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Emphasizing the positive aspects and benefits of a nursing career could attract more individuals to choose healthcare as their profession, says former Danish education minister Christine Antorini, who started her nursing career at the age of 58.
Patricia MacTaggart, program director and teaching instructor at George Washington University and 2024 Changemaker Award recipient, says that developing AI policy needs to mitigate risk without stifling innovation, much like the early days of EHRs.
Patty Hayward, healthcare and life sciences GM at Talkdesk, discusses how the call center software company integrates AI with EHRs to provide a better experience for patients and lets agents bring more empathy to conversations.
Many clinicians spend hours daily in different workflows on multiple systems, leading to burnout. But symplr aims to consolidate systems and automate workflows to give clinicians more time for patients, says company president Nicole Rogas.
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.