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Opening in 2021, Abu Dhabi's Reem Hospital embraced the digital assignment early on. In this interview with HIMSS TV, IT director Naushad Mohammed shares the essential applications that played a crucial role in the hospital's successful launch.
Abigail Norville from the Netherlands Ministry of Health Welfare and Sport explains that healthcare needs to evolve and we will need to foster and train our existing healthcare workforce to work in new ways.
Filipe Santos Costa, chairman and CEO of AICEP highlights the attractiveness of Portugal to health sector companies, including tech startups and particularly pharma, by optimising infrastructure, licensing and financial incentives.
Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, says health equity requires pragmatic designs that balance off data access versus data protection and designs that are tolerant of more basic infrastructure.
Dr Catia Pinto of SPMS explains how Portugal will use the EU R&R fund to advance its digital health transformation. This includes a national data lake which will integrate with EHDS and which will give citizens access to their health records.
Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, explains how the Nordics are using unique identifiers to collate each patient's data, while balancing better between prevention and care.
Harvey Castro, author of "ChatGPT and Healthcare" explains how large language models trained mainly on healthcare content could potentially give better results than general purpose models, but still need human intervention to double-check results.
Petra Hoogendoorn from EU project Label2Enable explains how patients and doctors want their governments to take responsibility for filtering and recommending healthcare related apps.
Quy Vo-Reinhard, dHealth Foundation director and cofounder, explains how technologies like blockchain and smart contracts may underpin EMRs of the future, but for regulators and users to keep up, there needs to be an emphasis on education.
Joaquim Cunha, executive director of Health Cluster Portugal, explains passionately how his association coordinates multiple stakeholders to amplify the relatively smaller EU state's healthcare competitiveness and innovation.
Maria Hassel from the Swedish eHealth Agency says she is optimistic that EHDS legislation can be enacted within 12 months, with Sweden already using health data to improve health policy decisions and innovation.
Louisa Stuwe of France's Ministry of Health explains how the national "Ma Santé 2022" strategy paved the way for a national digital health doctrine, by engaging in multiple stakeholder and citizen consultations and by securing funding.