Women in Healthcare IT (857)

Jen Horonjeff, founder and CEO of Savvy Cooperative, on connecting innovators directly with patients so they can work together to design effective products.

The former national coordinator and professor at Dell Medical School says the policy, technology and business trend is to put all of a patient's data in one place so they can access it via smartphone.

Beth Landon, director of policy, New Mexico Hospital Association, said the organization is pushing data to clinicians so they have informed conversations with patients — rather than operating like TSA agents.

Prof. Jane Griffiths, associate professor and chief nursing information officer at the Dubai Health Authority, sees game-changing tech on the healthcare horizon but clinicians need to be on board.

Tools exist to engage patients with their data in ways that create a good relationship with providers — when the technology doesn't get in the way, says Joyce Sensmeier, vice president of informatics at HIMSS.

Despite the moaning and groaning leading up to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, now that it's in place EU citizens are better protected, says Angelique Carson, editor of The Privacy Advisor at IAPP.

Jennifer Lannon, advisor at Health Innovation, on the advantages of the new domain that hospitals in Seattle and Miami, for instance, are using for branding and marketing purposes.

Wende Hutton, general partner at Canaan Partners, says there’s room for improvement in transparency and patient identification but there's also the potential for blockchain to be corrupted.

Maggie Brunner, program director of Cybersecurity, Emergency Communications & Technology with the National Governors Association, talks about trends in state security, compliance and strategies and what healthcare CIOs can learn from them.

Joyce Brocaglia, CEO of Alta Associates and founder of Executive Women's Forum, talks about working to help fill board of director seats with people with security skills as well as diversifying cybersecurity teams.

Ursula Hübner with the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück and Beth Elias with University of Scranton on the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) and strategic approaches to seamlessly deliver health informatics education.

Anne Snowdon, with the World Health Innovation Network, and Blain Newton with HIMSS, discuss how the new maturity model for supply chain, H-SIMM, can help improve patient safety as well as potentially save health systems billions of dollars.