Women in Healthcare IT (857)

Pia Heikkurinen, theme specialist, capacity renewal at Sitra, talks about the support the Finnish government is giving Sitra to back digital health startups and other healthcare innovators.

Karina Tellinger McNeil, strategist for the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, breaks down her country's ambitious plan to lead the world in the digitization of healthcare.

Charles Alessi, HIMSS chief clinical officer, and Sitra Director Jaana Sinipuro, discuss the ideals and successes that have defined Finnish healthcare as one of the most impactful systems in the world.

Joanne Bosanquet, deputy chief nurse at Public Health England, and HIMSS International Chief Clinical Officer Charles Alessi, weigh the benefits of tech adoption with the need to give nurses the support, and time, they need to embrace change.

Naila Siddiqui Kamal, MD, senior lecturer at Imperial College London, discusses ways doctors can rise above the worries tied to IT adoption and instead embrace the ways that digital technology can assist them in caring for our populations.

Emily Vaughn, product development director at Change Healthcare, explains how blockchain works in tandem with the company’s claims assurance dashboard to provide an integrity check against the event data already in their clearinghouse.

MobiHealthNews Editor Jonah Comstock speaks with Tina Joros, general manager of the open business unit at Allscripts, about "creating a new mentality of innovation" to improve workflows and enhance patient engagement.

(SPONSORED) Adrienne Edens, VP of Education at CHIME, offers her perspective as a judge from the inaugural Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards and Helen Donnelly of Verizon applauds the initiative's focus on community,

(SPONSORED) Shareefa Alabdulmunem, Head of eServices at King Faisal Specialist Hospital, and Christina Caraballo, Senior Healthcare Strategist at Get Real Health, discuss what it means to receive the HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Award.

(SPONSORED) Karen Guice, Former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs for the US DOD, advises women in health IT to see opportunity in the face of bad experiences and risk taking.

Karen DeSalvo and Carla Smith discuss the important differences between focusing on "what you want to be" and "what you want to do " in your career. Recorded at HIMSS17.

Marion Ball, Ed.D, Professor Emerita at Johns Hopkins University, shares her experience coming up through the male-dominated health IT profession and offers advice to young women just entering the field.