HIMSS 2025: Christina Caraballo, HIMSS

How can global health systems overcome the maze of interoperability and standards in digital health? 🌐

Host Peter Birch interviews Christina Caraballo, Vice President of Informatics at HIMSS, live from HIMSS 2024. Christina shares her expertise on digital health transformation, cybersecurity, and most notably, interoperability—her lifelong passion.

Christina shares perspectives learned from years of supporting cyber security, digital health, and clinical informatics, with a special focus on practical implementation and real-world impact.


Christina delves into:
🤝 Collaboration unlocks meaningful digital health transformation—across government, hospitals, vendors, and clinicians

🧪 Real-world vendor testing fast-tracks interoperability, ironing out issues before solutions hit the market

🌍 Global projects like the International Patient Summary show the path to sharing health data worldwide

🚀 The digital transformation journey varies—understanding the ecosystem’s readiness is essential to move forward together


This interview was recorded at HIMSS 2025 in Las Vegas. For more interviews and episodes make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel, and catch a feature episode of the Talking HealthTech Podcast featuring some of these discussions!