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Dr. Waheed Arian, NHS physician and Arian Wellbeing's founder, discusses how his experiences as an Afghan refugee helped shape the company’s adaptable, trauma-informed approach to behavioral healthcare.

Dr. Gerald Lip of the U.K.'s NHS Grampian says that using AI algorithms has allowed a shrinking pool of radiologists to work more efficiently and provide test results in three days, instead of two weeks.

Dr. Diana van Stijn, Lapsi Health CMO, talks about how the company turned an idea for a sound-based clinical tool into a new product by incorporating feedback about what features would be useful to clinicians.

Alexander Berler of IHE Catalyst discusses how digital health companies will need to collaborate with each other and meet four different levels of interoperability to satisfy the new European Health Data Space regulations.

Romel Khalife, Oracle Health's general manager for UAE and Kuwait, talks about how migrating to the cloud enables health systems to deploy enterprise and clinical applications that can help them manage resources more effectively.

Petra Wilson, HIMSS senior advisor, European health policy and EU affairs, says digital health projects should find synergies with each other and build user trust to ensure sustainability after funding programs end.

Nana Odom, head of clinical engineering at Cleveland Clinic London, says healthcare organizations should educate all employees to understand and observe cybersecurity best practices.

Ran Balicer, CIO of Israel's Clalit Health Services, says leaders feeling pressured to adopt new AI tools should have a specific use case in mind and assess the readiness of their existing IT infrastructure and data.

Dr. Saad Aldousari, hospital director at Kuwait's Sabah Al-Ahmad Urology Center, explains how the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health supports digital maturity and interoperability goals for all its hospitals.

Shaikh Khalid AlKhalifa, assistant commander of Bahrain's King Hamad University Hospital, talks about how the country is working with Harvard to build a genome bank that will eventually enable treatments based on patients' genetics.