Missed appointments, long wait times, and all manner of other logistical and financial issues have become more common in our healthcare landscape. AI-driven HealthTech has the ability to improve our patient outcomes, drive efficiency and deliver unprecedented medical breakthroughs. With smartphone cameras being used as heart rate monitors, and contact lenses measuring blood sugar levels we are moving into an era when we can all collect healthcare data about ourselves. There is massive potential for AI healthcare technologies to create stable long-term population health outcomes. We are at a transformational moment for dealing with our Health. It is crucial leaders in the sector gain the skills and capabilities necessary to understand HealthTech and build new technologies, and this important work is not left solely to digital teams.
Dr Sanna Rimpilainen, Dr Ann Wales & Mrs Jennifer thomas
Sam Bassett, Cassius
Dr Margaret whoriskey MBE, and Chris Wright Digital Health & care Scotland
June 2019
In recognition of Digital Leaders Week, Gavin Bashar of Tunstall Healthcare explores the potential impact of the UK’s move from an analogue to digital communications network, and how this could transform the way we support people at home with technology. Tunstall has recently completed a […]
June 2019
On 7th January, the NHS outlined its long-awaited 10-year plan. Publishing some strong milestones for the health service, it also included many noteworthy digital components such as an ambitious target for the health service to become fully digitised by 2024. To deliver this, NHS organisations […]
May 2019
Digital transformation can sometimes seem like the emperor’s new clothes. It’s the thing that everyone is doing and everyone is interested in yet sometimes hard to define and to quantify. In healthcare this is not that different to any other industry. The dialogue on digital […]
April 2019
Our 7th Digital Leaders 100 is now announced reflecting much of the fantastic work going on across the UK’s sectors. It’s a celebration of those leading change, but who are not perhaps household names yet. As a member of the Digital Leaders team we excuse […]
April 2019
In DWP Digital we design, build and deliver a range of services that provide financial support for people with health conditions or disabilities. Two of those services, Tell us Your Patient is Terminally Ill and Send Your Fit Note , are currently in public beta and help health professionals […]
March 2019
Technology is moving forward so quickly that it is impossible to predict what new applications will be developed. And some of the most interesting developments are in the field of health and wellness, including some unexpected uses of Virtual Reality or ‘VR’. Many of us have had […]
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