Unlocking the Power of Data Analytics: New Insights into Key Healthcare Priorities and Best Practices

Janet King is an entrepreneurial business executive, bringing more than 25 years of experience in B2B tech and media research to the HIMSS team. Her ability to apply a variety of research approaches to strategic business problems has resulted in the delivery of impactful, innovative research programs for a long roster of global Fortune 1000 companies. Her passion is storytelling with data, leveraging research to fuel data-driven strategic decision making and to create a thought leadership position for clients through research-driven content. She holds a B.S. degree from Alfred University, and a MBA degree from the Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

Sensmeier joined HIMSS as the Director of Professional Services in 2000. In her current role, she oversees clinical informatics, standards and interoperability.

Sensmeier became Board Certified in Nursing Informatics in 1996, earned the Certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems in 2002, and achieved fellowship status in HIMSS in 2005. She previously served at Palos Community Hospital in Palos Heights, Ill., as a nursing coordinator leading clinical information system implementations.

Sensmeier has made contributions to enabling health information exchange through standards profiling and harmonization initiatives. She led advancement of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), an international standards profiling organization which, over the past decade, has achieved both regional and international adoption of its public domain technical framework. She is President of IHE USA, and previously served as the Standards Implementation Technical Manager for the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP).

An internationally recognized speaker and author of multiple book chapters, articles and white papers, Sensmeier was recognized in 2010 as a fellow with the American Academy of Nursing, a credential held by 2,000 nursing leaders throughout the world. She is co-founder and ex-officio chair of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, a global collaboration of 30 distinct nursing informatics groups that represents a unified voice for nursing informatics professionals.