(SPONSORED) Adrienne Edens, VP of Education at CHIME, offers her perspective as a judge from the inaugural Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards and Helen Donnelly of Verizon applauds the initiative's focus on community,

(SPONSORED) Shareefa Alabdulmunem, Head of eServices at King Faisal Specialist Hospital, and Christina Caraballo, Senior Healthcare Strategist at Get Real Health, discuss what it means to receive the HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Award.

(SPONSORED) Karen Guice, Former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs for the US DOD, advises women in health IT to see opportunity in the face of bad experiences and risk taking.

Karen DeSalvo and Carla Smith discuss the important differences between focusing on "what you want to be" and "what you want to do " in your career. Recorded at HIMSS17.

Marion Ball, Ed.D, Professor Emerita at Johns Hopkins University, shares her experience coming up through the male-dominated health IT profession and offers advice to young women just entering the field.

As a distinct profession with meaningful and well-paying careers, the health IT field has proven difficult for women to advance. This session hosts lessons learned, experiences, and counsel from executives who champion women in health IT.

(SPONSORED) HIMSS Radio guests Karen DeSalvo and Suzi Grizancic discuss the issues around gender diversity and quality in the health IT field and their involvement in the HIMSS Women in Health IT initiative.

(SPONSORED) Suzi Grizancic, Principal at EY, expresses the firms enthusiastic sponsorship of the Women in Health IT initiative and how it runs parallel to their our missions with gender parity and the advancement of women in leadership.

(SPONSORED) Helen Donnelly, Executive Director of Verizon Enterprise Solutions, explains the reasons behind Verizon’s sponsorship of the Women in Health IT initiative and their desire to be a driving force in advancing women in technical careers.