Mobile Medicine: Overcoming People, Culture, and Governance

No topic in healthcare technology is more urgent and yet more elusive to date than mobile computing in medicine. It adheres to no boundaries, stagnates in silos, and demands not just the attention of dedicated professionals, but also teams of teams.

Sherri Douville is CEO and Board Member at Medigram. The company’s mission is to eradicate the leading cause of preventable death, which is a delay in information, while at the same time improving health care systems’ finances through workflow re-engineering and improved communications between health care providers. In her role as CEO and Board Member, Sherri’s focus has been on leading and inspiring a world-class team and ecosystem to execute on this mission, including technology, legal, healthcare administration, physician, and business executives. Sherri has been published and quoted 15 times in the last two years in healthcare industry and IT media such as CIO.com, Becker’s Hospital Review, and HITInfrastructure.com. She has contributed to a book about managing data breaches and is currently working on a number of chapters and books, one as editor, on the subjects of mobile computing in medicine, mobile security in healthcare, security in IoT, privacy law in medicine, and principles for ethics and culture for trust in the application of IoT and data in medicine. Sherri is passionate about coaching and developing leaders at Medigram. She has 15 years of experience in executive management, product development, sales and marketing including with Johnson & Johnson, and as a product development and business consultant in the medical market. She has a Biophysics degree and has completed three certificates in electrical engineering, analytics, ML/AI, and computer science through MIT. Sherri is also a member of the MIT Technology Review Global Panel and has served on the board of the NorCal HIMSS. Sherri is part of the working group for the IEEE P2733 Standard for Clinical Internet of Things (IoT) Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS (Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety, and Security) principles. Sherri is co-chair of the TRUST subgroup. She was recently appointed as a Lifetime member to the Digital Directors Network, the organization leading certification of Qualified Technology Experts suitable to serve on corporate boards. Qualified Technology Experts help boards to guide enterprise technology strategy and technology related risks. Sherri also advises Health IT, Medical Informatics, and genetics startup companies. She and her husband, Dr. Art Douville volunteer together with a variety of non-profits including the Board of Fellows for Santa Clara University.