Women in Healthcare IT (803)

Naomi Escoffery, chief accelerator officer at the Defense Health Agency, talks about how the agency is removing policy barriers to give military patients and clinicians the same digital tools available in civilian healthcare.

To ensure health equity for underserved patients, Dr. Emily C. Webber, CMIO at Indiana University Health and 2024 Changemaker Award recipient, and her team secure transportation and other needed resources for them through text messages.

Marina El Khawand, founder and president of Medonations, talks about her volunteer relief work after the 2020 explosion in Beirut, which inspired her to start the NGO that crowdsources medication for Lebanese patients in need.

Dr. Ivor Horn, Google's chief health equity officer, discusses how the tech giant ensures health equity in its AI models, its new technology and tools available for digital health companies to assess equity performance in their AI offerings.

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.