Does Digitisation Spell the End for Hard Copy Medical Records?
The increased use of digital records is helping healthcare providers improve their services but caring for those old paper medical records is equally important, explains…
Digital Health
Driving a New Era of Personalised Healthcare
The Plan for Digital Health and Social Care, published by Sajid Javid last month, sets out the government’s ambitious vision for transforming health and social…
Interoperability with Open Standards Let’s Kindle a Debate about FHIR
The future of healthcare systems may be open, but how are we going to get there? asks Vivek Krishnan, chief technology officer at Alcidion Group….
Cross-functional Innovation must Drive Pharma Commercialisation
Successful pharma companies are adapting commercialisation strategies to align with transformation in healthcare delivery. Vintura’s Richard Ogborne and Chris Reynolds provide practical guidance as to…
Benefits of Digital Transformation in Health and Social Care
The long-term sustainability of our health and social care services is dependent on a number of key issues, including staffing, funding and having the right…
Current Trends in the Digital Health Marketplace
The momentum behind the move to all things digital shows no sign of abating. Digital health tools were already on the rise before Covid, but…
NHS Trust Uses AI to Help Dramatically Reduce Acute Kidney Injury
A condition linked to thousands of UK deaths has been significantly reduced by healthcare professionals at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, with the…
Why Healthcare Must Embrace Patient-centric Data
What is patient-centric data? In simplest terms, patient-centric data is the specific medical information gathered about an individual patient from different sources to create a…
Amethyst UK, First to Use New Frame to Transform Patient Experience at Radiosurgery Centre
How do you take a treatment that has been clinically highly successful for decades and improve it? By looking at the elements that the patients…
Why Digital Interoperability is Key to Mental Health Reform
Successful mental health care requires large-scale collaboration between a whole host of different services. But the current paper-based systems can make this a near-impossible task….