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Is tech changing what it means to be a ‘good’ doctor?

10 September 2024

A conversation with a trainee has consultant paediatrician Martin Farrier questioning whether traditional medical strengths are losing their value.

AI in MedTech: We need to strike the right balance between innovation and regulation

4 September 2024

Stricter regulation is inevitable, so how should Medtech companies react? By Cognizant’s Rohit Alimchandani

Digital Health Networks’ Mentoring: Applications open for expanded 2025 programme

3 September 2024

Diane Bullman reveals the difference mentoring made to this year’s participants and looks ahead to the 2025 programme – which includes a new stream run

AI in healthcare: We are still finding our way

29 August 2024

Clinicians need a culture of education and understanding to get the best out of AI and protect themselves and their patients from inappropriate information, writes

The case for change: digitising the pharmacy ordering process

21 August 2024

As a service, pharmacy dislikes change, preferring to apply ‘band-aids’ to traditional systems. But the advantages of digitising are now too great to ignore, writes

Gemma Peters, chief executive of Macmillan Cancer Support

Gemma Peters: ‘AI could make a huge difference when it comes to cancer’

5 March 2025

It’s not the pace of innovation that limits us, but how society harnesses these advances,

Henrietta Hughes: ‘If you don’t have partnership with patients, you’re on a risky road’

26 February 2025

England’s patient safety commissioner, Henrietta Hughes, says the traditional in-person consultation is ‘gold standard’ for

Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy’s lessons on technology

19 February 2025

Far more nuance, subtlety and evidence is needed when it comes to adopting new technologies,

The Gilbert Scott building in Leeds

Creating a home for healthcare innovation in Leeds

12 February 2025

A physical space for innovation at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has supported colloboration and

Helen Balsdon, national CNIO (Credit: Graham Meek)

Helen Balsdon: ‘Technology providers need a mindset shift’

5 February 2025

National chief nursing information officer Helen Balsdon tells Digital Health News why technology providers need

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

Time to rethink how we evaluate digital technologies in healthcare

Digital Transformation

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

Joe McDonald: ‘The single patient record is too big to succeed’

10 Year Health Plan

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

Morley: ‘We need greater regulation of ambient voice technologies’

AI and Data

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

Embedding PHM at the heart of the Model ICB

Integrated Care

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

Andy Hardy: ‘It’s unbelievable we don’t all have sight of patient records’

AI and Data

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

‘I’m ready to embrace AI doctors’

AI and Data

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

Allied health professionals must be proactive and ‘seek out’ AI

AI and Data

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

Can the NHS 10 year health plan fix health tech procurement?

10 Year Health Plan

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

The importance of human touch in Wes Streeting’s digital NHS

Opinion

De-skilling, mis-skilling, never-skilling: an AI-ready workforce needs a skill-decay strategy

Balancing innovation and compliance in FemTech regulation

AI and Data