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  We need to learn more about the behaviors of consumers before maximizing the global potential of the human and machine collaboration in healthcare, according to Zoltan Lantos, head of Social Innovation Lab at iAsk.  

Taegyun Song, director of Korea Health Industry Development Institute, says over 90% of Korean hospitals use an e-health system that tracks the patient journey, and the goal now is to develop systems outside medical institutions.

Leonard D'Avolio, founder and CEO of Cyft, says machine learning can help organizations learn from data more quickly and intuitively.

Syncmed Informatics' niña health app fuses together health baselines with daily habits of patients to generate preventive programs that help reduce health insurance utilization and costs, says CEO Deo Dumaraos.

Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs is enabling collaboration between hospitals, health systems and other stakeholders such as big tech and pharma, says digital health scientist Dr. Sujay Kakarmath.

Automating some processes can increase the chance of better outcomes for patients while reducing clinicians' workloads, says Kevin Shah, head of Enterprise New Business at Fujifilm Europe.

EHR should be a useful tool as a "sidekick," not the be-all, for engaging physicians, says Rahul Goyal, MD, physician informatics lead at Mediclinic Middle East in the UAE.

While some German hospitals are already digitally advanced, they can still learn from the Nordic countries about improving interoperability and data exchange, says Henning Schneider, CIO of Asklepios Healthcare Group. 

Westchester Medical Center integrated data from the EHR using a machine learning algorithm to connect patients to the right sources of care, says Director of Data Management & Analytics Simer Sodhi.

Dr. Johanna Mattson, director of Comprehensive Cancer Center at Helsinki University Hospital, said studies show that cancer patients using digital solutions to stay connected to their caregivers live on average 6-7 months longer.