Population and Public Health

Monique Mansoura, executive director of global health security and biotechnology at MITRE, highlights her HIMSS23 discussion on employing real-world data to cope with emerging health threats.  

Scott McKeithen, Marleen Welsh and Charles Baschnagel of the Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office preview their HIMSS23 panel on supplying data to public health officials for biosurveillance.

According to Howard Rubin, CIO of Evara Health, an FQHC, telehealth has helped an underserved population overcome the challenges of finding care.

Russ Hinz of Advocate Health, Stephanie Chia of University of Chicago Medicine and Susan Tolin from Chartis preview their HIMSS23 presentation on the South Side Healthy Community Organization.

Automation has assisted patients using digital tools and helped with clinician workflows, according to Tracy Chu of Scripps Health, who previews her HIMSS23 presentation, "Automation Improves Digital Education App Performance."

Natural language processing technology helps NorthShore University HealthSystem look at social determinants of health data. Health equity senior programmer analyst Emily Kwan highlights her upcoming HIMSS23 session.

Barbara Rothbaum, executive director of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program, discusses Emory's no-cost two-week mental health treatment program that pays for flights, hotels and therapy for vets.

Wings of Hope board member Dr. Manish Kohli,  who is chief digital health officer and global head of humanitarian programs at Securra Health, discusses his panel at HIMSS23 on Wings of Hope's help for isolated communities via tech.

Dr. Robert Murry, chief medical officer at NextGen Healthcare, explains how digital health technology enables providers to conduct street medicine and coordinate care for patients who are homeless.

Gabriel Seidman, the Ellison Institute's director of policy, explains the efforts in building a nationwide enterprise architecture for data in healthcare that includes public health, clinical and social determinants data.