Women In Health IT
Veteran healthcare leader and Health Innovation Strategies CEO Naomi Fried says pharma companies that can leverage clinical-grade apps, virtual care and medication adherence to better support patients will win in the long term.
Karen DeSalvo, former national coordinator and professor at Dell Medical School, says there are too many patient portals, so the trend now is to put all of a patient's data in one place so they can access it via smartphone.
Cleveland Clinic is striving to operationalize empathy, which can boost the bottom line, says Executive Chief Nursing Officer K. Kelly Hancock.
Ana Prado, CMIO at Hospital de Cascais in Portugal, says EMRAM emphasized the need for leadership to drive digital transformation and engage clinical champions across the team to ensure data is used effectively to improve patient care.
Karen Appelbaum, director at Providence St. Joseph Health, discusses how technology can be used as an extension of the way to know patients and care for them.
Cynthia Sikina, vice president of Financial Services with consulting firm Afia, works with healthcare providers to optimize financial operations, not by having a technology background, but in being able to accurately translate a client’s needs to the IT department.
There is much value in having disparate health data – clinical, financial, biometric, genomic, social determinant and more – aggregated in one accessible place, says Kristen Valdes, founder and CEO of b.well Connected Health.
Carrie Davis, director of patient experience at the Hanger Clinic, shares the challenges and rewards of implementing more compassionate and human-centric care.
Dr. Silvia Perez-Protto, medical director of End of Life Center at the Cleveland Clinic, says understanding and documenting patients' values and wishes enables providers to more effectively collaborate with patients on their journey.
Patient experience is more than just patient satisfaction surveys, claims Cleveland Clinic Chief Experience Officer Dr. Adrienne Boissy, who sees an evolution on the horizon.