NHS Wales to receive £50m digital reboot in long-needed IT overhaul
Alongside £50m in new funding, the reformed NHS Wales will appoint a CDO who will help define national standard for Wales’s digital health services.
Infrastructure
‘Late and incomplete’ definitions from NHS stifling interoperability
David Hancock said interoperability is “nowhere near” where it needed to be, highlighting “late and incomplete” standards definitions from the NHS.
Interoperability 2
Diversity in digital health ‘is a matter of patient safety’
Without a diverse and inclusive team “unconscious bias” can be built into technology, ultimately putting patients at risk.
AI and Analytics 1
NHS needs to be ‘slim and simple’ to allow innovation, Donnelly says
Speaking at HETT on 2 October the chief digital officer at NHSE spoke about the importance of working with the digital health market.
News 1
Salford Royal signs £25m deal with Hitachi to improve care through data
Dubbed the ‘digital control centre’ the 10-year project aims to advance acute and integrated care at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.
AI and Analytics
New patient list rules are a ‘significant undertaking’ for digital providers, Babylon says
Paul Bate, managing director of NHS services for Babylon, told Digital Health News that setting up new patient lists would take ‘time, resource and cost’.
Digital Patient 1
NHSX ‘must not grow an empire at the centre’, says Gould
Speaking at HETT, Gould said NHSX must set the foundations to enable innovators to build and scale their technologies more quickly across the NHS.
News 2
Thoughtonomy launches shared marketplace for NHS automation
The platform can be used by trusts to speed up front and back-office processes without the need to build automation services from scratch.
Infrastructure 1
‘Less than one percent’ of diagnostic AI studies based on high-quality data
AI may be on a par with human diagnostic ability, but most studies greatly exaggerate its power in clinical settings, new research has found.
AI and Analytics 1
Thousands of NHS medical images found ‘unprotected’ on web
Six UK systems storing x-rays, MRI and CT scans were found to be allowing unprotected access to images, according to security firm Greenbone Networks.
Cyber Security
