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“ There needs to be an alignment between our roadmap and the client roadmap ; the relationship needs to create synergy between the two organisations ”
— Bashar Balish , CIO , Ministry of Health Strategic Partnership
towards data driven behaviour , and that ’ s wonderful .” Balish also notes that the power of new healthcare technologies includes their ability to scale across regions , continents and the world . “ Analytics will drive the bigger programs of population health management ,” he predicts .
However , he acknowledges that mass adoption is struggling to take hold . “ All of these are the concepts and new trends that we ’ re focusing on at this stage . At present , a solid platform that provides affordable health to the population does not exist . Technologies for this platform – analytics , AI and deep machine learning – do exist , but at an affordable price ? We ’ re not there yet . I don ’ t think the industry has yet matured enough to fully utilise the technologies available .” Looking to the future , Balish aims to “ ensure that the strategy leverages all the available technologies , tackles the current adop-
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