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Digital maturity must be utilized to improve outcomes and manage the pandemic more effectively, claims HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf.

Jan Kimpen, chief medical officer at Philips, says younger healthcare professionals and the impact of COVID-19 are the focuses of the latest "Future Health Index" survey, which offers a vision into the potential of digital transformation.

Dr. Amy Abernethy, principal deputy commissioner at the U.S. FDA, discusses the FDA's role in balancing innovation, regulation and safety during the coronavirus pandemic.

Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, says technology must be used to improve healthcare for the whole world, rather than just the richest 10%.

Alexander Ihls, business development manager at Healthcare DACH, InterSystems, discusses how radiologists are benefiting from artificial intelligence.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Foundation Trust's staff played a big role in making the hospital the first in Europe to achieve Stage 6 of O-EMRAM and EMRAM, according to CCIO Shankar Sridharan.

This week's top stories include ex-CEO Cyrus Massoumi claiming his former colleagues coordinated a plan to replace him, a study finding telehealth to be the biggest threat to healthcare cybersecurity, and a NorthShore breach affecting 348,00 people.

Managing the whole population during the COVID-19 crisis is posing challenges, so we should share our learning, says Päivi Sillanaukee, ambassador for Health and Wellbeing of Finland and director-general of the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.

By adding clinical decision support and the ability to see patient activity outside the four walls of the hospital, CalvertHealth in Maryland saw, among other things, a 94% reduction in Dilaudid use.

Although progress has been made in terms of empowering patients at an organizational level, patient speaker and activist Theo Sergiou says there is room for improvement at an institutional level.