Business & Industry
Digital Health Q4 2022
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Software can help reduce the backlog in NHS operating theatre departments
Scheduling is a critical component in ensuring operating theatre utilisation is fully optimised as well as holding the key to enabling the equipment and staff deployment to be effective. Operating theatres are at the heart of the hospital; their effectiveness, efficiency and productivity are vital in reducing waiting lists. Operating theatre departments, however, are not...
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Getting the right data to the right people at the right time
Leading expert warn that the NHS must upgrade levels of communication between digital systems to improve efficiencies and patient care. Digital transformation within the NHS can deliver significant benefits to services through improved communication with better availability of real-time data. While most parts of the health service have developed digital strategies, a major issue lies...
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Smart cities: how to avoid ‘death by dashboard’
The ability for information to be exchanged between different elements of a city’s infrastructure and service provision can create tremendous benefits for residents, businesses and the environment. We know that data is a defining feature of any smart city. When we think about what is driving positive changes, we need to appreciate that it’s not...
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Appropriate regulation is a must for artificial intelligence
Having an appropriate regulatory regime will support the UK’s ambition to be a leading market for AI in healthcare. There is a huge buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Some focused on how it can deliver improved efficiency and efficacy of health outcomes, and some focused on the concerns of how we ensure patient...
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How standards support the sharing of information in the NHS
Sharing information is vital to the functioning of the health and care service. This can include information for patient treatment, medications or at a population level to support risk stratification of patients and the management of care settings. We need to have access to structured information that can be disassembled and used in different ways...
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Supporting the NHS: co-creation and partnerships are key to healthcare solutions
Digital transformation within the NHS can help make care delivery more efficient and free up clinician time to focus on core care. The NHS does an incredible job protecting us but is facing its biggest challenges of a generation, with staff shortages, the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and now — increased winter demands....
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Trusting data to give the health sector a boost with digital solutions
Digital solutions can tackle some of the health and social care sector’s greatest challenges. They can support a more efficient service that maximises the benefits for users such as patients and doctors. Combining different services through data sharing will increase the speed and efficacy of diagnosis and treatment. Implementing digital technologies means that people can...
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How wireless tech is transforming access to healthcare to reach those most vulnerable
Wireless technology is helping the NHS achieve its core purpose: providing comprehensive healthcare that is available to all. One example of accessible wireless technology is a high-tech, mobile health clinic — ‘Find and Treat’ —which is used to improve access to screening, testing and treatment for tens of thousands of vulnerable, homeless and high-risk people...
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Could a piece of software be better for your health than a pill?
Alongside the rise of telehealth and remote services during the Covid-19 pandemic, digital therapeutics are being developed and adopted by healthcare services at an increasing rate. Doctors are prescribing software applications to help patients prevent, manage or treat medical conditions. They have great potential to improve patient outcomes, particularly for people with long-term conditions including diabetes,...
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Designing digital care innovations with patients to find real solutions
Engaging with patients early in the healthcare tech innovation process can help ensure digital services work for those who use them. Healthcare technology innovations have the potential to transform how patients receive care. That could be through greater efficiencies in diagnosing, treating and caring for patients or improving their access to care. Discovering real needs ...