Women in Healthcare IT (857)

Informaticists can show that their work brings improvement to every aspect of care and allows nurses to spend more time with patients and families, says Kassaundra McKnight-Young, senior clinical informaticist at the Truman Medical Center.

Juli.co CEO Bettina Hein says the juli app helps providers and patients manage complex conditions such as asthma, depression, bipolar disorder, migraine and chronic pain using formerly siloed data.

Women typically take on a chief health officer type role in their families, so AdaRose gives them the resources to take advantage of digital health tools to make that role easier, says founder and CEO Lygeia Ricciardi, a HIMSS Digital Changemaker.

For optimal outcomes, there needs to be a bidirectional flow of social determinants of health information about a patient between healthcare systems and community organizations, says Sandy Lewallen, AVP of Clinical Revenue Cycle at ProMedica.

Danielle Louder, program director at the Northeast Telehealth Resource Center, gives a brief overview of the state of telehealth reimbursement at the federal and state levels.

Whende Carroll founded Nurse Evolution to educate nurses about Health IT, advanced data analytics and innovation concepts in nursing.

Frye, who organized the event's Evening of Black Excellence, says colleagues were eager to network and share their expertise.

Reid Oakes, executive VP, HIMSS Analytics, and Dr. Anne Snowdon, director of clinical research, HIMSS Analytics, Canada, discuss the changes and the opportunities that COVID-19 has created for digital health.

Aenor Sawyer, MD, director, UC Space Health Program, UCSF, talks about the future of space health and the challenges presented as more humans venture into space for longer trips and farther distances.

Dr. Adrienne Boissy, chief experience officer at the Cleveland Clinic, says the "secret sauce" to effective care is for providers to imagine what the patient is going through and understand the real pain points before implementing a technology touch.

NASA astronaut and microbiologist Kathleen Rubins discusses tech's role in addressing the health risks and challenges of space exploration and shares the most gratifying moment in her career.

We have to ask what the patients want, says Jen Horonjeff, founder and CEO of Savvy Cooperative.