Women in Healthcare IT (803)

Brigid Bondoc, partner and life sciences attorney at Morrison Foerster, offers her views on the right regulatory approach to foster artificial intelligence innovation while protecting safety and transparency.

Anne Snowdon, chief research officer at HIMSS, discusses the promise of artificial intelligence in healthcare – and describes how the health systems she works with are using it to clinical and operational challenges.

AI has shaken the industry, but it’s hard to understand how patient data is being collected and used, says Sara Shanti, a partner in Sheppard Mullin’s Corporate Practice Group in Chicago.

Naomi Fried, founder and CEO of PharmStars, discusses the organization's 5th cohort, which is titled "Digital Innovations in Therapeutic Delivery: Supply Chain to the Patient Interface," and the 11 startups graduated from the accelerator program.

Bringing telehealth and other tools into the doctor’s office increases access and destigmatizes mental health conditions, says Dr. Nele Jessel, chief medical officer at athenahealth.

Pauliina Ilmonen, mathematician at Aalto University in Finland, discusses a project she and her colleagues are working on emulating a zombie plague to garner insights into how a major event like a pandemic or mass disinformation can spread.

The interoperability group’s Data Usability Taking Root project is working to advance information exchange while making fragmented and incomplete data more usable for clinicians. Dr. Holly Miller, chief medical officer at MedAllies, explains more.

The Catholic Information Convergence Institute at CMC in South Korea has integrated all data across its eight affiliated hospitals to enable the development of novel AI solutions for personalized care delivery, according to director In-Young Choi.

Post-pandemic health equity can be fueled by investments in social work and technologies that make resources accessible to all people, says Felisha Norrington, director of academic assistance at GSU's College of Nursing and Health Professions.

Dr. Tamara Sunbul, medical director of Clinical Informatics at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, gives advice on pursuing data governance strategies.

Gina Bertolini, partner at K&L Gates, says health systems must invest time and resources to test their information systems to get ahead of cybercriminals.

Since 97% of American adults have a cell phone, keeping in contact is a good way to intervene in health issues and lower disparities, says Marci Bennafield, clinical instructor at Georgia State University's health informatics program.