Women In Health IT

Hazel Tapp, PhD, Associate Director of Research at Carolinas HealthCare System, talks about promoting shared medical decision making processes at the organization.

Jennifer Horowitz, Senior Director of Research at HIMSS, highlights the findings from the 2015 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey and some of the key takeaways from the responses and the implications on the industry.

You want irony? Try this: the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that we women are the ones who make the health care choices for the kids in 8 out of 10 families. Yet women are far and away the minority gender in the world of health IT leaders. While this is by no means the definitive list, I’ve done some research on the women who ARE making their mark in HIT.

I recently had the opportunity to attend an event in my hometown of Atlanta that honored the top 25 women in healthcare – a group of powerful and intelligent providers and payers that are leading the industry into a new era.