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JeanCarlo Luz, electronic medical records leader at Philips, discusses how the company's EMR leverages cloud services and interoperability with multiple partners to help to deliver time and cost savings for hospitals.

Catalonia has successfully deployed an AI-driven risk stratification system since 2015, but for broader AI adoption, implementation hesitancy needs to be removed and data capture improve, says Catalan Health Service's Xabier Michelena Vegas.

Sara Luisa Mintrone, chief marketing officer for the Dedalus Group, believes that, since the pandemic, patients want to participate in their own care rather than passively waiting for treatment decisions to be made for them.

Ethical and equitable use of open data is a critical challenge for AI development in healthcare, requiring global collaboration to balance innovation with privacy and security, says Antoine Tesnière, professor at George Pompidou European Hospital.  

Dr. Khulood Alsayegh, Dubai Health Authority's head of clinical standards and guidelines and the only healthcare AI ethics lead assessor in the Middle East and Africa, teaches courses to help build a regional community of assessors.

Mariam AlEissa, adjunct assistant professor at Alfaisal University in Saudi Arabia, explains how genomics data can identify causes of, and help develop treatments for, non-communicable diseases.

The EHDS promises to advance access to large data sets for research and public health decisions – and ideally enable personalised patient care. AIDAVA was launched to make the latter possible by helping curate and publish individual health data using AI.

Digital transformation requires a clear roadmap to ensure success. HIMSS maturity models provide a structured framework that helps healthcare orgs with systematic implementation, says Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs CIO Raed AlHazme.

Virtual environments can provide soothing, nonjudgmental healthcare experiences, leveraging AI-generated agents and immersive spaces, says Anca Petre, cofounder of MedShake Studio.

Femtech is helping reduce medical gaslighting by generating data that translates women's experiences into measurable health insights, says Ida Tin, founder of think tank Femtech Assembly.