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…
Health IT
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…
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….
Building the Right Foundations to Deliver a ‘Digital Revolution’ in Health and Care
The Department of Health and Social Care has published ‘a plan for digital health and social care’ that focuses on the fundamentals of electronic patient…
Two Leading CIOs Join the Highland Marketing Advisory Board
Ian Hogan from the Northern Care Alliance and Neil Perry from Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust have joined the forum that debates the big issues…