Women in Healthcare IT (838)

Kimberly Carrosino, senior director of identity and access management at Providence Health and Services, says hiring a partner to manage identities within healthcare systems can reduce costs, improve compliance and automate certain workflows.

Allyson Vicars, associate director of health IT research at The Advisory Board, says the best course for executives is to keep it simple by bringing forth viable and easy understood plans that hospital staffs can get behind.

Lee Kim, director of privacy and security at HIMSS, says the industry has a long way to go to be able to fend off next WannaCry or Petya. But the good news is collaboration is happening across healthcare to better get prepared.

Angela Velkova, who manages the WHIT community for HIMSS Europe, discusses how women executives and clinicians are coming together to elevate each other and to stand up against the discrimination they still face in the workplace.

Indu Subaiya, co-founder of Health 2.0 and executive vice president at HIMSS, discusses the value in bridging the gap between the start-up community and European hospital IT leaders.

Pia Heikkurinen, theme specialist, capacity renewal at Sitra, talks about the support the Finnish government is giving Sitra to back digital health startups and other healthcare innovators.

Karina Tellinger McNeil, strategist for the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, breaks down her country's ambitious plan to lead the world in the digitization of healthcare.

Charles Alessi, HIMSS chief clinical officer, and Sitra Director Jaana Sinipuro, discuss the ideals and successes that have defined Finnish healthcare as one of the most impactful systems in the world.

Joanne Bosanquet, deputy chief nurse at Public Health England, and HIMSS International Chief Clinical Officer Charles Alessi, weigh the benefits of tech adoption with the need to give nurses the support, and time, they need to embrace change.

Naila Siddiqui Kamal, MD, senior lecturer at Imperial College London, discusses ways doctors can rise above the worries tied to IT adoption and instead embrace the ways that digital technology can assist them in caring for our populations.

Emily Vaughn, product development director at Change Healthcare, explains how blockchain works in tandem with the company’s claims assurance dashboard to provide an integrity check against the event data already in their clearinghouse.

MobiHealthNews Editor Jonah Comstock speaks with Tina Joros, general manager of the open business unit at Allscripts, about "creating a new mentality of innovation" to improve workflows and enhance patient engagement.