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Natalia Polushkina, vice president and CEO at Biomedical Technologies Cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation, says the Skolkovo region has been strengthened by the experience of COVID-19 as regulation changes helped accelerate innovation.

Mark O'Herlihy, VP at IBM Watson Health & Watson Health Consulting, says using new, fast and frequently changing technology such as a COVID-19 chatbot can help in the pandemic response.

Simon Rost, marketing executive for GE Healthcare's Digital Health & Artificial Intelligence Portfolio, discusses solutions that are helping improve patient care.

Alexander Ryan, Healthcare Alliances and Net New Sales Manager, EMEA, at Hyland, says many countries in Europe are investing heavily in transformation, while organizations are accelerating their implementation strategy due to COVID-19.

This week's top stories include the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg and what that could mean for the Affordable Care Act, femtech companies calling out Facebook and the emergence of social informatics.

Dr. Pam Hoffman, medical director of telehealth services at Yale New Haven Health Services and Yale Medicine, says telehealth became a service that required a "clinical champion" to a necessary part of the health system's offerings.

Nigel Hughes, scientific director RWD/RWE at Janssen Research and Development, says the pandemic presented both challenges and opportunities for real-world data generation surrounding scale, privacy and ethics.

Dr. Eric J. Rubin, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discusses the challenges of maintaining rigorous editorial and medical standards while also exploring new ideas and concepts during COVID-19.

NHSx CEO Matthew Gould discusses how metrics about bed capacity, patient condition and shortages helped organize the health system during the COVID-19 pandemic.

F&D Partners CEO Frank Zhang says South Korea's health system and well-developed digital infrastructure have helped society deal with COVID-19 in an efficient and transparent way, while prioritizing the citizen.