Increasing adoption of 5G in healthcare organizations and new developments in AI and machine learning are two major trends of the moment in health IT. On today's show, HITN Senior Editor Kat Jercich and CHOC Chief Intelligence and Information Officer Dr. Anthony Chang join host Jonah Comstock for a conversation about how these trends intersect and why 5G (and beyond?) will help support the future of healthcare AI. This episode is brought to you by Verizon. Talking points: 5G’s impact on health t...
Sep 24, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 43
Hospitals poised to lose $54B in net income this year; Apple looks to create new mental health detection feature . Plus: Ransomware attacks during COVID-19 have impacted patient safety and care availability. Links to the stories: Hospitals projected to lose $54 billion in net income this year Apple looks to digital biomarkers for features detecting depression, cognitive decline Ponemon study finds link between ransomware, increased mortality rate...
Sep 24, 2021•2 min
Last week, a database that was not password protected exposed more than 61 million records containing data from fitness trackers and wearables, including Apple HealthKit and Fitbit. On today's HIMSSCast a team of HIMSS Media editors — host Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett, MobiHealthNews Senior Editor Emily Olsen, and Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard —talk about the developing story and try to put it in the context of digital health and health IT news t...
Sep 22, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 42
Drug prices are a major topic of conversation these days as the Biden administration grapples with federal options for mitigating what many see as out of control costs for specialty drugs. To put some context to the news, HIMSSCast host and Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse welcome to the show AJ Loiacono, CEO of Capital Rx, to talk a bit about why drug pricing is the way it is and what can be done. Talking points: Why are drug prices so poorly defined for doctors and patients?...
Sep 17, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 41
Lawsuit alleges Aetna discriminates against LGBTQ+ members; Organizations at security risk due to skills gaps. Also: Elvie launches smart breast pump. Links to the stories: Aetna hit with lawsuit claiming LGBTQ+ fertility discrimination Skills gap in healthcare IT industry cause security threats, according to new report Elvie launches new smart breast pump in the US covered by insurance...
Sep 17, 2021•2 min
The chief innovation officer of Geisinger's Steele Institute for Health Innovation discusses how COVID-19 led to new thinking about technology-enabled cost and quality improvements – and why the pandemic has shown that fee-for-service doesn't work.
Sep 14, 2021•23 min
The EHR revolutionized medical record-keeping, but it also created burdensome workflows that create barriers to positive patient-doctor relationships, negatively impacting the experiences of both patients and physicians and even contributing heavily to clinician burnout. Augmedix CMO and practicing physician Dr. Davin Lunquist joins us on today's episode of HIMSSCast to talk about the realities of documentation burden and what his company is doing to combat it. Today's podcast is brought to you ...
Sep 10, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Amazon expanding telehealth and in-person care to 20 more cities; Cityblock Health raises $400M in funding round. Also: AHIP is concerned about the timeline for an interim final rule on surprise billing. Links to the stories: Amazon looks to bring telehealth, in-person care to 20 more cities Cityblock rakes in $400M for platform focused on Medicaid and low-income populations and other digital health fundings AHIP wants more time for insurers to implement the interim final rule on surprise billin...
Sep 10, 2021•2 min
Before COVID, many practices were hardly using telehealth for anything. During COVID, many practices had to use telehealth for nearly everything. The next era in telehealth will be about picking and choosing the right use cases for telehealth. On today's HIMSSCast, Oak Street Health Regional Medical Director Dr. Laolu Fayanju joins Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich and host Jonah Comstock to discuss telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and choosing the right patients and use cases f...
Sep 03, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 39
California union workers score raises in new contracts; Inspiration4 to collect data on effects of space flight. Also: Telehealth should focus on interoperability, usability. Links to the stories: Caregivers at three California Tenet Healthcare hospitals approve double-digit pay raises in new contracts Inspiration4 mission expands health research on spaceflight Stanford researchers: Telemedicine optimization requires training, interoperability...
Sep 03, 2021•2 min
On today's HIMSSCast, we welcome Dr. Andrew Watson, medical director of telehealth for the UPMC health plan, and Susan Morse, Healthcare Finance News managing editor, to discuss the link between telehealth and value-based care: how new payment models can enable adoption of telehealth and how technologies like telehealth can push the industry towards new payment models, as well as the extent to which both of these things have happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. This podcast is part of our Work...
Sep 02, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Everyone is talking about value-based care, and everyone says it's coming soon. But how soon is soon? And what, specifically, is value-based care? You may be familiar with the concept, but are you familiar enough that you'd know how to change your workflow if your hospital announced a shift to value-based care tomorrow? To address this information gap, Humana and the University of Houston launched a value-based care education course on Coursera earlier this year. Tray Cockerell, director of stra...
Aug 27, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Feinberg’s departure, and Google’s strategic shift, has raised questions about whether big tech firms are truly equipped to take on the healthcare space.
Aug 26, 2021•2 min
FHIR, AI, and the cloud are reshaping healthcare, radically altering how organizations engage with patients. Learn how to embrace the changes, and drive more meaningful healthcare outcomes with MongoDB. Patients expect a more personal and digitally enabled healthcare experience. In this podcast, Jeff Needham, Principal, Healthcare Solutions and Robert Oberhofer, Head of Product Solutions at MongoDB discuss how the most successful providers and organizations will be those who embrace new technolo...
Aug 23, 2021•23 min
For a long time, the standard of care in mental and behavioral health has been some combination of pharmaceuticals and talk therapy. But with FDA-cleared, rigorously vetted digital health apps, there's a new piece of the puzzle, and it has the potential to combine the advantages of therapy with the scalability of drugs. In this episode of HIMSSCast, Big Health CEO Peter Hames joins host Jonah Comstock to talk about the future of mental health and lessons learned so far. This episode is brought t...
Aug 20, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Healthcare IT is on the cusp of finally realizing the long-discussed, much-hyped, yet ever-elusive promise of true interoperability. Why now? Because of the cloud, and cloud vendors’ embrace of open standards in their APIs. The cloud also offers other potential benefits to healthcare IT – for instance, wider use of AI and robust analytics – but the real game-changer will be widespread system interoperability. In this podcast, PatientKeeper CTO John Kelly discusses how the migration of health IT ...
Aug 18, 2021•7 min
This week the HIMSS global conference was back in person after the COVID-19 pandemic sidelined last year's event. After a week packed with hundreds of educational sessions, scores of vendor demonstrations and new meet and greets, the HIMSS Media editors sit down for a debrief on cybersecurity, patient experience, public health, and more. Talking points: The mood and feel at HIMSS21 New cyber attacks require innovations in cybersecurity More attention paid to the voice of the patient Public healt...
Aug 13, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 35
As technological advances continue to disrupt the traditional primary-care model, providers must find a way to reconcile patients’ expectations for personal attention and on-demand service with an increasingly tech-driven healthcare landscape.
Aug 07, 2021•28 min
COVID-19 pandemic exposes vulnerabilities in the digital ecosystem; CMS anticipates $33 Medicare Part D Premiums . Plus: WellSky is deepens its social determinants of health offerings by acquiring Healthify. Links to the stories: Healthcare data breaches on the rise Medicare Part D average premiums to increase nearly 5% in 2022, CMS says WellSky beefs up community care tools with Healthify acquisition...
Aug 06, 2021•2 min
Limitations and uncertainty around telehealth reimbursement have always been an impediment to adoption. During the COVID-19 emergency, that burden was eased somewhat, but now the new normal is starting to take shape. What barriers still remain to telehealth reimbursement, and how might they be overcome? To answer that question, host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare Finance News Managing Editor Susan Morse welcome McKinsey & Company Partners Oleg Bestsennyy and Gunjan Khanna. This episode is bro...
Aug 05, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Health systems across the board are increasingly embracing digital transformation initiatives as the impact of the pandemic subsides. The events of the past year have highlighted areas in need of immediate change that demand a different approach. Key among these changes is simplification of the clinical IT experience, reducing and removing IT backpressure that distracts caregivers from the clinical experience. By deliberately approaching the resources and information clinicians need, presented a...
Aug 05, 2021•26 min
2020 was the year that "Zoom" entered our vocabulary as a verb meaning "to video chat". For Zoom it was a year that their customer base exploded, including in the healthcare space. It was a year of validation for the then nine-year-old tech company, but also a year of the sorts of challenges that come from rapid, unexpected scaling. On today's HIMSSCast, Zoom Head of Healthcare joins guest host Kat Jercich to look back at a tumultuous time, and look ahead to the future. This episode is brought t...
Aug 04, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 33
As Point-of-Care Ultrasound use continues to proliferate through the healthcare landscape, organizations are being challenged to properly capture, manage, and integrate that imaging content with the rest of the enterprise. It is imperative to develop a strategy early in your adoption of POCUS for consistent management of all types of clinical images. Proper planning ensures their availably and integrity for both clinical care and future research efforts. Julie McDonald, RN (Senior Customer Succe...
Aug 04, 2021•16 min
In this new episode of the HIMSS21 Changemaker Podcast series, a HIMSSCast production, Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard speaks with Isaiah Nathaniel, chief information officer at Delaware Valley Community Health, a private, non-profit health system, based in Philadelphia, that provides medical, dental and behavioral health services to patients – whether or not they're able to pay. In this interview, Nathaniel explains how Delaware Valley Community Health, which operates seven Fed...
Aug 02, 2021•22 min
Jenna Date and Adam Paulisick will share their ‘how to’s’ on the interactions, environment and process it takes to make services and products simple. They collaborated with a brilliant cross-functional team, and together they created a mobile interface for physicians. The team started with empathy for the doctors they served, they mixed in Human-Centered Design and a good dose of the agile development process. What emerged was a simple product; built by, and for, physicians. With wit, speed and ...
Aug 02, 2021•25 min
Amwell pursues M&A to grow into new markets; AMA joins the call for mandatory vaccines for healthcare workers . Plus: The Department of Veterans Affairs will not continue to deploy its Cerner electronic health record at any more sites for at least the next six months. Links to the stories: Amwell furthers behavioral health, patient automation services via SilverCloud, Conversa Health M&A AMA adds voice to providers and others calling for vaccine mandates for healthcare workers VA will st...
Jul 30, 2021•2 min
Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett welcome Heather Mack — former MobiHealthNews Associate Editor and now the head of content and editorial and Greylock Partners — to look back at another serious funding quarter for digital health, and identify some of the trends that drove the investment. This episode is brought to you by OnTrak. Talking points: How the pandemic exposed the promise, and importance, of digital health Mental health care as a major investment trend ...
Jul 29, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Despite the widespread adoption telehealth saw during the COVID-19 pandemic, many telehealth deployments still fall short of real user-friendliness, providing less-than-ideal patient experiences, especially for certain populations that might have less access to reliable internet or less experience with telecommunications. On this episode, guest host and Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich welcomes Amy Sheon, research director at the Telehealth Equity Coalition, to discuss this important...
Jul 28, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Mobile Heartbeat CEO, Ron Remy, shares his perspective on the evolving clinical communication & communication landscape across the healthcare continuum. He explores the developing market needs and emerging trends that are informing the roadmap of his company.
Jul 26, 2021•21 min
Hear how enterprise IT strategies present numerous opportunities for improving and transforming healthcare including; improving administrative efficiencies, facilitating clinical advancement, and improving staff efficiency across numerous health system departments. As organizations look for a competitive edge, a cohesive IT strategy is critical to avoid the short-term outcomes of patch work approaches.
Jul 26, 2021•20 min
