Tamara StClaire, chief innovation officer at Xerox Healthcare, and Geeta Nayyar, MD, chief healthcare and innovation officer for Femwell Group Health, led a Tweet chat on healthcare IT Wednesday as part of National Health IT week activities.
The tweets covered a range of issues guided by questions from StClaire and Nayyar. Drawing the most tweets was the topic of pay inequity between men and women in health IT.
HIMSS Executive Vice President Carla Smith, who recently released the result of a survey on the topic and also launched a Women in Health IT community to address issues around gender inequality in the health IT sector, promoted Sunlight as one way to tackle the gender disparities.
Here is a sampling of the tweets:
#NHITWchat Improve your negotiating skills & join in the conversation! Sunlight is a powerful force.
— Carla Smith (@CarlaMSmith) September 28, 2016
#NHITWchat The way to solve it is to know what you're worth; give HIMSS' report to your HR Dir: and..
— Carla Smith (@CarlaMSmith) September 28, 2016
@gnayyar @HIMSS #NHITWchat the wage gap in HIT has widened in 10 years. A dismaying step backwards for our field.
— Carla Smith (@CarlaMSmith) September 28, 2016
Gr8 interview with @CarlaMSmith on pay gap & HIMSS' #WomaninHIT initiatives #NHITWchat https://t.co/AEPpPjprBk
— Adam Bazer (@AdamBazer) September 28, 2016
The HIMSS study on the paygap was great information. Many in the C-Suite are simply unaware that it is an issue #nhitwchat
— Max Stroud (@MMaxwellStroud) September 28, 2016
A3 Need more #transparency about #wage parity & #equity in #HealthIT. Women underpaid in all sectors & lack boardroom presence #nhitwchat
— Jane Sarasohn-Kahn (@healthythinker) September 28, 2016
.@consultinglife1 Stop disclosing past salaries. You know you were underpaid then; why pass that on? #NHITWchat pic.twitter.com/i5EWYyfQpC
— ShereeseM, MS/MBA (@ShereesePubHlth) September 28, 2016
There are amazingly brilliant women in #healthit, so there is no reason that we should not see equity at the top tiers #nhitwchat
— Max Stroud (@MMaxwellStroud) September 28, 2016
I would encourage all to check out these #IHeartHIT stories. Packed with patient stories + Health IT: https://t.co/GghvSN4hDI #NHITWchat
— Michael A. Gaspar (@MichaelGaspar) September 28, 2016
Better #collaboration among women needed to close #genderpaygap. #HIT understands value of sharing info & should lead the charge. #NHITWchat
— Geeta Nayyar, MD MBA (@gnayyar) September 28, 2016
Make your voice heard about the importance of #telehealth https://t.co/VMobSSQ8eG #NHITWchat #NHITWeek
— Stephanie Denvir (@StephDenvir) September 28, 2016
A5 #DigitalHealth will be the democratization of access by removing artificial knowledge barriers #NHITWchat #NHITweek
— Nick van Terheyden (@drnic1) September 28, 2016
