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Startups should work closely with their target audiences in the product-creation phase and healthcare providers need to be more willing to prescribe digital healthcare solutions, says Karolina Korth, founder of the Kuala Lumpur Health 2.0 chapter.

Healthbox, which was acquired by HIMSS in March, provides the platforms and opportunities for digital health startups to link up with payers and providers, says the company's president Neil Patel.

Developing a better link between cybersecurity and patient-facing services is what Dan Taylor, director of security of NHS Digital, believes is a top priority – a good cybersecurity strategy focused on people.

(Sponsored) Mazen Sobh, regional business manager at CareStream in the Middle East, outlines the financial, technical, clinical and security benefits of cloud computing for imaging but says key advantage is patient access in various care settings.

Prof Xiangliang Zhang, associate professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, is working with biology data to understand the relationship between disease, genes and drugs to gain better insight to develop predictive models.

Manal Almalki, PhD, of Jazan University in Saudi Arabia, is empowering patients to monitor their health at home so they can gain insights into their own body using wearables; the tool is also aggregating data during the patient-run experiments.

Meshari Alwazae, Ph.D., manager of data and information management for King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia explains how the hospital achieved Stage 6 of the HIMSS Analytics adoption model.