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I am optimistic about how European health systems are progressing in the journey of digital transformation. Enabled by a cloud that serves the global good<\/a>, systems of intelligence reasoning over massive amount of date are poised to empower every patient and care team to achieve more.<\/p>\n

Having spent the last few weeks traveling across Europe – from Norway to Portugal and passing by Barcelona for the WoHIT – to talk about Digital Transformation in health; here are my reflections. It\u2019s reassuring to see different regions undertaking their own digital transformation journey based on where they are \u201cright now\u201d both in terms of digital readiness and transformation goals. Digital transformation is not a \u201cyes or no\u201d state of being. Rather, it is an evolving destination as technology continues to progress and expectations we have of health services continue to evolve. Everyone is somewhere along the continuum<\/a> to: engage patients in new ways, empower care teams with collaboration and communication, optimize clinical and operational effectiveness, and transform the care continuum.<\/p>\n

My colleague Elena Casas\u2019 recent blog<\/a> tells the story from a Spanish perspective on how we empower each person and organization to achieve more by making it easier for health professionals to connect with each other and with their patients using cloud solutions like those from Ribera Salud<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At WoHIT, Devscope \u2013 one of our Portuguese partners \u2013 was awarded the Elsevier Award for HVITAL<\/a>, a solution deployed at S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o Hospital Center able to predict up to 30% of ICU admissions<\/a>, seven days in advance. In the Portuguese Ministry of Health Shared Services (SPMS) Dr. Martins realizing a transformation to is to empower citizens to access health services smoothly, and health professionals to harness the power of mobility, predictive health, and advanced analytics.<\/p>\n

When it comes to systemic innovation, it\u2019s exciting to see how countries like Sweden are infusing modern communication and collaboration capabilities into the health system at scale. For example, Cambio Healthcare systems is integrating Skype for Business capabilities into their Cosmic EMR to offer solutions that help health organizations across Sweden provide virtual healthcare to more people seamlessly. In Germany, Vitabook is opening the way to cutting edge services and storage of patient data in the cloud<\/strong>. They provide a unique health-account<\/a>, which enables patients to connect with their necessary instances online \u2013 every established doctor, every clinic, every pharmacy \u2013 throughout Germany.<\/p>\n

Thinking about how we transform the care continuum, I was honored to moderate a session on how health organizations are advancing in precision medicine and how genomics is benefiting from the computing power and scalability of the public cloud\u2014which is a powerful lever for digital transformation. We had almost 130 people in a room crackling with energy as we discussed the game-changing innovation that we\u2019re seeing in this field such as how to provide genomics data management solution to empower innovation with BioBanks, from Finland where partner BC Platforms is working with Helsinky University Hospital; to Mexico<\/a>, with Codigo46 powered by the Microsoft Azure cloud., we also discussed Microsoft\u2019s recent announcement about a computing method that makes a key aspect of genomic sequencing seven times faster<\/a>. This time gain could empower clinicians to diagnose rare diseases in four hours instead of 28 hours, empowering better health outcomes to those who most need it, like 1,400 patients suffering from the Dravet Syndromat La Paz Hospital in Madrid, Spain. Our collaboration with researchers at La Paz hospital and the Dravet Foundation \u2013 made it possible to detect mutations in more than 200 epilepsy genes and get a diagnosis in a matter of months instead of years<\/a> using the Microsoft Azure cloud.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s machine learning for better clinical outcomes, genomics or systemic care coordination across the continuum, the digital transformation journey is about taking sure steps to empower better human experiences and patient outcomes. That\u2019s what I saw at WoHIT. And it\u2019s what I see every day in the work that our partners and health organizations across Europe are doing. If you want to discover more, join us at the Health Innovation Summit on January 31st-Feb 1st, 2017 in Brussels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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