Podcasts

  • The uncertain future of health insurance exchanges
    May 08, 2012
    In this episode of the Political Malpractice podcast, Senior Editor Mary Mosquera discusses legislative wrangling inhibiting health insurance exchanges and looks at some states that are making tangible progress anyway.

  • SCOTUS ACA: What we know, what we don't, and how both might affect the ruling
    March 30, 2012
    Senior Editor Mary Mosquera was in the Supreme Court for all four oral arguments and shares with Editor Tom Sullivan her insights about what the justices might be thinking about the individual mandate, Medicaid expansion, and the broader Affordable Care Act.

  • Joyce Sensmeier, HIMSS VP, informatics, discusses the growing role of nurses in health IT
    March 29, 2012
    Joyce Sensmeier, RN, is vice president for informatics at HIMSS. She talks with Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain about her early years as a nurse, her work with HIMSS, particularly with the Connectathon and the Interoperability Showcase. She also discusses her vision for increasing health IT leadership from nurses across the country.

  • Inside the Court: SCOTUS Day 3 with severability, Medicaid, the Godfather and Dirty Harry
    March 29, 2012
    Senior Editor Mary Mosquera was in the Supreme Court for Day 3 of ACA oral arguments, and tells Editor Tom Sullivan about the sessions on severability, which could become the most important aspect of the hearings, and Medicaid, where a pair of stars made rather unlikely appearances.

  • Inside the Court: Day 2, the individual mandate hearings
    March 28, 2012
    Senior Editor Mary Mosquera was in the Supreme Court for Day 2 of ACA hearings, and tells Editor Tom Sullivan about the justices' reactions to individual mandate arguments, the sense she got on how they might proceed, and what it was like outside the court.

  • Inside the Court: Day 1 in SCOTUS ACA hearings
    March 27, 2012
    Government Health IT Senior Editor Mary Mosquera was in the Supreme Court for today's hearings and tells Editor Tom Sullivan about the arguments, surprises, and also what the atmosphere was like outside the court.

  • UPMC's Andrew Watson on connected medicine
    February 20, 2012
    Andrew R. Watson, MD, plays a key role in integrating health information technologies into clinical practice at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain caught up with him recently at a media briefing at the Center for Connected Medicine.

  • 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.