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Anca del Rio, a Basel health tech arena leader, relays her experience as a judge at the Startup PitchFest at HIMSS23 Europe, and the factors startups need to possess to go to market and scale successfully, including attraction capital.

Filipe Santos Costa, CEO and chairman of Portugal's international trade and investment agency AICEP, discusses trade and investments in healthcare in the country and its work with HIMSS to promote Portuguese healthcare services abroad.

Raed Alhamze, IT executive director of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, relays how the hospital system achieved HIMSS digital maturity in multiple categories: EMRAM, EHR, analytics, infrastructure and outpatient EMRs.

Altering education methods and allowing employees to be innovative with career flexibility are crucial to ensuring retention and longevity in the healthcare workforce, says Dr Shafi Ahmed, chief medical officer at Medical Realities.

David Novillo Ortiz, head of data and digital health at the World Health Organization, discusses the objectives of WHO's regional digital health action plan and assessing the plan's impact in improving patient access and engagement.

Abigail Norville, deputy secretary general at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands, tells why involving all healthcare stakeholders in forming care's evolution is vital, especially regarding digitization and innovation.

Dr Harvey Castro, author of "ChatGPT and Healthcare," discusses his book on the use of large language models in medicine, the role of physicians in refining future LLMs and worries about physician and patient hallucinations due to LLM results.

Petra Hoogendoorn, coordinator of EU project Label2Enable, talks about designing labels for healthcare-related apps to ensure clarity and safety for all stakeholders and discusses the project’s work within Europe, the U.S. and beyond.

Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS, relays the lessons learned within the digital health sector from the pandemic and how access to technology and data can make healthcare more sustainable and accessible to ensure health equity.

Dr Cátia Pinto, international affairs unit coordinator at SPMS in Portugal, discusses the country’s digital health infrastructure, its use of EU recovery and resilience funds and the creation of an international health data space.