Standardise digital social care records to help people live well for longer
As social care services embark on massive digitisation, now is the time to embrace standards and interoperability to join up care, says Claire Sutton from the Professional Record Standards Body and the Royal College of Nursing.
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Industry Spotlight: Chad Holmes, Security Evangelist, Cynerio
NHS trusts should seize the opportunity to escape the shadow of WannaCry, boost their cybersecurity and onboard new devices with confidence, says Chad Holmes. By Jennifer Trueland.
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Industry Spotlight: Stuart Watkins, Strategy Manager for Health at Crown Commercial Service
Innovative technology procurement has a ‘critical’ role to play in patient care, says Stuart Watkins. At Crown Commercial Service, he has helped develop a step-by-step guide to buying digital transformation solutions in the NHS, with the aim of improving outcomes for patients and taxpayers.
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Industry Spotlight: Piyush Mahapatra, director of innovation at Open Medical
Piyush Mahapatra has always wanted to fix things. That’s why he became a surgeon – and it’s also why he is a fierce advocate of clinically-led digital transformation, writes Jennifer Trueland.
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Responsible AI is the future of healthcare – but it could also help tackle the urgent challenges of today
Innovative technologies powered by artificial intelligence can boost NHS productivity and help it recover from the pandemic, says Microsoft UK’s Jacob West
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A healthy balance: how can partners help shape your 2023?
Today, the UK healthcare system finds itself in a balance of its own. On one side of the scales there are workforce challenges. Waiting lists are growing longer and patients are faced with very real and understandable concerns as to when they will receive treatment.
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In these hard times we should accelerate digital transformation, not put it on hold
Healthcare professionals are working flat out to provide care – which makes it the ‘perfect’ time to digitally transform services, says Professional Record Standards Body’ chief executive officer Lorraine Foley.
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Special Report: Shared Care Records
Are health services which were slow to develop a shared care record now showing the way ahead? Jennifer Trueland reports on positive developments in mature records – and ‘skyrocketing’ progress among late arrivals.
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Why user needs should be at the heart of healthtech
Public Digital director Matt Harrington explains why user needs must be at the heart of healthtech and it should never be imposed on patients or NHS staff.
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