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Kristine Sørensen, founder and director of the Global Health Literacy Academy in Denmark, discusses the importance of improving digital health literacy globally and why self-management in health is key to sustainable healthcare.

11 Health's Justine Seres says when driving innovation, patient experience can't be overlooked, as her late husband, patient advocate Michael Seres, discovered – and his legacy will be continued with the HIMSS Global Patient Innovator Award.

Dr. Deborah Maufi, chief medical officer at Babymoon Care, discusses how to tackle the inequalities in maternal health.

Franka Cadée, president of the International Confederation of Midwives, discusses the need to ensure the use of digital tools preserves compassionate connections between clinicians and patients.

Dr. Minal Bakhai, GP and clinical director for digital-first primary care NHS England, discusses key steps to ensure best practices with video consultations.

Dr. Shera Chok, national clinical advisor for system transformation at NHS England and cofounder of the Shuri Network, says diversifying talent and having a digitally literate workforce are a must.

The elderly can use digital tools to live longer while staying at home. Technology can help providers with the effort, according Dr. Ben Maruthappu, CEO of Cera.

Monica Jones, chief data officer for Health Data Research UK and executive lead for Yorkshire and Humber Care Record, says standardized datasets have required an acceleration of digital transformation and interoperable standards in particular.

Deep Dive: COVID-19 will remain a challenge in 2021, but the vaccines raise hope that progress is being made in the battle with the coronavirus and countries are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.

HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf says the global consortium for eHealth interoperability and the digital health indicators are just two success stories that have been introduced this year by HIMSS with the aim of improving healthcare.