Women in Healthcare IT (835)

Barbara Rothbaum, executive director of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program, shares how the two-week program fuses technology and traditional therapy to treat post-911 vets at no cost.

Kyle Longhurst, product manager at Pariveda, and Wendy Paul, medication process architect at Seattle Children's Hospital, discuss their upcoming HIMSS23 panel on using machine learning to find discharge medication errors.

The IoT specification is meant to help ensure medical devices communicate with trust, identity, privacy, safety and security, says Florence Hudson, executive director of Columbia University's Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub in this HIMSS23 preview.

Natalie Edgeworth, senior manager workforce optimization and innovation at Providence, offers a sneak preview of her HIMSS23 educational session, "Staffing optimization with AI: A look back & look forward."

Olga Kagan, RN, adjunct professor at CUNY School of Professional Studies and Molloy University offers a preview of a HIMSS23 presentation she'll moderate, focused on tools to empower nurses, combat clinician burnout and boost career development.

Dr. Marianne Sumego, director of shared medical appointments at Cleveland Clinic, discusses her HIMSS23 lecture on transitions from in-person shared medical appointments to a virtual format and the benefits for providers and patients.

Mary Kratz, executive vice president at the Interoperability Institute, previews the panel she'll lead at HIMSS23 on cross-sector challenges to implementing interoperability and the power of open-source solutions.

Kimberly Hartsfield, EVP, Growth Enablement, at VisiQuate, talks about how automating tasks like appointment scheduling and claims coding is important, and why healthcare organizations should pivot and work with what they have strategically.

Evernow’s founder and CEO Alicia Jackson relays how the company's new app strives to improve healthcare for women during menopause by connecting them with knowledgeable healthcare providers and allowing them to track their symptoms.

Dr. Sana Farid, a general surgeon and artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR) strategist based in Bahrain, discusses how professionals can employ immersive technology to improve healthcare in the region and globally.

Using conversational AI upstream can help address SDOH-based biases while positive chatbot self-service outcomes can increase trust in AI and automation, says Patty Riskind, Orbita CEO.

Taghreed Justinia, regional director for IT Services at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, discusses the G20 Riyadh declaration and how it aligned recommendations with the WHO's Global Strategy on Digital Health.