Healthcare moves quickly, and few people can read every report or attend every conference. A good podcast can make important ideas easier to follow. It also gives experienced leaders time to explain their thinking.
The best show for you depends on what you want to learn. Some focus on executive leadership and organizational change. Others spend their time on healthcare IT, digital health, policy, clinical practice, consumer experience, finance, or emerging technology.
These 16 podcasts offer a practical starting point. They cover topics relevant to health system leaders, healthcare IT professionals, clinicians, and consultants.
How to Choose a Healthcare Podcast
Start with your role and what you want to learn:
- Executive leadership: Look for long-form interviews with health system executives and transformation leaders.
- Healthcare IT: Choose shows that cover electronic health records, interoperability, cybersecurity, data, digital health, AI, infrastructure, and operational technology.
- Policy and industry news: Select programs with experienced reporters, editors, researchers, or policy experts.
- Patient and consumer experience: Look for discussions of access, digital front doors, communication, navigation, equity, and service design.
- Clinical perspective: Choose programs hosted by clinicians or organizations that clearly identify evidence, limitations, and expert credentials.
- Career development: Look for episodes on leadership, organizational culture, workforce trends, and professional growth.
Before subscribing, try a recent episode and scan the archive. Look for clear guest information and enough context to evaluate each discussion. Strong programs also distinguish opinion from reporting.
Healthcare Leadership Podcasts
1. Leader to Leader
Leader to Leader features conversations with healthcare executives and industry leaders. Topics include culture, change management, technology, modernization, and leadership. Healthcare IT Leaders CEO Ben Hilmes hosts many episodes. Other company leaders occasionally join as hosts.
2. Healthcare Executive Podcast
The Healthcare Executive Podcast from the American College of Healthcare Executives features discussions with healthcare-management leaders. Episodes address leadership, operations, organizational performance, professional development, and issues affecting health system executives.
3. Digital Health Leaders Podcast
In the Digital Health Leaders Podcast, CHIME President and CEO Russ Branzell interviews healthcare technology leaders. They discuss digital transformation, innovation, leadership, and health system operations.
4. The Big Unlock
The Big Unlock explores healthcare digital transformation through conversations with executives from healthcare and technology organizations. Hosts Rohit Mahajan and Ritu M. Uberoy focus on emerging technology, AI, data, innovation, and patient experience.
Healthcare IT Podcasts
5. Healthcare CIO
The Healthcare CIO podcast from Healthcare IT Today features interviews with chief information officers and other senior technology leaders. Conversations focus on the practical decisions, priorities, and leadership challenges behind healthcare IT programs.
6. Healthcare IT Today
The Healthcare IT Today podcast is hosted by John Lynn and Colin Hung. It covers healthcare IT news, trends, products, events, policy developments, and issues affecting technology teams and health system leaders.
7. HIMSSCast
HIMSSCast is produced by the HIMSS Media editorial team behind Healthcare IT News, MobiHealthNews, and Healthcare Finance News. Editors and guests discuss major healthcare technology, digital health, cybersecurity, policy, finance, and industry stories.
8. Perspectives on Health and Tech
Perspectives on Health and Tech is an Oracle Health podcast. Its conversations cover technology, connected care, clinical workflows, data, AI, workforce topics, and health system transformation.
Healthcare Industry and Policy Podcasts
9. Becker’s Healthcare Podcast
The Becker’s Healthcare Podcast publishes interviews and briefings with health system executives, clinicians, operators, and industry experts. Its broad archive covers leadership, finance, workforce, technology, strategy, access, and care delivery.
10. Newsday from This Week Health
Newsday is a healthcare IT news program from This Week Health. Its hosts and guests discuss major headlines affecting healthcare technology and operations.
11. AMA Update
The American Medical Association’s AMA Update covers news and issues affecting physicians, medical practices, patients, and the healthcare system. Episodes feature physicians and other experts discussing public health, policy, practice operations, and clinical topics.
12. Health Affairs This Week
Health Affairs This Week features host Jeff Byers, Health Affairs editors, researchers, and guests. They discuss current health policy news and trends.
Specialized Healthcare Podcasts
13. Freakonomics, M.D. (Archive Selection)
The Freakonomics, M.D. archive features physician and economist Bapu Jena. He explores research involving medicine, economics, and human behavior. The archive remains useful, but readers should not expect a current release schedule.
14. HIT Like a Girl Pod
HIT Like a Girl Pod amplifies women working across healthcare, informatics, and technology. Joy Rios, Grace Vinton, Rebecca Love, and their guests discuss leadership, innovation, equity, professional experience, and the future of healthcare.
15. CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.
CareTalk features John Driscoll and David Williams. They discuss healthcare news, business, policy, care delivery, innovation, and the U.S. healthcare system.
16. Healthcare Rap
Healthcare Rap from Shift Forward Health explores consumer-centered healthcare. Jared Johnson, Zain Ismail, and their guests discuss changing expectations, innovation, access, and healthcare delivery.
Healthcare Podcast FAQs
What are the best healthcare podcasts for executives?
Executive listeners may prefer shows featuring health system CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, chief clinical leaders, policy experts, and transformation executives. Start with the healthcare leadership section, then add an industry or health IT program that matches your responsibilities.
Which podcasts cover healthcare IT?
Healthcare IT programs commonly discuss electronic health records, digital health, cybersecurity, data, interoperability, cloud, AI, patient experience, and technology leadership. The Healthcare CIO, Healthcare IT Today, HIMSSCast, and Digital Health Leaders podcasts are useful starting points.
How can I tell whether a healthcare podcast is credible?
Review the publisher, host, guest credentials, source links, corrections policy, and sponsorship disclosures. Check whether the program distinguishes reporting, evidence, and opinion.
Where can I listen to healthcare podcasts?
Most shows are available through their official websites and major podcast platforms. Availability varies by show.
How often should this list be updated?
Review every show and link at least twice a year. Podcasts can change names, hosts, publishers, formats, and release schedules or stop producing new episodes.
No list can include every worthwhile healthcare podcast. Start here, then follow the guests, organizations, and subjects that prove most useful in your own work.
For more conversations with healthcare executives and transformation leaders, explore the Healthcare IT Leaders podcast library.