Podcasts

  • NewsMaker Interview: Stephen Klasko, MD
    March 12, 2010
    Stephen Klasko, MD, tells us how the Paper Free Tampa Bay project got started, the challenges and surprises the project encountered, and its evolution into the Paper Free Florida Collaborative Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center.

  • HIMSS10 Interview: John Halamka, MD
    March 03, 2010
    What's new and exciting in the healthcare IT industry? Few know better than John Halamka, MD, a hospital CIO, standards and policy expert and annual HIMSS attendee. In this podcast, Halamka gives us his take on the buzz surrounding meaningful use and shares what he finds most interesting about being at HIMSS10.

  • HIMSS10 Interview: Alisa Ray
    March 02, 2010
    In our second of two CCHIT podcasts from HIMSS10, Alisa Ray, executive director for CCHIT, talks about what's new with the organization and how meaningful use has affected all healthcare IT industry stakeholders.

  • HIMSS10 Interview: Mark Leavitt, MD
    March 02, 2010
    In the first of two CCHIT podcast interviews at HIMSS10, Mark Leavitt, MD, talks about the "unprecedented amount of financial incentives for implementing electronic health records" and the ambition of the meaningful use criteria.

  • HIMSS10 Interview: Deborah Peel, MD
    March 01, 2010
    Deborah Peel, MD, founder and chair of Patient Privacy Rights, talks about the importance of letting patients drive healthcare IT development and gives her opinion of the HIT Policy and Standards Committee's efforts where consumer protections are concerned.

  • Spotlight on MultiCare: Winner of 2009 HIMSS Organizational Davies Award

    February 25, 2010
    Editor Bernie Monegain speaks with Florence Chang, CIO of MultiCare and Matthew Eisenberg, Director of Information Services at MultiCare, winner of the 2009 Organizational Davies Award.

  • William Spooner, Senior VP and CIO of Sharp Healthcare
    February 04, 2010
    In this podcast, Editor Bernie Monegain speaks with William Spooner, senior VP and CIO of Sharp Healthcare, based in San Diego. Spooner will receive the 2009 John E. Gall CIO of the Year Award at the annual HIMSS conference in Atlanta on March 2.

  • Behind 'Best in KLAS'
    January 14, 2010
    Adam Gale of KLAS Research tells Bernie Monegain the truth about the vendors listed in the 2009 "Best in KLAS" report.

  • HITECH Security Preparedness with Rob Seliger, CEO of Sentillion
    November 25, 2009
    Two recent surveys reveal that healthcare organizations across the country are not prepared to meet the security rules required by the HITECH Act. In this podcast editor Bernie Monegain asks Seliger about security challenges specific to the healthcare industry, and why most hospitals are at best only partially prepared.

  • How one hospital plans to show meaningful use of IT
    November 13, 2009
    In this podcast, Sue Schade, vice president and CIO of Brigham and Women's and Faulkner's Hospitals in Boston, tells how the hospital is preparing to show meaningful use of healthcare IT and provides advice for smaller hospitals with fewer resources.

  • Fast-Tracking Your EHR: How to Implement an EHR in 9 1/2 Weeks or Less

    October 20, 2009
    Learn how SunHealth planned, managed, and flawlessly executed a nine-month implementation project in nine weeks - and what they learned along the way.

  • Newsmaker Interview: Sean Walker
    July 21, 2009
    Sean Walker is a director in the healthcare group at McGladrey Capital Markets, LLC, a middle-market-focused investment bank. In this interview with Healthcare IT News Contributing Editor Richard Pizzi, Walker discusses the economics of the healthcare industry under the Obama administration and how the investment community will be affected.

  • Sam's Club EMR - Full Interview
    April 17, 2009
    Bernie Monegain discusses Sam's Club new EMR offering in this full length podcast.

  • Newsmaker Interview: HL7's Charles Jaffe, John Quinn
    April 07, 2009
    Charles Jaffe, MD and John Quinn of Health Level Seven sit down to discuss healthcare IT standards with Editor Bernie Monegain in this podcast from HIMSS09 in Chicago.

  • Healthcare IT News Podcast - EMR Stimulus
    March 08, 2009
    In this audio podcast, Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain and Web Editor Chip Means discuss how stimulus money may affect the development of EMR software.

  • Excellence in Execution: Attitude and Aptitude in Migration to Speech Recognition
    January 15, 2009
    Discover how Halifax Health used speech recognition to restructure staff composition, utilize language specialists in the editing process, and expand resources.

  • Telemedicine: Reimbursement and Ensuring Patient Confidentiality, Privacy and Security
    January 15, 2009
    This presentation is for facilities and providers currently using or considering telemedicine and will give participants an overview of telemedicine and a better understanding of patient confidentiality, privacy and security, as well as reimbursement for such services.

  • ICD-10 Update
    January 15, 2009
    Are you ready for ICD-10? This fast-paced session gives you access to the latest information on the arrival of ICD-10.

  • One Patient One Record (OPOR): Plan, design, implement.    

    January 15, 2009
    For an HIM professional the road towards EHR can be a career maker or a career breaker.

  • Privacy and the EHR: The interplay of Federal and State Law
    January 14, 2009
    Today, more than ever, there is a need to ensure the exchange of information to provide quality healthcare. Speakers discuss the current state of privacy laws, proposed changes to existing laws, and methods to ensure compliance.