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Dr. Robert Pearl, author of "Mistreated," discusses lessons learned - from his years as a surgeon, Stanford professor and as CEO of at Kaiser Permanente - about how to improve the American healthcare system with the help of technology.

Digital health companies are evolving from mere point solutions to "flip stack" vendors complete with clinical staff, innovative therapeutics and more, says Catalyst @ Health 2.0 President and co-founder Dr. Indu Subaiya.

Steve Wretling, chief technology and innovation officer at HIMSS, says understanding the "why" is key to achieving a spectrum of innovation that is essential to creating change.

State and regional HIEs have the deep experience necessary to improve interoperability, says John Kansky, president and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange.

Taranaki District Health Board CIO Steven Parrish says New Zealand has an "interesting way of procurement" that makes it difficult for vendors.

Integrating data is at the heart of digital transformation in healthcare in Finland, says Toni Suihko, CIO at South Karelia Social and Health Care District.

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

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

Identify super-users, communicate benefits to the staff and work together on the journey, says Rajakumari Ravikumar, director of nursing with Dubai Health Authority.

SVP of Operations Wael Alkhalidi says startup Medicalchain is using distributed ledger technology to enable patients to find all their medical data in one place.