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HIT Like a Girl Pod: Empowering Women in Health IT

HIT Like a Girl Pod: Empowering Women in Health IT

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Ready to break barriers and lead the future of health tech? Join host Joy Rios for insightful conversations with women leaders who are driving change at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Get in-depth interviews, engaging discussions on health IT (HIT) topics, and actionable advice to advance your career. Whether you're a new or established professional, HIT Like a Girl Pod empowers you to be informed, connected, and a leader in healthcare IT.

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As anyone who has lived through a major disaster can attest, the aftermath of an emergency is often just as chaotic and dangerous as the event itself. Responding to a disaster requires care coordination across a large number of individuals and agencies.  In today's episode, we chat with Lauren Knieser, Senior Director at Audacious Inquiry, where AI technology is playing a vital role in making sure that care coordination efforts are as efficient and effective as possible.
In this episode, Joy chats with Angela Lanning, COO, Informatics and Technology Services at Premier. She's responsible for their product strategy and operations, which includes implementations, training, customer support, and product delivery. Premier aggregates data from multiple systems, cleans and normalizes it, applies risk adjustment, and then presents it back to customers so they can see their performance. They also help bring together hundreds of hospitals to help them strategize how to improve their performance on a much larger scale.
In this episode, Joy sits down with Rory Stanton, CEO at Aila Health, which is an AI-enabled health management platform that empowers patients with complex autoimmune diseases to receive personalized health at home. Her work helps these patients understand and manage their symptoms with online education, supportive communities, and holistic care from board-certified physicians. We met Rory through the HITLAB NYC femtech initiative.
In this episode, Joy chats with Hila Goldman-Aslan, the CEO and Co-founder of DIA Imaging Analysis, a women-led organization, based out of Israel. Her work focuses on ultrasounds, which we typically associate with babies. However, ultrasounds can look at the heart, liver, lungs, and much more. Hila's company centers its attention on the cardiac and bladder ultrasound space and leverages AI to help make user analysis of ultrasound images smarter and more accurate. This helps take the subjectivity out of the ultrasound analysis process, giving more time back to clinicians and healthcare providers.
In this episode, Joy chats with Alana McGolrick, Chief Nursing Officer at PeriGen, a perinatal decision support system. Their AI-powered early warning system gets applied to the laboring patient and helps read the fetal heart events, trends, uterine activity, progress in labor and also helps to graph and trend the maternal vital signs, which helps clinicians at the bedside with decision making related to the patient. Her work is focused on reducing preventable maternal and newborn deaths using technology and AI to support labor and delivery activities. In this conversation, she shares how the PeriGen Vigillence product removes the bias that a doctor or nurse might have when looking at the mom or the fetal heartbeat by providing objective assessments.
In this episode, Joy chats with Stephanie Hillmann, the Senior Executive and Principal Owner of Prairiewood Consulting, based out of Seattle. She and Joy had a heartfelt conversation that touched on family dynamics, supporting the mental health of our youth, working to eliminate gender bias, and calling for more love and empathy in healthcare. Overall, not only does she have a wealth of knowledge, but she's also happy to share it.
Stacy Hurt is probably best known as one of the fiercest patient advocates in healthcare. But she's so much more than that. She's a patient engagement consultant, survivorship activist, digital health strategist, and keynote speaker. As an award-winning pharma executive who lives as a healthcare consumer every day, she is also a caregiver for her intellectually and developmentally disabled son as well as a stage four colorectal cancer survivor herself. In this episode, she shares her story and best advice.
Dr. Shika Pappoe, Chief Medical Officer at Strive Health, is a nephrologist with a blended background in medicine, public health, and business administration. In this episode, she and Joy Rios talk in-depth about kidney disease and Dr. Pappoe's work at one of the country's largest safety-net hospitals, where she's able to focus her energies on providing care to underserved communities. One in three adults in the U.S. is at risk for chronic kidney disease, many of whom do not understand the full spectrum of the disease and how it impacts themselves or their loved ones. Dr. Pappoe works to get resources and education into the hands of both providers and the general public to increase awareness of chronic kidney disease.
In this episode, we learn from Amy Divaraniya, CEO and Founder of Oova. With Oova's at-home hormone testing kit, women with irregular cycles who are trying to conceive can find out where they are in their cycle, whether or not they have released an egg yet, how many days post ovulation they are, as well as the concentration levels for both luteinizing hormone and progesterone. That means it’s the first to pinpoint the fertile window and confirm ovulation in one test. Oova users get a customized daily action plan and are empowered with information to share with their healthcare providers to really take control of their conception journey. Amy tells us all about it!
In this episode, Dr. Alicia Jackson, Founder of Evernow, sits down with Joy to discuss menopause. More than 55 million women in the U.S. are experiencing menopause symptoms, but 75% of those who seek care don't get it. Evernow is a modern startup using its group of women scientists and doctors to help normalize the way we view a woman's changing hormones as we age, and what that means for our overall health.
In this episode, Joy sits down with Ellen James, Director of Research and Development at Small Pharma, a neuro-pharmaceutical company that is currently developing a psychedelic-assisted therapy for the treatment of mental health conditions. Small Pharma is one of the few psychedelic companies working with DMT, a naturally occurring psychedelic tryptamine found in plants and the brain of mammals. Scientific evidence suggests DMT offers the potential for rapid-acting and long-lasting antidepressant effects. Small Pharma is leading the world's first DMT clinical trial and Ellen tells us all about it!
In this episode, Joy sits down with Anna Lindow, CEO and CoFounder of Brave Health, a virtual behavioral health provider and engagement platform. Her piece of the health IT puzzle solves for behavioral health outcomes for Medicaid beneficiaries. Brave Health provides telehealth-enabled counseling, therapy, psychiatry, and medication management, including medication-assisted treatment to treat a range of conditions across the spectrum of mental health and substance use disorder. As the CEO, Anna helps some of the most vulnerable communities -- such as foster children -- experience the benefits that come from maintaining continuity of care and consistent relationship with their healthcare providers.
In this episode, Joy talks with Maya Said, CEO and Founder of Outcomes4Me, a free mobile app that helps breast cancer patients navigate their cancer diagnosis and treatment more comprehensively through an AI-powered platform. Maya is laser-focused on empowering patients through one of the most vulnerable times of their lives to help them understand their options and be better advocates for themselves as they navigate the healthcare system.
In this episode, Joy sits down with Carrie Kozlowski, Co-Founder, and COO of UpFront Healthcare. Her organization helps to activate patients by providing them with proactive and personalized information that reaches them where they are. Their platform informs patients not only with what they need to do, but also with how they need to do it, and where. All of that is wrapped in health communication science that helps to motivate, persuade, and influence them to take that action.
In this episode, we sit down with Jody Neuhauser, Co-founder of Overerrra, an intelligent fertility platform for men and women that matches them to the products and services they need as part of their trying-to-conceive journey. Jodi is also the founder at Reneu Fertility Travel, where she takes female founders to Capetown, South Africa to freeze their eggs at a third of the cost of clinics in the US. She's super ambitious and making an impact on women's health around the world.
In this episode, Joy sits down with Eden Brownell, an Engagement Specialist at mPulse and an expert in behavioral science, user design and public health. Eden's work helps healthcare organizations adjust their efforts to meet the health needs, confidence levels, and cultural sensitivities in meaningful ways for their patients--essentially reimagining health engagement for the modern age.
In this episode, we talk with Maureen Ladouceur, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Commercial Officer at MMIT. Maureen is passionate about making life-changing drugs and innovative therapies more easily accessible to all patients as a registered nurse. She saw firsthand what happens to patients and families when access to drugs is delayed or not possible.
In this episode, we hear from Somer Baburek, President, CEO of HERA Biotech. Somer's work is dedicated to addressing unmet needs in the field of women's health. And specifically in reproductive medicine. In this conversation, Joy and Somer talk in-depth about endometriosis, the current solution to diagnose it, which is through pretty invasive surgery, and how her efforts are working to change that. Somer was a contestant in the HITLAB Women's Health Tech Challenge.
In this episode, we sit down with Shelly Bond, Vice President & Sales Development for Ascom Canada. Shelley talks with Joy about how technology can improve areas within the clinical process. For example, using a sensor within a hospital bed to let nurses know when a patient has gotten up and may need help from the care team. Shelly shared some super interesting insights on a recent project she completed with Humber River Hospital, North America’s first fully digital acute-care hospital.
In this episode, we hear from Vidya Murthy, COO at MedCrypt. She talks with Joy about cybersecurity within medical devices. And although a medical device may look like any other internet of things type of technology, it's constrained by regulation and must keep clinical functionality, patient safety, and care delivery as top priorities. Vidya breaks down the importance of compliance and risk reduction for any devices deployed in a healthcare setting.
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