HIT Like a Girl Pod: Empowering Women in Health IT

Crystal Morley is the Executive Director of Marketing with PatientMatters. Crystal talks about the healthcare solutions space for patients when it comes to financial burden in healthcare. We all know this is a huge issue as patients are becoming responsible as payers themselves, especially when it comes to procedures and emergency situations. That’s why she is working to empower patients with pers...

Today we are joined by 2 guests: Kim Labow and Karen Clark. Kim is the CEO of Medfusion, which is one of the most robust solutions for patients to aggregate all of their medical records together in one place. As Kim puts it – Medfusion allows each patient to be their own Health Information Exchange. Also, joining us is one of Medfusion’s customer’s Karen Clark, who is the Chief Information Officer...

Angela wears many work hats, but now oversees cybersecurity and information management strategy and sales to keep hackers at bay in healthcare. Her message: no matter your healthcare practice size, it’s important to focus on cybersecurity! The smaller your practice, the easier it may be for cybersecurity to fall through the cracks.

Today’s episode is with Jen Horonjeff , Founder and CEO of Savvy Coop. Savvy Coop is a patient-owned platform where patients and end-users are playing a pivotal role in healthcare and health IT solutions. The platform allows patients, healthcare consumers and caregivers to actively engage, and be rewarded, in healthcare and tech ideas, development, deployment, and research so that patient-centered...

In this episode, we are talking with Erin Jospe, Chief Medical Officer & Senior Vice President of Account Management at Kyruus, where she oversees the development and implementation of clinical strategy. She discusses her background as a medical expert, her self-directed journey in health IT and about the “Lipstick sign” of patients, which can’t be documented as structured data in any EMR.

Janae Sharp is a member of the Utah HIMSS board and she is an expert in marketing strategy for healthcare IT companies. Meeting people and connecting the gaps in healthcare and data is what she loves to do. Janae works remotely with 4 kiddos, the youngest of which is a 3-month-old baby. After losing her husband to suicide, she started a nonprofit dedicated to reducing physician burnout.

We are speaking with Leslie Evans, head of HIMSS Innovation Center. Today Leslie discusses her background in helping engage girls in STEM education. She has a passion for supporting under-represented audiences to the intersection of healthcare and software development. Some of her most recent projects with HIMSS Innovation have included reducing infant mortality in Ohio in 2018 and helping the Lat...

Today we are speaking with Alicia Chong, the CEO of Bloomer Tech. Her company is focused on women’s heart health. For hundreds of years, cardiovascular data has not been specific to women. Even the American Heart Association states that we’re at the infancy of understanding female cardiac health and she and her team feel inspired to do something about it. With 44 million women in the U.S. with som...

In this episode, Robin introduces how she incorporates technology into the nursing curriculum to help educate up-and-coming nurses on using technology at the bedside and as part of care management. She has a passion for helping folks safely find health information online that is reliable, safe, and easy to use. Next fall, she will be complete with her Ph. D. program, which will allow her to do fur...

Lauren Patrick, President and CEO of Healthmonix is on the show today, sharing with Joy and Robin how she got her start in computer science and engineering. She has built computers from the ground up, giving her a strong foundation in understading the possibilities of technology. From there, she collected technological skills from different industries that eventually led her to more meaningful wor...

Megan manages the Health Informatics Programs in the College of Graduate and Professional Studies at the University of New England. Her passion for Health Informatics is a direct result of her earning her Master in Health Administration Informatics from Saint Joseph University and her intensive hands-on work in Emergency Nursing and Clinical Informatics. Her nursing career taught her that at the h...

She chats with Joy and Robin about her dedication to helping health tech start-ups and enterprises know their customers including how those customers think, feel, and make choices.

Kelly Del Gaudio has more than 13 years of industry experience working with MEDITECH acute and ambulatory systems. She focuses heavily on EMR optimization and in likely the truest sense of the word, she is a hacker. She hacks everything that’s hard and makes it easier for herself, friends and now her customers. Through the years she’s gotten pretty good at coming up with unique solutions to comple...

She shares one of her biggest challenges (hint: it has to do with audits!) and how she overcame it and also breaks down the theoretical and actual payment differences between getting a procedure completed in a hospital outpatient department (HOPD) versus an Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC).

Sue has more than 30 years’ experience in healthcare information technology management. She has achieved Fellow status with both HIMSS and CHIME. She is currently serving on the board and executive committee of AAMI and the CHIME Education Foundation Board. In her own words, “So much has changed since I first took up this work. My first management assignment was managing personal computers as they...

Kelly Whittle, who describes her work as bringing stability to chaos, offers a comprehensive service package to small and mid-size medical practices transitioning to value-based care. In addition to leveraging data to change the minds and behaviors of clinicians in the U.S., she also has an extensive video lineup on her YouTube channel and speaks about value-based care around the world. We’re supe...

Peggy Losey is a Quality Payment Program consultant assisting practices of all sizes, both regionally and nationally. Her passion and education is patient advocacy. She fulfills this passion by assisting providers through successful participation in federal quality programs. She has assisted hundreds of providers through successful quality programs submissions, helping them realize millions in inc...

Robin Roberts is a health IT consultant and the co-host of the HIT Like A Girl podcast. She sits down as a guest on this inaugural episode to share her story about how her son Carter came down with a rare disease two years ago that turned her family’s world upside down. Robin discusses the challenges of navigating the insurance world to provide Carter with equipment that will increase his quality...