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HEALTH - The Digital Leaders

Germany needs interoperability based on international standards

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At HEALTH - The Digital Leaders event, Helene Lengler of InterSystems, talks about the engagement with university hospitals within SMITH consortium to harness data stocks for research and the potential for international standards in Germany.

 

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.

 

Why cultural change is needed in digital transformation

We must prepare our workforce for cultural change and ensure we learn to fail fast in our global digital transformation projects, says HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.

 

The Nordics and Dutch are leading lights in digital health

Jörg Studzinski, with HIMSS Analytics, and Jochen Messemer, with McKinsey & Company, discuss HIMSS European eHealth Survey findings that include telemedicine's growing importance and countries that are digital health role models.
 

Empowering patients with usable knowledge

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.