Ellen Wiegand, vice president and chief information officer at Virginia Mason Health System, talks about the potential of AI, robotics and advice to early career professionals.
Almost every informatics manager you speak to will tell you about problems attracting, recruiting and retaining high quality informatics staff. We also know the problem is likely to get worse rather than better, as greater numbers and more highly skilled and specialist staff are needed in the future.
Progress has been made towards gender equality, but it is clear that much work remains to be done, and the situation is no different in health IT.
Technology is helping to bring healthcare to the homes of the ageing population in Finland and nursing is at the forefront of this community-based care.
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Today, the role of the patient is often unclear, but it seems the days of ‘the doctor knows best’ are over. Many care providers work collaboratively with patients, to help them make sense of the overwhelming amount of information that is readily available on the internet, and live their most healthy lives. While we have made a great deal of progress, there are still many challenges that need to be addressed.
Only 22% of the participants at the last HIMSS Swiss eHealth Summit were women. That has to change, says Sunjoy Mathieu, founder of Women in Digital Health.
Digital founders Saba Alzabin and Eirini Rapti speak to MobiHealthNews about how women’s health technology has evolved beyond fertility tracking apps.
Cynthia Sikina, vice president of Financial Services with consulting firm Afia, works with healthcare providers to optimize financial operations, not by having a technology background, but in being able to accurately translate a client’s needs to the IT department.
Women are notoriously underrepresented in health tech, which can have detrimental impacts on the industry as a whole.
