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.
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Mar 23, 2023 • 27min
Sparrow Software presents: Innovation in healthcare – how do we fix it?
Paul Robke, President and Founder of Sparrow.AI discusses the challenges that must be overcome to bring innovative, accurate solutions to the healthcare market to improve patient outcomes. Process, defects and technology hurdles can be overcome to enable the subject matter experts to truly impact the end result of healthcare. Our healtchcare and healthcare technology community has the best and brightest minds on the planet yet getting their solutions to market is riddled with problems. How do businesses unlock revenue streams in a timely manner to keep funding improvements to the healthcare market?
Mar 17, 2023 • 2min
Top Stories: Insurers insist RADV, rate notice would result in cuts
CMS is saying the advance notice would result in a little over 1% increase for Medicare Advantage plans, while payers are saying this would result in a more than 2% decrease
Mar 17, 2023 • 15min
HIMSSCast: Connected health tools are improving the care experience for oncology patients
Telehealth and virtual care are enabling cost savings and streamlined access to treatment and second opinions, says Frank McGillin, CEO of The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic.
Mar 10, 2023 • 2min
Top Stories: Best Buy, Atrium developing hospital-at-home offerings; Microsoft and MITRE develop automated adversarial attack library
The partners said their deal would pair the health system's established telehealth and hospital-at-home programs with Best Buy's in-home services and supply chain.
Mar 10, 2023 • 13min
HIMSSCast: The way hospitals handle billing has as much impact on patient satisfaction as the clinical experience
Consumers don’t care so much about price but what they’re going to pay out-of-pocket, says Cedar President Seth Cohen.
Mar 3, 2023 • 2min
Top Stories: ATA opposes DEA changes to telehealth prescriptions; AHA favors further study of telehealth
The top drug agency proposed tighter limits for online prescriptions of some medications, such as Adderall and opioids.
Mar 3, 2023 • 10min
HIMSSCast: What 2023 might hold for electronic health record optimization
Sri Velamoor, chief growth and strategy officer at NextGen Healthcare, offers some thoughts on managing and improving EHRs, and discusses what appears to be a fast-consolidating vendor landscape.
Feb 28, 2023 • 22min
Level Nine Group presents: Navigating the new medical device security law
What healthcare organizations can expect under this law
Feb 24, 2023 • 2min
Top Stories: Elevance finalizes BioPlus acquisition; Deidentifying wearable data not enough to protect privacy
BioPlus provides a range of specialty pharmacy services for patients living with complex and chronic conditions, such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, hepatitis C, autoimmune diseases and conditions in rheumatology.
Feb 24, 2023 • 12min
HIMSSCast: CFO survey shows four major themes driving investment in M&A
The trend is toward add-on transactions to bring in smaller companies, says Vin Phan, partner and national leader of BDO’s Healthcare Transaction Advisory Services practice.
