Women In Health IT

Healthcare has to collaborate, innovate and extend the reach of care by using the data so many devices will generate to gain insights that can be used to improve outcomes, says Maria Lensing, vice president of global healthcare solutions at AT&T.

Those living with diabetes and other chronic health conditions should be acknowledged and respected as the experts in managing their own care, says Renza Scibilia, Manager, Type 1 Diabetes and Consumer Voice, Diabetes Australia.

Startups should work closely with their target audiences in the product-creation phase and not wait for the feedback after the product or service is rolled out, says Karolina Korth, founder of the Kuala Lumpur Health 2.0 chapter.

Hong Xu, CPC Party Secretary at Children's Hospital of Fudan University, discusses digital health, smart hospitals and where technology fits into the government's Healthy China initiative.

Hazel Jones, program director of Apps & Wearables at NHS Digital talks about the wide range of healthcare apps that were put through a stringent assessment process before being made available in the UK's NHS apps library.

Jane Miller, COO of Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, shares that her organization, which reached the elite stage 7 EMRAM, treated EMR implementation as a clinical transformation project, not an IT project.

Robin Frady, executive director, B&CI Information Services at Grady Health System, talks about her organization’s success with using AI and data to target at-risk patients with post-discharge EMS outreach. 

Aashima Gupta, global head of Health Solutions at Google Cloud, talks about Google’s approach to technology enabling infrastructure with healthcare industry standards to allows organizations to have more time to innovate.

Now more than ever, networking is key to getting ahead.

Public health advocate and recipient of the HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Award, Jessican Kahn, shares stories from her career and the impact health IT can have on population health.