Doswell Health Informatics Conference | Texas Woman's University

2025 Doswell Health Informatics Conference

AI in Healthcare: Bridging Innovation, Practice and Education

Friday, April 25, 2025 | TWU Dallas | 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Presented by the Houston J. and Florence A. Doswell College of Nursing

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For reference throughout the 2025 Doswell Health Informatics Conference, please utilize the agenda and the 2025 Doswell Health Informatics Conference Proceedings.

Conference Agenda

Conference Proceedings

Keynote Speaker

Judy Murphy, DN(hon), RN, FACMI, LFHIMSS, FAAN

Nurse Executive & Health IT Leader | Minneapolis, Minn.
Presentation Title: Health IT Strategy and Culture in the Era of AI

Judy Murphy will explore highs and lows of AI integration in healthcare, emphasizing both the IT strategy and organizational culture components of implementation. She will focus on the use of AI for patient outcome and experience improvements, as well as for workforce implications to optimize workflows, reduce administrative burden, and alleviate clinician burnout. Murphy will also examine issues surrounding the use of AI in healthcare, including: safety, ethics, transparency, governance, legislation/regulation, and staff competence.

Murphy is a pioneer and thought leader in national and international health and nursing informatics communities. As Chief Nursing Officer for IBM Global Healthcare and Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Murphy led efforts to assist health care providers in adopting health information technology and to promote consumers’ greater understanding and use of health information technology for their own health.

Previously, she spent 36 years at Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, 26 of those years in clinical informatics. As Vice President-Applications, she led the electronic health record program since 1995, when Aurora was an early adopter of health IT.

She has published over 100 articles and book chapters, with countless presentations nationally and internationally to her name. Murphy received an Honorary Doctor of Nursing degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2022 and served on the AMIA and HIMSS Board of Directors. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Medical Informatics, and a HIMSS Lifetime Fellow.

The AMIA 2020 Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award, the HIMSS 2018 Most Influential Women in Health IT Award, the AMIA 2014 Don Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics, the HIMSS 2014 Federal Health IT Leadership Award, and the HIMSS 2006 Nursing Informatics Leadership Award are just a few awards that have recognized Murphy.

Included with registration

4.75 CEs available for Nursing and HIMSS
Free parking (available in TWU Dallas parking garage from 2nd floor to top level)
Continental breakfast and lunch

For more information on health informatics at TWU, see our Graduate Certificate in Health Informatics

Graduate Certificate in Health Informatics

Target Audience and Conference Focal Points

Anyone interested in the field of health informatics, including informaticists, scientists, researchers, faculty, clinicians, industry representatives, public health representatives, members of community organizations, healthcare policymakers, consultants and students.

Conference Focal Points

Explore emerging AI innovations in healthcare
- AI technologies transforming healthcare delivery and outcomes
Engage with practical applications of AI in healthcare settings
- Implementation strategies, challenges and solutions
Advance AI education for healthcare stakeholders
- Strategies to integrate AI concepts into curricula and professional training for healthcare educators, practitioners and students
Address ethical and policy implications of AI
- Ethical considerations, equity challenges and policy frameworks guiding responsible use of AI in healthcare
Promote interprofessional collaboration and leadership
- Partnerships to enhance AI integration across the healthcare continuum

If you're passionate about health informatics, this is an opportunity to support the next generation of informaticists. Supper the Health Informatics Scholarship Fund.

Give to Health Informatics Scholarship Fund

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THIA Workshop Opportunity

The Texas Health Informatics Alliance Workshop is offered Thursday, April 24, 12:30-5 p.m. CST at TWU Dallas. The Texas Health Informatics Alliance (THIA) aims to build informatics ties across Texas through partnership in research, data, policy, education and workforce development.

The workshop is hosted by THIA Working Groups and will also provide opportunities for hands-on discussion.

Conference Planning Committee

Mikyoung A. Lee, PhD, RN
Planning Committee Chair
Professor, Doswell Endowed Chair for Informatics and Healthcare Transformation
Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing
Dallas, Texas

Marion J. Ball, EdD, FACMI, FAAN, FIAHSI, FAHIMA, FMLA, FLHIMSS, FCHIME, FIMIA
Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering, Presidential Distinguished Professor and Executive Director
University of Texas at Arlington Center for Innovation in Health Informatics
Arlington, Texas

Eva Bernal, MBA
Nursing Operations Administrator
Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing
Dallas, Texas

Sharon Blackerby, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, NI-BC, CPHQ
Clinical Assistant Professor & Professional Development Director
University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing and Health Innovation
Arlington, Texas

Lorrie Burkhalter, MPH
Program Manager
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Ling Chu MD
Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer & Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Linda Denke, PhD, RN, CCRC
Nurse Scientist, Magnet Program & Nursing Research
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Susan H. Fenton, PhD, RHIA, ACHIP, FAMIA
Dr. Doris L. Ross Professor, Vice Dean for Education, UT System Distinguished Teaching Professor
UTHealth Houston, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
Houston, Texas

Joshua Flanagan
Digital Content Manager
Texas Woman's University
Denton, Texas

Ashley Hunsucker, RN
Clinical Solutions Specialist - Connexall
Adjunct Professor - Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing
Dallas, Texas

Theresa Mendoza
Principal of Data Services & Research
DFWHC Education and Research Foundation
Dallas, Texas

Joni Padden, DNP, RN
Chief Nursing Information Officer
Texas Health Resources
Arlington, Texas

Ayesha Rahman, MSN, APRN, FNP-C
PhD Student & Research Assistant
Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing
Denton, Texas

Ranjitha Rao, MBA
Budget/Financial Analyst
Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing
Denton, Texas

Jared Vernon
Manager, TWU Dallas Campus & Technology
Texas Woman’s University
Dallas, Texas

Jennifer Witten, DNP, RN, NI-BC
Division Director Clinical Informatics, HCA NTX Division
Medical City Healthcare
Dallas, Texas