Women In Health IT

Houston Methodist had been planning to implement a VICU for several years, Chief Innovation Officer Roberta Schwartz explains in a preview of her upcoming HIMSS22 session – but the pandemic led the health system to speed up the process.

A new study found that behavioral and primary care physicians were also more likely to make a readier shift to telemedicine, as opposed to surgical specialists.

Evaluating algorithms' efficacy often takes a lot more effort, as Johns Hopkins Machine Learning and Healthcare Lab Director Suchi Saria explained, with tips, at the HIMSS Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare Forum.

The programme is seeking its first 25 participants.

Jacki Monson, who is also chief technology risk officer and chief privacy officer at Sutter, previews her HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum virtual session – where she'll discuss stakeholder alignment and "privacy and security by design."

Maria Palombini, a leader at the IEEE Standards Association, discusses the work of four high-profile women in healthcare standards creation – and highlights what women bring to the process.

Artificial intelligence can optimize patient care and reduce clinician burnout, says Selwa A. F. Al-Hazzaa, MD, founder and CEO of Saudi Development Med.