Strategic Planning

Microsoft's chief nursing information officer, Kathleen McGrow, discusses the link between clinical workflow and information technology and how the HIMSS innovation nursing advisory group educates nurses to improve AI literacy and utilization.

Carolyn Metnick, partner and Healthcare and Privacy & Cybersecurity team member at Sheppard Mullin, recommends that healthcare organizations follow basics such as following HIPAA security rule compliance and doing a security risk analysis.  

Actress, writer, producer and fertility advocate Kellee Stewart discusses her work with Evite and family-building and fertility company Progyny, the black maternal health experience and conditions that hinder the family-building process.  

Dr. Hunter Cherwek, VP of clinical services and technologies at Orbis International, highlights the VR experience Orbis and FundamentalVR co-created to help students in low- and middle-income countries learn to perform surgery for cataracts.  

Dr. Olga Kagan, consortial faculty and associate adjunct professor at CUNY School of Professional Studies and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient, believes nursing schools' greatest challenge is preparing nurses to master rapidly evolving technology.  

Both small and large organizations have risk challenges and threat-monitoring gaps, but executives are increasingly recognizing that cybersecurity in healthcare is a strategic imperative central to patient safety, says Steve Cagle, CEO of Clearwater.  

Dr. Eve Cunningham, group VP and chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence, and 2024 Changemaker, discusses MedPearl, a tool created by and for clinicians that provides decision support information within two minutes.

Ellen Arigorat, NewYork-Presbyterian nursing informatics program director, connects her Filipino American heritage with providing better care through the science that underpins nursing.  

Heidi Wold, chief population health officer, Longevity Health Plan, addresses biases in elder care, particularly the idea that seniors aren't interested in using technology, and talks about how nursing facilities can enhance seniors' quality of life.

Dr. Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, anesthesiology professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin and AMA president, tells a personal story to show how AI can surface buried but critical information in patient records for better treatment.