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David Wall, CIO of Tallaght University hospital in Ireland, shares three key learnings after sustaining a cyberattack in 2021 and explains how attack vectors have evolved.
Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, reflects on an "electrifying" HIMSS24 Europe conference in Rome and the decision to head to Paris in June 2025.
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.
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.
"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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.