HIEs

Brenda Hood, client experience analyst at HealtHIE Nevada, stresses that education and guidance can help ensure that tribal clinic staff understand and use digital health resources and EHRs effectively.

University of Iowa Health Care's Josh Wilda says that TEFCA may be useful not only for providers, but to unify fragmented patient portals and give patients a single access point to retrieve their health data across systems.

Still active in the HIMSS Michigan chapter she started in 2002, SEMHIE VP and CIO Helen Hill, who is a HIMSS26 Founder Changemaker awardee, says the chapter actively recruits university students to advance advocacy work.

Josh Wymer of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services talks about how his involvement with HIMSS beginning at the chapter level has been instrumental in building his career, including gaining a CPDHTS certification.

Challenges exist with digitizing the health system in Pakistan, says Muhammad Babar, the Ministry of Health's management information systems officer. He discusses his HIMSS25 talk that will relay how the ministry is overcoming those barriers.

Kristin Glaza at Oracle Health, Sabrina Matlock at the American Immunization Registry Association and Sarah Finley from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services discuss immunization data quality via public-private collaborations.  

In-Young Choi, director at Catholic Information Convergence Institute at CMC in South Korea, discusses how data from eight hospitals is converged and distributed to meet an individual department's needs, aiding in the creation of AI solutions.  

The National Institutes of Health's Sarah Warner, Premier's Dr. Ning Rosenthal and Myla Maloney, and the University of Washington School of Medicine's Dr. Ferric Fang discuss their work using the PINC AI Healthcare Database.

Evelyn Gallego, CEO and founder of EMI Advisors, talks about the HIMSS23 panel where she will discuss addressing barriers to maternal healthcare by using data standards, and developing standards for care coordination.

Juan Nanez, RN, director of Programs at Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange, highlights his upcoming HIMSS23 session, and explains how clinician access to patient history can improve outcomes and prevent readmissions.