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Having records made for clinicians and being able to provide patients with direct access to their medical records are fundamental in ensuring good quality data, according to Chris Bates, director of research and analytics at TPP, UK.
If the entire health ecosystem is going to deal with future pandemics, EHR vendors must realize that they need their solutions to work not just for hospitals but also for governments, says Frank Hester, CEO and founder of TPP.
Praveen Deorani, senior data scientist at the Singapore Ministry of Health's Office of Healthcare Transformation, says understanding people's health-engagement behaviors is key to pushing them to manage their own health.
Brunei hospitals are on a journey toward digital maturity to augment healthcare capacity. Their first step is moving to an EMR system, said Dr. Azmi Mohammad, a specialist orthopedic surgeon at Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha Hospital.
As part of its digital transformation journey, Aster DM Healthcare has recently made an effort to connect its hospitals through a single interoperable platform called MyAster.
Dell Technologies is helping healthcare providers consolidate data, which enables easy access to precision medicine and supports cyber protection strategies, says Wolfgang Mertz, CTO for Unstructured Data Solutions.
To fully realize the benefits of AI in healthcare, Dr. Dhesi Raja, vice chair of the Board of Advisory at HIMSS Asia-Pacific, says it is important for hospitals to pursue systemic changes with population health management as an end goal.
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.