics maturity models have helped.
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20:18
Ping Identity & ProofID presents: How to build stronger identity and access management strategies
Bridging your organizational silos can help drive digital modernization
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14:43
HIMSSCast: Cutting-edge digital health tech enhances brain health
Casey Bennett, chair of the health informatics program at Chicago's DePaul University, runs a lab creating technology to aid brain health – everything from robots to wearables and IOT devices to virtual reality and AI to adaptive robotic pets.
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18:09
Trend Micro presents: Get a look at 2025’s upcoming cybersecurity trends
AI has been a major factor in cybersecurity strategies in 2024, and that will continue into 2025. However, cybercriminals are also continuing to pursue traditional phishing and social engineering methods to exploit vulnerable users. Jon Cla...
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23:46
Concord Technologies presents: How intelligent processing and AI can streamline payer workflows
Explore high-yield, low-risk solutions for modernizing prior authorizations
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21:41
HIMSSCast: How AI is impacting nurse practitioners
Stephen Ferrara, DNP, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and associate dean for AI at Columbia University School of Nursing, offers a deep dive into the tech and its role with NPs. He also presents an AI/wearables use ...
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FinThrive presents: Looking ahead to 2025’s RCM cybersecurity challenges
2024 shone a spotlight on healthcare RCM’s need for strong cybersecurity and resilience strategies. FinThrive CISO Greg Surla recommends best practices for guarding your vital systems and data against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks...
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HIMSSCast: AI as an overlay to hospital operations
Qventus solves problems before they happen for greater hospital efficiency.
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17:10
HIMSSCast: AI assurance labs could improve health equity
Industry transparency and testing by artificial intelligence assurance labs could provide opportunities to develop tools and technologies that address healthcare inequities, says Brigham Hyde, CEO of Atropos Health.
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28:22
HIMSSCast: How digital health can lower costs, streamline ops and much more
PwC U.S. Health Services Advisory Leader Thom Bales goes into top healthcare challenges, advancements in care delivery, digital health lowering costs, and how health systems should consider addressing diverse patients via digital health.
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17:52
HIMSSCast: Looking ahead to 2025
A change in administration and health policy shifts will be worth watching over the next 12 months, and so will an array of new developments for AI, cybersecurity, virtual care, devices and digital therapeutics, reimbursement and more.
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26:44
TNS presents: Protect your brand and increase your call answer rate
Restore patients’ trust in voice calls with branded call authentication
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19:51
Ingram Micro & Vantiq present: How agentic AI can support clinical and operational teams
Discover practical applications that are driving measurable outcomes
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28:25
HIMSSCast: Reinventing clinician work with generative AI
How technology, especially generative AI, can help healthcare organizations with the ongoing clinician shortage, and examples of successful use of digital tools to free up clinician time and improve access, experience and outcomes.
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9:11
HIMSSCast: Considering the appropriate use of AI in nursing
"We're at this place where we're still in the early days of what this technology looks like," says Oriana Beaudet, the American Nurses Association's VP of nursing innovation. ANA is watching the space closely.
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13:00
HIMSSCast: Rethinking clinical trials
The challenge of achieving clinical trials that are both accessible and scalable.
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18:29
HIMSSCast: More hospitals are using enterprise resource planning
ERP connects to the EHR to tie financial records and patient information and create efficiencies in staffing and inventory control.
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19:32
HIMSSCast: Practical guidance for enhancing cybersecurity posture
Cybersecurity expert Scott Alldridge of the IT Process Institute/IP Services discusses zero trust and micro-segmentation in healthcare, leadership's role in a security culture, and much more.
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