HIMSS23

Kathy D. Ford, chief product and strategy officer at Project Rōnin, said AI can make sense of complex oncology data and enable faster decision-making at the point of care.  

Joana Feijó, business development director for Health Cluster Portugal, said her organization has looked to other countries to glean guidelines that can cultivate a more digital healthcare sector in Portugal.

Michelle Ramim, assistant professor of health informatics at Nova Southeastern University, said international standards for wearable data protection should be established, as was the case for WiFi transmission.  

R David Moon, chairman and founder of Arx Nimbus, said point solutions encourage a reactive approach to cyber threats, and that a proactive approach to risk is needed.  

Dr. Brian Lein, DHA assistant director of healthcare administration, said one system now covers every patient – about 2.7 million beneficiaries.  

Tim Dawson, CTO at Canon Medical, said standardized data formats can help avoid painful data migration, make backup and recovery easier, and facilitate tie-ins with AI.

Anna Schoenbaum, VP of information services applications at Penn Medicine, said recent regulatory changes will improve the reach of technology in improving health outcomes.  

Janet Hohmann, What I Run's director of corporate communications and Elaina McMillan, Edifecs' director of product marketing, discuss the Alliance for the Women of Edifecs (AWE), which supports the company's female employees, and, interestingly, nearly half of the participants are men.  

For the average provider, this means getting prepared for a national level of access, says Michael Palantoni, vice president of platform and data services at athenahealth.  

Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS, says that about 12 percent of respondents to a 2022 healthcare cybersecurity study experienced a ransomware attack.