Building a Connected Healthcare Service
The government’s new joint organisation for digital, data and technology, NHSX, has been created to give NHS employees and patients access to the cutting-edge technology they…
Opinion
NHS Prescribing – Where Does Tech Fit?
Dr Simon Hendricks, clinical strategy lead at FDB (First Databank), is excited by the recent attention from Whitehall to improving NHS prescribing. He asks what…
NHSX – What is Needed to Make a Real Difference in the NHS
The newly launched NHSX could bring much-needed stability and perhaps finally an incremental plan that builds IT across the NHS, but it will only work…
Playing to Type: Why Diabetes Education isn’t One-Size-Fits-All
Structured diabetes education works. Evidence increasingly shows that timely, relevant and accessible educational programmes can play a significant role in helping type 2 diabetes (T2D)…
Healthcare Data: A Puzzling Game in Need of a Change
There is no arguing that healthcare involves a prodigious amount of data. According to an IDC report, 4.4zb of data was produced in 2013, and…
Why we can’t Afford to let Healthtech Companies hold Data to Ransom
By Dr Philip Ashworth, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of PatientSource There is a need, now more than ever, for organisations to be able to…
Health Consumerism is not a Disruption, it’s a Revolution
By Ken Robbins, CEO of Response Mine Health We’re in a new era of empowered health consumers with access to unlimited information and endless choices…
Heal Me Up: Why IoT is Creating Surprising Value in Redefining Healthcare
By Anna Solana, IOTSWC Today, your watch can track your steps, sleep and heart rate. It can even monitor whether you have depression symptoms. There…
Telepsychiatry: A Viable Solution to Today’s Mental Health Crisis in Prisons and Jails
Avrim Fishkind, MD, General Manager, Psychiatry for SOC Telemed discusses the role of telepsychiatry, as a viable solution to today’s mental health crisis in prisons…
Regionalisation is No Silver Bullet for NHS Diagnostic Pressures – but it Must Not Fail
Regional approaches to imaging are spreading in the NHS. This will end institutional tribalism, transform peer support, and allow patients to benefit from diagnostic expertise…