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This week's top stories include Flo Health landing in hot water with the FTC over data sharing allegations, states moving forward with second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and health IT heavy hitters creating the Vaccine Credential Initiative.

The Middle East's investment in healthcare over the past 10 years has prepared it to meet patient needs and leverage its digital transformation to fight COVID-19, says Lina Shadid, health industries lead at PwC Middle East.

From electronic case reporting to PDMP to disaster response, Jay Nakashima, executive director of eHealth Exchange, says he's optimistic as network architecture improves and public-private data sharing efforts make progress.

E Ink's Digital Paper technology frees up nurses and ensures patient data is accurate and up to date while improving the patient experience, says Stanley Chiang, the company's director of strategic partnership.

Pure Storage VP Josh Gluck says not only does Pure bake security into its products, it partners with data protection vendors to ensure its products work hand in hand with those that healthcare organizations are already using.

Health Catalyst Chief Data Scientist Jason Jones says augmented intelligence, not artificial intelligence, is especially important when building predictive models that improve, not drive, health disparities.

Patients and providers should work as a team to ensure accuracy in health records and diagnosing, says PocketHealth Chief Patient Officer Dave deBronkart.

Dr. Don Rucker, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, says big data is going to be transformative, as ONC and CMS rules move healthcare from a gated interaction to digitally transparent clinical care.

The complexity of managing security tools across multiple platforms is challenging, so there's an urgency to unify security processes and controls across all environments, says Pritesh Parekh, chief trust and security officer at Virtustream.

Dr. Afzal Chaudhry, CMIO at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, says it's when you have that embodiment of technology fully embedded in the workflow that you start to see real benefits.