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The veteran technologist talked to Healthcare IT News about interoperability, AI and social determinants of health.

Key to the digital transformation agenda is ensuring that the multiple stakeholders are aligned across the GCC region, says Amr Jamal, chairman of the Family and Community Medicine Department at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

Erik Decker, chief security and privacy officer at University of Chicago Medicine, describes the value of HHS' Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices framework, which offers workable best practices for the management and mitigation of prevalent threats.

Dr. Manal Alawi Amin Al-Alawi, assistant undersecretary for primary care in Bahrain, says primary care physicians are being provided with a range of support services and opportunities to share their experiences and reduce burnout.

Louise Schaper, CEO of Health Informatics Society of Australia, says the manifestation of digital health issues locally may differ, but there are plenty of opportunities to share learnings from matters such as workforce.

Underestimating the impact of organizational culture on your technology plans can lead to costly delays and unplanned outages, says John Donohue, Penn Medicine's associate VP for enterprise infrastructure services.

Researchers sought to assess and benchmark how physicians view electronic health record usability, as defined by a standardized metric, and use that to evaluate how poor UX correlates with feelings of job frustration and burnout.

Dr. Harpreet Sood, co-founder of NHS Digital Academy, says skilling up the workforce is imperative as we must take advantage of the data available to help prevent clinician burnout.

Angela Velkova, director for communities and strategic relations for HIMSS International, details the role of the HIMSS Nursing & Midwifery Informatics (England) Network.

Calls to the administrators on duty decreased from 274 before electronic notifications to 149 since implementation at Catawba Valley Medical Center.