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
616 episodes
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...
HIMSSCast: What are hospitals' obligations for sharing cybersecurity info with the FBI?
The Bureau is asking health systems to share threat intelligence and indicators of compromise to help prevent attacks. But doing so the wrong way could run afoul of HIPAA or state privacy laws.
HIMSSCast: Women in health IT talk about today's challenges and the future of the industry
This upbeat roundtable discussion centers on issues central to working in health IT and where technology is taking healthcare delivery.
HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders 5: New Borders and Horizons
The borders between countries aren’t the only ones that healthcare data needs to travel across. The same principles behind the European Health Data Space can be applied to supporting people’s physical and mental health in their everyday liv...
HIMSSCast: CIOs are increasingly becoming the decision-makers of AI investment
The AI boom is redefining the traditional technology role to one of organizational strategist and leader, says Dr. Deepti Pandita, CMIO and chief AI officer at UCI Health.
HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders 4: The Glue of Cross-Border Healthcare
Regulatory frameworks create a solid foundation, but cross-border healthcare can’t succeed without trust. Patients need to trust that their data is being used responsibly, that their provider is properly qualified, and that any AI tools use...
HIMSSCast: Scaling a profitable company with little venture funding
Wisp's CEO discusses how the women's digital health company has grown significantly and is profitable with only a small amount of investor capital.
HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders 3: The Fuel of Cross-Border Care
The European Health Data Space aims to enable health data to move seamlessly and securely across Europe. However, the processes required to achieve this are complex, involving cultural, linguistic, diagnostic, regulatory, and coding element...
Health Catalyst Presents: Drive value with data integration, not new AI tools
AI is a force multiplier, not a magic wand; health systems can’t turn AI tools into measurable ROI if their data remains siloed. Success with AI depends less on creating content and data and more on distilling that information into insights...
HIMSSCast: Insights for addressing patient concerns about AI
This discussion with Tim Lawless, global health lead at Publicis Sapient, explores the benefits AI brings to patient access and addresses the potential fallout as provider usage in care delivery increases.
HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders 2: The Framework
Cross-border healthcare raises distinct regulatory challenges. Among them are: aligning reimbursement and eligibility rules, verifying professional credentials, managing liability, and ensuring continuity of care. In Episode 2 of “HIMSSCast...
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