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
October 2022
We know that delivering digital health solutions to support patients and improve outcomes is a focus of many NHS organisations across the country. The management and delivery of these projects, however, can often prove challenging. It was with this in mind that we launched the Digital […]
May 2022
The modern workplace is designed to meet the physical and technological needs of your organisation and its employees. But in healthcare, due to recent increased needs for distributed teams, brand-new operational models, and complex security issues, the change to working practices has been rapid. […]
April 2022
In March, UK health and social care secretary, Sajid Javid announced the Government’s target of having 80 percent of all care providers phase out paper-based records by 2024. According to Javid, approximately 40 percent of providers still depend on paper-based processes, which restricts the efficiency […]
February 2022
Delivering patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU) is a major new change to outpatient services laid out in NHS England’s Operational Planning Guidance and is almost certainly going to be a major component of the Elective Recovery Plan. With two thirds of all hospital appointments taken up with often […]
January 2022
Civica’s Tracey Cotterill explores how machine learning can provide the data intelligence we need to deliver better healthcare for everyone. Prevention, as we know, is better than cure. Intervening early and stopping health issues from escalating leads to improved outcomes all round – for individuals, […]
January 2022
The lack of a standard data model is holding back potentially game-changing clinical research in the UK. The Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) model offers a promising solution. In theory, the data entrusted to the NHS could solve all kinds of pressing public health issues. One […]
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