Women in Healthcare IT (805)

Jane Harper, Director Privacy & Security Risk Management at Henry Ford Health System, discusses how third party risk management should be viewed like a romantic relationship – from the dating stage through the prenup, marriage, and even divorce.

Jennifer Esposito, general manager of Health and Life Sciences at Intel, explains how AI benefits workflows with its direct impact to be a seamless integration for physicians and the patient experience.

Scaling to work with larger healthcare entities for startups requires partnerships and Fran Ayalasomayajula, healthcare executive strategist at HP, has some pro tips on how to make it work.

Theresa Payton, president and CEO of Fortalice Solutions, explains how to avoid digital disasters with a segmentation strategy that includes on-going testing with data, equipment and third-party vendors to put security assumptions to the test.

Prof Xiangliang Zhang, associate professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, is working with biology data to understand the relationship between disease, genes and drugs to gain better insight to develop predictive models.

Startups are having the biggest impact working on technology that disrupts access, data gathering, monitoring and care interventions to help patients – as well as alleviate clinician burnout – says cofounder and EVP of Health 2.0 Indu Sabaiya.

Bettina Experton, MD, and CEO of Humetrix, talks about the history of CMS’s Blue Button project and how 53 million Americans covered by Medicare will now have access to their data through an API to ensure patient safety and interoperability.

Kyra Bobinet, MD, founder the neuroscience-based design firm EngagedIN, is working with AI algorithms in Walmart’s First Tri app to build a brain taxonomy to identify behavior to help individuals understand what motivation changes their food habits.

Beth Kutscher, senior news editor for healthcare at LinkedIn, explains how the social networking platform is moving into digital health content and what it believes it can do to address the disconnect between technology and care delivery.

Aashima Gupta, global head of Health Solutions at Google Cloud, talks about Google’s approach to technology enabling infrastructure with healthcare industry standards to allows organizations to have more time to innovate.

Allyson Vicars, associate director of health IT research at the Advisory Board, give a deep overview of how healthcare providers can bake security sensibilities into every operation.

India Hook-Barnard, director of research strategy at the University of California San Francisco, gives a high-level look at how knowledge networks work and how healthcare can leverage them for better analytics and for advancing precision medicine.