Volume 9 | Edition 48

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HealthTech Insights

How will the Metaverse Revolutionize Healthcare?

Telemedicine and digital twins have already brought a great deal of innovation to the healthcare sector. The ability to leverage new immersive solutions will open the door to a wide range of possibilities, and the healthcare industry has already started tapping into these exciting cutting-edge technologies… Continue reading

Healthcare AI

Prevention over cure – How Artificial intelligence could help prevent 80% of Chronic diseases

What if accessible digital health technology was capable of providing accurate and actionable advice deciphered from something as accessible as your smartphone? This is where AI has the ability to transform health technology from simply providing remote monitoring, to emulating the diagnostic approach of a clinician and potentially saving lives… Download this edition

Leadership in HealthTech

To Deliver Better Patient Outcomes, Healthcare Providers need to Refine their Approach to Data

There are barriers to achieving this intelligent, connected approach in healthcare. For starters, data is fragmented, which makes it difficult to deliver efficient, personalised care. Meanwhile, growing compliance and cybersecurity challenges require healthcare organisations to be proactive in the way they approach governance… Continue reading

Pharma Tech

From Apothecaries to Apps – Reflecting on 300 years of Pharmacy Innovation

As the cost of living crisis ramps up, it is now more important than ever that pharmacies evolve their operations and offerings to ensure that they are accessible and affordable. Innovation in both technology and policy can help us do that, by connecting the dots between GPs, healthcare providers, pharmacists and patients… Continue reading

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The Living Heart Project and how Virtual Twin Technology can Improve Healthcare for all

What has been standard in other industries for many years is becoming increasingly an issue in healthcare – simulation and modelling in the virtual world. By using so-called virtual twins, valuable insights can be gained to advance medicine, research and patient care… Continue reading

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We consider the impact that these ecosystems are having on different aspects of healthcare provision, from radiology to diagnostics and drug development to training, and discuss the implications for the industry going forward.

Managing these intersecting digital ecosystems is becoming the new challenge for healthcare. With the implementation of technology-led care at an all-time high, technology and data are rapidly becoming the foundation of healthcare delivery. There is therefore a growing need to strategically manage the way that these technologies interact and ensure that data flows between different aspects of care delivery in intelligent and efficient ways.

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Table of Contents

4 Editor’s Comments

6 The Next Frontier: How Integrated Digital Ecosystems will Drive the Future of Healthcare

7 Five Global Macro Trends in Radiology

9 Reinventing Clinical Trials with Virtual Technology

10 Make time to Focus on POCUS

12-19 Industry News

20 Overcoming the Challenges of Digital Pathology to Clear a Path for Widespread Implementation

21 AI-Driven Routine Video Capture and Analysis will Raise the Standard of Surgical Care

22 Combatting Fraud, Waste and Abuse in Healthcare

24 Enhancing Medical Training Software to Improve Patient Experience

26 Digital Lessons to be Learned from 20 years of Medical Device Market Experience

28 How Transparent Tech can improve the Image of the Life Science Industry

29 A New Model for Healthcare: Shifting to Consumer-focused Digital Delivery

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With care providers increasingly looking towards digital-first experiences, there is a growing need to design and deliver services that seamlessly integrate technologies alongside the existing expectations of healthcare. Patients are demanding the ease and convenience that technology can deliver, while clinicians are increasingly turning to technology-enabled solutions to help them manage their workloads.

This means that service architecture and technology strategy are now top of the agenda!

In this edition, we look at the ways that healthcare and pharma organisations are managing the process of digital transformation alongside the range of new considerations that this transition raises.

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Table of Contents

4 Editor’s Comments

6 Creating Rare Connections

7 What are the Greatest Barriers to AI Adoption in Healthcare

8 The Growth of Accessible Hearing Tech in the Hearing Care Industry

10-19 Industry News

20 How Digital Twins can Drive Real Change for the Healthcare Sector

21 Scans in Vans, 5G, AI, COVID… Are We Set for a Quantum Leap in Taking Diagnostics to Patients?

23 Transforming Trauma Treatment Through 5G

24 COVID and a Year of Telehealth

25 Why Tech Accessibility is a Key Component for Public Health

26 Building Simplicity, Trust, and Benefits into the Medical Record Consent Process

28 The Role of Data Analytics in Improving Clinical Trials and Drug Discovery

29 Importance of Haptics in Surgical Skills Acquisitions

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Digital therapeutics empower patients, healthcare providers, and payers with intelligent and accessible tools for addressing a wide range of conditions through high-quality, safe, and effective data-driven interventions.

For many years there have only been a small number of DTx technologies that have truly offered the standard of evidence necessary to provide a non-pharmaceutical treatment alternative for the conditions they are designed for. However, recent years have seen a surge in the development of evidenced-based technologies that offer a true digital intervention option for clinical treatment.

Certain medical specialities including mental health and diabetes care lend themselves particularly well to the use of digital interventions and there is a raft of well-proven solutions available in these areas.

However, with healthcare organisations increasingly looking to establish a digital-first approach to patient treatment more, and more digital interventions are being considered as first-step approaches to many common conditions. Things like sleep problems, smoking cessation, dietary changes can all now be approached with a digital mindset that empowers patients to take control of their own treatment pathways, and reduces the intensity of demand for face-to-face healthcare services.

These are exciting and transformative times for healthcare, and in this issue, we look at the opportunities going forward that exist for digital therapeutics, particularly in the mental health space. We also consider what is needed for the reinvention of care pathways that will allow healthcare providers to take advantage of this digital-first approach towards treatment.

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4 Editors Comments

6 Prescribe Software for Mental Health Treatment

7 Telemedicine: A Tipping Point for Healthcare’s Digital Transformation

8 Virtual Mental Health in our Post-Pandemic World

10 Is Patient Centred Tech more Important than Ever?

12-22 Industry News

23 Upcoming Events

24 Healthcare CIOs Need to Hone their Focus to Accelerate Innovation in the Post-pandemic Environment

26 Collaboration is Key to Digitally Empowering Patients

27 The Rise of eHealth: How Cellular Connectivity is Reducing the Strain on Healthcare Systems

29 EPMAs: How to Implement at Pace During a Global Pandemic

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Given the short period of time that many healthcare services have taken to introduce digital services, process optimisation has not always been possible. However, that need is now becoming evident across the healthcare ecosystem. As we have seen from more digitally mature industries, managing this changing technology landscape quickly becomes a very complex process.

In this issue, we look to provide a range of lessons from different digitally driven health services. We discuss what makes health technology successful and how these tools can be best incorporated into the overall operations of a health system. We also look to the changing digital-landscape and ask what impact these new trends are likely to have on healthcare going forward?

As well as all the usual Industry News, Interviews and Insight.

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4 Editors Comments

6 Why Data Must Underpin Hospitals of the Future

7 How Subscriptions will Play a Role in the Future of Health Tech

9 How Voice Automation Could Help Relieve Pressure on Health Services

10 Wearables, Smartphones and Apps – Do they Really Measure Blood Pressure?

13-22 Industry News

23 Upcoming Events

24 How the Technology of Telehealth Services has Evolved

25 The NHS AI Iceberg: Below the Surface

26 Re-Thinking the Architecture of Healthcare IT

28 4 Ways to Make Sure your App Remains HIPAA Compliant at all Times

30 Stopping the Spread of IT Sprawl

32 Six Key Areas of Security to Pay Attention to During Digital Transformation

33 How Technology can Reduce Stress Amongst those Residing in Social and Healthcare Settings

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The results are 24/7 access to health services, increased patient involvement in self-care, personalised care plans, and data-driven clinical decisions. All of which ultimately result in the potential for much better outcomes.

Patients are demanding this type of care and clinicians understand that it allows them to manage their patient populations much more effectively.

In this issue we consider how these evolving patient needs are coupling with an increasingly challenging health provision landscape to drive digital transformation and allow organisations to adopt more efficient strategies.

Inside the issue, Nicky Murphy, Head of Healthcare Public Policy, at Amazon Web Services explores how health organisations are meeting these evolving patient and clinical needs, and how they can leverage the benefits of cloud solutions to deliver transformation at scale. Dr Lucy Mackillop, consultant obstetric physician at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust asks, ‘How can Technology Help to Remotely Manage Blood Pressure in Pregnancy?’. And, Oliver Harrison, of Koa Health outlines, ‘How Access to Mental Health Care has Changed with COVID-19 One Year In’.

As well as all the usual Industry News, Interviews and Insight.

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4 Editors Comments

6 Meeting Evolving Patient and Clinical Needs During COID-19 and Beyond

8 3 Crucial Considerations for Integrating RPM with your Telemedicine Platform

9 How can Technology Help to Remotely Manage Blood Pressure in Pregnancy?

10 Addressing the Epidemic of Loneliness in the Wake of COVID-19

12-19 Industry News

20 Upcoming Events

21 The Future of Pharma: Remote Working Post-Covid

22 Proving Long-term Value in Advanced Therapies

24 Remote Tech Adoption in Healthcare will be Key to Improving Patient and Clinician Experience… Here’s Why

26 Patient Generated Health Data & Empowerment in a Post-Pandemic World

27 How Access to Mental Health Care has Changed with COVID-19 One Year In

28 COVID-19 Improving Housebound Patient Vaccinations with GIS

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Alongside other highly regulated industries, 2020 represented an opportunity for the wide-spread modernisation of healthcare working practices, on an unprecedented scale. This has irrevocably changed what modern healthcare provision looks like.

The question now is how to ensure that this digital acceleration can be sustained.

In this issue, we include content which discusses the rapid adoption of technology across all aspects of healthcare provision and operation, alongside thought leadership articles that ask how we can effectively manage this rapid shift to digital healthcare operation.

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4 Editors Comments

6 Digital Technologies: An Opportunity to Make Healthcare More Inclusive

7 What We Still Need to Use AI Safely and Quickly in Healthcare

9 Health Professionals have to ask: ‘What’s next?’

11 Consent Technologies: How HealthTech is Adapting Fertility Treatment

13-21 Industry News

23 First 24-7 Wearable Optical Blood Pressure Monitoring System

25 What does 2021 have in Store for Med-Tech?

26 How Digital Acceleration Will Reinvent Life Sciences in 2021

29 How the Unthinkable Led to the Unimaginable

31 Remote Monitoring: Saving Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Live during COVID and Beyond

32 Virtual Engagement: A New Reality for Healthcare Delivery

34 Why Fully Realised Interoperability Could be on the Horizon

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In healthcare, the essential uptake of technology that has been necessary to adapt organisations for social distancing during 2020 has been a huge step forward for digital transformation across the industry. What would previously have taken years to debate and deploy has taken, in many cases, a matter of just weeks, or months.

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In this edition we take a look at some of the lessons learnt throughout the course of this difficult time. Lessons which will hopefully provide a blueprint for the delivery of efficient healthcare in the future – Where practitioners are supported rather than led by technology.

So much has been gained through technology designed to deal with COVID, in 2020, that it is imperative that we maintain that momentum and drive forward the many benefits for healthcare that have been derived.

As we look forward to what will hopefully be a much improved New Year, we do so in the hope that the positive strides taken during COVID will provide the necessary foundation for health technology to thrive in 2021.

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2 Editors Comments

4 From Manual to Automatic, RPA Helps Healthcare Change Gear

5 How to Build Trust with Trusts on Artificial Intelligence

7 De-hospitalization of Healthcare: Revolutionising Models of Care Delivery for the Future

8-17 Industry News

18 Using Technology to Improve Mental Health

19 How Technology and Real-time Insights can Accelerate the Vaccine Development Process

21 Talking Technology of AF Diagnosis

22 The Healthcare Challenge: Protecting Patient Data Privacy During a Global Pandemic

23 Building Cyber-Secure Healthcare Technology

25 How Pioneering Robotics Equipment is Transforming Rehabilitative Care

26 Why Patients are Key to Unlocking the Potential of the World’s Healthcare Systems

28 As the NHS Tackles our ‘New Normal’, Here’s How Technology can Help

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With this change, has come the understanding of the benefit that a digital-first approach can have for the industry.

Patients are demanding the convenience that they experience across other industries and the implications of the pandemic are providing an opportunity for health services to begin meeting those demands.

The use of data-driven digital tools, embedded from the start and right through the care continuum, gives patients greater control and ownership over their health. It can improve the knowledge they have when it comes to their personal conditions, and treatment, and in turn help improve outcomes.

In this issue, we include content that discusses this digital-first shift and ask questions around the delivery, technology, and processes involved with making a successful transition to these technology-led services.

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2 Editors Comments

4 Does the Rise of Telehealth Mean the End of the Doctors’ Office Waiting Room

5 A Growing Demand for On-Demand Care: Perspectives from the AliveCor ECG Usability Study and the Implications on Future Cardiovascular Care Models

8 Providing Patient Power Post-COVID

10-19 Industry News

20 What can the Pharmaceutical Industry do to Ensure it is Ready for a Future Pandemic?

21 How AI is Helping Predict and Prevent Senior Falls

23 A Roadmap for Medical Affairs Transformation

25 Why the Time to Go Digital in Care Environments is Now

27 The Bittersweet Reality of Digital Transformation

28 Technology is Key to Relieving Poor Mental Health among Healthcare Workforce

30 Private Mobile Networks in Healthcare: Increasing the Dose of Predictability for Wireless Connectivity

31 Driving Results with Data: Using Real-world Healthcare Data to Reduce Health Inequalities

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Covid-19 has provided unique circumstances whereby for the first time all healthcare organisations and practitioners alongside patients are being forced to adopt a digital-first ethos. As a result of this unusual alignment, cultural acceptance has virtually been eliminated as an obstacle to technology adoption.

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Implementation, however, remains the critical element! As is the case across many industries, digital-first healthcare looks like it is here to stay and organisations must ensure that their technical offerings become fully integrated within the healthcare culture if we are to prevent problems in the future. The providers of technologies that have been adopted so rapidly during Covid-19 will need to ensure that not only technical implementation but cultural implementation is addressed in order to meet the rising expectations of health providers and patients alike.

In this issue, we include a range of content that looks at the different issues around technology implementation and how transformation can be achieved while maintaining quality across the continuum of care.

Peter Corscadden of Hyland Healthcare discusses ‘Digital Enablement, As a Route to a Better Patient Experience’; while Lucy Mackillop of Sensyne Health asks ‘Can Digital Care Pathways Actually Reduce Demand on our Healthcare Systems?’. Also inside, Tim Morris of Elsevier discusses the Technology Enabling Nurses to Fight Covid-19; and we present original research from solution provider MediShout that discusses the capture of real-time data, on problems with logistics and infrastructure occurring in hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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2 Editors Comments

4 The Technology Enabling Nurses to Fight COVID-19

5 The MediShout App: Communication, Control and Capturing Staff Voice During COVID-19

11 5 effective Ways ePrescribing Improves Patient Safety and Streamlines Physician Workflow

12 Can Digital Care Pathways Actually Reduce Demand on our Healthcare Systems?

14-22 Industry News

23 The Current Crisis has Triggered a Big Change in the way that People Access Medication

25 Digital Enablement: The Route to a Better Patient Experience

26 Digital Transformation: Grasp the Opportunity

28 Essential Changes to Primary Care Innovation Shouldn’t, and Can’t, Stop when the Global Health Crisis Does

29 Coping with Rising Demand: How Radiologists are Fighting Back with Tech

31 How can we make AI Invisible in Healthcare Diagnostics

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