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Mikko Vasama, general manager of Health Systems Nordics at Philips, says when working within a publicly funded healthcare system, training, education and access to technology for patients are imperative.

The Dubai Health Authority's initiative integrates devices and informatics with the EHR to improve experience for pediatric patients, says DHA nurse Ashish Ann John.

  We need to learn more about the behaviors of consumers before maximizing the global potential of the human and machine collaboration in healthcare, according to Zoltan Lantos, head of Social Innovation Lab at iAsk.  

Taegyun Song, director of Korea Health Industry Development Institute, says over 90% of Korean hospitals use an e-health system that tracks the patient journey, and the goal now is to develop systems outside medical institutions.

Leonard D'Avolio, founder and CEO of Cyft, says machine learning can help organizations learn from data more quickly and intuitively.

Syncmed Informatics' niña health app fuses together health baselines with daily habits of patients to generate preventive programs that help reduce health insurance utilization and costs, says CEO Deo Dumaraos.

Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs is enabling collaboration between hospitals, health systems and other stakeholders such as big tech and pharma, says digital health scientist Dr. Sujay Kakarmath.

Automating some processes can increase the chance of better outcomes for patients while reducing clinicians' workloads, says Kevin Shah, head of Enterprise New Business at Fujifilm Europe.

EHR should be a useful tool as a "sidekick," not the be-all, for engaging physicians, says Rahul Goyal, MD, physician informatics lead at Mediclinic Middle East in the UAE.

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