Women in Healthcare IT (809)

Tips for physicians and nurses on the frontlines of healthcare delivery on what they can do as well as how their use of EHRs can benefit patients, from Dr. Peggy Allen, a pediatric anesthesiologist at Akron Children's Hospital.

She offers updates on some key IT initiatives for 2026 at the world-renowned health system, from AI to quantum computing. She also gives a sneak-peak of her presentation at HIMSS26, where she'll be discussing smart hospital design.

The phase-out of the Medicare Inpatient-Only list drives value and efficiency, but hospitals lose out on volume and revenue, says Allison Oakes, chief research officer for Trilliant Health.

Virginia Halsey, senior vice president of strategy and product management at FDB, discusses the MCP standard and how it can scale AI safely in clinical workflows and unlock safe automation across medication workflows.

Recovery, downtime and disruption from IT outages cost some independent and senior care providers "tens of thousands of dollars per minute," lower staff morale and pose patient safety concerns, says healthcare IT security expert Danielle Morrison.

Debra Beauregard, Rady Children’s Health’s director of medical intelligence and innovation, offers strategies for how organizations, pediatrics and beyond, can be more comfortable exploring, evaluating and adopting emerging technologies.

Head of emerging technologies at Mass General Brigham Esther Kim discusses healthcare technologies' ability to address unmet needs while underscoring the importance of careful, thoughtful adoption to ensure safe, systemwide impact.

Jackie Mattingly of Clearwater advises small- to medium-sized hospitals to improve accountability and streamline technical complexities now to improve their cybersecurity postures in this look at what rural providers face.

Teresa Cope, CEO of Manx Care, outlines the Isle of Man government's 2026 Innovation Challenge, an initiative designed to attract technology solutions that can support the Island's vision for digitally enabled, sustainable healthcare.

CMS says about 25% of the spend is fraudulent or being abused by providers, says Carol Howard, vice president of innovation and adoption at Janus Health.

DeepLook Medical CEO Marissa Fayer cautions against using ChatGPT for medical advice and advocates for a balance between using digital technologies to empower patients and ensuring physicians remain trusted decision-makers.

Electrophysiologists, who implant devices such as pacemakers, need technology to automatically determine when the billing period ends, says Sallie Gustafson, RN, director of Medical Affairs at Murj.