Session Abstract:
Join our upcoming webinar panel on leveraging Real Time Health Systems where we delve into the current inefficiencies in hospital operations and explore how new IoT sensors and medical devices can be leveraged to optimize nursing rotations, operating theater use, emergency department workflows, and other high impact areas in the hospital. Despite the potential for transformative impact, we explore the current landscape creating limited adoption, uncovering hurdles spanning patient engagement, technical integration, data privacy and management, and infrastructure readiness. Gain insights from industry experts on navigating these challenges and unlocking the full potential of real-time health systems.
Speakers:
Catherine (CJ) Robison, BSN, RN, is a Health Innovation Scientist at Oracle Health – Propelled by the belief that data, research and innovative solutions have the power to transform healthcare, CJ Robison has developed a diverse and extensive portfolio of expertise in the medical field. As a registered nurse with a degree in biology, CJ began her career on a medical-surgical floor that specializes in geriatric oncology. Following her time in direct patient care, she served as the Magnet Program Director and Manager of Professional Practice at Sentara Leigh Hospital in Virginia where she was instrumental in improving electronic workflows, running workload-acuity models and quantifying resources required to deliver care. Following this effort, CJ went on to design and manage an array of process improvement initiatives across Sentara. During the early days of the Pandemic, CJ led a region-wide COVID-mask-making initiative, managing over 1,000 volunteers. In three months, over 40,000 masks were delivered to nearly 100 organizations throughout the Hampton Roads region. In her “free” time, CJ enjoys spending time with her three rambunctious children, reading extensively and riding horses.
Karen Finger is Global Lead, Connected Health Strategy and Innovation for Verizon’s Global Enterprise Healthcare and Life Sciences solutions ecosystem. Karen brings over 25+ years of Industry, IT and Communications technology leadership working with many of the largest companies in the world, leading teams, spearheading digital transformation, building trusted strategic partnerships and pioneering industry leading platforms that deliver improved outcomes. Prior to Verizon, she was an early entrant in the Telehealth and Telemedicine industry where she had the opportunity to lead the commercialization strategies for both non-profit and for-profit start-up and early-stage telehealth and telemedicine companies focused on the transformation of care delivery. In her current role, Karen is dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build secure, connected health platforms that revolutionize patient care, accelerate operational efficiencies and enable clinical innovation in the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare. Karen is a passionate advocate for shaping the future of healthcare by creating opportunities for collaboration with Providers, Payers, Retail Health, and Medtech Partners that democratize and extend access to care, improve the patient and provider experience, reduce costs, expand growth and deliver improved quality and health outcomes. Karen holds a degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Florida. Outside of work, Karen has been an active volunteer and Industry leader having served on the board of Emerge Scholarships devoted to economic empowerment for women, as well as served as President of the Association of Telecommunications Professionals, and currently sits on the Executive Advisory Board for the Atlanta Technology Professionals dedicated to connecting, learning and giving back. She enjoys Orange Theory workouts (when they are over), Pickleball, fostering rescue dogs and spending time with her two, adult children.
Karen has 30 years of experience in distributed intelligent edge systems, with an emphasis on healthcare, aviation, defense, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity and other regulated markets. Karen is currently the Chief Solution Architect of the Intel Health and Life Sciences (HLS) global sales team. In her global HLS role, Karen works with all major healthcare equipment manufacturers, healthcare ISVs, and hospital systems, as well as biopharma manufacturing customers, to modernize and digitize their solutions and businesses. Karen’s past experience includes solution design, development, management and sales of distributed transaction systems, AI for healthcare/aviation/military systems, software-defined radio, network and web acceleration solutions, and data-centric secure messaging solutions, working for Oracle, BEA Systems and private companies focused on healthcare, military, aviation and industrial markets. Karen has a BS in Computer Science, graduating summa cum laude from UC Irvine, and has lived and worked in Washington DC, California, Australia, Hong Kong, France and the UK. She currently resides in Franklin, TN.
Dr. Wolff has over 25 years of experience in the health and life science industries as a scientist and analyst working in the U.S. and Europe. Mark joined SAS in 2005 and is an Advisory Industry Consultant and Chief Health and Life Science Analytics Strategist for the SAS Global IoT Division. Mark’s areas of expertise include the development and application of advanced and predictive analytics in healthcare and life sciences with a particular interest in outcomes and safety. Current work focuses on methods and application of Machine Learning to real time sensor/IoT data in support of outcomes and safety research, visualization and development of intelligent, decision support systems. Prior to joining SAS Mark held a variety of research and leadership positions in academia, government and industry. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Loyola College in Maryland, a Master of Science in Entomology and a Doctorate in Toxicology from North Carolina State University.
Heather Dewhirst is a Health Innovation Scientist at Oracle Health, with extensive experience in healthcare workflows and interoperability. She brings a background in frontline clinical practice, academic training, and experience in Informatics from Mayo Clinic as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist and Radiology Systems Analyst. Heather’s focus is on integrating healthcare data from various sources to improve measurement of true health and she’s passionate about driving optimization through healthcare system integration.
