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Norway Health Tech CEO Kathrine Myhre, winner of the HIMSS Europe Future50 award, says Norway is using lessons from oil and gas industry successes along with the country's pioneering culture to fuel the drive to maximize the healthcare system's potential.

Nearly 20% of Estonia's citizens are gene donors, giving the country a very valuable asset for implementing precision medicine, says Kalle Killar, deputy secretary general at the Ministry of Social Affairs.

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

Gosford Private Hospital CEO Matt Kelly and Director Jennifer McNamara discuss transforming the culture by tasking teams with sponsoring values to create awareness about the need to strengthen patient satisfaction.

Expect greater adoption when taking a measured and "start small" approach to healthcare IT compared to a top-down, government approach, says Joe McDonald, director of Connected Health Cities in the UK.

Ronald Petru, CMIO at Radboudumc in the Netherlands, says that organizations need to change the workforce culture, while also ensuring that a proportional investment is made into security to ensure risks are mitigated.

We need to collaborate and work with organizations such as HL7 on developing tools to ensure greater interoperability on a global level, says UniversalDoctor CEO Jordi Serrano Pons.

Konstantin Parshin, vice president of the Skolkovo Foundation, says the Russian high-tech innovation center includes startups with a mission to improve healthcare around the world.

Amy Compton-Phillips, EVP and CCO at Providence St. Joseph Health, says her organization's chief medical analytics officer is both a physician and a data scientist so is able to understand clinical context as well as data structure.

To ensure a successful digital transformation, physicians and nurses need to be part of any planned digital implementations, says Philippe Kolh, CIO at University Hospital of Liège, a Stage 6 EMRAM Belgium-based hospital.