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.
Infrastructure
PHRs struggling to gain traction and show benefits – review
Attempts to create a personal health records suffer from a “lack of quantifiable benefits” and some schemes face an uncertain future if new funding is not found, a wide-ranging review by the RCP’s Health Informatics Unit for NHS England has concluded.
Digital Patient
Digital health start-ups spin wheels
Digital health start-ups are pitching ideas for wearable tech and apps as part of a week-long “pit stop” programme arranged by a new technology and innovation centre.
News
Maudsley puts care pathways online
South London and Maudlsey NHS Foundation Trust has launched an online treatment and assessment guide for care given to older adults.
News
Tech fund trusts prepare to press go
Seven for ‘13
Ewan Davis looks back at 2012 and identifies the trends – from hackdays to open source to patient-held records – that will reshape NHS IT in 2013 and beyond.
Feature
Myhealthlocker works to engage patients
Engagement with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust’s patient access portal is being encouraged via animations for children, computer courses and new devices for clinical teams and patients.
News
Living in a box
Health minister Earl Howe has launched South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust’s MyHealthBox project. Rebecca Todd reports.
Feature
Maudsley launches HealthVault-based PHR
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is today launching personal online health records for its patients, using Microsoft’s HealthVault platform.
News