Workforce Development

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.

Kathryn Jackson, VP of language operations at AMN Healthcare, discusses how medical interpretation services can improve health equity and outcomes and how providers can effectively work with interpreters to solidify quality care.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

David Novillo Ortiz, head of data and digital health at the World Health Organization, discusses the objectives of WHO's regional digital health action plan and assessing the plan's impact in improving patient access and engagement.

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.