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Health Tech Trends Series

As part of the Health Tech Trends Series we run a yearly trends survey to go in-depth into some of the trends, challenges, ideas, innovations and priorities for leaders in health and care.

Through the year we also run audience polls and re-active surveys, insight articles and features that go in-depth into health tech.

Health Tech Trends Series 2023

Reflections from across the NHS: Primary care access, patient portals, EPRs, optimisation, data, emerging tech, digital inclusion and more…

Digital transformation priorities for 2024 and beyond, from across the NHS

Digital priorities from North East London, Somerset, Nottingham and Northamptonshire integrated care systems

What should be the highest priority in the short term for digital integrated care systems?

Poll: which area in health tech would you prioritise this year?

What’s the biggest challenge with interoperability across health and care?

Industry views: digital leaders on EPR approaches, learnings and advice

How many EPR systems do you think there will be in the market in 5 years?

Poll: if you could solve one challenge in health and care, what would the priority be in the short-term?

Primary-secondary interface, virtual care, patient portals, data and intelligence – which area would benefit from additional funding?

Digital leaders on lessons learned and impact of patient portals

24 per cent of integrated care boards have a digital leader at board level

Deep dive: what does ‘good’ look like in digital primary care?

Poll: What does your organisation need most to improve patient flow?

Where should digital investment go in the short-term?

Digital leaders on EPR business cases

In focus: Mid and South Essex ICS publishes digital plans and strategy

What is the greatest challenge for AI in healthcare?

Poll: What do you think should be the biggest priority for digital primary care in 2023?

Poll: How much time this week did you put towards innovation, driving new ideas or creative thinking?

Poll: Do your local healthcare providers share live waiting time data for A&E and urgent care via a patient facing app or website?

Poll: Focusing on health and care data, what’s the most challenging area?

Deep dive: digital transformation and change in Derbyshire, Northamptonshire and Sussex

Health Tech Trends Series 2022

Poll: If you could solve one challenge in the health tech industry, what would it be?

Poll: how many EPR systems will be on the market by 2027?

Industry view: what would ICS digital success look like in three years?

Health Tech Trends: what does good look like for primary care technology?

Digital leaders on NHS Boards?

Health Tech Trends: what does the future of digital primary care look like in 2, 5 and 10 years?

Poll: five years from now, how many GP clinical system suppliers will there be?

Industry View: healthcare professionals react to the new digital health plan

Healthcare opinions: what does inclusive leadership mean?

What do you and your organisation need to support digitisation?

What does success in digital transformation for ICSs look like?

What makes a great digital champion?

Health tech experts react to current challenges within the digital industry

What is the role of digital and data in NHS trust strategies?

The biggest challenges faced by digital transformation

What can we learn about digital transformation from the past year?

Health Tech Trends Series 2021

NHS tech priorities for 2022: “digital innovation will remain front and centre”

Health tech reflections 2021: “a year that demonstrates human resilience”

Industry View: health tech experts react to NHSX/D merger with NHS England

Health Tech Trends Series 2021 part two: health tech professionals share their learnings

Health Tech Trends Series 2021 part one: the experts answer our questions on digital transformation

Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Central London Community Healthcare digital strategy in focus

Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Oxford Health’s draft digital healthcare strategy

Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Northern Lincolnshire and Goole’s refreshed digital strategy in focus

Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Digital aims in Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS FT’s new strategy

Health Tech Trends Series 2021: the most successful technologies adopted

“Come see us on the frontline” – NHSX Director asks followers for feedback on health tech priorities

Health Tech Trends Series 2021: Digital maturity satisfaction in focus

HTN Feature: Healthcare teams share tips for coping with stress during pandemic

Research paper explores usability of electronic health record systems in emergency departments

Health Tech Priorities 2021: from VR to robots and ‘purging paper’

Health Tech Trends Series 2020

Health Tech Predictions 2021: how the experts see the year ahead

Most of us will be keen to bid goodbye to 2020 and welcome the New Year with open arms. But one major plus point is...

Health Tech Learnings & Reflections 2020: “more was achieved in eight weeks…than in the past decade”

As we reach the festive season and prepare to welcome 2021, there’s a lot to reflect on. It’s fair to say that 2020 has been...

From AI to support colonoscopies to strokes: the diverse applications of AI in healthcare

In September, 42 AI projects joined the NHS AI Lab through its AI in Health and Care Award programme. The programme is run in partnership with...

How can we make the most of a rapidly digitalised landscape, whilst still looking after our NHS people?

By Niamh McKenna, Chief Information Officer, NHS Resolution As a Board Member at Skills for Health, I was thrilled to host their recent digital focussed...

HTN Trends Series: EPR Trends in the UK

By David Kwo, Dr Nick Beard, Dr Fortunato Castillo, Jagdip Grewal, Dr Alec Price-Forbes Trends in electronic patient record systems (EPRs) deployment in UK...

2019 Series Highlights

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