How Technology Transformation is Helping us Live Longer and More Independently
Living independently is incredibly important to most of us, but as we get older this often becomes more challenging. We are living longer as a…
Health IT
We Can’t Solve Healthcare Equity Until We First Solve ‘Health IT Equity’
Right now, rural providers are facing “a perfect storm.” Rural hospitals continue to close, leaving many residents without access to healthcare. At the same time,…
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…
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….
Why AI-based Identity Security is the New ‘Ah-ha’ Moment for Healthcare
Whilst the peak of the healthcare crisis due to Covid-19 is thankfully over, by no means are things ‘back to normal’ for healthcare organisations. There…
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…
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…