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Government & Policy
A HIMSS23 panel on biosurveillance to help public health officials in pandemics will feature Scott McKeithen, Marleen Welsh and Charles Baschnagel, who work at the Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office.
Natural language processing, a form of AI, devours all the text in countless pages of healthcare documents to help health IT experts in the U.S. military do their job more efficiently.
The G20 Riyadh declaration aligned recommendations with the World Health Organization's Global Strategy on Digital Health. Taghreed Justinia, regional director for IT Services at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, explains.
The nation is focusing on improving the output of care and quality outcomes by steering toward value-based models, says Dr. Ahmed Balkhair, chief digital health officer at Obeikan Investment Group and advisor to the National Health Information Center.
Frank Hester, CEO and founder of TPP, says EHR vendors must understand they need their solutions to work not just for hospitals, but also for governments, if the whole health ecosystem is going to manage future pandemics.
There are some transformational digital health programs underway in Saudi Arabia, says Dr. Tamara Sunbul, medical director of clinical informatics at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare. She explains what they mean for care delivery in the kingdom.
Ziad Nakshabandi, CEO of the National Center for Health Workforce Planning, describes how the group is aligning its efforts with the Kingdom's Vision 2030 objectives, including reskilling and upskilling of healthcare workers.
Federal policies and technologies can help with risk mitigations, says Robert Anderson, Jr., CEO of Cyber Defense Labs, who discusses those resources. He also sizes up the value of cyberinsurance as ransom payments get more frequent.
Leaders from Samsung Medical Center describe how the South Korean government has been collaborating with hospitals like theirs to build data-driven and research-centered institutions that deliver excellent care.
The Translational Research Institute for Space Health and its partners have big plans in the coming years, says Director and Chief Innovation Officer James Hury, who shares what excites him about new avenues in space flight.
