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High quality data and health informatics are increasingly central to addressing complex women\u2019s health issues. FIU Business professors Min Chen and Cynthia LeRouge shared several high impact examples with members of the Think Tank for Women in Business & Technology, held virtually on December 15, 2020.<\/p>\n
The international panel “Women\u2019s Health: What Technologies Should We Invest In?\u201d not only addressed existing medical challenges, but also the need to increase women\u2019s presence in the technology sector.<\/p>\n Where is technology delivering health results?<\/p>\n Chen, associate professor of information systems and business analytics, explained that maintaining and sharing electronic health records can help match pregnant women with the treatment they need, allowing for fewer unnecessary C-sections in low risk deliveries.<\/p>\n \u201cAnalytics can be used to monitor outcomes and update patients to different risk levels,\u201d said Chen. \u201cWhen hospitals share electronic health records with outside providers, there is an overall decrease in the probability of maternal complications and babies going to the neonatal intensive care unit.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are creating new tools and leveraging existing ones that empower patients and health systems,\u201d said LeRouge. \u201cThese include technologies that increase information awareness, facilitate individual and population patient assessment and tracking,\u00a0support\u00a0self-management, and deploy innovative forms of telemedicine to help patients.\u201d\u00a0explained LeRouge, director of the Master of Science in Health Informatics and Analytics<\/a> program.<\/p>\n In the case of perinatal anxiety, a common condition but one where many\u00a0women may not seek or sustain care due to societal stigmas, telemedicine can offer a support system. One option may be connecting with\u00a0chatbots at times when the expectant mother feels anxious and alone.\u00a0Other technologies, like electronic reported patient outcomes (ePROs) can support health systems receive evidence-based patient generated health data, which facilitate patient provider communication, track patient progress, and build databases of feedback from patients on the outcomes of interventions.<\/p>\n Think Tank for Women in Business & Technology was established by noted entrepreneur Somi Arian in an effort to expand the role of women in leadership positions in tech innovation and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" High quality data and health informatics are increasingly central to addressing complex women\u2019s health issues. FIU Business professors Min Chen and Cynthia LeRouge shared several high impact examples with members of the Think Tank for Women in Business & Technology, held virtually on December 15, 2020. The international panel “Women\u2019s Health: What Technologies Should We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":35153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[4477,3959,1809,1918,2229],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35157,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149\/revisions\/35157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Min](\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/chenm.jpg\")
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