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.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 545
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Top Stories for 10/22
Democrats push for healthcare provisions in reconciliation bill; Google unveils mobile version of Care Studio. Plus: Providence CIO touts benefits of AI and machine learning.
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MongoDB Presents: BringtheFHIRInsideforDigitalTransformation
Here why Fast Interoperability Health Resources, or FHIR, is the new agent of change in healthcare. Organizations around the world are capitalizing on FHIR adoption, using the new data standard to …
Top Stories for 10/15
Medicare Advantage star ratings released; Security firm raises FIN12 ransomware attack concerns. Plus: Withings receivesan FDA clearance for Scan Watch’s ECG and SpO2 monitoring features .
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Taking the CDC's Diabetes Prevention Program digital — with Laurence Girard
The CDC's Diabetes Prevention Program is one of the first lifestyle and behavior-based interventions to be proven, in a large clinical study, to be more effective than a comparable drug (in this case…
Mobile Heartbeat Presents: Leading The Way: The Four Pillars of Clinical Collaboration
Join Mobile Heartbeat Chief Operating Officer, Mike Detjen, as he uses his expertise to project future capabilities of the clinical collaboration space.
Lenovo Presents: Summarizing HIMSS – Lenovo’s discussion for how we transform our solutions to improve the impact our customers provide to Healthcare.
Lenovo will discuss what was learned by attending all the sessions at HIMSS. They will offer their impressions and opinions for how Lenovo can best adapt and transform the way we got to market and p…
Telehealth across borders — with Heather Alleva
State licensure and differing regulations on privacy, licensure, and more have always been a barrier to virtual care models that seek to care for anyone with an Internet connection. Which of those hu…
Top Stories for 10/8
Cerner mandating COVID-19 vaccines for all U.S employees; SWORD Health acquires wearable firm Vigilant Technologies . Plus: Air ambulance services among commercial insurers have risen 27.6% .
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Accenture Presents: Ransomware in the Health Industry: Resiliency and Response
Digital transformation has increased exponentially in the healthcare industry over the past year, as organizations harness the power of digital to reach patients, accelerate research and develop new …
Dell Technologies Presents: How Healthcare IT can securely enable innovation and the evolution of the care delivery model
As Healthcare organizations explore how to evolve the care delivery model, they must consider how to safely evolve within an ever-increasing threat landscape. Modernizing Healthcare IT solutions prov…
Top Stories for 10/1
Walmart to begin rolling out Epic platform in its healthcare centers; 73% of metropolitan areas are controlled by large health insurers . Plus: Amazon adds to its fitness tracking line with Halo View…
Telehealth and the school nurse — with Marcos Domiciano
TytoCare's Marcos Domiciano joins host Jonah Comstock for a discussion for the unique opportunities and challenges of telehealth in schools, and how TytoCare's approach to combining video visits with…
HIMSS21 Changemaker Podcast: Sue Feldman
In this new episode of the HIMSS21 Changemaker Podcast series, a HIMSSCast production, Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard speaks with Sue Feldman, RN, PhD, director of the graduate prog…
5G and the future of AI in healthcare — with Dr. Anthony Chang
Increasing adoption of 5G in healthcare organizations and new developments in AI and machine learning are two major trends of the moment in health IT. On today's show, HITN Senior Editor Kat Jercich…
Top Stories for 9/24
Hospitals poised to lose $54B in net income this year; Apple looks to create new mental health detection feature . Plus: Ransomware attacks during COVID-19 have impacted patient safety and care avail…
The GetHealth data breach and what it means for consumer health apps and devices
Last week, a database that was not password protected exposed more than 61 million records containing data from fitness trackers and wearables, including Apple HealthKit and Fitbit. On today's HIMSSC…
Untangling the complex web of US drug pricing — with AJ Loiacono
Drug prices are a major topic of conversation these days as the Biden administration grapples with federal options for mitigating what many see as out of control costs for specialty drugs. To put som…
Top Stories for 9/17
Lawsuit alleges Aetna discriminates against LGBTQ+ members; Organizations at security risk due to skills gaps. Also: Elvie launches smart breast pump.
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Aetna hit with lawsuit claim…
HIMSS21 Changemaker: Geisinger's Karen Murphy
The chief innovation officer of Geisinger's Steele Institute for Health Innovation discusses how COVID-19 led to new thinking about technology-enabled cost and quality improvements – and why the pand…
How documentation burdens patients and clinicians, and what can be done — with Dr. Davin Lundquist
The EHR revolutionized medical record-keeping, but it also created burdensome workflows that create barriers to positive patient-doctor relationships, negatively impacting the experiences of both pat…