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Financial metrics driving the UK's NHS need to adapt to the role prevention and maintaining a healthy life are starting to play in healthcare systems, writes Charles Alessi, chief clinical officer at HIMSS International.

Matthew Honeyman, researcher at The King's Fund, says ensuring that users are engaged in the design and implementation of systems will be one of the key challenges facing the new NHSX unit.

AI from a clinical workflow perspective can help relieve the burden on physicians and improve the patient experience, says Mark Anderson, president of HealthPointe Solutions.

Key to the digital transformation agenda is ensuring that the multiple stakeholders are aligned across the GCC region, says Amr Jamal, chairman of the Family and Community Medicine Department at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

Malaffi CEO Atif Albraiki says simultaneous provider projects, such as health information exchanges, make EMR adoption a challenge at times in the UAE, but he encourages stakeholders to learn from global experiences.

Dr. Harpreet Sood, co-founder of NHS Digital Academy, says skilling up the workforce is imperative as we must take advantage of the data available to help prevent clinician burnout.

Angela Velkova, director for communities and strategic relations for HIMSS International, details the role of the HIMSS Nursing & Midwifery Informatics (England) Network.

SapphireHMS CIO Omar Shraim's focus is on the push to the payer-provider model where the private sector occupies a larger role, which has patients at the center in the GCC region.

Ramon Vullings, speaker, author, cross-industry expert and self-titled ideaDJ, sees a need for the NHS to adopt a new attitude toward innovation.

Sam Shah, digital health advisor and former NHSX director of digital development, says personal health records, health information exchange and other digital health learnings can be extracted from the Middle East experiences.