Women in Healthcare IT (803)

At The Admiral at The Lake, which provides all levels of senior living from independent to dementia care, cybersecurity challenges are often "really a matter of people taking it as seriously as we do," says IT director Zina Kind.

Cathy Turner, AVP at MEDITECH and 2023 Changemaker Award recipient, talks about how her nursing background supports her passion for working in healthcare IT and for helping nurses realize the benefits to care delivery that technology can provide.

Dr. Joye Purser, field CISO for Veritas Technologies, explains high-impact cyber threats that healthcare organizations face, as well as how to build a security culture from the inside out to prevent and combat data breaches.

Gabriela Mustata Wilson, director of health and public health informatics at the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics and 2023 Changemaker Award recipient, talks about how patient and SDOH data can help improve community health.

Payel Das, principal research staff member and manager in the Trusted AI department of IBM and IBM master inventor, relays the prospect of large language models filling gaps in data and generating insight based on what is missing.

Janis Curtis, associate director of the CDRN program at Duke University Health System and 2023 Changemaker Award recipient, talks about volunteering at HIMSS, her varied healthcare IT career and leveraging data to help improve healthcare delivery.

The nursing shortage is not going away and will require creative solutions such as virtual care, says Caregility Chief Nursing Officer Wendy Deibert.

Fran Ayalasomayajula, president of Reach and 2023 Changemaker Award recipient, talks about how her passion for improving care access for all has been inspired by her family's legacy of providing healthcare, particularly her father’s medical practice.

Abigail Norville from the Netherlands Ministry of Health Welfare and Sport explains that healthcare needs to evolve and we will need to foster and train our existing healthcare workforce to work in new ways.

Dr Catia Pinto of SPMS explains how Portugal will use the EU R&R fund to advance its digital health transformation. This includes a national data lake which will integrate with EHDS and which will give citizens access to their health records.

Naomi Fried, CEO and founder of PharmStars, discusses the 13 startups from its cohort on digital innovation for women's health and health equity and details of the accelerators' next cohort, Digital Innovations in Therapeutic Delivery.

Petra Hoogendoorn from EU project Label2Enable explains how patients and doctors want their governments to take responsibility for filtering and recommending healthcare related apps.