Interoperability
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.
Workforce
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.
Workforce
Why Asha Strazzero-Wild decided not to become a doctor but, instead, focused on using tech to improve the patient experience.
In 2015, UCSF School of Nursing Professor Audrey Lyndon described what a burned-out clinician looks like. “Imagine an emotionally exhausted clinician,” she writes, “overwhelmed by work to the point of feeling fatigued. Unable to face the demands of the job, and unable to engage with others. Fatigue, exhaustion, and detachment coalesce. The clinician no longer feels effective at work because they have lost a sense of their ability to contribute meaningfully. “
Interoperability
Mona Siddiqui, MD will focus on data sharing culture and the findings from a soon-to-be-released report on the initiative's first phase.
Analytics
To VirtualHealth’s Sheela Ramamurthy, technology that works in the background to create a full picture of the patient will greatly impact the sickest, most vulnerable care populations.
Workforce
An executive recruitment firm Buffkin/Baker partner predicts more CEO roles for women in the near future; to position themselves women should focus on finance -- and commanding an audience.
