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Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, explains how the Nordics advanced digital infrastructure by applying unique digital identifiers for patients and professionals, and how the HIMSS community helps.  

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.

Tami McMasters Gomez, director of Coding and Clinical Documentation Integrity Services at UC Davis Medical Center, sees automation and AI freeing clinicians from the burdens of coding and documentation.

Will Cantrell, director of product solutions at InteliChart, discusses how having patient-facing components built into workflows will be the biggest help EHRs can provide.

Robert Stillman, director of clinical and research informatics at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, discusses the challenges of chairing the Global Health Conference Education Committee for HIMSS23.

Grace Cordovano, founder of Enlightening Results, describes her work with Unblock Health, a digital platform that streamlines the process of requesting medical records and corrections to medical records for patients.

Native Americans' life expectancy is five years lower than the U.S. average. Mitchell Thornbrugh, CIO of the Indian Health Service, talks about the need for a single interoperable medical record to support Native communities’ health equity.

Gregg Church, president of 4medica, talks about how the government should work with healthcare vendors to simplify data capture and eliminate the growing problem of medical record duplication between health systems.

Sandra Johnson, SVP of client services for CliniComp, outlines how the pandemic and increased documentation requirements have impacted clinicians' job satisfaction and the top three pain points all new EHR solutions should address.

Lawrence Whittle, CCO at Verana Health, describes how patient data can be used to improve healthcare, including making clinical trials more efficient and helping clinicians discover which treatments yield the most value.