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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.

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

Petteri Kivimäki, CTO for Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions, details how Finland and Estonia use X-Road to enable the secure exchange of data, with opportunities to expand to the rest of Europe.

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

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

DHA nurse Ashish Ann John describes how the agency is integrating devices and informatics with the EHR to improve experience for pediatric patients.

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

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

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

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