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While some German hospitals are already digitally advanced, Henning Schneider, CIO of Asklepios Healthcare Group, says he is excited to learn from the Nordic countries about improving interoperability and data exchange.

FHIR has been remarkable in its ability to scale, while resonating across communities of interest such as patient access and genomics, according to Charles Jaffe, CEO of HL7 International.

Jeff Coughlin, Senior Director of Federal and State Affairs at HIMSS, on information-blocking, interoperability, social determinants and recently proposed rules from CMS and ONC.

Emma Cartmell, founding partner at VC firm Cartmell LLC, on what artificial intelligence can do today, and how healthcare is still trying to work out the practical applications for improving quality and reducing costs.

Emma Cartmell, founding partner of Cartmell Ventures, describes how the new interoperability rules will fuel a new era for consumer healthcare, and describes her investment philosophy.

Avanti iHealth Partner Dr. Mark Roche recounts the early days of healthcare interoperability where there were multiple competing standards and various maturity levels.

Prescription drug monitoring programs are essentially forcing providers to get used to putting data into a state system and getting information out to inform care decisions, according to New Jersey State Officials Shereef Elnahal and Nancy Pinkin.

E-VAL Saúde Director Luis Gustavo Kiatake says Brazil is facing many of the problems common in other countries, notably interoperability, privacy, infrastructure, a large population and the combination of private and public health.

Brian Mack, manager of marketing and communications at Great Lakes Health Connect, explains why he gets frustrated about the concept of interoperability.

Putting AI to use in the clinical setting requires curated data, supercomputing infrastructure and the ability to model algorithms on neural networks, says Jörg Aumüller, head of digitalizing healthcare marketing, Siemens Healthineers.

Pew's HIT project director Ben Moscovitch says the tech can be used to foster interoperability but there are some key questions that need to be answered first, including ones about privacy and security.

HIMSS Vice President Tom Leary discusses how policy changes are advancing interoperability, as well as information blocking, innovation and potential changes to HIPAA.