Women in Healthcare IT (885)

First Databank director of product management Anna Dover and NCH Healthcare System CMIO Dr. David Linz discuss their initiative to explore ways to notify clinicians about possible medication errors without triggering alert fatigue.

Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS, shares results from the HIMSS annual healthcare cybersecurity survey and why healthcare organizations need adaptable security strategies, perhaps including analog file backups.

Khue Tran, chief strategy officer at Azalea Health, talks about how the company's telehealth and EHR tools integrate with partners' remote patient monitoring and chronic care management products to treat patients living in rural "care deserts."

Kathleen McGrow, chief nursing information officer at Microsoft, discusses HIMSS innovation nursing advisory group and developing a framework on AI literacy for nurses, providing education around AI innovation and leveraging the technology.

First-step recommendations are: Do the basics, as in following HIPAA security-rule compliance and doing a security-risk analysis, says Carolyn Metnick, partner at Sheppard Mullin and member of their Healthcare and privacy and cybersecurity team.

In 2024, Denmark plans to enable patients to record outcomes through their national health portal, says Mette Maria Skjøth, RN, department head at the Dermatology and Allergy Centre of Odense University Hospital.

Patients are concerned that healthcare's digital transformation could worsen existing health inequalities, especially the digital divide, says Gözde Susuzlu Briggs, programme manager for the European Patients' Forum.

Olga Kagan, consortial faculty and adjunct associate professor at CUNY School of Professional Studies and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker, highlights nurses' roles in improving healthcare technology's usability, from testing tools to providing leadership.

Dr. Eve Cunningham, group VP and chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker, shares how internal sponsors encouraging clinicians to adopt virtual care and RPM reduced admissions and total cost of care.

Roselyn Tso, director of the Indian Health Service (IHS), discusses the agency's mission of advancing health equity for Native Americans and Alaska Natives and its progress in modernizing its health IT system.

Jessica Skopac, division chief engineer at MITRE, talks about her role as a "translator" helping policymakers and clinicians understand the company's technical products and bridging the communication gap between those groups and company engineers.

Emily Barey, chief nurse evangelist at Epic and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker, says her journey from studying political science to nursing to working for a software company started with being willing to try new things and asking for help along the way.