Women in Healthcare IT (837)

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.

Danielle Louder, program director at the Northeast Telehealth Resource Center, gives a brief overview of the state of telehealth reimbursement at the federal and state levels.

Whende Carroll founded Nurse Evolution to educate nurses about Health IT, advanced data analytics and innovation concepts in nursing.

Frye, who organized the event's Evening of Black Excellence, says colleagues were eager to network and share their expertise.

Reid Oakes, executive VP, HIMSS Analytics, and Dr. Anne Snowdon, director of clinical research, HIMSS Analytics, Canada, discuss the changes and the opportunities that COVID-19 has created for digital health.