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Mark Hutchinson, chief digital officer at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the UK, says the clinical workforce plays a major role in successfully embedding a digital strategy to improve the patient experience.

A study of more than 200 Kaiser Permanente patients found regular coaching paired with self-monitoring tools more effective than standard care.

Patient portal MyChart gives patients more power by placing them at the center of their own care, says Alan Craig, a patient advocate from Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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.

The new system lets clinicians share or capture videos and images from the OR. 

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.

The Division of Digital Psychiatry is looking at using data to educate patients and predict adverse events. 

It might just be a matter of time until a phishing attempt finds its mark, meaning that the best strategy for healthcare organizations is to understand their attackers and prepare for the worst, says Healthmap Solutions CISO Kathleen Mullin.

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.