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Medical professionals can make community-based patient care more personal and human, claims patient speaker Monica Evason.

This week's top stories include the VA giving Cerner scheduling technology a test run, fines for nursing homes that don't comply with testing regulations and Google Cloud pouring $100 million into telehealth giant Amwell.

Professor Sam Shah, founder and director of Faculty of Future Health, says the acceleration and increased adoption of technology during the pandemic is a positive takeout, but the digital divide must be addressed by greater investment.

Experts at FutureMed 2020 say remote care automation and predictive triage can help patients obtain necessary care safely and efficiently.

The recent series of events of Black Lives Matter have revealed the vast disparities that impact UK BAME workers within the health tech industry, and so actions are being taken to combat these inequalities.

Medicomp Systems Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jay Anders discusses the causes and some cures for physicians overwhelmed by electronic health record systems.

CEO Prof. Eugene Kandel says once the ecosystem is connected in a single depository, it's relatively easy to collect needs and bring them together.

This week's top stories include AdventHealth lamenting $260 million in losses, Dr. Fauci "cautiously optimistic" about a vaccine by early 2021 and a study finding ICD-10 codes have poor sensitivity for fever, cough and labored breathing.

Dr. Elizabeth Marshall, director of clinical analytics at Linguamatics, talks about data management and workflow challenges during the pandemic – and describes how natural language processing can help.

During FutureMed 2020, Sweden's state epidemiologist Dr. Anders Tegnell said he supports the country's decision to keep schools open with social distancing guidance in place.