Podcast
HIMSSCast
Hosted by HIMSS Media · EN
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.
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HIMSSCast: AI automation and reducing administrative burdens in healthcare
5d ago00:08:09Tap to summarizeHow an AI platform helped a 94-year-old healthcare practice lower no-show rates and reduce cost.
Transcribe →HIMSSCast: Reimagining Healthcare: The HIMSS Vision for Virtual
1w ago00:21:56Tap to summarizeIn 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 flows freely, patients can access care more easily with virtual visits, and remote patient monitoring enables earlier intervention and better care management. Join HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf as he discusses how the future of healthcare is expanding beyond the classic brick and mortar model.
Transcribe →HIMSSCast: The Isle of Man's 2026 Global Innovation Challenge
2w ago00:09:16Tap to summarizeThe minister of health shares what challenges the Isle of Man's health system faces and the innovations being adopted to enhance the sector.
Transcribe →HIMSSCast: Health systems aim for the touchless revenue cycle (brought to you by SuperDial)
3w ago00:11:32Tap to summarizeAgentic AI represents the shift from point solutions to interconnection across the front-, middle- and back-end of the revenue cycle.
Transcribe →HIMSSCast: Why hospital AI isn’t plug-and-play
3w ago00:25:57Tap to summarizeVivek Rajagopal of Narayana Health explains why most AI projects stall – and what it really takes to make them work in clinical workflows.
Transcribe →HIMSSCast: CFOs and other execs are using AI as a core financial strategy
4w ago00:12:58Tap to summarizeFinancial pressure is no longer cyclical as the majority of healthcare organizations report consistently low margins
Transcribe →HIMSSCast: Full-body scans for longevity
Jun 2600:10:16Tap to summarizeUsing full-body composition scans that measure fat, muscle and bone density to support health longevity efforts.
Transcribe →HIMSSCast: Payers and providers gird for an escalating AI prior auth arms race (brought to you by SuperDial)
Jun 1900:18:38Tap to summarizeAs 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 playing field. But in an era of aspiration toward value-based reimbursement and of consumer-focused price transparency efforts, could this arms race be cooled for the good of all? Instead of a battle with leading-edge technologies on both sides, can payers and providers find common ground and instead use AI for the greater good – even, just maybe, for their patients and plan members? We speak with Michelle Mello, professor of health policy at Stanford School of Medicine, about those questions and others.
Transcribe →HIMSSCast: What are hospitals' obligations for sharing cybersecurity info with the FBI?
Jun 1200:19:47Tap to summarizeThe 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.
Transcribe →HIMSSCast: Women in health IT talk about today's challenges and the future of the industry
Jun 500:42:52Tap to summarizeThis upbeat roundtable discussion centers on issues central to working in health IT and where technology is taking healthcare delivery.
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