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For many healthcare organisations, the path forward on their digital transformation journey can seem overwhelming. HIMSS's ddigital mmaturity mmodels can help.

As cyberthreats against healthcare surge, a new EU cybersecurity Action Plan emphasises proactive defense, enhanced training, and collective responsibility to safeguard patient care and medical infrastructure.

One of the biggest challenges to building a healthcare startup is understanding and complying with regulations, which can vary significantly across European markets. Over the next four years, Health Tech Hub Copenhagen aims to tackle this issue.

Investing in women's health is not just a matter of improving healthcare outcomes – it's a smart economic strategy with significant benefits.

Miquel-Angel Garcia of Olympus Corporation's Endoscopy Solutions Division explains the aim and focus on alleviating clinicians' administrative and cognitive burden while also prioritizing resource efficiency at uncompromised quality of patient care.

This issue of HIMSS Insights takes you on a comprehensive tour through the Finnish social and healthcare system, from progressive government legislation, via successful public-private partnerships and nationwide health ecosystems to the most innovative healthtech startups and companies.

While it feels like it was only yesterday that Expo 2020 Dubai opened its doors, the first World Expo in the MEASA region concluded last month. Dubai-based Rachel McArthur asks whether we will follow through on the lessons learned in healthcare from the event.

Despite significant investment and well over a decade of different transformation plans and initiatives, there’s still much to do before we can say the health and care system has truly gone through a digital revolution.

Digital technologies are constantly changing. Hardware is getting faster and more efficient. Software can harness these hardware improvements to improve the functionality of technology. And so healthcare staff and citizens will hopefully have access to tools that allow tasks to be completed quicker, or more intuitively according to Dr Pritesh Mistry, King's Fund, UK. 

Health is in the throes of some of the most significant changes as systems reel from a variety of rapidly changing environments. Dr Charles Alessi, Chief Clinical Officer at HIMSS, explores lessons learned, as we look cautiously to a better 2022.