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The "NHS Long Term Plan" focuses on prevention, integrating care and improving patient experience, says Hassan Chaudhury, digital health specialist at Healthcare UK.

Ben Sych, strategy and partnership manager at the AMA, says no matter how compelling a solution looks to investors, physicians need data evidence to see value of adoption.

Also: Ooda Health's CEO shuffle; CMMI's new director.

For the newly-created role of chief research information officer, Cleveland Clinic has hired one of its own physicians to lead improvement in its network infrastructure and digital deployments, optimizing its IT to enable more innovative clinical research.

Patchwork Insights enables health organisations to gain insight in temporary staffing.

A broad look of HIT-related developments in the APAC region in 2019, as well as a glimpse of what might happen in 2020.  

A chief medical officer says 2020 will be a breakthrough year in making EHRs less stressful for providers if the growing avalanche of data is reined in with health IT that makes EHRs work better.

Rita Khan, who comes to the health system from UnitedHealthcare, will guide digital strategy and spearhead the launch of Mayo's new Center for Digital Health.

Katie Trott at CNIO, Royal Free London NHS FT, says communicating the benefits of technology early in the process helped prepare the workforce for change and cultivate an open-minded culture.

The Shuri Network addresses the need for diversity in providing the breadth of care currently lacking, says honorary clinical tutor Ijeoma Azodo.