Women In Health IT

To Health2047’s Lúcia Soares, the political climate has increased awareness around challenges and highlighted work that remains due to unconscious bias.

To Wolters Kluwer executive Cathy Wolfe, the shift into value-based care requires lifelong learning bolstered by new technologies that will prepare them for the evolving tech landscape.

Spanning a long and varied three decade career in military medicine with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and Australian Defence Force (ADF), Air Vice-Marshal (AVM) Tracy Smart demonstrated her versatility and capabilities in both local and overseas appointments in places such as the United States, Timor Leste and the Middle East.

Emerging CNIO position increases the number of women in healthcare IT roles but there are fewer CIOs and the pay gap persists.

Former ONC Privacy Chief and Omada Health Chief Privacy and Regulatory Officer Lucia Savage shares both her concerns and her hope for the industry when it comes to the dreaded data sharing.

Faye Wattleton, co-head of Buffkin/Baker’s governance practice, shares how boardroom diversity is more than cosmetic: It enhances debate and perspective, including issues like women’s health.

All great companies started as a single idea.  A fleeting burst of electricity, a synapse firing, a chemical reaction.  Then those ideas, like cells in a body, begin to divide and reproduce.  Like cells, they find intention and purpose in a mission, organs developing in a growing embryo.  Once born into the marketplace, those companies’ ideas, like children, gain agency, meet the world and adapt as experience matures insights.  

Technological progress doesn’t take place in a vacuum.  The information that is rearranged into innovation is born from many sources, be it consumer behavior, the experiences of the innovators themselves, or the dictates of new rules in the marketplace.  It is the role of a transformational leader to understand the context in which technologically-driven change takes place and to lead their organization through the integration of that change into their everyday practices and processes.

Nancy Pratt also shares the biggest issues facing women in health IT and says the entire industry is responsible for helping providers and hospitals improve patient care.

Why Asha Strazzero-Wild decided not to become a doctor but, instead, focused on using tech to improve the patient experience.