Women In Health IT

Female leaders in health IT represent only 30% of senior leadership. It’s not yet a level playing field. Apart from the domain knowledge and experience women bring to their role, as leaders we need to ground ourselves from the inside. We need to choose the roles that are a good fit so we’re both fulfilled and successful.  In doing this well, we also want to model a different kind of leadership – leadership that sees and empowers the best in others and creates a satisfying team experience in service of our ultimate customers – the patients our organizations care for. 

Get inspired by the recipients of the HIMSS’s Most Influential Women in Health IT Award. This panel of distinguished women will share their journeys of transformational change and innovation in the health sector. They have shown that one can be influential at any career stage and across the healthcare trajectory, from care delivery, to informatics, to business.

For International Women's Day, NHS Digital executive director of product development Wendy Clark outlines her journey into healthcare IT.

Lisa Suennen, co-founder of CSweetener, a not-for-profit dedicated to propelling senior women in healthcare forward and into the C-Suite, explores how Mentorship, Networking, and Visibility not only brings new and different perspectives and fresh thinking, it creates value and strengthens one's personal brand, and also opens the door for new opportunities.

At the senior level, female executives may already have a mentor or mentors in place and feel their existing mentor is effective for them. Or maybe they think their time is better spent working on the business than investing in building a strong network, or speaking at industry conferences and events. But in reality, not investing in mentorship, networking and visibility can be limiting for career opportunities.

The objective of this webinar is to tie the opioid crisis with the Women in Health IT community to bring awareness to women’s voices in addressing the crisis. A panel of leaders at the federal and state levels and the HIE space will share their stories on how they came into their current work roles and what they are doing in those roles that ties to addressing the opioid crisis through information and technology.

In this webinar, we hear from three women who have established themselves as influential thought-leaders amongst their male colleagues working with blockchain technology.

Now more than ever, networking is key to getting ahead.

Public health advocate and recipient of the HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Award, Jessican Kahn, shares stories from her career and the impact health IT can have on population health.

In this Steps to Value episode,  Judy Murphy, Chief Nursing Officer at IBM Healthcare, talks about the mindset shift patients and providers are currently going through to move from episodic healthcare to continuous life care.