Strategic Planning

Leah Dewey, vice president of clinical and consumer engagement operations at Cotiviti, discusses how health plans focus on improving health equity internally, and how data helps payers affect the health and wellbeing of a population.  

Vice president of research science and advanced analytics at Inovalon Christie Teigland describes HEI scores, what will be measured within plans to determine their efforts on improving health equity and HEI's effect on health plans.  

Ann Maxwell, deputy inspector general for evaluations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, discusses the case for making the pandemic-related CMS telehealth expansion permanent.  

Helen Waters, EVP and COO at Meditech, explains how the electronic health vendor uses artificial intelligence, its partnership with Google and the system's requirements to implement AI in healthcare.  

Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, explains how the Nordics advanced digital infrastructure by applying unique digital identifiers for patients and professionals, and how the HIMSS community helps.  

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.  

Cochairs of FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), Deepak Sadagopan and Duncan Weatherston, outline how FAST helps roll out FHIR nationally to ensure interoperability of security, privacy and identity by various healthcare stakeholders.  

Jacqueline de Leeuw, chief nurse innovation officer at Radboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc), tells how the hospital achieved HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7, allowing its nurses to access a seamless data flow from multiple external sources.

Francine de Stoppelaar, Hospital Wide Operational Activation Lead of Cleveland Clinic London, tells how the private hospital built a native digital system through years of preparation, and the challenges and rewards that came with the build.

Hans Hioyos, field CISO of Prophecy, Americas, discusses how the cybersecurity forum helped him advance his learning of the various layers of security and expand his network as a cybersecurity specialist in the medical field.