Women in Healthcare IT (855)

Aashima Gupta, Google's global director for healthcare solutions, says that generative and agentic AI can work together to solve healthcare's pain points by preparing documentation and assisting in call centers.

Dr. Ami Bhatt, chief innovation officer at the American College of Cardiology, says wearables can spot subtle physiological changes to enable earlier intervention for patients with cardiometabolic disease.

UCI Health's Dr. Deepti Pandita, HIMSS-AMDIS Physician Executive Leader Changemaker Awardee, says that her many years of HIMSS membership led her to join the HIMSS Physician Committee and, eventually, to become its chair.

Having experienced the healthcare system both as a legislator and a cancer patient, Policy Influencer Changemaker Dianne Primavera, Colorado's lieutenant governor, works to make healthcare more accessible and affordable.

Founder Changemaker awardee Helen Hill, SEMHIE VP/CIO and founder of the HIMSS Michigan chapter, helped launch MiHIN (the Michigan health information exchange), chairs its interoperability task force and runs a small sub-HIE in the MiHIN system.

Giving patients visibility into procedure costs can reduce surprise billing and drive prices down through competition, according to HIMSS Policy Influencer Changemaker Leigh Burchell, VP for policy and public affairs at Altera Digital Health.

Stony Brook Medicine CNIO and Women in Health IT Changemaker Award recipient Julie Luengas, DNP, RN, says her involvement in HIMSS has led to mentorship, leadership roles and advancement in her nursing informatics career.

McLaren Health Care's Samantha Jacques, HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, explains how, as medical devices become more complex, the roles of clinical engineers and IT professionals in safeguarding these tools intersect.

Cambridge Health Alliance's Dr. Hannah Galvin, Health Equity Changemaker Award recipient, talks about her work in advancing standards that would allow patients to selectively share health data to protect sensitive information.

Changemaker Award honoree for veterans' health, Sepi Browning, says that after attending HIMSS events for years, she has built a trusted network of close friends that work together to solve shared challenges.

Women in Health IT Changemaker Award recipient Hiyam Nadel of Massachusetts General Hospital discusses how bringing clinicians to the digital tool design process can improve the tools' effectiveness and reduce staff burnout.

Susan Hull of the MITRE Center for Transforming Health talks about working with diverse communities over two decades of involvement with HIMSS to simplify clinical workflows and restore a focus on patient care.