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

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

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

Leonard D'Avolio, founder and CEO of Cyft, says machine learning is only a means to an end, helping organizations learn from data more quickly and intuitively.

By fusing together health baselines with daily habits of patients, Syncmed Informatics' Niña Health app generates 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 deliver diagnoses more quickly, increasing the chance of better outcomes for patients while reducing clinicians' workloads, says Kevin Shah, head of Enterprise New Business at Fujifilm Europe.

Rahul Goyal, MD, physician informatics lead at Mediclinic Middle East in the UAE, discusses retrieving useful information from a minimal amount of EHR clicks.

Henning Schneider, CIO of Asklepios Healthcare Group, says while some German hospitals are already digitally advanced, he is excited to learn from the Nordic countries about improving interoperability and data exchange. 

Simer Sodhi, director of data management & analytics at Westchester Medical Center, says the organization integrated data from the EHR using a machine learning algorithm to connect patients to the right sources of care.