What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Back in June, Sara Holoubek, the rather awesome CEO of Luminary Labs, put words to the frustration so many women feel about the enduring problem of conferences that forget there are two genders. So often in healthcare, where there are panels there are men and where there are keynotes there are…men. This occurs despite the […]
Back in 2012 I wrote a blog post called SXSW: Woodstock for Geeks, which became the opening chapter of Tech Tonics, the book I wrote with David Shaywitz. In this piece, I pointed out the marked differences between SXSW vs. HIMSS, both of which I had recently experienced. I said that HIMSS was best described […]
Turns out there are all different kinds of techno geeks out there. At HIMSS a few weeks ago I was feeling semi-hip among the healthcare uber-nerd crowd that worries about how to make big hospital and healthcare enterprises function with big data. It’s a festival of old-school techno weenies recognizable in the wild by their […]
37,000 of my closest friends and I attended the HIMSS Conference last week in Las Vegas. For those of you who don’t have a propeller permanently implanted in your head, HIMSS stands for the Health Industry Management Systems Society. It is an industry association self-proclaimed to be focused on “transforming healthcare through information technology.” Despite the […]
Lisa Suennen is a venture capital investor and the managing partner of Venture Valkyrie, LLC, which publishes the Venture Valkyrie blog and co-produces the Tech Tonics podcast. She is also co-founder of CSweetener, a women's healthcare mentoring organization.