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Germany has pioneered prescribing apps to patients within their normal care setting, in the form of DiGAs, and France has decided to replicate the system as outlined by Armin Scheuer, VP of Business Development International at HIMSS.

Dr. Adrian Zai opens up about a recent collaboration between Massachusetts General Hospital and AstraZeneca and what it can teach the industry.

Dr. Mike Dulin, chief medical officer at Gray Matter Analytics and a professor at UNC Charlotte, highlights how analytics can boost social determinants of health, health disparities and value-based care efforts.

(Sponsored) Miquel Angel Garcia, Head of Medical Systems Division EMEA at Olympus, shares his top priorities for hospitals and how Olympus provides support to enable hospital settings to achieve these goals.

(Sponsored) In the next decade, interoperability will provide healthcare professionals with the efficiency they need, according to Tommy Soh, vice president, Allscripts Asia.

Payers want to know how to change the experience to make access easy for beneficiaries, says Mary Langowski, CEO of Solera Health.

We must ensure patients remain at the center of their care by improving access, while respecting ethical aspects of healthcare, says Oriol Fuertes, CEO and cofounder of QIDA.

Matthew Fisher, general counsel at Carium, discusses some bedrock principles of patient privacy, advances in remote patient monitoring, CMS rules around non-physiologic data and how telehealth should fit into the continuum of care going forward.

Dr. Brian Covino, chief medical officer at Cohere Health, discusses reducing payer and provider friction, the CMS proposed rule on prior authorizations, and how professional associations can help.

First Databank President Bob Katter offers hospital and health system IT leaders four ways to help clinicians deal with the numerous medication decision support alerts they receive daily.

The Emmy-nominated actor on his HIMSS21 keynote, why he cofounded SoulPancake and what Dwight Schrute might be up to lately.

Finding a natural pathway to help deliver insulin can transform the lives of patients who suffer from diabetes, while education and finance can help drive innovation to improve outcomes, says Glen Travers, cofounder of Diabetology Limited.