Operations

Toni Laracuente, SVP and head of analytics for HIMSS, discusses the Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM), which weighs care-delivery environment functionalities to ensure systems get the highest value from digital health infrastructure.

Barbee Mooneyhan, VP of security, IT and privacy at Woebot Health, highlights how security, operating systems and threats have evolved – and the importance of embedding security specialists to protect patient and company information.

Ali Youssef, cybersecurity director at Henry Ford Health, relays why it is difficult for health systems to defend themselves from malicious actors and how institutions should prepare now for an inevitable cybersecurity breach.

The greatest impact from reaching EMRAM Stage 6 was improved efficiency of hospital operations, says Nicholas Bunger, data engineer at Balgrist University Hospital. Systems seeking more digitalization need to move toward that vision.

Osama El-Hassan of Dubai's Health Authority talks about Zimam and how the GCC region built a workforce by upskilling and promoting digital health implementation. The process helped with workforce retention and technological adoption.

Kevin Littlefield, principal of cybersecurity at MITRE, explains how home care may be susceptible to cybercriminals and how hospitals can ensure patient security as home-based care and RPM become more prevalent.

Renee Broadbent, CIO and information security officer at SoNE Healthcare, relays the ways her organization creates a culture of security, engages executive leadership in cybersecurity as cybercriminals get more sophisticated.

Erik Decker, Intermountain Health CISO and chair of the Health Sector Council's Cybersecurity Working Group, discusses the private sector and federal government task groups, and how the teams are learning to avoid malware attacks.

MITRE's chief digital health physician, Dr. Brian Anderson, discusses the necessity of cross-sector partnerships between developers, health systems and governments regarding emerging technology so innovation can inform regulations and vice-versa.

Thomas Hutchinson, executive director of digestive health and experiential reality, and neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Louis discuss utilizing VR and AR to evaluate a patient’s anatomy in 3D and implementing the tech as a preoperative tool.