Specialist video collaboration provider, Visionable, has appointed Rachel Dunscombe as its chief technology officer.
Rachel will lead Visionable’s strategy on the development of its unique video collaboration platform to meet the needs of integrated care systems.
The company is one of very view video manufacturers, and has customers such as West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and the East of England stroke network.
Rachel joins the company with a background from NHS Digital Academy, the KLAS ARCH Collaborative, and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.
She said “In the past few weeks, we have seen the rapid development of new pathways to respond to the Covid-19 outbreak. But once we are through the crisis, we will need to continue that work to enable redesign of care pathways in the system.”
“I see Visionable as a platform that we can scale fast in the face of Covid-19, to help keep clinical staff safe by reducing unnecessary contact between teams and patients.”
“In the longer-term, I see it as part of a technology ecosystem that gets clinicians and patients working together, so clinicians can make the right decisions, in the right place, at the right time, while giving patients new tools to manage their own health.
Last week we interviewed Alan Lowe, the company CEO who told HTN about some of the challenges in the video collaboration market “Video manufacture is very skilled; there are only a couple of companies in the world that manufacture their own video – Microsoft, Cisco, Zoom, us. We have 29 patents for our unique streaming technology. Yet there are vendors out there that are coming up with basic third part plug ins and calling themselves video companies.”
“That’s creating a lot of noise in the market that is unhelpful in the current situation. I’m worried the NHS could end up with hundreds of different systems being used for video conversations; some of which embed into clinical workflows of give the spectrum of clinical capabilities required across multiple use cases.”
“The NHS has got a difficult challenge. Of course, it can’t just pick one system and tell everybody to use it, but equally it can’t have 500 systems just pop-up. As the NHS scrambles to prepare for Covid-19, my advice to people being asked to take procurement decisions right now is to stop and think for a moment about whether the options they are looking at work with their organisation’s technology stack and IT strategy.”
