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Lusíadas Saúde Health Group needed to measure and improve performance per its strategic goals and chose EMRAM to navigate their hospitals through digital maturity, moving from intuitive to evidence-based management, according to CCIO Dr Ana Prado.
Dr Shafi Ahmed explains that better workforce planning, radical changes in training, and flexible career paths that allow for periods outside clinical practice are essential to meet the squeeze on workforce.
Professor David Lowe from the Scottish government talks about use cases where AI can be adopted immediately, the foundations that need to be in place and the change management processes required for successful deployment.
Nicholas Bunger, data engineer at Balgrist University Hospital, explains how reaching EMRAM Stage 6 improved operational efficiency and delivered an increase in capacity, which was helped by the staff's appetite to embrace change and innovation.
Dr Ricardo Leite, CEO of I-DAIR, explains how digital makes it possible to shift from "disease systems" to "health systems" by focusing resources (particularly a limited workforce) on things that can be fixed, thereby reducing the burden of disease.
Opening in 2021, Abu Dhabi's Reem Hospital embraced the digital assignment early on. In this interview with HIMSS TV, IT director Naushad Mohammed shares the essential applications that played a crucial role in the hospital's successful launch.
Abigail Norville from the Netherlands Ministry of Health Welfare and Sport explains that healthcare needs to evolve and we will need to foster and train our existing healthcare workforce to work in new ways.
Filipe Santos Costa, chairman and CEO of AICEP highlights the attractiveness of Portugal to health sector companies, including tech startups and particularly pharma, by optimising infrastructure, licensing and financial incentives.
Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, says health equity requires pragmatic designs that balance off data access versus data protection and designs that are tolerant of more basic infrastructure.
Dr Catia Pinto of SPMS explains how Portugal will use the EU R&R fund to advance its digital health transformation. This includes a national data lake which will integrate with EHDS and which will give citizens access to their health records.
Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, explains how the Nordics are using unique identifiers to collate each patient's data, while balancing better between prevention and care.
Harvey Castro, author of "ChatGPT and Healthcare" explains how large language models trained mainly on healthcare content could potentially give better results than general purpose models, but still need human intervention to double-check results.