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Patients can manage their own healthcare from home if given the right tools, says Konstantin Hyppönen, chief architect at Kanta Services in Finland.

The NHS.UK platform provides users with an app that allows them to access their own records, book appointments, order prescriptions and do basic triage, says James Hawkins, director of strategy at NHS Digital.

Greenwood, Verily's business development manager, discussed the importance of teaching the next generation about the convergence of industries within digital health. 

There are new ways data and technology application can improve the future of care, says HIMSS CTIO Steve Wretling.

A new study published in JMIR found that data from the devices could help identify college students living with loneliness. 

Liz Ashall-Payne, co-founder and CEO of ORCHA, discusses the push to use health data to support care and improve remote monitoring.

The value of blockchain in healthcare goes beyond data ownership, access and control, as well as consent management, says Mirko De Maldè, president at Government Blockchain Association Italy.

The organization reports it has completed retrospective testing and is in the process of prospective testing. 

Not only can augmented reality and virtual reality help patients better understand their condition, but the technologies can help train residents in different approaches to surgery, says Tristan van Doormaal, a neurosurgeon at UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands.

The best innovations come from resilience when working to solve problems, says HIMSS CTIO Steve Wretling.