Women in Health IT

Victoria Betton, mHabitat founder and director and HIMSS UK Advisory Council member, says two benefits of using digital tools to help improve people's mental well-being are anonymity and remote access.

Norway is using lessons from oil and gas industry successes along with the country's pioneering culture to fuel the drive to maximize the healthcare system's potential, Norway Health Tech CEO Kathrine Myhre, winner of the HIMSS Europe Future50 award.

Finland is using health data to make the lives of its population easier, says the country’s Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Päivi Sillanaukee, MD, PhD.

Providence St. Joseph Health’s chief medical analytics officer is both a physician and a data scientist so understands clinical context as well as data structure, says CCO Amy Compton-Phillips.

Awareness, access and trust are focuses of the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Application, an accredited reviewing engine that processes app reviews, says CEO Liz Ashall-Payne.

Technology can help extend patient connections to care teams outside the walls of healthcare, says Carium Chief Transformation Officer Lygeia Ricciardi.

Health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, however, says the increasing pace of change is encouraging.

Duke University Health System earned HIMSS Analytics' recognition for ambulatory, acute and analytics maturity, says Associate CMIO Genie McPeek Hinz, MD, which she calls the "Triple 7."

Sharp Index founder Janae Sharp says some of the burning health IT questions are whether the industry will be subject to more regulation and how current payment and incentive models will evolve.

Springboard Enterprises helps with leadership development for female entrepreneurs, says Director Rebecca MacKinnon.