Women in Healthcare IT (837)

Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, executive vice president and chief clinical officer for Providence, shared her experience at ground zero in the U.S. for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Identifying and training physician champions while planning ahead are key factors in a successful EMR "go live," says Dr. Tamara Sunbul, medical director of clinical informatics at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, KSA.

The drive toward leveraging telehealth to empower patients is aimed at utilizing technology and the human factor to improve the patient experience, says Dr. Khulood Mohamed Alsayegh, who is with the Dubai Health Authority in the UAE.

Telemedicine has many challenges including access and workforce, but is being deployed to help reduce the burden on secondary care in the Kingdom of Bahrain, says Dr. Khatoon Shubbar, who is with the country's ministry of health.

"Elderhood," like adulthood and childhood, is a long, varied phase of life that includes different stages, but older adults live in a world where they are invisible, says Dr. Louise Aronson, professor of geriatrics at UCSF.

Recognizing the difficulty of behavior change is the first step of helping patients take part in their care, says Motive Medical Intelligence's Director of Solution Development Bette Jane Reese.

Maureen Baker, chair of the Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB), talks about the work of the organization and its collaboration with providers of health and social care in the UK and abroad.

Stephanie Musso, chief HIPAA privacy officer at Stony Brook Medicine, talks about upcoming changes to HIPAA, new OCR enforcements of its right to access provision and more.

Malinda Peeples, VP of clinical services, programs and research at WellDoc, muses on how technology adoption is revamping personal health management.

An application design that is patient-centric can keep users motivated to use them over a long period, says Ayumi Maruyama, president of Triple Regards.

physIQ's Karen Larimer discusses her company's work to extract raw sensor readings from sensors and highlight the takeaways for clinicians.

A lack of third-party cybersecurity standards is hampering hospital-vendor partnerships, says Lorraine Bessmer, senior cybersecurity analyst at St. Luke's Health System.