HIMSSCast
HIMSS Media
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
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Aug 29, 2025 • 14min
HIMSSCast: A look at the new 340B rebate model issues by HRSA’s Office of Pharmacy Affairs
What hospitals need to do to prepare.
Aug 22, 2025 • 13min
HIMSSCast: What insurer modernization efforts look like for providers
Payers have committed to streamlining the prior authorization process, but will this make a difference in the revenue cycle?
Aug 15, 2025 • 19min
HIMSSCast: Previewing the HIMSS AI Leadership Strategy Summit in Chicago
The forum, scheduled for Sept. 18-19 in Chicago, will focus on AI strategy for the healthcare C-suite. For the first time, HIMSSCast will be simulcasting from the event, with the Straight Outta Health IT podcast. Host Christopher Kunney joins us for a preview.
Aug 11, 2025 • 20min
HIMSSCast: Unpacking the EMR experience in Australia's public health sector
In the second episode of our conversations with APAC health IT leaders on their EMR experience, we dive into the complexities of the technology's implementation down under. Our guests share insights on navigating challenges like interoperability, third-party integrations and data exchange journeys. They also discuss the impact of statewide consultations and regional alliance groups on feature implementation and provide their perspectives on the evolution of My Health Record.
Aug 8, 2025 • 10min
HIMSSCast: Integris Health gets huge urgent care wins with AI
Chief Ambulatory Executive Blake Windham shows how urgent care visit time has been driven down, patient experience has been improved and overall expense-per-visit is down thanks in part to artificial intelligence.
Aug 1, 2025 • 24min
HIMSSCast: An innovative new AI algorithm is transforming precision pediatrics
The application, developed at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, can search EHRs and uncover data to identify kids who may have undiagnosed or rare conditions – and then refer them for genetic testing, helping them and their families find answers and get necessary care sooner.
Jul 25, 2025 • 23min
HIMSSCast: What we learned at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum
From Brooklyn, HIMSS leaders discuss the excitement and challenges facing artificial intelligence as its healthcare applications evolve at a rapid clip.
Jul 18, 2025 • 23min
HIMSSCast: Personalizing Cedars Sinai's virtual visits with AI
When patients complete Cedars-Sinai's artificial intelligence-assisted virtual urgent care clinic intake questions via structured chat, the AI provides clinicians with diagnoses and treatment plan recommendations.
Jul 11, 2025 • 14min
HIMSSCast: Five strategies for sustaining momentum with AI investments
Ernst & Young Health AI and Data Leader Sezin Palmer explains how healthcare organizations should be strategic and selective, use what they have first, build with value and scale in mind, retool available talent, and partner effectively.
Jul 3, 2025 • 26min
HIMSSCast: Finding EMR success in Malaysia
Kicking off a six-part series on EMR implementation in APAC, this first episode features guests from two Malaysian hospitals sharing lessons and successes from their organizations’ decades-long digital transformation journeys.
