Leadership
Lawrence Voyten, chair of the HIMSS Chapter Advocacy Task Force, urges healthcare professionals to join their local HIMSS chapters to advocate on critical industry issues.
Policy Influencer Changemaker awardee Brett Meeks of Jeffrey J. Kimbell & Associates recommends that healthcare IT newcomers be open to change as AI and other technologies continue to develop.
In the HIMSS Executive Connect program, UVA Health CTO Zeb Elliott learned to engage his teams more effectively to boost their output and get better results without overextending them.
The value of HIMSS membership, explains Tammy Kwiatkoski, HIMSS' senior director for global communities, is not measured in online engagement metrics, but in the lessons and resources that members take back to their workplaces.
Changemaker Award recipient Dr. Deepti Pandita of UCI Health urges anyone working in healthcare to get involved with HIMSS and specifically recommends that clinicians use HIMSS' Physician Informatics Research Hub.
According to Dr. Vitaly Herasevich, Mayo Clinic professor and Chapter Leader Changemaker Awardee, successful healthcare leaders can align clinical and IT teams and act as "interpreters" between them to boost technology adoption.
Leaders new to healthcare IT should evaluate their organization's level of readiness, governance and infrastructure to determine what technology will work best and how to move forward, says Sepi Browning, HIMSS Changemaker awardee for veterans' health.
As a recently appointed HIMSS board member Dr. Meong Hi Son, Samsung Medical Center CMIO, says she is excited to elevate previously unheard voices and inspire young innovators who can help build the future of healthcare.
At HIMSS26, keynote speaker and former president of Tesla Jon McNeill shared the framework Tesla used when first developing the car company and how those lessons can be used in healthcare.
Pop-ups in EHR interfaces requiring extra clicks that break focus and complicate workflows may be worsening clinician burnout, according to Dr. Michael Zappa, chief clinical officer at Cape Fear Valley Health and physician advisor at Juno Health.