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.
Latest episodes
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 • 14min
HIMSSCast: How care operating systems help health systems improve efficiency and care delivery
Josh Clark, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's VP of quality and safety operating systems, targets the problem care operating systems aim to solve and explains how they also help improve workforce engagement and satisfaction.
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.
Jun 27, 2025 • 29min
HIMSSCast: Don't be afraid to train nurses with VR and genAI
Dr. Tina Scott, North Carolina Central University's director of experiential learning for nursing, explains how a flexible virtual reality platform leveraging artificial intelligence improves nursing students' confidence, case prioritization skills and more.
Jun 20, 2025 • 20min
HIMSSCast: Texas university physician pioneering MD/MS in AI dual degree
Dr. Ronald Rodriguez of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio discusses why AI is so important to medical education today and how he foresees his groundbreaking dual degree program influencing the industry.
Jun 17, 2025 • 21min
HIMSSCast: Explore nursing data’s value across the organization
Nurses may underestimate the importance of the data they collect every day, from vital signs to treatment responses; however, this information goes beyond supporting immediate care to impacting workflows and protocols throughout the hospital. Learn how nurses can better understand data and use it to improve patient care and drive innovation in this podcast.
Jun 12, 2025 • 12min
HIMSSCast: How the Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification rules affect healthcare transactions
FTC, DOJ now requiring more information about mergers and acquisitions before they occur
Jun 6, 2025 • 9min
HIMSSCast: Three key areas of healthcare cybersecurity defense
Peyman Zand, chief strategy officer at healthcare consulting firm CereCore, dives into artificial intelligence boosts, virtual CISOs' expertise and device management tactics.
May 30, 2025 • 13min
HIMSSCast: Investing in primary care that delivers results for employers
The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance makes new models of coordinated care attractive
