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
579 episodes
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...
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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.
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HIMSSCast: How AI-powered, real-time platforms are reshaping pharma-to-provider communication
Impiricus works with over 30 pharma companies.
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9:54
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.
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HIMSSCast: The challenge of hospitals taking on claims processing for veterans' care
A growing number of veterans are seeking care outside traditional VA facilities.
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Book Q&A: A first-person history looks back on a challenging early start for healthcare AI (brought to you by athenahealth)
We speak with Doug Meil, software engineer, analytics expert and author of the recent book, The Rise and Fall of Explorys and IBM Watson Health: A Personal Memoir of a Healthcare Moonshot that Misfired.
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IntelePeer presents: Boost revenue and patient satisfaction with automation and AI
Communication breakdowns such as missed calls, long hold times and voicemail tag cause frustration for patients and revenue and productivity loss for practices. Learn how AI and automation can ensure that every patient’s phone call is answe...
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HIMSSCast: Should GPT-5 be HIPAA compliant, FDA regulated?
OpenAI's Sam Altman says individuals should use GPT-5 to help them with their healthcare journey. Dr. Doug Fridsma, former ONC chief science officer and current CMIO at Health Universe, says there are things to consider when using the tech.
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Hyland presents: Cyber resilience starts with CIOs
Healthcare leaders can’t afford to build their incident response plans in the middle of a crisis. Discover how disciplined, ongoing practice leveraging tabletop drills and vendor partnerships can help build true cyber confidence and a cultu...
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HIMSSCast: AI is driving rev cycle financial performance at Carilion Clinic in Virginia
AI is powering a broader care expansion, including a new ED and cancer center.
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HIMSSCast: Modernization efforts for maternal health data (brought to you by athenahealth)
How cities, such as Baltimore, can impact healthcare
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Hyland presents: Develop a foundation for effective AI deployment
As healthcare organizations race to adopt AI, many overlook the groundwork needed to scale solutions across departments and sites. This podcast offers insights from Hyland’s Lyle McMillin into how CIOs can assess and improve their organizat...
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HIMSSCast: Lead with nursing data, not documentation
Nursing leaders have access to more data than ever, but the challenge lies in using it meaningfully. Join us for this second episode of “Data Literacy for Nurse Leaders,” where Dr. Michelle Hamland and Meagan Mangus from the HIMSS Nursing I...
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Ensemble presents: Redefine your revenue cycle with agentic AI
As many healthcare organizations seek to optimize revenue cycle management, Ensemble offers a reasoning-driven agentic AI approach that can speed up appeals, reduce denials and recover lost revenue. Learn how Ensemble connects clinical data...
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HIMSSCast: Affinia Healthcare sharpens translation offerings with genAI (brought to you by athenahealth)
The St. Louis community health center extended the reach of multilanguage accessibility to its six FQHCs with large refugee and immigrant populations. Two Affinia execs discuss results of a generative AI pilot designed to enhance translation se...
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Cloudera presents: Make your AI repeatable, measurable and enterprise-ready
In today’s data-rich but siloed healthcare environment, true AI transformation demands structure, not just algorithms. By building strong governance foundations, pharma and life sciences leaders can turn fragmented data into federated ecosy...
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HIMSSCast: New healthcare chief at Ernst & Young offers industry overview (brought to you by athenahealth)
Kim Dalla Torre, the new global health leader at EY, offers fresh perspectives on critical health IT subjects including AI, tech modernization, telehealth, closing health disparities and cybersecurity.
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Nabla presents: Creating a roadmap to safe, scalable clinical AI
The future of AI in healthcare isn’t just about speed or automation; it’s about trust. Discover how Nabla deploys models that are reviewed by medical professionals to ensure that the AI doesn’t fabricate or misinterpret clinical facts, as w...
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HIMSSCast: Lessons on Hospital-at-Home from Virtua Health, Part 3 (brought to you by athenahealth)
For the third episode of this series, Virtua Health CIO and its president of advanced care operations describe how lessons learned from hospital-at-home are now influencing process and strategy at its brick-and-mortar hospitals, such as through...
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Dyna AI presents: Building trustworthy AI in everyday practice
Responsible AI adoption is as much about governance and evaluation as technology. Lightweight, context-specific frameworks make it possible for even resource-limited health systems to implement AI safely. Discover how generative AI, paired ...
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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: Indonesian 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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