Women In Health IT

Brenda Hood, client experience analyst at HealtHIE Nevada, says fragmented systems hinder care in tribal regions. Seamless data exchange is essential to closing care gaps and improving access to treatment.

ANNE Maternal is a wireless monitoring system that streams maternal and fetal data and issues alerts to clinicians when evaluation is required.

For the Midwestern health system, the coding process change has gone beyond improving accuracy – it has strengthened how staff operate across the entire revenue cycle, from documentation through denial management.

The complementary types of artificial intelligence offer an opportunity to address pain points, says Aashima Gupta, Google's global director for healthcare solutions, such as preparing documentation and assisting in call centers.

HIMSS-AMDIS Physician Executive Leader Changemaker Awardee Dr. Deepti Pandita of UCI Health says her many years of HIMSS membership led her to become chair of the HIMSS Physician Committee.

Kristen Valdes, CEO of b.well Connected Health, sat down with MobiHealthNews to give an insider peek at how companies are working together to accomplish improving healthcare.

Devices and sensors can spot subtle physiological changes to enable earlier intervention for patients with cardiometabolic disease, says Dr. Ami Bhatt, chief innovation officer at the American College of Cardiology.

Archbold Medical Center has also achieved a reduction in restocking resources: After making changes informed by drug velocity and cost data, there was a 20% drop in technician labor associated with moving inventory to the cabinet.

By moving chronic care management from occasional visits to daily RPM, the Michigan health system has significantly improved outcomes for diabetes, heart failure and hypertension patients. Its physician head of primary health describes those and other benefits.

Helen Hill, VP and CIO of Michigan-based SEMHIE and a HIMSS26 Founder Changemaker awardee, has helped launch MiHIN, the Michigan health information exchange. She also chairs its interoperability task force and runs a small sub-HIE.