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The advance in communications technology and devices have made wireless electronic communication possible in most parts of the world and at any time of the day. With healthcare trends moving towards patient-centered care which empowers patients and encourages patient-provider communications as a way to lower healthcare costs and improve health outcomes. The increase in internet access and the emergence of electronic health record has created new avenues for patients to play an active role in their care.  Most Electronic Health Records (EHR) vendors have developed patient portals to help patients electronically communicate with their physicians or healthcare providers via smartphone applications or on a personal computer giving them the ability to access and securely share their medical records.  This portal is known as the Patient Health Records (PHR). The Markle Foundation in 2004 initially defined PHR as “an electronic application through which individuals can access, manage, and sha

The world, as we know it is changing, and due to the current digital transformations, the times are now volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. This change is impacting how products, services, processes, and systems are developed. The project management discipline and roles are also evolving with this new trend. Using experiences of some project management events attended, I will try to illuminate these changes and key capabilities that exist today in this field due to disruptive business model innovations and new digital technologies.  PROJECTUM a European-based Project management application company, on the 13th of March 2019, had a webinar titled “Effective Project Management Using Microsoft Teams”. This event presented the new features added in the Microsoft application called Teams to conduct virtual meetings successfully. There was a demonstration in the use of features on this application to schedule meetings, share documents, take notes, and record the whole ev