Quality and Safety

Lina Shadid, health industries lead at PwC Middle East, says the Middle East's investment in healthcare over the past 10 years has prepared it to meet patient needs and leverage its digital transformation to fight COVID-19.

From electronic case reporting to PDMP to disaster response, eHealth Exchange Executive Director Jay Nakashima says he's optimistic as network architecture improves and public-private data sharing efforts make progress.

Not only does Pure Storage bake security into its products, it partners with data protection vendors to ensure its products work with those healthcare organizations are already using, says Josh Gluck, VP of Global Healthcare Technology Strategy.

Dr. Afzal Chaudhry, CMIO at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, says you start to see real benefits when you have that embodiment of technology fully embedded in the workflow.

Healthvana is working with labs, providers and public health organizations to deliver test results with security, efficiency and empathy, says Ramin Bastani, CEO of the mobile-first platform.

HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf discusses 2020 success stories introduced by HIMSS this year with the aim of improving healthcare, including the global consortium for eHealth interoperability and digital health indicators.

Cerner's Hans Buitendijk, EHRA executive committee chair, and Foothold's David Bucciferro, committee vice chair, discuss the role of the association's COVID-19 Task Force in helping provider customers.

Dr. Suliman Alomran, medical informatics lecturer at the College of Medicine, King Saud University, details the Saudi response to COVID-19 and the digital platforms that will be adopted long after the pandemic.

OASIS CEO Thamer Shaker discusses how stakeholders in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are working on a roadmap to ensure alignment with government policy to drive digital innovation in healthcare.

SapphireHMS endeavors to improve patient care, says Chief Information Officer Omar Shraim.