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The next goal on the UAE's pioneering digital health journey is to promote prevention and happiness by engaging patients with the HIE, explains Dr Mohammad Al Redha, director of health informatics and smart health at the Dubai Health Authority.

HIMSS23 Europe's Startup PitchFest judge Anca del Rio explains what makes a successful health tech startup, including starting with good intentions and adding capital and commerciality.

AICEP's chairman, Filipe Santos Costa, explains how Portugal attracts tech startups while also optimising infrastructure, licensing and financial incentives to bring in pharma companies.

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs broke records by achieving HIMSS stage 7 in four models concurrently. Raed Alhamze explores the impact on patient outcomes.

Romel Khalife, UAE and Kuwait GM at Oracle Health shares his insights about the company's vision, highlighting its role in promoting security, reliability, innovation, and resource planning, all within a single strategic framework.

According to the UK's Dr Shafi Ahmed, to meet the workforce squeeze, health systems need to plan better, change training radically and introduce flexible career paths that allow for periods of teaching or innovating.

The cloud has been pivotal in improving health system efficiency and speeding up innovation over recent years, but its benefits remain enigmatic to those outside of the tech sphere. A new report aims to shed light on this revolutionary technology.

According to WHO-Europe's David Novillo Ortiz, four key e-health strategies (tech guidance, enhancing capacity, knowledge exchange and scaling up things that work) are deploying to address workforce and health equity challenges across the region.

According to the Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport's Abigail Norville, there is a need to foster and train our existing healthcare workforce to operate in new ways as healthcare evolves.

"ChatGPT and Healthcare" author Dr Harvey Castro says he sees a future with a LLM that will have base knowledge from medical literature along with the "right" doctors and providers inputting information to minimize hallucinations.