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Welcome to our newsletter’s latest edition which takes the health IT industry’s pulse! Here’s what awaits you in the August edition of our newsletter: 

• Breaking News: Learn about the recent trends and initiatives in healthcare IT. 

• Key Events: Mark your calendar with the main details of upcoming conferences and essential sectoral gatherings.  

• Featured Podcasts: Listen to thought-provoking podcast episodes that offer diverse perspectives on digital health.  

• Recommended Readings: Expand your understanding through the articles and books illuminating healthcare digitalization path.  

Let’s shape the future together with digital health, as always! 

OUR LATEST POSTS ✍️

• We announced the participation of our EU Grants Manager and AI Researcher in the General Assembly of HIVEMIND, one of our R&D projects, in Belfast.  

• We shared the key benefits of our Personal Health Record (PHR) System, for patients, healthcare professionals, providers, and authorities.  

• We explained the main advantages of mobile health applications with a focus on our PHR and DrugXafe Mobile App.  

• We expressed how the PHR’s Parents Portal makes it easier for parents to monitor their child’s health. 

• We demonstrated how our Central e-Prescription System increases the efficiency of electronic prescribing processes. 

• We asked AI ethics in healthcare to our AI Researcher who emphasized transparency, fairness, data privacy, regulatory adherence, and explainable decisions. 

• We did an interview with our Project Manager on the significance of personal health record systems.  

• We highlighted our commitment to patients’ needs and our patient-centric technologies.  

NEWS 📌

• Health Level Seven International (HL7) established an artificial intelligence (AI) office for safe AI in healthcare. This initiative focuses on explainability, interoperability, and scalability across clinical and research settings, aiming to align emerging technologies with ethical frameworks and increase care quality and accessibility. Read More 

• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) launched a new interactive dashboard to monitor and analyze respiratory virus circulation trends in the Americas. This dashboard presents virological data from FluNet and epidemiological data from FluID via AMart, which is a regional data hub. Read More 

• New Zealand considers the integration of AI into the processes of Pharmac and Medsafe to increase medicines access. AI applications evaluated within the initiative include streamlining report generation, analyzing side effects and trends, and processing large information for new medicine applications. Read More 

• The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) published ‘Individuals’ Access and Use of Patient Portals and Smartphone Health Apps, 2024’ data brief. According to this brief, 65% of individuals in the U.S. accessed their online medical records or patient portal in 2024. This brief demonstrates that the adoption of mobile health apps has significantly increased across the nation, with many people using them to monitor health metrics and access healthcare services remotely. Read More 

EVENTS ✈️

• 9 August – 13 August 2025, MEDINFO 2025, Taipei, Taiwan 

• 18 August – 20 August 2025, Health Innovation Community 2025, Melbourne, Australia 

• 2 September – 4 September 2025, World Health Expo, Cape Town, South Africa 

• 3 September – 4 September 2025, Health IT Summit 2025, Washington, USA 

• 8 September – 10 September 2025, WHX Tech, Dubai, UAE 

PODCAST SUGGESTIONS 🎧

• Faces of Digital Health - How Can We Change Healthcare to Prolonge Healthspan? (Bogi Eliasen) 

• HIMSSCast - Finding EMR Success in Malaysia 

• Touch Point Podcast - Rethinking the Workforce Crisis With Technology 

• Healthcare Executive Podcast - Perceptions and Applications of AI in Healthcare 

ARTICLE & BOOK SUGGESTIONS 📚

• Access to Digital Health Technologies: Personalized Framework and Global Perspectives. by Sanjiv M. Narayan et al. Nat Rev Cardiol, July 2025. DOI: 10.1038/s41569-025-01184-5 

• Adopting Electronic Prescribing by Pharmacists. by Mohammadhiwa Abdekhoda and Pegah Morovati. Int. J. Med. Inform. Volume 199, July 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2025.105877 

• Explainability in the Age of Large Language Models for Healthcare. by Munib Mesinovic et al. Commun Eng Volume 4, Issue 128, July 2025. DOI: 10.1038/s44172-025-00453-y 

• A Participatory Approach to Deploy Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Diabetes Prediction and Prevention. by Laura C Rosella et al. DIGITAL HEALTH, July 2025. DOI: 10.1177/20552076251358541 

• Global Healthcare Transformation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics. by John Mantas et al. by IOS Press 

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