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Luca Chittaro of Italy's University of Udine talks about how immersive virtual reality stories can gamify physical therapy to help distract from pain and encourage patients to increase treatment compliance.

Anne Moen of Gravitate-Health says the company wants to work with regulators to help European patients translate prescription information into their language of choice while traveling through the EU.

Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare's Dr. Tamara Sunbul talks about leading CIO masterclasses that foster idea exchange and teach attendees through hands-on experiences so they can immediately add more value to their organizations.

Marwan Abdulaziz Janahi, senior VP of Dubai Science Park, explains how the UAE has spent 10 years building robust IT infrastructure and security measures as it plans to eventually leverage genomics data for precision medicine.

Emmanouil Tsiasiotis, project manager at Italy's ALTEMS, calls for healthcare stakeholders at all levels to join the EDiHTA initiative and help create a unified, sustainable digital health technology assessment for the entire EU.

Sonia Kelly, Cleveland Clinic London's director of clinical informatics, says that hearing about digital tools' uses and capabilities encouraged nurses who were initially wary of learning new techniques to join the staff.

At the HIMSS24 Europe Interoperability Showcase, a sample use case demonstrated how Italians can share health records across its multiple regions thanks to the country's adoption of international data standards.

A demonstration at the HIMSS24 Europe Interoperability Showcase highlighted how the eHealthPass app and the International Patient Summary can help traveling Europeans quickly share their medical records to access needed care.

Sam Amory, managing director for Dedalus AMEA, says more patients should be open to sharing their healthcare data so they can better understand their own health.

Dr. Tapani Piha and Dr. Cátia Pinto of HIMSS' Digital Health Advisory Group for Europe talk about examples presented at the group's 2024 meeting of governments that have integrated digital health through funding innovations themselves.