Women in Healthcare IT (821)

Women in Health IT Changemaker Award recipient Hiyam Nadel of Massachusetts General Hospital discusses how bringing clinicians to the digital tool design process can improve the tools' effectiveness and reduce staff burnout.

Susan Hull of the MITRE Center for Transforming Health talks about working with diverse communities over two decades of involvement with HIMSS to simplify clinical workflows and restore a focus on patient care.

In Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Meong Hi Son, Samsung Medical Center CMIO, she explains that improvements to clinical workflows are more likely to come from clinicians who are confident with new tools than from top-down mandates.

In Part 1 of our interview with Samsung Medical Center CMIO Dr. Meong Hi Son, she says that HIMSS maturity models have helped the hospital fill its technology gaps, but that an engaged workforce educated in digital tools keeps it innovating.

All publicly funded Italian hospitals have adopted HIMSS' EMRAM and INFRAM models to assess their digital maturity and demonstrate the benefits of digitization, says Elena Sini, HIMSS board chair and group CIO at Italy's GVM Care and Research.

While agentic AI can surface important insights from volumes of data, project professionals have the skills to provide the structure and clarity teams need, says Karla Mae Eidem of the Project Management Institute.

Zebra Technologies CNIO Kassaundra McKnight-Young says that her involvement with the HIMSS Foundation has helped drive her work in leveraging technology to give clinicians more time for direct patient care.

Ini Ekiko Thomas, VP of IT and innovation at Memorial Hermann Health System, credits national and Houston, Texas HIMSS chapter engagement with helping her connect to colleagues and vendors that can help solve complex challenges.

Farhana Alarakhiya of Aga Khan University talks about how she's turning her decades of data expertise towards creating data-driven insights that can solve population health challenges in low- and middle-income countries.

Point-of-Care Partners' Vanessa Candelora says price transparency for services and medications will make it possible for patients to budget for procedures and to shop for better prices with providers in their insurance network.

Including nurses in the development process will ensure that new AI products support nursing workflows rather than forcing nurses to adapt to the technology, according to Kaiser Permanente's Surya Shenoy and Jerri Westphal.

Predictive analytics support AI tools and help clinicians connect with patients, but Anne Snowdon, chief scientific research officer at HIMSS, says that, globally, only about 30% of analytics capacity has been realized.