Women in Healthcare IT (805)

Sue Feldman, a professor of health informatics at University of Alabama at Birmingham, describes the health and safety tools she helped create for the pandemic and the lasting collaboration and innovation that can emerge from public health crises.

Telehealth can reach underserved communities, but there are barriers, including lack of coverage and consumer discomfort. A concerted effort is needed to increase its adoption and efficacy in a post-pandemic world.

Clinical trials need to treat participants as people, not just data subjects, says Dr. Joy Bhosai, cofounder and CEO of Pluto Health.

Patientory's population health, data analytics and patient engagement app is built on a decentralized blockchain network, says CEO Chrissa McFarlane.

Life Image offers a patient-focused "PHR" to store individual imaging and other medical records, says Cristin Gardner, the company's vice president of product.

Enhancing communications was a way for the health network to focus on the patient experience in a more robust way, says Hope Johnson, administrator of perioperative services at Lehigh Valley Health Network.

Payers want to know how to change the experience to make access easy for beneficiaries, says Mary Langowski, CEO of Solera Health.

Naomi Fried, founder and CEO of PharmStars, a non-proprietary accelerator for digital health startups, discusses how PharmStars mentors startups and coaches pharma executives to prepare both parties for successful partnerships.

Informaticists can show that their work brings improvement to every aspect of care and allows nurses to spend more time with patients and families, says Kassaundra McKnight-Young, senior clinical informaticist at the Truman Medical Center.

Juli.co CEO Bettina Hein says the juli app helps providers and patients manage complex conditions such as asthma, depression, bipolar disorder, migraine and chronic pain using formerly siloed data.

Women typically take on a chief health officer type role in their families, so AdaRose gives them the resources to take advantage of digital health tools to make that role easier, says founder and CEO Lygeia Ricciardi, a HIMSS Digital Changemaker.

For optimal outcomes, there needs to be a bidirectional flow of social determinants of health information about a patient between healthcare systems and community organizations, says Sandy Lewallen, AVP of Clinical Revenue Cycle at ProMedica.