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 6/18
A direct-to-consumer telehealth company looks to expand globally with new acquisition; AHA asks Express Scripts to rescind its 340B claims policy. Also: EHRs say customers can establish greater patie…
IMO Presents: Overcoming challenges for data aggregation and management post-pandemic
Health Current’s CIO Keith Parker and IMO’s Chief Strategy Officer Dale Sanders discuss big data management in healthcare: challenges and lessons learned.
Top Stories for 6/11
UnitedHealthcare institutes policy allowing it to retroactively deny ED claims; Apple unveils walking stability assessments in iPhone update . Also: Mount Sinai Health System teams with Caregility an…
How Oscar Health is taking on legacy players to bring innovation to health insurance — with Mario Schlosser
These days, insuretech is its own burgeoning startup ecosystem. But in 2012, a startup elbowing into a space dominated by big longterm players like United, Humana, Cigna, and the Blues was audacious …
From big pharma to the startup world — with Eugene Borukhovich
Eugene Borukhovich, COO of YourCoach, former global head of digital health at Bayer, and co-host of the podcast "A Shot of Digital Health Therapy", joins HIMSSCast for a wide-ranging discussion about…
Age-related cognitive decline is not inevitable — with Dr. Charles Alessi
Is losing your mental faculties just a part of getting older? In his new book, Dr. Charles Alessi, HIMSS Chief Clinical Officer, says no. Host Jonah Comstock welcomes Dr. Alessi to discuss "Increase …
Top Stories for 6/4
President Joe Biden’s proposed 2022 budget includes funds set aside for healthcare, including health IT infrastructure and the Strategic National Stockpile. Plus: A new digital health accelerator wit…
Top Stories for 5/28
Hospital financial performance beginning to improve, though there’s still a long road ahead; Google helps fund new data platform that highlights COVID-19 impacts on marginalize communities . Plus: FB…
Telehealth in the trenches — with Carol Hornbeck and Edwin Shurig
In this very special episode of HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock welcomes his mother Carol Hornbeck, a marriage and family therapist in Minneapolis, and her colleague Edwin Shurig, a mental health coun…
IMO Presents: Interoperability enables effective patient data management
Angel Mena, MD, and Steven Rube, MD, discuss the challenges of managing and sharing patient data post-pandemic and lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis.
Merging clinical, technical and data realm…
Decentralized clinical trials in 2021 — with John Reites
The first technology-enabled remote clinical trial was launched nearly a decade ago, and that field — now generally referred to as "decentralized clinical trials" — has been advancing and gaining tra…
Top Stories for 5/21
Cyberattack leads to a network outage at Scripps Health; HRSA tells 6 drugmakers they’re in violation of the 340B statute. Also: Google using AI to help patients find answers to dermatology questions…
Twilio Presents: Consumerization in Healthcare for Patients and Providers
Susan Collins, Twilio’s Global Head of Healthcare Services, joins us to discuss the changing landscape of healthcare and the need to consider both the provider and patient when thinking about consume…
Security at smart hospitals — with Thanos Drougkas
Smart hospital rooms are on the horizon, with some medical centers already rolling them out. In addition to cost and logistics as limiting factors, health systems must consider cybersecurity and resi…
Top Stories for 5/14
CaptureRx ransomware attack exposes patient information from multiple provider systems; Insurers are concerned that telehealth reimbursement parity may lead to overutilization. Also: Bigfoot Biomedic…
A beginner's guide to SASE frameworks — with Samuel Hill
New trends in computing require new frameworks and architectures, so that when stakeholders want to merge or collaborate they can trust that their technologies will work together. For edge computing,…
Top Stories for 5/7
Biden Administration aims to get 70% of Americans at least one vaccine dose by July 4; Healthcare among the top industries affected by tracked ransomware incidents . Also: Employer health benefits ma…
IMO Presents: Women in Health IT: Gender Equity Is the Ultimate Goal
Encouraging girls and young women to study for careers in health IT is
ongoing. Experts say it will take years to reach gender parity. In this podcast,
IMO CEO Ann Barnes talks about her philosophy o…
Twilio Presents: Programmable Video Platform Enhances Long-Term Telehealth Strategy
On this podcast Christina Sung, Twilio’s Director of Product for Healthcare, shares how scalable and secure Programmable Video solutions are easily integrated into clinical workflows throughout the …
Edge Computing 101 — with Tao Zhang
While the last five years have seen computing move from local networks to the cloud, especially in healthcare, the trend of edge computing is seeing organizations move back to move forward: Moving ke…