Ms. Linda Macomber

Professor Macomber is an Associate Professor and healthtech thought leader, and technology innovator with a multifaceted career. Her deep expertise over decades spans healthcare delivery, consulting, leadership, nursing, education, AI, innovation, and tech adoption. She has contributed to launching groundbreaking multi-billion-dollar patient care systems, including early expert and AI systems, clinical decision support, virtual care delivery, and advanced interoperable capabilities across the healthcare ecosystem. Professor Macomber has also consulted with organizations nationally and globally; including: • Kaiser Permanente/Epic - Designed requirements that evolved into Epic KP HealthConnect • Department of Defense - Developed and launched initial sites for the CHCS system, • HIMSS - Served as National HIMSS Davies Award Chair, advocated at US Congress, and spoke at many conferences. • Healthcare Technology Consulting - Founded firm in 1994, contributed to varied client initiatives at the University of California, IBM, Healthlink, The White House, Community Health Centers, Genentech, Google, the NIH, HIMSS, and many startups. • Commission for the Certification Commission for Health IT - Certified EHR systems After 30 years in professional practice, Professor Macomber transitioned to academia in 2010, joining the National University as a full-time faculty member and founding the graduate MS Health Informatics Program. As Program Director for the program’s first 11 years, she hired and mentored faculty, created advanced innovative online curricula, marketed and built the program to 70 active grad students across the country, and developed an innovative health tech discovery experiential learning platform with over 30,000 views - http://Renaissance.Health. Today, she serves on the university’s AI Council and enjoys preparing the next generation of health leaders as she teaches and advises emerging professionals on their career pathways to embrace tech, AI, generative AI, and innovations. Professor Macomber began her journey with her BSN from the University of Michigan and as an ICU RN at the Harvard-affiliated Boston Children's Hospital. She began her technical and consulting career across New England after earning her MBA from Northeastern University. She first became engaged in early AI and emerging tech through the Boston Computer Society in the 1980s, learning directly from AI founding fathers. Having recently earned her Digital Health Certification from Columbia University, she became a HITLAB Breakthrough One Member and NYC Breakthrough Alliance judge. Professor Macomber has traveled widely across all 50 states and five continents and additional active professional organizations and communities, include AMIA, ANIA, AIMed, FutureMed, and the All-In Summit.

Memberships

• American Nurse Informatics Association
• HIMSS
• HIMSS Southern California Chapter

Presentations

• (2018-10-10). Interprofessional Education (IPE): Integrating Informatics and Simulation Content into SHHS: A Proposed Model. Planetree International Conference on Patient-Centered Care. Boston, MA.
• (2017-10-15). Personal Health Informatics: Preparing Healthcare Professionals for Patient-Centered Technologies. Personal Health Informatics: Preparing Healthcare Professionals for Patient-Centered Technologies. Poster session presented at the Planetree International Conference on Patient-Centered Care, Baltimore, MD. Planetree International Conference. Baltimore, Maryland.
• (2017-02-03). Creating 2020 Vision: Key Trends Influencing Informatics.. American Nurse Informatics Association Meeting. San Diego, CA.
• (2016-11-14). Career Opportunities in Health IT. Oral presentation at Southern California Health Information Management System Society (HIMSS) Academic Alliance. San Diego, CA..
• (2016-04-08). Design and Development of an Electronic Mobile/Telehealth Symptom Monitoring System/Device (ePRO Fatigue©, Using the Piper Fatigue Scale-12 (PFS-12), PROMIS Fatigue, and Other Symptoms:. Western Institute of Nursing Annual Meeting. Anaheim, CA.
• (2015-01-07). Zoom Your Classroom! Finding the Best Tools to Meet with Your Students and Colleagues Online In and Out of Your LMS.. Hawaii International Conference on Education. Honolulu, HI.
• (2012-10-01). What Apps are in your Pocket? The Value of mHealth Apps on the Front Lines of Community Health. American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Expo. San Francisco, CA.
• (2012-02-01). Did you know there is an App for That?. HIMSS12 Global Meeting - full hour presentation speech for audience of over a thousand people at Innovative HIT XO event. Las Vegas, NV.