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The best care doesn't start at reception. It starts long before the appointment—and continues long after the patient leaves. One morning, you wake up with a persistent discomfort in your chest. Before you ever step into a hospital, you've already started your patient journey. You search nearby hospitals. You compare reviews. You check whether your insurance is accepted. You look at available cardiologists. You browse appointment availability. Perhaps you ask a friend for a re

Could you explain the problem again? After a short break, I'm excited to continue this newsletter with a slightly different perspective. So far, we've talked about healthcare systems, digital transformation, AI, connected care, and the technologies shaping the future of healthcare. This time, however, I'd like to look at the same ecosystem from the opposite direction. We often hear terms such as patient-centric care, patient-first, 360-degree patient view, and many others. Th

Aligned with the occasion of World Health Day, it is worth asking a difficult question: Are our health systems really designed to create health — or are they still primarily designed to react to illness? Modern healthcare has become extraordinarily advanced in diagnosing disease, treating acute conditions, performing surgery, and managing complex episodes of care. But that does not automatically mean it is equally strong at maintaining health, preventing deterioration, or he

We are discussing healthcare in terms of systems, technologies, and outcomes. But at its core, it is built on something far more fundamental — people. At the center of that system stands the doctor: the one who interprets complexity, makes critical decisions, and carries the responsibility of care every single day. While digital transformation continues to reshape healthcare, one question becomes increasingly important: Are we designing these systems to truly support the peop

If we want prevention, early intervention and continuity, it is mathematically impossible to do it with paper and fragmented systems. Digital is not the icing on the cake; it is the cake! I had the privilege to take the stage at HIMSS EuroAsia 2025, held in Antalya/Turkiye, and talk about Digital Hospitals and Smart Healthcare Facilities. Hospitals are not the ones as we know it before. They are not limited to their buildings, facilities. Hospital is everywhere, everywhere is

Month of November 2025 was quite a full and busy one with travels, meetings. One of those was the visit to Central Asian University. I have been invited as a guest lecturer at the CAU School of Medicine to talk about digital healthcare. It was a great interactive 1 hour with the HCPs our near future. We talked about why digital transformation is needed in healthcare, how and where it started, where it is headed, and what the future of digital healthcare would and should look