Women in Healthcare IT (867)

Grace Cordovano, cofounder of Unblock Health and a 2024 HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, discusses how patients may need help from AI tools or peer support groups to make knowledgeable decisions based on data from their medical records.

Gabriela Mustata Wilson, health and public health informatics director at the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics and 2023 Changemaker Award winner, on her inspiration to form global and local data-driven public health partnerships.

Connie White Delaney, dean and professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, discusses the pivotal role technology and informatics play in nursing, as well as the need to involve nurses in the design and testing of new digital tools.

Dr. Priscilla Frase, Ozarks Healthcare CMIO and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, says the advantages of working in rural healthcare, including speed to market in developing and testing new programs, outweigh the challenges.

Sandra Johnson, SVP, client services at CliniComp, talks about how CliniComp's system-as-a-service EHR model reduces costs for clients through its subscription model and provides an accurate, accessible longitudinal patient record.

Dr. Geeta Nayyar, MDI Health's executive clinical advisor, talks about how healthcare organizations should embrace transparency to keep patients connected and informed, and to avoid losing them to retail clinics and other nontraditional providers.

Dr. Maria Carolina Aguirre, CMIO at FCV-HIC (Hospital Internacional de Colombia), talks about her work with HL7 to promote the adoption of interoperability standards, as well as with the Colombian government to improve information sharing laws.

Inovalon's Julie Lambert and Hayley Burgess talk about how their company's acquisition of VigiLanz brings real-time surveillance software that can help prevent adverse hospital events.

J29's Tracy Mills, CEO and founder, and Nick Vass, president, discuss the company's origin, its work interpreting healthcare policies for public agencies and its mission of contributing to nonprofits, including the "HIMSS Gives Back" program.

Kerry Goetz, associate director, NEI Office of Data Science and Health Informatics, talks about how AI could help diagnose serious diseases from ocular images and stresses the need for interoperability to make this imaging data more accessible.

Whende Carroll, clinical informatics advisor, HIMSS, talks about celebrating the 26th annual Nursing Informatics Forum at HIMSS24 and about how AI and other technologies are driving efficiencies and changing nurses' roles post-pandemic.

Dr. Yaa Kumah-Crystal, associate professor of biomedical informatics and pediatric endocrinology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, talks about how ambient AI tools can reduce clinicians' burden by recording patient visits and producing notes.