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…
Opinion
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…
Secondary Care Leads the Way for Safety – Why GP Surgeries need a CSO
If we are implementing IT changes within the NHS that has a potential clinical effect then clinical safety is important, and so the CSO role…
Can you Achieve Transformation without Change Management?
Nital Hooper, Senior Manager Consulting, Servita As Sinatra would say, you can’t have one without the other. Change management, often seen as the fluffy part…
NHS Trusts in Special Measures Must Have Confidence in their Vision
We can’t allow ourselves to normalise poor performance, says James Devine, Chief Executive of Medway NHS Foundation Trust, speaking at the recent Healthcare Partnership Network…
We Don’t Need to Ban Things to Innovate – We Just Need to Show People Better Alternatives
Joost Bruggeman, a former doctor and surgeon and co-founder of Siilo, discusses why an outright ban of pagers is wrong and evocative of deep-rooted problems within the NHS…
AI – is it Fake News for Health and Social Care?
By Ian Jackson, medical director and clinical safety officer at Refero The Department of Health and Social care has refreshed its code of conduct for…
How to Make Your Digital Services Excel in an Outstanding NHS Trust
By Eileen Jessop, CIO of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, speaking at the Healthcare Partnership Network event Within healthcare, we are seeing a rapid race…