Tech must go with the Flow to Cope with the Shifting Sands of the NHS
The leadership, funding and even the standards of healthcare technology are built on shifting sands. Success will only come when technologists go with the flow,…
Clinical Solutions
What’s in a Name? The Under-recognised Role of Digital Midwives
The role of digital midwives has traditionally been under-recognised, but that is now thankfully changing. In March 2021, the Royal College of Midwives launched a…
Achieving NHS Digital Change Cost Effectively
Whether or not the UK is experiencing a black hole in public finances, there is no doubt that cost pressures will affect every area of public spending…
How Value-Based Care Technology Could Impact Medication-Assisted Treatment in 2023
The health care industry has undergone several significant changes over the past few years. Telemedicine, automation, and an emphasis on cybersecurity are among the most…
Virtual Wards: Tech matters, but so do people
Emily Wells is the first Chief Nursing Information Officer to be appointed by Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and was the Digital…
Digital Referrals Reduce Waiting Times in North East London
Marie Loizides, associate director of performance analytics at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, explains how switching to digital referrals has reduced waiting…
New Referral Methods for Social Prescribing Programmes can Transform the Delivery of Care for People with Long-term Conditions
Gill Bruce, Development Manager of Lorn & Oban Healthy Options Ltd, a Scottish social prescribing and self management project, has seen first-hand how social prescribing…
Communication is Key to Fighting Health Service ‘Tripledemic’
The NHS is under extreme pressure this winter, with warnings of an incoming ‘tripledemic’ of COVID-19, flu and overwhelmed urgent care services. This is threatening to inundate…
EPR Adoption — Is User-centred Design the Key to Usability?
Victoria Betton, author of Towards a Digital Health Ecology: NHS Digital Adoption through the COVID-19 Looking Glass, on the importance of user-centred design in EPR…
Unlocking Healthcare Connectivity
For IT leaders in healthcare organisations the landscape has quickly shifted. They are responsible for a rapidly growing patch and face decisions about how best…