Women in Healthcare IT (782)

Dr Candan Kendir, health policy analyst at the OECD, says the latest Patient-Reported Indicator Survey (PaRIS) surprisingly revealed that countries' healthcare budgets are less important to outcomes than previously thought.

Teja Batagelj of the Slovenia Ministry of Health shares how the country is working to unify its fragmented healthcare system with digital transformation, which will standardize care to drive interoperability across its 26 hospitals.

Mariatheresa Kadushi, cofounder of the SheHer app, says her diverse global group of female co-founders built the app to empower women to document their experiences and connect digitally with healthcare providers.

Diana Ferro of Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital discusses the hospital’s participation in the CYLCOMED initiative, which has developed an AI cybersecurity toolbox to safeguard data collected from remote monitoring devices.

Despite rapid technological advances, poor governance and insufficient strategies are stalling global healthcare's digital transformation, says Dr Derya Şahin, OECD AI in Healthcare Expert Group member.

The Swedish eHealth Agency is leading efforts to create a central digital infrastructure for Sweden's 21 regions and adopt shared standards to align with the European Health Data Space, says Gunilla Nordlöf, the agency's director general.

Anne Moen, professor at the University of Oslo, discusses the Gravitate Health project's five-year effort to make prescription drugs' electronic product information easier for patients and caregivers to understand.

Jaanika Merilo of Estonia's Ministry of Social Affairs shares how the country's fully digital and interoperable health system is rolling out personalized services like cancer screenings based on patients' genomic data.

Marjolein Heemels, chief nursing officer at Maastricht UMC+, says the medical center focuses on training nurse leaders and involving nurses in care design, technology adoption and digital transformation.

As the European Health Data Space is being implemented, the Health Data Hub's Pauline Cohen says SHAIPED will help facilitate healthcare data access for medical device manufacturers.

AI reduces the cognitive burden of overseeing multiple chronic conditions and social determinants during 30-minute patient visits with chart summaries that hyper-personalize recommendations, says Lori Walker, Presbyterian Healthcare Services' CMIO.

Penn Medicine's Anna Schoenbaum says nurses can accelerate digital technology adoption by identifying care challenges, working with IT staff to find tools that can help and engaging key stakeholders to vet those tools.