Women In Health IT

This is the sixth year of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare.

Tina Esposito of Advocate Health Care discusses the basics of developing a big data strategy in healthcare, emphasizing the importance of aligning analytics strategies with overall business objectives and detailing her organization's experiences.

Katrina Miller and Esther Lee of L.A. Care Health Plan discuss the challenges of comparing the data from those who fall into the newer Medicaid expansion population against other sets, and the importance of top level support in getting big data initiatives off the ground.  

Many organizations have a Project or Program Management Office (PMO).

My fourth grandbaby was born this week.

This week we all grieve for the families and victims in Orlando.

We define “health” broadly in Health Populi and in our work at THINK-Health, so I am thinking about health disparities today that people in the LGBT community face every day. Let’s call them out.

Putting patients at the center of preventing mortality from blood clots, and being more aware of them in recognizing their onset, is key to stemming the disease burden. We can do more to engage with information, tools and other patients and programs to help monitor this condition.

In this clip from the Women in Health IT roundtable discussion at HIMSS16, Susan Heichert and Dana Alexander talk about efforts they have made toward increasing the number of women in leadership positions in health IT.

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