Availity presents: Give clinicians more time for care conversations
Deploying AI to handle authorization decisions can improve patient experience.
Nov 16, 2023•17 min
HIMSSCast
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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BDO presents: Can technology relieve clinician burnout?
Learn how healthcare organizations are elevating staff experiences.
Nov 15, 2023•13 min
HIMSSCast: Best practices for major system transitions
Rich Amelio, vice president of healthcare IT operations and consulting at consulting firm e4health, talks what’s needed during big EHR and other system changes to protect cashflow, improve data integrity in new systems, and drive better system adoption and satisfaction.
Nov 10, 2023•13 min
Beckman Coulter presents: The use of AI to support better clinical decision-making in Emergency Medicine
The Emergency Department is perhaps the singular environment in a hospital where the greatest concentration of decisions are made with the least amount of clinical data; and the acuity-level assigned at triage can massively impact the trajectory of care for a patient. Additionally, Emergency Departments in the United States have experienced unprecedented levels of crowding over the last two decades, with correlation to worsened patient outcomes, preventable errors, and staff burnout. In 2017, th...
Nov 09, 2023•22 min
ZS Associates presents: Opportunities and challenges for pharma – healthtech partnerships
Pharma & Healthtech partnerships have great potential. But delivering on these partnerships brings hurdles and challenges. From misaligned expectations to differences in culture and communication, it can be hard for the two worlds to find effective collaboration. Hear from Ameya Phadke, PhD. Patients Non-Pharma Solutions Leader at Chiesi Pharmaceuticals and Dennis Hermann, Head of Europe at Kaia Health discuss their partnership, as well as Dan Weinstein, Associate Principal at ZS Associates ...
Nov 07, 2023•18 min
HIMSSCast: CMS final rule on minimum nursing home staffing levels is due out after the comment period closes on November 6.
The mandate could have a detrimental effect on providers who can’t meet staffing levels, says Lee Hudson Teslik, founder and CEO of Reverence.
Nov 03, 2023•18 min
HIMSSCast: The move to value is creating system change
Clinical decision support is needed to handle the avalanche of data and to advance value-based care, says Yaw Fellin, VP of Products and Solutions for Wolters Kluwer Health’s Clinical Effectiveness team.
Oct 27, 2023•22 min
Carahsoft presents: Observing tomorrow’s cyber criminals with the global standard for centralized log management
Prophecy International is an Australian based, publicly traded corporation that started in the early ‘80’s. For over 40 years, Prophecy’s ever-evolving focus continues to bring reliable, secure, and trustworthy software solutions to markets across the globe. In the early 2000’s, Prophecy acquired its flagship cyber security product, Snare, which was designed for the Australian military and defense. Snare’s suite of solutions continues to be a market leading centralized log management solution wh...
Oct 26, 2023•11 min
ZS Associates presents: Optimize oncology care with remote patient monitoring
Drug+ care models allow patients to recover at home.
Oct 24, 2023•21 min
HIMSSCast: America’s Physician Groups is “taking responsibility for America’s health.”
Moving forward on value-based care requires the collective weight of employers in these models, says APG President and CEO Susan Dentzer.
Oct 20, 2023•23 min
ZS Associates presents: Discover the newest digital endpoints and biomarkers
Challenges and considerations for pharma and device companies.
Oct 17, 2023•22 min
HIMSSCast: Making strides on post-acute care coordination with SDOH
While whole person care depends upon secure portability, there are three pathways to consider, according to Dr. Ben Zaniello, chief medical officer of PointClickCare.
Oct 13, 2023•18 min
HIMSSCast: How to build resilience against fast-changing cyber threats
Ferdinand Hamada and Matt DeFrain of MorganFranklin Consulting discuss the existing and evolving threat landscape – and give some tips on robust business continuity approaches.
Oct 06, 2023•25 min
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 29, 2023•17 min
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 22, 2023•18 min
Ingram Micro presents: Improving care by simplifying secure information sharing
Collaborate without risking patient confidentiality using Zero Trust Data
Sep 19, 2023•10 min
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 15, 2023•28 min
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 08, 2023•15 min
ZS Associates presents: Proving how remote monitoring can allow cancer patients to stay home
Control costs, increase care access and elevate patient experiences.
Sep 07, 2023•15 min
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.
Sep 01, 2023•12 min
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 30, 2023•14 min
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•16 min
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...
Aug 25, 2023•21 min
Clearwater presents: How cyber resilient is your hospital?
Explore the results of the HHS hospital cyber resiliency report
Aug 21, 2023•19 min
HIMSSCast: Generative AI is disrupting healthcare - what the C-suite needs to know
Venky Anant, a partner at research and consulting firm McKinsey Digital, walks through how the technology can and is being used, and how health IT leaders need to respond.
Aug 18, 2023•17 min
Dell Technologies presents: How to deploy AI and automation for clinician burnout, safely and securely
Manage resource challenges and streamline staff workflows
Aug 15, 2023•36 min
HIMSSCast: Epic's work as a TEFCA QHIN and wider interoperability
Matt Doyle, interoperability software development lead at Epic, discusses the company's data exchange efforts and describes its plans to help advance patient care across its 2,000 hospitals and 600,000 physician users.
Aug 11, 2023•12 min
HIMSSCast: Could data modernization initiatives lead to public health transformation?
Dr. Oscar Alleyne, managing director of the public health division inside the health federally funded research and development center operated by MITRE, talks technology, equity, workforce and policy.
Aug 04, 2023•12 min
HIMSSCast: Medical devices’ operating systems leave hospitals and patients open to cyberattacks
More than 50% of medical devices have known vulnerabilities that are published and available to cybercriminals, says Mark Bowling, chief risk, security, and information security officer at ExtraHop.
Jul 28, 2023•18 min
Dell Technologies presents: How is image management evolving in the cloud and AI era?
Move beyond PACS-based strategies to leverage cloud capabilities
Jul 25, 2023•34 min
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