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HIMSSCast

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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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Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Top Stories: ATA opposes DEA changes to telehealth prescriptions; AHA favors further study of telehealth 03.03.2023

The top drug agency proposed tighter limits for online prescriptions of some medications, such as Adderall and opioids.

HIMSSCast: What 2023 might hold for electronic health record optimization 03.03.2023

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.

Level Nine Group presents: Navigating the new medical device security law 28.02.2023

What healthcare organizations can expect under this law

Top Stories: Elevance finalizes BioPlus acquisition; Deidentifying wearable data not enough to protect privacy 24.02.2023

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.

CTS presents: Healthcare applications for private cellular networks 24.02.2023

The security, mobility and reliability benefits of cellular technology

HIMSSCast: CFO survey shows four major themes driving investment in M&A 24.02.2023

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.

Samsung teams with Natural Cycles on menstrual health; UHC members can earn $1K through rewards program 17.02.2023

The company said adding Natural Cycles' technology will "give users more detailed insight into their menstrual cycle."

HIMSSCast: Epic leaders talk clinical trials and data innovation 17.02.2023

Dr. Jackie Gerhart, VP of clinical informatics at Epic, and Phil Lindemann, its VP of business intelligence and analytics, discuss data-driven improvements that are enabling design of better trials and delivery of better healthcare.

25 charged in alleged nursing diploma scheme; FBI addressing IT outage at Tallahassee Memorial 10.02.2023

Defendants purportedly engaged in a scheme to sell fraudulent nursing degree diplomas and transcripts to people seeking licenses and jobs as registered nurses.

Everything you need to know about the Quintuple Aim 10.02.2023

Dr. Kedar Mate, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, explains why adding health equity to the Quadruple Aim is so important, and how it affects provider CIOs.

Lawmakers introduce bills seeking to halt VA HER modernization; Cigna files suit against CVS 03.02.2023

Rosendale has harshly criticized the VA's new EHR since 2021, citing operational inadequacies and implementation struggles, as well as the expense of government funding.  

Hospitals await the outcome of numerous lawsuits over No Surprises Act 03.02.2023

The NSA’s “baseball arbitration” seeks to take patients out of the middle of provider and payer negotiations over rates, says K&L Gates Health Care partner, Gary Qualls.

AWS & Apexon present: Patient data and insights to enable value-based care and improve payment integrity 31.01.2023

Value-based care is emerging in the healthcare ecosystem, largely due to its ability to offer benefits for everyone from patients to physicians to payers. With the power of data and analytics, users can track and improve patient outcomes and control healthcare costs while delivering better quality of care. Patient 360 can provide an optimal experience to patients and healthcare providers with firs...

Optum Rx launches tool for lower-priced generics; Amazon launches medication subscription service 27.01.2023

Optum Rx positioned the tool as an enhancement of the company's ability to offer a lower price on generics at about a 90% rate.

Improving the performance of predictive oncology models 27.01.2023

Steve Irvine, founder and CEO of integrate.ai, explains how a lack of quality data is hindering clinical AI models – and describes how federated learning approaches can enable secure access to a wider array of datasets.

California files suit against drugmakers; GH Healthcare to acquire IMPACTIS 20.01.2023

The AG’s office accused drugmakers of "unlawful, unfair, and deceptive business practices"; GE HealthCare said it plans to fund the acquisition with cash on hand.

AWS & Quantiphi present: AI/ML Driven Health Equity Across Healthcare & Life Sciences 20.01.2023

In this podcast, experts from Amazon Web Services and Quantiphi discuss how healthcare organizations can empower the healthcare workers with AI & data.

Hospital financial stressors are expected to continue through 2023 20.01.2023

In their service lines, hospitals need to think about whether they can be all things to all people, says Peter Urbanowicz, a managing director with Alvarez & Marsal.

Carbon Health receives $100M investment but lays off 200; Ransomware attacks have more than doubled 13.01.2023

Carbon said its shifting it focus to its core primary care and urgent care services; 44.4% of ransomware attacks were disruptive to healthcare.

2023 forecast: AI command centers, hybrid work models, 5G and more 13.01.2023

Mutaz Shegewi, research director at IDC Health Insights, discusses the research firm's 10 health industry predictions for the next year and beyond.

ATA applauds telehealth provisions in omnibus bill; Amazon moves closer to One Medical acquisition 06.01.2023

The telehealth group's ATA Action affiliate also praised the package for including provisions delaying the Medicare telemental health in-person requirement.

An estimated 20-25% of hospital revenue goes to non-medical spend 06.01.2023

Hospital systems should focus on internal answers to the supply chain and not rely solely on group purchasing, says David Pennino, founder & CEO of LogicSource.

AWS and Apexon present: Unlock full potential of SDOH and improve patient outcomes with Patient 360 and Artificial Intelligence 05.01.2023

Socio-economic factors such as geographic location, educational background, occupation, access to healthcare, etc. significantly impact a person’s health. With the power of AI to analyze complex interrelated patient data, multiple links to social determinants of health (SDoH) are revealed, which can positively impact health outcomes. Patient 360 and AI together can help make healthcare support ser...

Secureworks presents: The Venerable Drive-By Download in 2022—What you can do to protect your organization 05.01.2023

Drive-by downloads are a major entry point for sophisticated threat actors to deploy destructive ransomware. And cybercrime research shows these attacks are not limited to unwanted browser extensions and tech support scams but are also executed through threats like SocGolish, GootLoader, DarkTortilla, and others.  Keith Jarvis, CTU technical lead for cybercrime research, investigates the state of...

Secureworks presents: The Ransomware Ecosystem: Operators, Affiliates & Access Brokers 05.01.2023

Senior Security Researcher and intel analysis lead for cybercrime Tim Mitchell will discuss how ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has significantly lowered the bar to entry for cybercriminals. As a result, the scale of ransomware operations has expanded, allowing cybercrime groups and their affiliates to exploit more networks resulting in higher revenue. Expertise has also improved as each element of...

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