Women in Healthcare IT (857)

Beth Kutscher, senior news editor for healthcare at LinkedIn, explains how the social networking platform is moving into digital health content and what it believes it can do to address the disconnect between technology and care delivery.

Aashima Gupta, global head of Health Solutions at Google Cloud, talks about Google’s approach to technology enabling infrastructure with healthcare industry standards to allows organizations to have more time to innovate.

Allyson Vicars, associate director of health IT research at the Advisory Board, give a deep overview of how healthcare providers can bake security sensibilities into every operation.

India Hook-Barnard, director of research strategy at the University of California San Francisco, gives a high-level look at how knowledge networks work and how healthcare can leverage them for better analytics and for advancing precision medicine.

Jane Harper, director of privacy and security risk management at Henry Ford Health System, discusses why this mantra is essential in security risk management, especially when dealing with 3rd-party tools.

Lee Kim, director of privacy and security at HIMSS, gives a comprehensive overview of the threats, risks and emerging best practices tied to keeping healthcare data safe.

India Hook-Barnard, associate director of precision medicine strategy at University of California San Francisco, says it's all about the data and how integrating and analyzing data will open the door to precision medicine.

Kimberly Carrosino, senior director of identity and access management at Providence Health and Services, says hiring a partner to manage identities within healthcare systems can reduce costs, improve compliance and automate certain workflows.

Allyson Vicars, associate director of health IT research at The Advisory Board, says the best course for executives is to keep it simple by bringing forth viable and easy understood plans that hospital staffs can get behind.

Lee Kim, director of privacy and security at HIMSS, says the industry has a long way to go to be able to fend off next WannaCry or Petya. But the good news is collaboration is happening across healthcare to better get prepared.

Angela Velkova, who manages the WHIT community for HIMSS Europe, discusses how women executives and clinicians are coming together to elevate each other and to stand up against the discrimination they still face in the workplace.

Indu Subaiya, co-founder of Health 2.0 and executive vice president at HIMSS, discusses the value in bridging the gap between the start-up community and European hospital IT leaders.