Professional Development

Christopher Falkner, 2024 Changemaker and Sodexo's senior director of digital strategy and cybersecurity, offers tips for healthcare success: participating in projects outside your comfort zone, seeking mentors and mentoring others.  

Emily Barey, chief nurse evangelist at Epic and 2024 Changemaker, discusses how building new healthcare technology requires observing the problems users face and gathering a diverse team to help solve them.

Amid the ongoing nursing shortage, Connie White Delaney, dean and professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, believes nurses can help develop new technologies that fit better into their workflows and strengthen their bonds with patients.

Isaiah Nathaniel, Delaware Valley Community Health's VP and CIO, explains how CIO Connect's small cohort setting emphasizes networking and collaboration, and shares success stories of alumni who are now CIOs.  

Residents and medical students hesitate to use AI, said University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine's director of digital innovation in pediatric surgery, Dr. Patrick Thomas. Still, many acknowledge that positives may exist.

Pearly Chen, VP of business development and partnerships at HTC VIVE, relays the results of a report on extended reality use for training healthcare professionals, the feedback received after adoption of the tech and HTC's Accelerator X program.  

Quy Vo-Reinhard, dHealth Foundation director and cofounder, highlights the key challenges and applications for frontier technologies, such as immutable health records, the interoperability of health data exchange and the need for education.

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.

Altering education methods and allowing employees to be innovative with career flexibility are crucial to ensuring retention and longevity in the healthcare workforce, says Dr Shafi Ahmed, chief medical officer at Medical Realities.

Abigail Norville, deputy secretary general at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands, tells why involving all healthcare stakeholders in forming care's evolution is vital, especially regarding digitization and innovation.