Women in Healthcare IT (805)

Danielle Cocanougher, director of strategic partnerships at myLAB Box, describes the value of Health 2.0 as a convener – exposing longtime healthcare professionals to new ideas from innovative companies, and helping those startups learn from experts.

Emma Cartmell, founding partner of Cartmell Ventures, describes how the new interoperability rules will fuel a new era for consumer healthcare, and describes her investment philosophy.

Personal experience has shown Kristen Valdes, founder and CEO of b.well Connected Health, the critical value of having disparate health data – clinical, financial, biometric, genomic, social determinant and more – aggregated in one accessible place.

Julia Cheek, founder and CEO of EverlyWell, explains how her company is helping transform the process of getting laboratory tests, using existing consumer technology to expand and improve access, affordability and convenience.

Rebecca MacKinnon, director and exec-in-residence at Springboard Enterprises, explains how her firm helps with leadership development for female entrepreneurs.

TriHealth got all of its nursing and home care facilities documenting quality and utilization directly into its Epic EHR to determine the best outcomes and give patients solutions to make care decisions.

Project HEAL CEO and co-founder Kristina Saffran discusses how the organization is working to help those with eating disorders overcome them to improve quality of life and reduce healthcare utilization and cost.

Clinicians deeply understand pain points and workflow and they care about innovations working because they will be the ones who use the tech, says Dr. Aenor Sawyer, Chief Health Innovation Officer and Director of UCSF's Skeletal Health Service.

MITRE Senior Principal Cybersecurity Engineer Margie Zuk discusses the FDA pre- and post-market cyber guidelines for medical devices to eliminate confusion around security.

Kristina Sheridan, Center for Veterans Enterprise Transformation department head at MITRE, shares how tracking her daughter’s 26 symptoms in a complete patient story over time enabled doctors to help her heal.

Kate Birch, data and technology program manager at Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance, says using genomics to pick the right test for patients can result in getting five times the diagnoses at half the cost and better answers for more people.

Program Executive Officer Stacy Cummings discusses how DoD is deploying a new network built with cybersecurity in mind, using a risk management framework, and undergoing regular white hat assessments.