NHS England’s board met last week to discuss data insights into the health system’s performance, the implications for digital with regards to the financial state of the NHS, how technology relates to productivity, and more. Key statistics were shared at the board meeting, including a largely consistent rate of A&E […]
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Study highlights limitations of large language models around clinical diagnosis, interpretation of results and integration
A study published this month in Nature Medicine journal evaluates the limitations of large language models (LLM) in clinical decision-making by exploring their accuracy, with the research team highlighting reported challenges with diagnosis, interpretation of laboratory results and safe integration into existing workflows. For the purposes of the study a […]
General election, what does it mean for the NHS: Focus on waiting times, timely diagnosis and treatment, innovation, adoption, modernising, a new ‘Fit for the Future’ fund…
With the results of the 2024 general election handing Labour a majority and placing Keir Starmer as Prime Minister, let’s take a look at what this might mean for the NHS. We previously reported on the highlights of Labour’s manifesto when it came to the national health service, along with […]
Digital Health and Care Wales’ organisational strategy 2024-2030: in focus
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) recently published its organisational strategy for 2024-2030, framed around five key missions: to provide a platform for enabling digital transformation, to deliver high quality digital products and services, to expand the digital health and care record and the use of digital to improve healthcare, […]
Research explores behaviour change techniques for diabetes self-management mobile apps
In a study published in The Lancet, a research team sought to identify which behaviour change techniques work best for diabetes self-management mobile apps, with the findings indicating that self-monitoring of behaviour as a behaviour change technique and taking medication as a target behaviour were both associated with improved metabolic […]
Digital transformation from a finance perspective: insights from Jonathan Lee, assistant director for business and finance at Digital Notts
Jonathan Lee, assistant director for business and finance at Digital Notts, shares his insights on the benefits of closer links between digital and finance in healthcare in this blog for HTN. A qualified accountant, Jonathan brings a wealth of experience gained from working at a senior level in a number […]
NHSE shares aim to create a single source of truth for community health services in new data plan
NHS England has published its NHS Community Health Services Data Plan, 2024/25 to 2026/27, highlighting challenges around data quality, timeliness and relevance in the community health sector and looking to tackle those challenges by building on existing health data strategies. The long-term vision of the plan is to create a […]
Digital health and data across the ICS regions in 2024: London
Digital health and data across the ICS regions in 2024: London Welcome to the first edition of our new feature series, exploring the current state of play for digital and data across the integrated care system regions. First up, we’re taking a look at the capital, following our spotlight piece […]
HTN at Rewired 2024: what does the future hold for the NHS App?
During our visit to Rewired 2024, we attended a session focusing on the NHS App which aimed to provide insight into the progress and strategy of the app, as well as hopes and plans for the future. Representatives from NHS England took part in the session, including Liz Clow, director […]
HTN at Rewired 2024: managing cyber threats, supplier compliance, supporting supply chain resilience
We took a trip to Rewired this week to listen to insightful talks on various digital healthcare topics and chat to health tech professionals from the NHS and beyond – here, we’ll share some of our main takeaways from the cyber security stage. First up, we listened to Professor Daniel […]
