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Dr. Tamara Sunbul, chair of HIMSS Middle East Community and a digital health transformation and innovation strategic advisor, highlights HIMSS Executive Summit in Dubai that will focus on the promise of AI and creating a future-ready workforce.
Healthcare's risk aversion remains a barrier to AI adoption, but low-risk, safety-validated opportunities are ready for real-world deployment, says Xabier Michelena Vegas, Catalan Health Service's digital health strategy clinical informatics lead.
To ensure ethical and responsible AI innovation in healthcare, progress must be balanced with strong protections for patient privacy, says Antoine Tesnière, professor at George Pompidou European Hospital.
Healthcare organizations must adopt digital transformation holistically to ensure the entire organization benefits rather than isolated areas, says Raed AlHazme, CIO at Saudi Arabia's Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs.
Social gaming platforms are emerging as effective tools to deliver health education to young people by integrating health messaging into gaming environments, says Anca Petre, cofounder of MedShake Studio.
Ida Tin, who coined the term "femtech" and founded think tank Femtech Assembly, says more money needs to be put toward women's health research and regulation needs to be more gender-informed.
Zayna Khayat, health futurist and University of Toronto adjunct professor, argues that to meet expanding global healthcare needs, leaders must design digital-first, asset-light systems, which would enable more flexible and adaptive care delivery.
Osama El Hassan, ZIMAM cofounder and chair, discusses the digital workforce development nonprofit's evolution from a group of 12 to a community spanning Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries and beyond.
In smaller countries, managing the complexity of digital health transformation presents significant challenges, says Nick Guldemond, a professor of healthcare and public health.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)'s Javier Elkin talks about the ICRC's approach to ethical AI use, including developing chatbots to support clinical decision-making in areas under conflict or with lower connectivity.
Dr. Dimitra Panteli, lead on innovation for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, stresses the need for European countries to learn from each other's successes and challenges to build sound digital health frameworks.
Iceland's Landspítali National University Hospital's ENFRAM and INFRAM results are being used to develop a modern IT infrastructure for its planned new facility, says Svava María Atladóttir, chief transformation officer.