Videos

With security risks on all sides, healthcare providers must have a game plan. At the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge lays out the top things they should be doing right now to gain visibility into the threats – and how they should be planning for the future – while explaining the lessons they can draw from the intelligence community.

(SPONSORED) Even though they're a significant attack vector – a gateway through which attackers can gain access to a hospital's entire information network – the allure of vulnerable medical devices to cyber crooks is still under-appreciated, says Bill Parkinson director of global healthcare strategy at Unisys.

(SPONSORED) Adrienne Edens, VP of Education at CHIME, offers her perspective as a judge from the inaugural Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards and Helen Donnelly of Verizon applauds the initiative's focus to recognize influence and raise awareness within the community which it supports.

As a distinct profession with meaningful and well-paying careers, the health IT field has proven difficult for women to advance. This session recorded at HIMSS17 hosts lessons learned, experiences, and counsel from executives who champion women in health IT.

Eric Dishman, director of the All of Us Research Program, explains the goals of the landmark genomics initiative – and explains how his own personal experience with whole-genome sequencing has informed his work.

(SPONSORED) HIMSS Radio guests Karen DeSalvo and Suzi Grizancic discuss the issues around gender diversity and quality in the health IT field and their involvement in the HIMSS Women in Health IT initiative.

Adnan Hamid, Assistant CIO at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, discusses the organization's areas of focus for health IT in 2017 including cybersecurity, disaster recovery, interoperability and more.

(SPONSORED) Shareefa Alabdulmunem, Head of eServices at King Faisal Specialist Hospital, and Christina Caraballo, Senior Healthcare Strategist at Get Real Health, each reflect upon what it means to receive the HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Award.

Zeeshan Syed, Director of the Clinical Inference and Algorithms Program at Stanford Healthcare, presents the differences between AI and machine learning and discusses current applications of each technology in healthcare.

Cheryl Reinking, CNO at El Camino Hospital, discusses how data analytics assisted their efforts to curb a rising trend in patient falls.