Women In Health IT
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Carla Smith, EVP of HIMSS North America, reflects on the Women in Health IT roundtable discussion at HIMSS16 and shares key takeaways from the engaging conversation moderated by Bernie Monegain of Healthcare IT News.
The forum brought together women in various management, technology and clinical roles to discuss how best to create community, resources and content to address the interests of women.
Judy Murphy, Chief Nursing Officer at IBM, discusses the growing influence of mobile technologies in healthcare analytics.
Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, President of the American Nurses Association (ANA), sits down with Healthcare IT News at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference to discuss the important role of nurses in adoption of mobile health technology.
LEARNING CENTER: 2015 HIMSS Connected Health Conference Session Recordings
Patricia Mechael has been appointed executive vice president, Personal Connected Health Alliance at HIMSS, effective April 15, HIMSS President and CEO Steve Lieber announced on Thursday.
Mechael will serve as consultant for HIMSS until her official appointment. She'll facilitate market analysis, business planning processes and guide immediate term goals.
At PCHA, she hopes to advance trends toward self-care technology as a way to address challenges such as chronic illness management and mental health.
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Mechael most recently served as executive director of the mHealth Alliance and as Principal and Policy Lead for HealthEnabled. She also has collaborated with the mHealth Summit for more than seven years. She has 15 years of experience in field building and thought leadership.
At HealthEnabled, she concentrates on global thought leadership and advocacy, research and policy work in Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda, while working with the World Health Organization to create a Global Health Index and State of the World's Digital Health Report.
She was recently awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center fellowship for a study entitled, the Future of Health is Digital that highlighted the use of technology to improve patient outcomes and strengthen the health system.
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Sue Schade, chief information officer at University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, plans to leave that role and will instead focus on consulting, coaching and interim management work after spending more than 30 years leading IT departments.
Men, on average, earned $126,262, compared to $100,762 for women in the survey of 1,900 healthcare professionals that includes CEOs, CIOs, IT project managers and other titles.
Patricia Salber, MD, founder and CEO of Health Tech Hatch and host of the popular blog "The Doctor Weighs In," reflects on discussions from the 2015 Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum in Boston.
Hazel Tapp, PhD, Associate Director of Research at Carolinas HealthCare System, talks about promoting shared medical decision making processes at the organization.