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
November 2017
It’s 2017 – surely everyone has Basic Digital Skills now? It may be hard to believe, but there are still more than 12 million UK adults (nearly 25% of the population) who can’t use the internet effectively. This leaves them at significant risk of being […]
November 2017
On Friday, 27 October, the National Audit Office (NAO) published a report on the “WannaCry” ransomware attack that hit the NHS earlier this year. The ransomware, which also affected a wide variety of businesses around the world, led to disruption in at least 34% of Trusts in […]
October 2017
The pace of change in public services and in healthcare is more rapid than ever before. Much of the latest wave of change was driven in part by necessity – from the programme of austerity that was introduced by the coalition government and that was […]
October 2017
A few things stood out for me from this year’s overview of the state of the technology sector – known as venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins’ Internet Trends Report 2017, it is one of the most widely read (and extensive) reports in the industry. Cloud […]
October 2017
This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is a great opportunity to talk about what we, as organisations, can do to help people who are faced with mental health challenges every day. With around 12 million people in the UK1 experiencing poor mental health, this is […]
September 2017
Something strange is happening online. For the first time in the history of the internet, we, its worshippers, are rallying against it. For as long as many of the internet’s most avid users have been alive, we’ve been peppering our personal information across the web […]
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