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Christina Caraballo, VP of informatics at HIMSS, talks about how vendors, governments and other stakeholders gathered in Rome are demonstrating the ability to share medical data seamlessly.
Romel Khalife, Oracle Health's country manager for UAE and Kuwait, says that incorporating generative AI into its Health Data Intelligence suite will help make patient outreach and chronic disease management more effective.
Because of its small population, Shaikh Khalid AlKhalifa, assistant commander of King Hamad University Hospital, says he believes Bahrain will connect all its patient data into a national EMR in 2025 to develop future population health initiatives.
Mariam AlEissa, adjunct assistant professor at Alfaisal University in Saudi Arabia, discusses her work in genomics and the Kingdom's goals of offering more targeted, personalized healthcare.
Marwan Abdulaziz Janahi, senior VP at Dubai Science Park, discusses the park's support of startup businesses as they grow, which has created a community among the more than 400 companies and 5,000 people who work there.
Harri Koponen, CEO of Nordic Digital Platforms (NDP), delves into Sapphire, a pioneering hospital management solution that's helping healthcare organizations in Kuwait, Dubai and beyond broaden their capabilities.
Asad Lilani, director of political strategy at the Access Challenge notes that while social media campaigns are effective to reach large urban audiences, radio remains a vital way to convey health information to many people in rural areas of Africa.
Videha Sharma, clinical innovation lead at the University of Manchester, says expanding pharmacogenomics use could offer the opportunity to avoid harmful side effects and make medicines more effective from the start.
Legislation expectations for the European health data space and the AI Act as well as discussions on the practical implementation of AI will be featured at HIMSS24 Europe, says HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.
Digital health innovation draws more doctors, but trust building requires boosting awareness and education, says Dr. Diana van Stijn, cofounder and chief medical officer at Lapsi Health.
"We are starting to make the same mistake with AI that we've already made with data in the last 20 years, where we invested in digital tools and technology, and we didn't realize that data were the asset," says the OECD's Eric Sutherland.
Digital health courses need to be embedded into existing curricula, either as extended certifications to micro-content pieces, says Dr Georgi Chaltikyan of Germany's Deggendorf Institute of Technology.