Women in Health IT Leading Change

Eva Karp, DHA, MBA, RN-BC, FACHE serves as senior vice president and chief clinical and patient safety officer at Cerner, where she leads a team that supports health care organizations around in the world to effectively leverage IT to optimize clinical workflows and achieve increased patient safety. Since joining Cerner in 2001, Dr. Karp has led several initiatives to advance patient safety and clinician efficiency. Most recently, Dr. Karp and her team led an effort to define the Essential Clinical Dataset (ECD) for nursing documentation for the physical assessment and patient history. The goal of this initiative was to reduce unnecessary documentation to give nurses more time to focus on patient care.

Dr. Karp earned her doctorate in health care administration from the Medical University of South Carolina. She has also achieved a master’s degree in business administration, a bachelor’s degree in business management, and an associate’s degree in nursing. Dr. Karp has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare informatics and 12 years of neurological and surgical ICU experience as a registered nurse. Additionally, Dr. Karp is board certified in both nursing informatics through the American Nurse Credentialing Center and in healthcare management through the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Within HIMSS, Dr. Karp serves as co-chair of the HIMSS EHR Association Patient Safety Workgroup, a member of the HIMSS user experience and EHR privacy and security workgroups, and a global conference presentation reviewer.

Kim Garriott has focused her career on improving health outcomes and patient access through better data management and interoperability, specializing in clinical imaging. As the Chief Innovation Officer for NetApp Global Healthcare she works with private and public health sector clients to leverage NetApp technologies to drive innovative data management strategies.

Prior to joining NetApp, Kim served as the project executive for the development of a first-of-its-kind enterprise data-sharing platform, governance model, and activation strategy for the 29 agencies and offices within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Previously she served as Principal Consultant at Logicalis, a global IT services and solutions provider, where she developed and led the healthcare consulting practice for North America. Garriott has held consultant leadership roles at organizations like the Cleveland Clinic, University of California Health System, and Indiana University Health. While at Cleveland Clinic, Garriott led the design and implementation of the most comprehensive enterprise imaging program in the world.

An active member of HIMSS, Garriott has been newly named to the HIMSS Innovation Committee. She is co-founder of the HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community, a joint effort between HIMSS and the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine. She also served as chair for the HIMSS Analytics Digital Imaging Adoption Model (DIAM) Global Development team. A popular speaker, Garriott provided a keynote at the 2017 HIMSS Middle East conference in Saudi Arabia and presents on diverse topics including artificial intelligence, interoperability, telehealth, and enterprise imaging.

A member of Executive Women in Healthcare and Women in Technology, Kim is passionate about female mentorship and seeks to help young women working in health IT hone skills for career advancement.

Lucienne Ide, MD, PhD is the founder and chief health innovator at Rimidi, where she established Rimidi’s foundational strategic partnerships with pharmaceutical, medical device and electronic medical record companies and continues to drive Rimidi’s vision with the latest clinical and technical standards. Prior to starting Rimidi, Dr. Ide had a unique combination of experience in medicine, science, government, technology and venture capital.

She received her undergraduate degree in physics from Middlebury College, and began her career working for the National Security Administration and the Central Intelligence Agency, where she developed a passion for data. Several years later, she received an M.D./Ph.D. in pharmacology from Emory University. In graduate school, she focused her work in the field of gene therapy, then went on to do her clinical training at the University Pittsburgh Medical Center. Frustrated by the inefficiencies in the systems and processes in healthcare, Dr. Ide left clinical practice and began working with a venture capital firm with the intention of investing in better healthcare technologies. However, she quickly noticed a lack of clinical understanding in the technologies that were being developed. She started Rimidi with a vision of using better data and technology to drive efficiencies in the clinical workflow and improve patient outcomes.

Georgia HIMSS and national HIMSS member, an active member of the HL7 FHIR community, a founding and steering committee member of the Connected Health Initiative, which advocates for healthcare policy reform, and co-chair of the Health Equity and Access Leadership Coalition. She’s a mentor to women and underrepresented minorities in Atlanta.