Women in Healthcare IT (791)

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.

Nicole Rogas, RevSpring president, says the company's new AI tool provides healthcare customer service representatives with real-time financial data on patients to guide more empathetic conversations about payment options.

Kyruus Health's Gen Conlin says the company's AI-powered tool simplifies the process of searching for care via multiple online sources by determining patients' desired location and type of care.

Essex County College's Elvy Vieira discusses the college's participation in the NJ Pathways initiative and partnership with HIMSS to help students earn credentials that can lead to high-paying healthcare and health IT jobs.