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Digital skills should be prioritized by the workforce to help improve workflows and care pathways, says Dr. Osama Elhassan, coordinator of the ZIMAM initiative and board member of the International Society of Telemedicine & eHealth.
COVID-19 has encouraged stakeholders to collaborate more effectively on the use of data, which Bart De Witte, founder of HIPPO AI Foundation, hopes will help reduce health inequalities in a post-coronavirus world.
Behavioral, economic and movement data must be leveraged effectively to improve outcomes during future pandemics, says Dame Sally Davies, former CMO for England and current Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK.
Teaching online while maintaining a clinical practice has enabled Higher Colleges of Technology to make a smooth transition to a hybrid model of training, says H.E. Dr. Abdullatif Mohammed AlShamsi, president & CEO of HCT in the UAE.
The explosion of telehealth, videoconferencing and digital tools generally has been essential during COVID-19, says Dr. Jeffrey M. Hoffman, FAMIA, chief medical information officer at Nationwide Children's Hospital in the U.S.
(Sponsored) Kuwait's 2035 vision aims to strengthen investment in high-quality healthcare, which has already led to increased efficiency, use of innovative technology and a changing culture.
Telehealth has clearly been adopted widely during COVID-19, but digital therapeutics, diagnostics and remote patient monitoring are predicted to play a more significant role moving forward, says Liz Ashall-Payne, founder and CEO of ORCHA.
(Sponsored) The Skolkovo region has been strengthened by the experience of COVID-19 as regulation changes helped accelerate innovation, says Natalia Polushkina, vice president and CEO at Biomedical Technologies Cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation.
Shankar Sridharan, CCIO of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Foundation Trust, describes the large role the staff played in making the hospital the first in Europe to achieve Stage 6 of O-EMRAM and EMRAM.
Health data systems must be based on infrastructure and mechanisms that people can trust to ensure effective adoption, says Dr. Ceri Thompson, deputy head of the eHealth, Wellbeing and Ageing unit, European Commission.
Providers and citizens have an open mindset, which has enabled rapid digital transformation to take place effectively during COVID-19, says Daniel Forslund, chairman of the Innovation and Development Committee in Region Stockholm.
We must use technology to focus on improving healthcare for the whole world, rather than just the richest 10% of the population, says Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies.