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Pieter Helmons, chief pharmacy informatics officer for EMRAM Stage 7 hospital St Jansdal in the Netherlands, says reducing clinician burnout is a major focus area for the hospital.

Dr. Ramadan AlBlooshi, Dubai Healthcare City Authority in the UAE, says for "telewellness" to have a major impact, telemedicine's treatment, prescription and follow-up process needs to improve.

Yauheni Solad, medical director of digital health at Yale New Haven Health, says creating a robust API infrastructure - a living system where everything is connected so data is available for decision-making – is the current goal.

To achieve this scale of change, it has to be part of the board agenda and led by all departments, including technology and clinical, says Dr. Simon Eccles, national CCIO and deputy CEO at NHSX.

All stakeholders must work collaboratively in order to provide customized patient care, says Dr. Ali Abdulkarim Al Obaidli, group chief academic affairs officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services.

The technology envisioned by psychologist B.F. Skinner decades ago is now here with AI and is improving exponentially, says Whole Brain Foundation President and founder Charles Atkinson.

Advancements in EHR technologies should be exciting the health industry, says Dr. Larry Allen, the medical director of advanced heart failure at University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Deep Dive: While the number of women in leadership roles in the health industry continues to grow, equal representation in the field is still a far way off.

The entire ecosystem is ready for innovation, according to Dr. Korpong Rookkapan and Dr. Achirawin Jirakamolchaisiri from Bumrungrad International Hospital, which won the Asia Pacific HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award.

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital CIO Hee Hwang discusses how his organization is South Korea's first fully digital, paperless hospital with its own homegrown EHR and is staying at the forefront of innovation.