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
February 2018
Approximately 3 mins read Information and technology offers us a chance to not only meet the increased demand set out in the Five Year Forward View, but provide our patients with higher quality care and services which are quicker and more convenient to access. The patient-facing […]
January 2018
As NHS Digital endorses placing health data in the public cloud, we ask what responsible cloud use looks like in the NHS. For some time we have been calling on the NHS to move to the cloud as a cheaper, more secure alternative to on […]
December 2017
There are no certainties in life, the saying goes, other than death and taxes. But in the NHS, there’s perhaps one more item that can be added to the list: come winter, things are going to get really very tricky. Each and every time the […]
December 2017
Recently, as guest speaker at an event for senior lawyers, I looked at “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Shape of Things to come”. I started by asking who was using artificial intelligence. A few hands went up but of course, it was a trick question! […]
November 2017
The ability to rapidly provision services is a huge advantage of the cloud. For example, we can have a server up and running within an hour, with benefits for clinical end users; for example, we set up a new clinical laboratory system to support a […]
November 2017
From biosensors and biometrics to wearables and widgets, the age of digital health is well and truly upon us. But beyond the headlines of record-breaking digital health funding, a big question remains as to how the tremendous potential of digital technologies can be translated into […]
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