Women in Healthcare IT (803)

Tanisha Hill, founder and president of the Digital Health for Equitable Health Alliance, discusses how the nonprofit works to improve access to digital therapeutics through advocacy and how the digital divide affects patient access.

Susan Conover, cofounder and CEO of Piction Health, highlights the digital health company’s AI-enabled dermatology-focused offering, its recent $6 million raise and its plan to scale its reach and expand its partnerships across healthcare.

Stéphanie Allassonière, professor of applied mathematics at the Univérsite Paris Cité, teaches medical students the basics of AI by showing them how clinical questions can be translated into mathematical challenges.

Dr. Khulood Alsayegh, with the Dubai Health Authority, says that the main principles of AI ethics of transparency, privacy, accountability and algorithm biases need to be implemented to address concerns about AI use in healthcare.

Being able to deliver a "single source of truth" freed up a surgery schedule that was 90% blocked, says Mindy Bosanek, director of Surgical Services and Cynthia Harms, perioperative business manager at Children's Nebraska.

Real-time prescription-benefit data has had a dramatic impact, with patients notably saving money on medication and picking up 8% more scripts, say Dr. Nele Jessel, athenahealth's CMO and Dr. Andrew Mellin, Surescripts' VP and CMIO.

Anne Snowdon, chief scientific research officer at HIMSS, says the Digital Nursing Summit she led at HIMSS24 Europe focused on how nurses can help advance health systems' digital maturity while keeping care patient centered.

Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare's Dr. Tamara Sunbul discusses the challenges of drafting global policy with the United Nations Economic Commission for digital healthcare public-private partnerships that would help democratize access to care.

Christina Caraballo, VP of informatics at HIMSS, describes the inclusion of maternal social determinants of health data in the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability as a crucial step towards reducing maternal mortality in underserved communities.

Mariam AlEissa, adjunct assistant professor at Alfaisal University in Saudi Arabia, discusses her work in genomics and the Kingdom's goals of offering more targeted, personalized healthcare.

Dr. Michal Tzuchman Katz, cofounder and CEO of Kahun, talks about how her experiences as a practicing pediatrician spurred the development of the company's clinical decision support tool, a "map" that uses AI to recommend next best actions.

Kim Garriott, GM, global healthcare and life sciences at NetApp, discusses the accomplishments of the HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community, comprising more than 1,200 members working to improve healthcare imaging.