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
559 episodes
InterSystems presents: Leverage federal mandates to build an AI-ready data foundation
Connected, actionable data is the backbone of intelligent automation, and successful AI adoption hinges on strong workflows, accurate data pipelines and early wins that build user trust. Learn how aligning interoperability requirements with...
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HIMSSCast: Filipino hospital turns EMR challenges into clinical wins
In this episode of our series on APAC countries’ EMR implementation, Franklin Vibar, CIO of Asian Hospital and Medical Center in the Philippines, talks about how the hospital guided physicians and staff through the implementation of an EMR ...
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HIMSSCast: Lessons on Hospital-at-Home from Virtua Health, Part 2 (brought to you by athenahealth)
In the second of this three-part series we explore how Virtua Health's successful hospital-at-home program gained traction and scaled up in the post-pandemic years. The CIO of the New Jersey health system joins with its president of advanced ca...
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Commure presents: Connect your organization’s data from intake to invoice
Documentation burden takes clinicians’ time away from patients, and fragmented point solutions can complicate workflows and lead to errors in billing. Discover how end-to-end AI-driven solutions can streamline workflows, reduce denials and ...
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HIMSSCast: Malaysian hospitals’ journey from pen and paper to EMR adoption
In this episode of our series on APAC countries’ EMR implementation, experts from three Indonesian hospitals discuss the complexities of digital migration, including securing clinician buy-in, integrating systems and connecting to SATUSEHAT.&nb...
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HIMSSCast: Lessons on Hospital-at-Home from Virtua Health, Part 1 (brought to you by athenahealth)
The CIO of the New Jersey health system joins with its president of advanced care operations for the first in a three-part series on its successful hospital-at-home program. In this episode, they describe how what started by necessity during th...
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HIMSSCast: C-suite insights from the HIMSS AI Leadership Strategy Summit (brought to you by athenahealth)
Recorded live in Chicago in collaboration with the Straight Outta Health IT podcast, join our hosts – alongside some special guests – for a wide-ranging discussion about targeting AI investments and aligning for strategic success.
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HIMSSCast: Better practice follows real change in nurse managers' day-to-day tasks (brought to you by athenahealth)
Once spending more than 60% of their time on administrative tasks, nurse managers using scheduling and staffing technologies are positioned to support their teams, says Jessica Potts, SSM's senior director of workforce strategy and operations.
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HIMSSCast: 340B program oversight transition to CMS brings significant changes to hospitals
These may include stricter eligibility criteria, increased reporting requirements and potential reductions in reimbursement.
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HIMSSCast: How TEFCA is poised to thrive (brought to you by athenahealth)
Seamless digital onboarding, longitudinal record sharing and AI-assisted care navigation is voluntary, but not optional., according to Bob Watson, CEO of Health Gorilla.
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Trend Micro presents: Anticipate and thwart evolving AI-powered cyberattacks
From phishing to prompt injecting to PHI leaks via consumer AI models, AI tools are reshaping healthcare cyber risks. Learn how frameworks like OWASP can help CISOs and IT teams bolster their defenses to protect organizations’ AI, data and ...
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HIMSSCast: A frontline understanding of the Trump AI Action Plan (brought to you by athenahealth)
Lora Sparkman, VP of patient safety and quality at Relias, explains why healthcare orgs should join federal 'sandboxes' to help shape policy, prepare the workforce and stay on top of compliance and ethics.
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SmarterDX presents: Discover a smarter, AI-enabled fix for billing waste
Healthcare is losing some $250 billion a year to billing inefficiencies. Smarter Technologies President Michael Gao, MD, explains how blending advanced AI with human expertise can turn revenue cycle from a liability into a strategic asset.<...
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HIMSSCast: 2025 and beyond: AI, cloud tools, RPM and wearables (brought to you by athenahealth)
Michael Orlando, corporate and IP transactions attorney at Sheppard Mullin and a member of the firm's digital health team, offers a deep dive into where he sees these technologies headed – and challenges healthcare organizations must overcome.
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HIMSSCast: New survey shows how AI is helping clinicians manage admin overload
An AI tech CEO walks through a comprehensive look at the problems doctors and nurses identify as most stressing and the ways artificial intelligence is helping the caregivers tackle the challenges.
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HIMSSCast: How states can make Medicaid programs more cost-efficient
In light of federal Medicaid cuts, states need greater efficiency to stretch every Medicaid dollar.
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HIMSSCast: A look at the new 340B rebate model issues by HRSA’s Office of Pharmacy Affairs
What hospitals need to do to prepare.
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HIMSSCast: What insurer modernization efforts look like for providers
Payers have committed to streamlining the prior authorization process, but will this make a difference in the revenue cycle?
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HIMSSCast: Previewing the HIMSS AI Leadership Strategy Summit in Chicago
The forum, scheduled for Sept. 18-19 in Chicago, will focus on AI strategy for the healthcare C-suite. For the first time, HIMSSCast will be simulcasting from the event, with the Straight Outta Health IT podcast. Host Christopher Kunney joins u...
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HIMSSCast: Unpacking the EMR experience in Australia's public health sector
In the second episode of our conversations with APAC health IT leaders on their EMR experience, we dive into the complexities of the technology's implementation down under. Our guests share insights on navigating challenges like interoperabilit...
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HIMSSCast: Integris Health gets huge urgent care wins with AI
Chief Ambulatory Executive Blake Windham shows how urgent care visit time has been driven down, patient experience has been improved and overall expense-per-visit is down thanks in part to artificial intelligence.
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HIMSSCast: An innovative new AI algorithm is transforming precision pediatrics
The application, developed at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, can search EHRs and uncover data to identify kids who may have undiagnosed or rare conditions – and then refer them for genetic testing, helping them and their families find ...
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HIMSSCast: What we learned at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum
From Brooklyn, HIMSS leaders discuss the excitement and challenges facing artificial intelligence as its healthcare applications evolve at a rapid clip.
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HIMSSCast: Personalizing Cedars Sinai's virtual visits with AI
When patients complete Cedars-Sinai's artificial intelligence-assisted virtual urgent care clinic intake questions via structured chat, the AI provides clinicians with diagnoses and treatment plan recommendations.
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HIMSSCast: Five strategies for sustaining momentum with AI investments
Ernst & Young Health AI and Data Leader Sezin Palmer explains how healthcare organizations should be strategic and selective, use what they have first, build with value and scale in mind, retool available talent, and partner effectively.
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