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making from clinicians or simply just putting people in touch with each other ” Cameron says . “ It ' s often not the really complex world of machine learning and AI that makes the difference , it ’ s simply people being able to understand who ' s there and what services are available .”
Separately from the Data Lab , Scotland has the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre ( DHI ), which exists to enable the Scottish Government to engage with suppliers , and as Cameron explains , “ understand the maturity of different products , and in some cases actually use it as a sandbox environment to actually prove that something will work . I think

“ What drives our strategy is doing the right thing and the desire to link up different sources of information and different areas ”

JONATHAN CAMERON HEAD OF DIGITAL HEALTH AND CARE , SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT gov . scot 13