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However, blockchain technology is still in its infancy, so expectations should be managed accordingly, says Dr. Abdullah Albeyatti, CEO and co-founder at Medicalchain.
Finland and Estonia use X-Road to enable the secure exchange of data, with opportunities to expand to the rest of Europe, says Petteri Kivimäki, CTO for Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions.
Dr. Abayomi Jaye, founder of Lagos, Nigeria-based Cecy Health Consult, explained how personal loss led to founding a company that helps his country's underserved patients.
Mikko Vasama, general manager of Health Systems Nordics at Philips, says training, education and access to technology for patients are imperative, especially when working within a publicly funded healthcare system.
The Dubai Health Authority is integrating devices and informatics with the EHR to improve experience for pediatric patients, says DHA nurse Ashish Ann John.
Zoltan Lantos, head of Social Innovation Lab at iAsk, says we need to learn more about consumers' behaviors before we maximize the global potential of the human and machine collaboration in healthcare.
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Taegyun Song, director of Korea Health Industry Development Institute, says over 90% of hospitals in Korea use an e-health system that tracks the patient journey, and now the aim is to develop systems outside medical institutions.
Leonard D'Avolio, founder and CEO of Cyft, says machine learning is only a means to an end, helping organizations learn from data more quickly and intuitively.
By fusing together health baselines with daily habits of patients, Syncmed Informatics' Niña Health app generates preventive programs that help reduce health insurance utilization and costs, says CEO Deo Dumaraos.
Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs is enabling collaboration between hospitals, health systems and other stakeholders such as big tech and pharma, says digital health scientist Dr. Sujay Kakarmath.
