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One area of investment is in the country's digital health infrastructure to support hospitals and primary care centers, says Dr. Cátia Pinto of Shared Services for Ministry of Health.

Clinical leaders want data, and it’s up to the analysts to provide the tools, but both need to be integrated, says Dr. Oscar C. Marroquin, chief healthcare data and analytics officer at UPMC.  

The nonprofit organization is digitizing standards for quality care called HEDIS measures using CQL language, says Edward Yurcisin, NCQA’s chief technology officer.  

While AI can generate content there's no good way yet to vet it, says Freddie Feldman, director of voice and conversational interfaces at Wolters Kluwer.

Greg Miller, chief growth officer at Lumeon, said the care environment is ripe for change and that automation can help with short staffing and alleviate costs.

Payel Das, principal research staff member and manager in the Trusted AI department of IBM, and an IBM master inventor, said LLMs can help to fill gaps in distribution and generate insights based on the missing data.  

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Shine Technology is looking to develop partnerships with American companies, says David Chen, director of business development for the company, a medical device supplier in Beijing.  

Dr. Monica Bharel, Advanced Clinical senior public health advisor and former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, said public-private partnerships can help organizations integrate data across different sectors to understand the root causes of illness and adjust how care is delivered.  

Hospitals have to think creativity and differently because staffing shortages aren't going away, says Wendy Deibert, Caregility's vice president of Clinical Solutions.