Podcasts

  • 10 minutes with Farzad Mostashari, MD
    February 02, 2012
    Farzad Mostashari, MD, talks with Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain about meaningful use, the progress toward a digital healthcare system, his disappointments (they're hard to find, he says, but he does find "a glimmer" of one) and what keeps him up at night.

  • The demand for IT jobs in healthcare
    May 04, 2011
    Eric Marx, vice president of healthcare IT services for IT staffing and recruiting firm Modis, talks with Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain about what hospitals and other healthcare organizations are doing to find the right people for the right jobs.

  • Open source technology in healthcare
    May 04, 2011
    Professor Jeremy Wyatt of the Institute for Digital Healthcare at the UK-based University of Warwick, speaks with Managing Editor Mike Miliard about open source technology in healthcare.

  • NewsMaker Interview: David Blumenthal, MD
    February 10, 2011
    David Blumenthal MD, the nation's outgoing healthcare IT coordinator and the chief architect of the meaningful use initiative, talks with Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain about the biggest challenges ahead.

  • NewsMaker Interview: Charles Christian, CIO of the Year
    January 14, 2011
    We interview Charles E. Christian, CIO of Good Samaritan Hospital in Indiana, who has been named CIO of the Year by CHIME and HIMSS.

  • Digital records in rural healthcare: Tutwiler's shining example
    November 15, 2010
    Sister Anne Brooks, MD, is a physician at the Tutwiler Clinic, a rural clinic in Tutwiler, Miss. that uses electronic records to serve its community of mostly indigent patients. Sister Brooks talks about the road to adoption and the difference an EHR makes in this podcast interview.

  • L. Albert Villarin, Jr. on patient engagement through IT
    September 03, 2010
    L. Albert Villarin, Jr., MD, national director, physician services for Thomson Reuters talks about how physicians can engage patients via healthcare IT.

  • NewsMaker Interview: John Glaser
    July 09, 2010
    John Glaser, CIO of Partners Healthcare in Boston, is moving to the vendor side of the industry - an industry he says is at a "very rare moment" in its history.

  • Breaking barriers to EMR adoption
    June 23, 2010
    Researchers Heather Haugen and Jeffrey Woodside, MD, wrote their book Beyond Implementation: A Prescription for Lasting EMR Adoption, to highlight common themes to EMR adoption barriers that they were seeing in their work with clients.

  • Glen Tullman discusses Allscripts-Eclipsys merger
    June 16, 2010
    Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman talks with Bernie Monegain about the Chicago EHR vendor's merger with Eclipsys, announced June 9.

  • Windows 7 vulnerabilities in healthcare
    June 10, 2010
    Saurabh Bhatnagar of BeyondTrust talks about his analysis of Windows 7 vulnerabilities highlights how healthcare companies can boost computer security and set access levels for desktops to combat the misuse of admin privileges.

  • Standards Insider: Kevin Hutchinson
    May 12, 2010
    Kevin Hutchinson serves on the federal Health Information Technology Standards Panel, advising President Barack Obama's national coordinator for health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal, on the development and use of health information interoperability standards.

  • NewsMaker Interview: Karen Bell, MD
    April 26, 2010
    Editor Bernie Monegain speaks with Karen Bell, MD, the newly-appointed chair of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology.

  • 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.