Women in Healthcare IT (837)

Lisa Counsell, HIMSS sales and relationship management VP, says that HIMSS membership brings value at every career level, enabling networking for newcomers and offering continuous learning and community for seasoned executives.

UCHealth's Brittany Cyriacks explains how the health system developed a virtual nursing command center enhanced by an AI tool that searches patient records for signs of deterioration and rolled it out to all 15 of its hospitals.

Sophia Brown, RN, Strategic Informatics Solutions' founder and CEO, continues to share ideas and troubleshoot technology problems with her HIMSS Executive Connect cohort and other alumni.

Jill Seys, senior director for North America analytics at HIMSS, says that, in addition to offering EMRAM and other models, HIMSS can support healthcare organizations in achieving digital maturity.

Fragmented systems hinder care in tribal regions, and Brenda Hood, client experience analyst at HealtHIE Nevada, says that seamless data exchange is essential to closing care gaps and improving access to treatment.

Attending Global Conference yearly enables in-person meetings and conversations that deepen the commitment the 75% of HIMSS members involved in its 22 communities have to their shared work, according to HIMSS' Tammy Kwiatkoski.

Aashima Gupta, Google's global director for healthcare solutions, says that generative and agentic AI can work together to solve healthcare's pain points by preparing documentation and assisting in call centers.

Dr. Ami Bhatt, chief innovation officer at the American College of Cardiology, says wearables can spot subtle physiological changes to enable earlier intervention for patients with cardiometabolic disease.

UCI Health's Dr. Deepti Pandita, HIMSS-AMDIS Physician Executive Leader Changemaker Awardee, says that her many years of HIMSS membership led her to join the HIMSS Physician Committee and, eventually, to become its chair.

Having experienced the healthcare system both as a legislator and a cancer patient, Policy Influencer Changemaker Dianne Primavera, Colorado's lieutenant governor, works to make healthcare more accessible and affordable.

Founder Changemaker awardee Helen Hill, SEMHIE VP/CIO and founder of the HIMSS Michigan chapter, helped launch MiHIN (the Michigan health information exchange), chairs its interoperability task force and runs a small sub-HIE in the MiHIN system.

Giving patients visibility into procedure costs can reduce surprise billing and drive prices down through competition, according to HIMSS Policy Influencer Changemaker Leigh Burchell, VP for policy and public affairs at Altera Digital Health.