HIMSS TV
Clinicians can be inventors and embrace change by ensuring the patient voice remains prominent when developing innovative strategies at a leadership level, says Dr. Shafi Ahmed, CMO, Medical Realities.
When trying to get executive buy-in for cybersecurity funding, you must focus on business value, such as lowering costs, improving productivity, and increasing revenue, advises Shakira Brown, CEO of SMB Strategic Media.
Christiana Care Health System CSIO Anahi Santiago says hospitals have to invest in security tools to stay ahead of cyberthreats. However, she adds, it's just as important to focus on people and process as it is on technology.
Sentara Health VP and CISO Dan Bowden talks how the hospital is preparing for consumerism and value-based care by building apps and tools in the cloud.
John Daniels, VP of HIMSS Analytics, says there is more to digitizing an organization than installing EMR functions, and discusses other adoption and maturity models including infrastructure, AI and continuity of care.
Dzulkefly Ahmad, minister of health for Malaysia, argues that even if an organization has a good program and system in place, digitizing healthcare will not work if there is no clinical buy-in underpinned by training.
Jane Miller, COO of Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, says her organization, which reached the elite stage 7 EMRAM, treated EMR implementation as a clinical transformation project, not an IT project.
Cameron Ballantine, chief information officer at Metro South Health, talks about the roadblocks and rewards of his organization's path toward becoming Australia's first digitized health service.
Sam Hanna, associate dean of graduate and professional studies and program director in healthcare management at American University, discusses why workforce development is needed to use data and technology to create targeted therapies.
Kirk Lippold, commander of United States Navy (RET), explains how intellectual honesty requires a commitment to sit down with people in the organization to review what happened after a crisis and find a new normal.