Putting Women’s Health in Focus at HIMSS25 Europe

The 2025 HIMSS European Health Conference & Exhibition in Paris will spotlight one of the most pressing and long-overlooked areas in healthcare with its Women’s Health in Focus track.  

Registration is now live for HIMSS25 Europe, slated for 10-12 June in Paris. This collection of curated educational sessions brings attention to systemic inequities in women’s health, while offering innovative, evidence-based strategies to address them.  

This programming will kick off with the session It Starts with Data: Closing the Gap, where experts Thao Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of EQUALCARE, Dr. Antonella Santuccione Chadha, vice president of Euresearch and Amanda Leal, AI governance and policy specialist from Brazil, will examine how healthcare’s neglect of sex-specific data has contributed to wide disparities in outcomes for women. With AI and other digital solutions poised to transform care, the session explores why these tools must be trained on inclusive datasets to avoid perpetuating existing inequalities.  

The session Intersectional Innovation: Addressing Health Disparities will explore how race, ethnicity and other social determinants compound the health risks faced by women. Led by multiple thoughtleaders including MobileAfya founder Maria Theresa Samson Kadushi, doula and activist Carolina Coimbra and assistant professor and medical physicist Leonard Wee, this conversation looks beyond isolated factors to the overlapping realities that shape patient experiences. The goal is to share practical strategies that health systems can implement, such as collecting diverse and disaggregated data, to deliver care that meets patients where they are with empathy, equity and cultural competency. 

Decades of assumptions in healthcare will be challenged in the session Beyond Bias: Redefining Chronic Condition Management. Participants will hear how diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and Alzheimer’s often manifest differently in women, and how this mismatch between research and real-world experiences leads to missed or delayed diagnoses. This session brings together voices committed to reshaping chronic disease care through personalized and sex-specific approaches, including neuroscientist Dr. Sivaniya Subramaniapillai and Dr. Angela Mass, professor in women’s cardiac health at Radboud University Medical Center. 

The track also includes 10 Years Too Long: Prioritising Endometriosis, a session that underscores the global urgency of bringing endometriosis into the spotlight. Affecting one in ten women worldwide, endometriosis is still misunderstood and underdiagnosed, with patients waiting an average of a decade for answers. Attendees will learn from various medical leaders, including Dr. Jérôme Bouaziz, obstetrician-gynecologist and co-founder and CEO of OneClinic and Dr. Sylvia Mechsner, head of the Endometriosis Center at the Charité University Medicine Berlin.   

Across all four sessions, HIMSS25 Europe will host a powerhouse lineup of speakers who are leading change at the intersection of technology, policy and patient advocacy. Attendees will hear from Ida Tin, the visionary who coined the term "Femtech", Kathrin Folkendt, founder, of Femtech Insider, hosted by Dr. Claire Murigande, a communications expert and founder of Murigande Comm.  

By putting women’s health front and center, the Women’s Health in Focus track encourages a broader conversation about inclusion, innovation and equity in healthcare.