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HEALTH - The Digital Leaders

Empowering patients with usable knowledge

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Dr. Jörg Debatin, chair of the German Health Innovation Hub, outlines how digital health societies bring complex medical knowledge into practice and facilitate patients to participate in care.

 

Digitization can be faster in Germany

There is progress in Germany with digital health, but the digitization process needs to speed up in order to keep up with the rest of Europe, says Peter Vullinghs, CEO of Philips Market DACH.
 

Finnish citizens demand that their healthcare data is utilized

Trust and security are extremely important when it comes to using citizen data to improve health outcomes, explains Sinikka Salo, leader of change with Finland's Permanent Secretary's Cabinet Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Government.

 

Digitization can help with supporting the AI pathway companion

(Sponsored) Siemens Healthineers aims to make the lives of physicians easier by increasing their confidence in treating their patients and ultimately improve patient outcomes, says Peter Körte, the company's EVP of digital health.

 

Beyond knowledge in silos

At HEALTH - The Digital Leaders event, Christoph Herborn, chairman and CMO at Asklepios, pictures digitization from the perspective of doctors: The implementation of EHR is a meaningful step, while other innovations remain field tests, for now.