

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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May 24, 2024 • 19min
HIMSSCast: Challenges and opportunities for home care
Rising demand and shrinking budgets, including CMS’ 2.89% slash last year, challenge the homecare industry.

May 17, 2024 • 14min
HIMSSCast: The implications of Biden's executive order
EO marks the first significant step to ensure critical protocols are in place to protect safety and privacy in the new world of AI.

May 10, 2024 • 20min
HIMSSCast: How allergies and asthma affect patients, the ER and hospital finances
About 80 million Americans are affected by seasonal allergies.

May 3, 2024 • 12min
Fresnius Kabi presents: Redesigning infusion therapy to ease nurses’ documentation burden
Smart Ivenix pumps address critical challenges of infusion delivery

May 3, 2024 • 11min
HIMSSCast: Eliciting the greatest value from an EHR
Joncé Smith, senior executive strategic advisory consultant at Stoltenberg Consulting, talks assessing the current state of EHRs, new version upgrade best practices, enhancing EHR functionality, and the best way to train staff on optimal EHR utilization.

Apr 26, 2024 • 10min
Arcadia presents: Unlocking Big Data podcast, season 2, episode 5: Emerging Technologies’ Impact on the Future of Healthcare Delivery
John Halamka, Mayo Clinic Platform president, and Arcadia president and CEO Michael Meucci, discuss how healthcare organizations and policymakers must collaborate to ensure that AI is used ethically and equitably in care delivery.

Apr 26, 2024 • 20min
HIMSSCast: The need to shift hospitalization to the home
The future of acute hospital care at home amid questions of the end of the CMS waiver this year.

Apr 19, 2024 • 22min
HIMSSCast: Developing patient-centric analytics for population health (brought to you by Wolters Kluwer)
Regenstrief Institute research scientist Brian Dixon discusses how the intersection of patient engagement, social determinants of health, AI-enabled clinical decision support and more can help providers with their population health management.

Apr 19, 2024 • 16min
HIMSSCast: The high healthcare costs paid by the poorest Americans
Brookings Institution research proposes new policy in Medicare

Apr 12, 2024 • 13min
HIMSSCast: New study digs into providers' beliefs on the future of AI in healthcare
James McHugh, managing director at Berkeley Research Group, discusses the firm's new study, which reveals great optimism among provider organization executives on deploying artificial intelligence in the next three years.


