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

Blockchain technology can be a game-changer, but it’s still in its infancy, so manage expectations accordingly, says Dr. Abdullah Albeyatti, CEO and co-founder at Medicalchain.

Petteri Kivimäki, CTO for Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions, says X-Road is being used by Finland and Estonia to enable the secure exchange of data, with opportunities to expand to the rest of Europe.

Dr. Abayomi Jaye, founder of Cecy Health Consult, explained how he channeled his own feelings of loss into positive action to help Nigeria's underserved patients.

Mikko Vasama, general manager of Health Systems Nordics at Philips, says when working within a publicly funded healthcare system, training, education and access to technology for patients are imperative.

The Dubai Health Authority's initiative integrates devices and informatics with the EHR to improve experience for pediatric patients, says DHA nurse Ashish Ann John.

  We need to learn more about the behaviors of consumers before maximizing the global potential of the human and machine collaboration in healthcare, according to Zoltan Lantos, head of Social Innovation Lab at iAsk.  

Taegyun Song, director of Korea Health Industry Development Institute, says over 90% of Korean hospitals use an e-health system that tracks the patient journey, and the goal now is to develop systems outside medical institutions.

Leonard D'Avolio, founder and CEO of Cyft, says machine learning can help organizations learn from data more quickly and intuitively.

Syncmed Informatics' niña health app fuses together health baselines with daily habits of patients to generate preventive programs that help reduce health insurance utilization and costs, says CEO Deo Dumaraos.