Women in Healthcare IT (805)

Tools exist to engage patients with their data in ways that create a good relationship with providers — when the technology doesn't get in the way, says Joyce Sensmeier, vice president of informatics at HIMSS.

Despite the moaning and groaning leading up to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, now that it's in place EU citizens are better protected, says Angelique Carson, editor of The Privacy Advisor at IAPP.

Jennifer Lannon, advisor at Health Innovation, on the advantages of the new domain that hospitals in Seattle and Miami, for instance, are using for branding and marketing purposes.

Wende Hutton, general partner at Canaan Partners, says there’s room for improvement in transparency and patient identification but there's also the potential for blockchain to be corrupted.

Maggie Brunner, program director of Cybersecurity, Emergency Communications & Technology with the National Governors Association, talks about trends in state security, compliance and strategies and what healthcare CIOs can learn from them.

Joyce Brocaglia, CEO of Alta Associates and founder of Executive Women's Forum, talks about working to help fill board of director seats with people with security skills as well as diversifying cybersecurity teams.

Ursula Hübner with the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück and Beth Elias with University of Scranton on the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) and strategic approaches to seamlessly deliver health informatics education.

Anne Snowdon, with the World Health Innovation Network, and Blain Newton with HIMSS, discuss how the new maturity model for supply chain, H-SIMM, can help improve patient safety as well as potentially save health systems billions of dollars.

Christel Anderson, senior director of Interoperability Initiatives for HIMSS, talks about a HIMSS19 showcase that deals with topics, including data sharing, patient engagement, social determinants of health, that intersection with interoperability.

Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), talks about fighting for the rights of the end user and offers advice on how companies can improve their products in terms of security and privacy.

Renown Health increased Medicare Advantage membership 4 percent by using data, analytics and outreach to get to know its consumer.

Rebecca Kaul, Chief Innovation Officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses using technology to take compassionate care to the next level, rather than leading with innovative tech that doesn't always solve the big problems.