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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.
In 2024, Denmark plans to enable patients to record outcomes through their national health portal, says Mette Maria Skjøth, RN, department head at the Dermatology and Allergy Centre of Odense University Hospital.
Patients are concerned that healthcare's digital transformation could worsen existing health inequalities, especially the digital divide, says Gözde Susuzlu Briggs, programme manager for the European Patients' Forum.
Bart de Witte, founder of Hippo AI Foundation, says open source AI is transparent, peer reviewed, widely available, creates equity and encourages collaboration in innovation, but challenges remain.
The country is introducing AI in primary care to assist physicians in analyzing large volumes of clinical data from digital applications and medical devices, says Marco Marchetti, head of the HTA operational unit at AGENAS.
Abigail Norville, deputy secretary general of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands, says her government is interested in how Europe and the U.S. are addressing their diverse populations' needs with healthcare legislation.
Alfredo Almerares, clinical executive manager at InterSystems, believes that understanding regional differences in clinical communication and workflows can determine the success of healthcare technology providers’ global expansion.
Sarah Wamala Andersson, professor of health and welfare technology at Sweden's Mälardalen University, says 40% of Europeans can't understand or use digital health tools, leading to a project that is testing approaches to close the gap.
Emphasizing the positive aspects and benefits of a nursing career could attract more individuals to choose healthcare as their profession, says former Danish education minister Christine Antorini, who started her nursing career at the age of 58.
Traditional healthcare plans focus on treatment once patients become ill. Eduardo Iglesias, founder and CEO of VivaWell, discusses how VivaWell’s affordable, mostly employer-sponsored plans emphasize preventative care to keep people healthy.