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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Sep 29, 2023 • 17min
HIMSSCast: Providers are challenged in collecting payments from patients
The fastest growing part of healthcare expense is the current 20% of the bill that commercial patients owe, says PayMedix CEO Tom Policelli.
Sep 22, 2023 • 18min
HIMSSCast: At least 6.4 million people nationwide have lost Medicaid coverage
States are taking widely different approaches to the redetermination process, says John Barkett, managing director at Berkeley Research Group and a former White House Senior Policy Advisor.
Sep 19, 2023 • 10min
Ingram Micro presents: Improving care by simplifying secure information sharing
Collaborate without risking patient confidentiality using Zero Trust Data
Sep 15, 2023 • 28min
HIMSSCast: Updates on TEFCA, FHIR, and more
Dr. Don Rucker, chief strategy officer of 1Uphealth and former ONC chief, gives updates on TEFCA, FHIR, where the industry is at in terms of support, and what the main questions/comments/concerns from stakeholders are
Sep 8, 2023 • 15min
HIMSSCast: Physicians feel the pressure of doing more with less
Automation and AI represent time savings that take work out of the system, says Laudio CEO and cofounder Russ Richmond.
Sep 7, 2023 • 15min
ZS Associates presents: Proving how remote monitoring can allow cancer patients to stay home
Control costs, increase care access and elevate patient experiences.
Sep 1, 2023 • 12min
HIMSSCast: AI's data problem, and what CIOs need to know about AI now
Ryan Sousa, chief data and analytics officer at Children's Minnesota, spells out what that data problem means for the future of health IT, and talks about AI and the right to health.
Aug 30, 2023 • 14min
UST presents: Building tech foundations for whole-health experience
Amish Patel, CTO of Elevance Health, and Niranjan Ramsunder, CTO of UST, discuss how to build tech foundations for whole-health experience in a fast-evolving health tech landscape.
Aug 25, 2023 • 16min
HIMSSCast: The new tech stack and culture needed for redesigning care around people
Dr. Melek Somai, CTO at Inception Health, a subsidiary of Froedtert Health, discusses incorporating cloud-native architecture, agile methodologies, product-driven development and DevOps.
Aug 25, 2023 • 21min
Phosphorus presents: Discover, secure, and manage cyber-physical IoMT systems in Healthcare environments
The number of connected devices in the healthcare industry is growing at an unprecedented rate. While designed to connect to the network, these devices were not developed with security in mind, leaving a large attack surface that requires constant monitoring, patching, and remediation. Bad actors pursue the lowest barrier to entry in efforts to accomplish theft, extortion, and service disruption.John Vecchi, Chief Marketing Officer at Phosphorus Cybersecurity, joins the HIMSScast to discuss the challenges in securing xIoT devices, like Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), the personal nature of healthcare data, and the steps organizations can take to disappoint bad actors.
