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
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, […]
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 […]
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