Workforce Development

Joy Liu, founder and CEO of Plenful, discusses burdens faced by pharmacists, including a shortage of pharmacy technicians and compliance challenges and where AI can step in to alleviate some of the pain.

Dr. Nada Milosavljevic, Safe Health CMO and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, offers advice on collaborating with people from different backgrounds and becoming comfortable with challenges while working in the healthcare innovation space.  

Rich Miller, chief innovation officer at QGenda, says that health systems need to address burnout, staffing and employee issues in a less fragmented way.  

Paul Contino, University Hospital CIO, highlights how HIMSS conference presentations are selected by the global health education committee, not by vendors, to offer information about how healthcare organizations are solving real-world problems.  

According to Dr. Reza Ryan Sadeghian, principal health IT strategist at MITConn Consulting, clinicians must be included in the process of creating new AI tools and in deciding how to deploy them safely and ethically.  

Microsoft's chief nursing information officer, Kathleen McGrow, discusses the link between clinical workflow and information technology and how the HIMSS innovation nursing advisory group educates nurses to improve AI literacy and utilization.

Dr. Hunter Cherwek, VP of clinical services and technologies at Orbis International, highlights the VR experience Orbis and FundamentalVR co-created to help students in low- and middle-income countries learn to perform surgery for cataracts.  

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.  

Rachelle Landry, VP of clinical transformation at BD, discusses how interoperability, robotics and AI enable care delivery outside traditional settings, but must always be driven by clinicians' critical thinking and their connections to patients.  

Dr. Monika Sonu, cofounder and director of new product development at Healthinnovation Toolbox and 2024 Changemaker, says she believes all digital health tools should address persistent problems like interoperability and health equity.