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 2018
The Development of the Patient Safety Incident Management System (DPSIMS) project have been announced as a finalist in the DL100 Digital Team of the Year category for 2018. They are a blended team of NHS Policy & Operational staff and delivery partner Informed Solutions, working to deliver […]
May 2018
The NHS’s appetite for action plans and strategies – frequently with a side order of task and finish groups, alongside a veritable buffet of governance structures – often seems insatiable. But when it comes to cybersecurity, the service is attracting flack for being too slow to get […]
May 2018
Prof. Gary Shuckford has been announced as the Digital Leaders Yorkshire local champion 2018. Gary is passionate about supporting business’s to grow and especially those that focus on improving healthcare outcomes. He is an active angel investor, visiting Professor at Leeds Beckett University, a director of […]
April 2018
Blockchain technology has been at the center of media attention, largely because of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, however, not many people actually understand what a blockchain is. To put it simple, blockchains are distributed systems, recording and storing transactions on a decentralised digital ledger. Transaction […]
March 2018
Since the late 1960s, viewers of late-night news on US television have been asked a sombre question: “It’s 10pm. Do you know where your children are?” An edited version of this poster is perhaps currently appropriate for NHS organisations. “It’s 2018. Do you know where […]
March 2018
This blog was co-written with Idan Papier, Director at Innovation & New Shiny Things, CDI-Negev. Our basic philosophy is that to solve social challenges, you need a comprehensive system-wide understanding of them first. That should sound obvious. But when policymakers or entrepreneurs try to address these problems, […]
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