HIMSSCast
HIMSSCast is a podcast produced by the HIMSS Media editorial team behind Healthcare IT News, MobiHealthNews, and Healthcare Finance News. In each episode, editors are joined by special guests from around the health tech industry to discuss major news stories or trends. The show aims to add depth, analysis and color to ongoing coverage of digital health, health tech and healthcare finance realms, as well as to facilitate lively conversations about hot health tech topics.
Episodes
HIMSSCast: CFOs and other execs are using AI as a core financial strategy
Financial pressure is no longer cyclical as the majority of healthcare organizations report consistently low margins
HIMSSCast: Full-body scans for longevity
Using full-body composition scans that measure fat, muscle and bone density to support health longevity efforts.
HIMSSCast: Payers and providers gird for an escalating AI prior auth arms race (brought to you by SuperDial)
As health plans expand their use of artificial intelligence for utilization review, hospitals and health systems are adopting AI tools of their own – for documentation, coding automation, denial prediction and more – in an effort to level the playing field. But in an era of aspiration toward value-based reimbursement and of consumer-focused price transparency efforts, could this arms race be coole
HIMSSCast: What are hospitals' obligations for sharing cybersecurity info with the FBI?
The Bureau is asking health systems to share threat intelligence and indicators of compromise to help prevent attacks. But doing so the wrong way could run afoul of HIPAA or state privacy laws.
HIMSSCast: Women in health IT talk about today's challenges and the future of the industry
This upbeat roundtable discussion centers on issues central to working in health IT and where technology is taking healthcare delivery.
HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders 5: New Borders and Horizons
The borders between countries aren’t the only ones that healthcare data needs to travel across. The same principles behind the European Health Data Space can be applied to supporting people’s physical and mental health in their everyday lives: at school, at work, in community spaces, and in sports clubs. In Episode 5, the final part of “HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders,” HIMSS’ Tom L
HIMSSCast: CIOs are increasingly becoming the decision-makers of AI investment
The AI boom is redefining the traditional technology role to one of organizational strategist and leader, says Dr. Deepti Pandita, CMIO and chief AI officer at UCI Health.
HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders 4: The Glue of Cross-Border Healthcare
Regulatory frameworks create a solid foundation, but cross-border healthcare can’t succeed without trust. Patients need to trust that their data is being used responsibly, that their provider is properly qualified, and that any AI tools used are free from bias and error. Join HIMSS’ Tom Leary and Health Connect Partners’ Dr. Petra Wilson in Episode 4 of “HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Bord
HIMSSCast: Scaling a profitable company with little venture funding
Wisp's CEO discusses how the women's digital health company has grown significantly and is profitable with only a small amount of investor capital.
HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders 3: The Fuel of Cross-Border Care
The European Health Data Space aims to enable health data to move seamlessly and securely across Europe. However, the processes required to achieve this are complex, involving cultural, linguistic, diagnostic, regulatory, and coding elements. HIMSS’ Tom Leary and Health Connect Partners’ Dr. Petra Wilson explore what it will take to achieve true pan-European interoperability that goes beyond the f
Health Catalyst Presents: Drive value with data integration, not new AI tools
AI is a force multiplier, not a magic wand; health systems can’t turn AI tools into measurable ROI if their data remains siloed. Success with AI depends less on creating content and data and more on distilling that information into insights that produce better decisions. In this podcast, Health Catalyst’s Robbie Hughes discusses how leaders can move beyond individual building block tools towards i
HIMSSCast: Insights for addressing patient concerns about AI
This discussion with Tim Lawless, global health lead at Publicis Sapient, explores the benefits AI brings to patient access and addresses the potential fallout as provider usage in care delivery increases.
HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders 2: The Framework
Cross-border healthcare raises distinct regulatory challenges. Among them are: aligning reimbursement and eligibility rules, verifying professional credentials, managing liability, and ensuring continuity of care. In Episode 2 of “HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders,” HIMSS’ Tom Leary and Health Connect Partners’ Dr. Petra Wilson talk about Europe’s 30-year journey to enabling cross-bor
HIMSSCast: How to choose the right AI fit for the revenue cycle (brought to you by SuperDial)
How Northwell derives ROI from applying artificial intelligence that fits the system.
HIMSSCast Presents: Healthcare Without Borders 1: Why Cross-Border Healthcare?
Formal cross-border care in Europe accounts for less than 1% of health spending, but that number doesn’t tell the whole story. For some 150 million European patients living near internal borders, the nearest care, the shortest wait, or the best specialist for their situation, may be in another country. Join HIMSS’ Tom Leary and Health Connect Partners’ Dr. Petra Wilson for Episode 1 of “HIMSSCast
HIMSSCast: With ambient AI scribes are on the rise, these legal and regulatory questions need answers
Beyond issues relating to HIPAA, many questions about rules around consent, storage and archiving and many state and federal laws need to be considered, says Jennifer Geetter, partner at McDermott Will & Schulte..
Intel presents: Closing healthcare’s innovation gap
Healthcare transformation increasingly depends on solving deployment challenges, not just inventing new technology. The Mayo Clinic-ASU Health Care Accelerator offers clinical validation, expert mentorship and commercialization support to help startups translate innovations into clinical realities. In this podcast, Dr. Steven J. Lester, founder and CMO of the Health Care Accelerator, and Alex Flor
Health Catalyst presents: How to turn industry headwinds into transformation in 2026
Healthcare’s long-standing silos — finance, clinical, and consumer — present a barrier to progress. Discover how partnering with the right vendor can help health systems break down these silos, turn their vast data reserves into actionable insights, and leverage AI to maintain care access and quality while creating sustainable revenue streams in a fiercely competitive market.
HIMSSCast: Medicaid as a platform for innovation
Medicaid may be the most underappreciated health IT innovation platform in the country, says Dr. Christopher R. Cogle, director, Florida health policy leadership academy, at the University of Florida. Here's what providers can learn.
HIMSSCast: Expanding behavioral healthcare in the tech age
Behavioral health technology and analytics company discusses mental healthcare access and the need for caution when using ChatGPT for care
HIMSSCast: The AI Guiding Principles of Elevance Health
The world's seventh largest healthcare company based on revenue shares how it validates AI models as safe for approvals and denials.
HIMSSCast: Adopting AI with purpose as a health system
AI is continuously being used within healthcare with the aim of easing workforce burnout, but providers must be cautious on which AI to implement
HIMSSCast: How the expiration of ACA subsidies is affecting hospitals
Self-pay is an issue even for patients with insurance, says Seth Cohen, president of Cedar.
HIMSSCast: Developing national standards for AI in nursing
The Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium, a national coalition, is working to guide responsible AI use. Reengineering workflows with AI should be led by nurses who use them, says Jing Wang, dean of FSU College of Nursing.
Intel Presents: Scaling AI to improve clinician and patient experiences
In today’s healthcare system, even patients with good insurance and strong support systems struggle to schedule appointments and get treatment approvals, while health systems face staffing shortages and operational drag. Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack and Alex Flores, General Manager, Health and Life Sciences Vertical at Intel, talk about how scalable, trustworthy AI can reduce fri
HIMSSCast: How AI agents will reshape healthcare in 2026
Ashkan Afkhami of Boston Consulting Group discusses how AI agents and tech will transform healthcare, including how agentic AI will reshape the sector's workforce.
HIMSSCast: South Shore Health innovates with AI-enabled MRI scanner
The independent health system's new technology can help physicians get better views of diagnostic images while saving time on the scanning end. The CIO explains these and other benefits.
HIMSSCast: AI governance through Obama, Biden and Trump
Data integration was an integral part of the first CTO of the U.S.'s work under President Obama, and as AI has evolved, so have the changing administrations' priorities.
HIMSSCast: Understanding consumer behavior around GLP-1 medications
Providers can integrate medication adherence and positive behavior change strategies into patient care plans, says Dr. Amy Bucher, chief behavioral scientist at Lirio.
HIMSSCast: The challenges for Medicare Advantage health plans in 2026
Low reimbursement, high utilization, star ratings and risk adjustment have formed a perfect storm.
Health Catalyst presents: Patient access is the KPI you may not be measuring
Ambulatory leaders may believe care access problems are solved because their utilization metrics are high. However, these numbers may be hiding demand mismatches at the patient, provider, and clinic level. Discover how examining patient mix, no-shows, and late cancellations can help boost access to care and stop revenue leakage.
HIMSSCast: How home health and hospice agencies are dealing with new compliance requirements
Technology is helping them from falling below the new 90% submission threshold, says Sandy Griffiths, senior product manager for Homecare Homebase.
HIMSSCast: Frontline health equity tech in 2026
In this view from the frontline, Tom Gillette, CIO, and Erich Glasbrenner, VP and chief nursing informatics officer, at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, discuss how patient access and experiences will continue to transform in the year ahead.
HIMSSCast: Virtual care proves resilient moving into 2026
"It's a positive moment," says Kyle Zebley, CEO of ATA and executive director of ATA Action, in a conversation about policy and healthcare advances. The organization plans to focus on its role as a catalyst for change at the state and federal levels.
HIMSSCast: Besting legacy medical device data migration challenges
Moving more than 19,000 patient cardiac devices across 15 locations to a cloud-based management platform was a big lift that improved clinical administration and patient care, says Amy Tucker of Advocate Health's Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute.
HIMSSCast: Creating AI agents for healthcare
UnityAI discusses use cases for AI agents in healthcare and the challenges the company has faced training the AI models.
HIMSSCast: How AI-powered, real-time platforms are reshaping pharma-to-provider communication
Impiricus works with over 30 pharma companies.
HIMSSCast: AI search in EHRs improves clinical trial metrics
Using health data to rapidly identify clinical trial participants wherever they are broadens the reach of leading-edge oncology care and frees up nurses' time for patient care, says Dr. Aaron Gerds at the Cleveland Clinic’s Cancer Institute.
HIMSSCast: The challenge of hospitals taking on claims processing for veterans' care
A growing number of veterans are seeking care outside traditional VA facilities.
Book Q&A: A first-person history looks back on a challenging early start for healthcare AI (brought to you by athenahealth)
We speak with Doug Meil, software engineer, analytics expert and author of the recent book, The Rise and Fall of Explorys and IBM Watson Health: A Personal Memoir of a Healthcare Moonshot that Misfired.
IntelePeer presents: Boost revenue and patient satisfaction with automation and AI
Communication breakdowns such as missed calls, long hold times and voicemail tag cause frustration for patients and revenue and productivity loss for practices. Learn how AI and automation can ensure that every patient’s phone call is answered, simplify appointment scheduling and keep clinicians focused on care rather than on administrative tasks.
HIMSSCast: Should GPT-5 be HIPAA compliant, FDA regulated?
OpenAI's Sam Altman says individuals should use GPT-5 to help them with their healthcare journey. Dr. Doug Fridsma, former ONC chief science officer and current CMIO at Health Universe, says there are things to consider when using the tech.
Hyland presents: Cyber resilience starts with CIOs
Healthcare leaders can’t afford to build their incident response plans in the middle of a crisis. Discover how disciplined, ongoing practice leveraging tabletop drills and vendor partnerships can help build true cyber confidence and a culture of security.
HIMSSCast: AI is driving rev cycle financial performance at Carilion Clinic in Virginia
AI is powering a broader care expansion, including a new ED and cancer center.
HIMSSCast: Modernization efforts for maternal health data (brought to you by athenahealth)
How cities, such as Baltimore, can impact healthcare
Hyland presents: Develop a foundation for effective AI deployment
As healthcare organizations race to adopt AI, many overlook the groundwork needed to scale solutions across departments and sites. This podcast offers insights from Hyland’s Lyle McMillin into how CIOs can assess and improve their organizations’ AI readiness.
HIMSSCast: Lead with nursing data, not documentation
Nursing leaders have access to more data than ever, but the challenge lies in using it meaningfully. Join us for this second episode of “Data Literacy for Nurse Leaders,” where Dr. Michelle Hamland and Meagan Mangus from the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Committee discuss how nurse leaders can turn data into action with the HIMSS Data Literacy for Nurse Leaders Toolkit.
Ensemble presents: Redefine your revenue cycle with agentic AI
As many healthcare organizations seek to optimize revenue cycle management, Ensemble offers a reasoning-driven agentic AI approach that can speed up appeals, reduce denials and recover lost revenue. Learn how Ensemble connects clinical data, financial data and human insight to solve revenue cycle problems in real time.
HIMSSCast: Affinia Healthcare sharpens translation offerings with genAI (brought to you by athenahealth)
The St. Louis community health center extended the reach of multilanguage accessibility to its six FQHCs with large refugee and immigrant populations. Two Affinia execs discuss results of a generative AI pilot designed to enhance translation services.
Cloudera presents: Make your AI repeatable, measurable and enterprise-ready
In today’s data-rich but siloed healthcare environment, true AI transformation demands structure, not just algorithms. By building strong governance foundations, pharma and life sciences leaders can turn fragmented data into federated ecosystems that support innovation. Learn how safe, compliant AI implementation can transform research, development and patient outcomes.
HIMSSCast: New healthcare chief at Ernst & Young offers industry overview (brought to you by athenahealth)
Kim Dalla Torre, the new global health leader at EY, offers fresh perspectives on critical health IT subjects including AI, tech modernization, telehealth, closing health disparities and cybersecurity.
Nabla presents: Creating a roadmap to safe, scalable clinical AI
The future of AI in healthcare isn’t just about speed or automation; it’s about trust. Discover how Nabla deploys models that are reviewed by medical professionals to ensure that the AI doesn’t fabricate or misinterpret clinical facts, as well as how it is helping define standards for transparent, trustworthy clinical AI.
HIMSSCast: Lessons on Hospital-at-Home from Virtua Health, Part 3 (brought to you by athenahealth)
For the third episode of this series, Virtua Health CIO and its president of advanced care operations describe how lessons learned from hospital-at-home are now influencing process and strategy at its brick-and-mortar hospitals, such as throughput and capacity innovations with its Enterprise Care Logistics Center.
Dyna AI presents: Building trustworthy AI in everyday practice
Responsible AI adoption is as much about governance and evaluation as technology. Lightweight, context-specific frameworks make it possible for even resource-limited health systems to implement AI safely. Discover how generative AI, paired with real-world evidence, can help fill gaps in traditional research, increase health equity and help clinicians make more informed decisions.
InterSystems presents: Leverage federal mandates to build an AI-ready data foundation
Connected, actionable data is the backbone of intelligent automation, and successful AI adoption hinges on strong workflows, accurate data pipelines and early wins that build user trust. Learn how aligning interoperability requirements with enterprise strategy can help healthcare organizations drive efficiency and gain a competitive edge.
HIMSSCast: Filipino hospital turns EMR challenges into clinical wins
In this episode of our series on APAC countries’ EMR implementation, Franklin Vibar, CIO of Asian Hospital and Medical Center in the Philippines, talks about how the hospital guided physicians and staff through the implementation of an EMR system and achieved 95% adoption.
HIMSSCast: Lessons on Hospital-at-Home from Virtua Health, Part 2 (brought to you by athenahealth)
In the second of this three-part series we explore how Virtua Health's successful hospital-at-home program gained traction and scaled up in the post-pandemic years. The CIO of the New Jersey health system joins with its president of advanced care operations to offer their perspective.
Commure presents: Connect your organization’s data from intake to invoice
Documentation burden takes clinicians’ time away from patients, and fragmented point solutions can complicate workflows and lead to errors in billing. Discover how end-to-end AI-driven solutions can streamline workflows, reduce denials and improve patient experience across the healthcare ecosystem.
HIMSSCast: Indonesian hospitals’ journey from pen and paper to EMR adoption
In this episode of our series on APAC countries’ EMR implementation, experts from three Indonesian hospitals discuss the complexities of digital migration, including securing clinician buy-in, integrating systems and connecting to SATUSEHAT.
HIMSSCast: Lessons on Hospital-at-Home from Virtua Health, Part 1 (brought to you by athenahealth)
The CIO of the New Jersey health system joins with its president of advanced care operations for the first in a three-part series on its successful hospital-at-home program. In this episode, they describe how what started by necessity during the pandemic quickly grew into something more substantial.
HIMSSCast: C-suite insights from the HIMSS AI Leadership Strategy Summit (brought to you by athenahealth)
Recorded live in Chicago in collaboration with the Straight Outta Health IT podcast, join our hosts – alongside some special guests – for a wide-ranging discussion about targeting AI investments and aligning for strategic success.
HIMSSCast: Better practice follows real change in nurse managers' day-to-day tasks (brought to you by athenahealth)
Once spending more than 60% of their time on administrative tasks, nurse managers using scheduling and staffing technologies are positioned to support their teams, says Jessica Potts, SSM's senior director of workforce strategy and operations.
HIMSSCast: 340B program oversight transition to CMS brings significant changes to hospitals
These may include stricter eligibility criteria, increased reporting requirements and potential reductions in reimbursement.
HIMSSCast: How TEFCA is poised to thrive (brought to you by athenahealth)
Seamless digital onboarding, longitudinal record sharing and AI-assisted care navigation is voluntary, but not optional., according to Bob Watson, CEO of Health Gorilla.
Trend Micro presents: Anticipate and thwart evolving AI-powered cyberattacks
From phishing to prompt injecting to PHI leaks via consumer AI models, AI tools are reshaping healthcare cyber risks. Learn how frameworks like OWASP can help CISOs and IT teams bolster their defenses to protect organizations’ AI, data and cloud assets.
HIMSSCast: A frontline understanding of the Trump AI Action Plan (brought to you by athenahealth)
Lora Sparkman, VP of patient safety and quality at Relias, explains why healthcare orgs should join federal 'sandboxes' to help shape policy, prepare the workforce and stay on top of compliance and ethics.
SmarterDX presents: Discover a smarter, AI-enabled fix for billing waste
Healthcare is losing some $250 billion a year to billing inefficiencies. Smarter Technologies President Michael Gao, MD, explains how blending advanced AI with human expertise can turn revenue cycle from a liability into a strategic asset.
HIMSSCast: 2025 and beyond: AI, cloud tools, RPM and wearables (brought to you by athenahealth)
Michael Orlando, corporate and IP transactions attorney at Sheppard Mullin and a member of the firm's digital health team, offers a deep dive into where he sees these technologies headed – and challenges healthcare organizations must overcome.
HIMSSCast: New survey shows how AI is helping clinicians manage admin overload
An AI tech CEO walks through a comprehensive look at the problems doctors and nurses identify as most stressing and the ways artificial intelligence is helping the caregivers tackle the challenges.
HIMSSCast: How states can make Medicaid programs more cost-efficient
In light of federal Medicaid cuts, states need greater efficiency to stretch every Medicaid dollar.
HIMSSCast: A look at the new 340B rebate model issues by HRSA’s Office of Pharmacy Affairs
What hospitals need to do to prepare.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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