Fortra, the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), and Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit teamed up to combat abuse of Cobalt Strike, a legitimate adversary simulation tool that cyberthreat actors have taken a liking to. The collaborative efforts resulted in an 80% reduction in unauthorized copies of Cobalt Strike observed in the wild. What does this success story say about the value of industry collaboration in healthcare cybersecurity? 

Featuring: Bob Erdman, associate vice president, research and development at Fortra 

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The Connecticut Poison Control Center receives on average a hundred calls a day and operates 24/7. To handle such an immense workload, the Center relies on one tool to sustain and improve its emergency response: the state's health information exchange (HIE), Connie. How does this HIE help the Center save lives? Listen to find out!

Featuring: Suzanne Doyon, MD, medical director of the Connecticut Poison Control Center at UConn Health

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The healthcare industry has been shifting from fee-for-service to value-based care and payment for decades now with not much to show for it as a whole. How can employers and other healthcare purchasers achieve value amid soaring costs and worsening disease burden?  

Featuring: Shawn Gremminger, president and CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions 

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HIMSS25 ran from March 3-6 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It attracted thousands of industry leaders and featured a predominant theme: artificial intelligence. How did the industry approach this topic in 2025, and what surprising talking points arose?

Featuring: Rebecca Pifer, senior reporter at Healthcare Dive

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It is easy to get swept up in the AI hype. But healthcare leaders cannot afford to lose sight of their true priorities when evaluating AI solutions. How has this technology influenced healthcare leadership styles?

Featuring: Brian Spisak, senior partner and chief people and communication officer at Csuite Growth Advisors; program director of AI and leadership at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University

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AI can have a negative effect on the environment, largely due to increased electricity consumption. How should that shape when and where AI is used in healthcare, if at all?

Featuring: Manijeh ('Mani') Berenji, MD, MPH, associate clinical professor of environmental and occupational health at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine and School of Public Health

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Some might balk at the idea that a healthcare system would struggle to gather social determinants of health data in 2025. But for a rural healthcare system where every employee already fulfills multiple roles and the workforce is stretched thin, collecting this data can feel impossible to add to the workflow. Today's guest shares how to make this impossible task more possible for rural healthcare.

Featuring: Susan Gutjahr, HIT Director and Compliance Officer, Sparta Community Hospital

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Many have postulated that AI could solve--or, at least, bring us closer to solving--the clinician burnout crisis stemming from EHR adoption. But what use cases for AI integration into EHRs are the most ideal?

Featuring: Sean McGunigal, Director of Artificial Intelligence at Epic

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AI innovation requires patient data in order to develop accurate models that can bolster healthcare functions. But, legally, there is only so much one can do with protected health information. How should healthcare organizations walk the line between innovation and privacy? This conversation was recorded at HIMSS25.

Featuring: Adam Greene, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

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Healthcare organizations dodge cyberattacks daily, even from service providers with multiple degrees of separation. What if there was a standard way to prioritize cybersecurity actions across the healthcare sector so that organizations can know their risk level and be more prepared? The Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group is working on something that might do just that.

Featuring: Greg Garcia, executive director, Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group

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