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
635 episodes
Why scaling clinical AI takes a lot more effort (APAC Insights)
Lily Liu, divisional director at Western Health, explains why specialised clinical tools demand stricter safety standards, deeper workflow integration, and cross-functional leadership than entry-level AI.
HIMSSCast: How AI is helping fetal monitoring at the time of delivery
PeriGen's fetal monitoring analysis helps clinicians detect potential complications earlier during labor.
Assort Health presents: AI can turn latent demand into care
Health systems are under enormous pressure from rising labor costs, workforce shortages, and administrative complexity. However, many of them can realize significant growth by converting existing demand into completed care. In this episode,...
Asking the right questions before deploying AI (APAC Insights)
Chi Mei Medical Center Stroke Center director Dr Hsieh Meng-Tsang says clinical AI should not just flag problems but also suggest meaningful actions.
HIMSSCast: Prenosis CEO on using AI to detect sepsis
AI can help clinicians identify patients at risk of sepsis earlier by analyzing patient data and supporting faster, more informed treatment decisions, says Dr. Bobby Reddy Jr., cofounder and CEO of Prenosis.
HIMSSCast: AI-generated code needs AI-powered review systems
Redesign Health's Aron Szanto discusses Argus, an AI-powered code review system designed to identify bugs and inconsistencies in AI-generated code.
Intel presents: Orchestrating outcomes: The real role of AI in cancer care
Oncology is becoming increasingly data-intensive, bringing together imaging, pathology, genomics, clinical history, and patient-generated data. AI presents an opportunity to connect these information sources and surface meaningful insights ...
The user as the driver for virtual care (The Future of Virtual Care: Part 2)
Innovation in healthcare isn’t limited to labs, startups, or research institutions. In the second episode of our “Future of Virtual Care” podcast series, Professor Pedro Oliveira, Dean of Nova School of Business and Economics and founder of...
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HIMSSCast: Ambulatory surgery centers are growing rapidly due to reimbursement and CMS flexibilities
Hospitals are now in joint ventures with physicians groups for ASCs, something unthinkable 20 years ago, says Erik Tellefson, senior managing director, head of Healthcare Real Estate Lending at Capital One.
HIMSSCast: CMS proposes sweeping changes to State Directed Payments
Rule could substantially reduce Medicaid payments to hospitals, health systems, nursing homes and other Medicaid managed facilities.
HIMSSCast: How a certificate program positions nurses as AI innovators
Merage Ghane, the director of responsible AI at CHAI, explains how a microcredentialing program for nurses developed with FSU can equip frontline providers with AI expertise that bolsters their careers.
HIMSSCast: Hospital AI is only as ready as its workforce
Professor Aurel Qian explains why clinician incentives, practical training and human oversight matter as health systems scale AI.
HIMSSCast: Proposed legislation affecting healthcare consolidation
A slew of state and federal bills are in flux that target certain transactions.
SailPoint presents: How healthcare can secure AI tools and non-human identities
As healthcare organizations increasingly embrace AI, including AI agents, “shadow AI,” or the use of unauthorized tools by clinicians and staff, poses a rising threat to cybersecurity and compliance. Join Jaimin Patel, identity strategist a...
HIMSSCast: Investment strategy for scaling AI in public hospital systems
CIO Dr. Lee Ho-Young discusses sustainable AI investment, change management, and preparations for emerging risks
HIMSSCast: How uPerform is tackling healthcare software training
uPerform discusses role-based training, in-application guidance and just-in-time learning to assist healthcare organizations in improving adoption of EHRs and other enterprise software
Intel Presents: Your patient monitoring fleet has an AI decision to make
Most health systems aren't asking whether to modernize patient monitoring; they're asking whether the upgrade in front of them is worth it. In this episode, two Intel Healthcare and Life Sciences engineers make the case that the real decisi...
HIMSSCast: AI automation and reducing administrative burdens in healthcare
How an AI platform helped a 94-year-old healthcare practice lower no-show rates and reduce cost.
Reimagining healthcare: The HIMSS vision for virtual care (The Future of Virtual Care: Part 1)
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations accelerated investments in EHRs, interoperability, and digital health infrastructure. These investments laid the foundation for a more connected healthcare ecosystem where data flow...
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HIMSSCast: The Isle of Man's 2026 Global Innovation Challenge
The minister of health shares what challenges the Isle of Man's health system faces and the innovations being adopted to enhance the sector.
HIMSSCast: Health systems aim for the touchless revenue cycle (brought to you by SuperDial)
Agentic AI represents the shift from point solutions to interconnection across the front-, middle- and back-end of the revenue cycle.
HIMSSCast: Why hospital AI isn’t plug-and-play
Vivek Rajagopal of Narayana Health explains why most AI projects stall – and what it really takes to make them work in clinical workflows.
HIMSSCast: CFOs and other execs are using AI as a core financial strategy
Financial pressure is no longer cyclical as the majority of healthcare organizations report consistently low margins
HIMSSCast: Full-body scans for longevity
Using full-body composition scans that measure fat, muscle and bone density to support health longevity efforts.
HIMSSCast: Payers and providers gird for an escalating AI prior auth arms race (brought to you by SuperDial)
As health plans expand their use of artificial intelligence for utilization review, hospitals and health systems are adopting AI tools of their own – for documentation, coding automation, denial prediction and more – in an effort to level the p...