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 that, largely due to the problems posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen huge strides in the adoption and implementation of technology within healthcare […]
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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 an eventful year but, away from the headlines as the year comes to a chaotic close, there’s also plenty to be proud of. And even […]
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 the Accelerated Access Collaborative and NHSX, and forms part of the NHS Artificial Intelligence Lab announced by Matt Hancock in 2019. £140m is to be invested […]
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 event, ‘2020: A Catalyst for Rapid NHS Digital Transformation’. Joining panellists from NHS England & Improvement, Health Education England, and Microsoft, we looked to dissect […]
HTN Trends Series: EPR Trends in the UK
By David Kwo, Dr Nick Beard, Dr Fortunato Castillo, Jagdip Grewal, Dr Alec Price-Forbes [i] Trends in electronic patient record systems (EPRs) deployment in UK and US hospitals, where EPRs are used across care-settings, have potentially significant implications for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs). What types of EPRs are there? There […]
Andy Callow, CDIO, Kettering General Hospital: Embracing the potential of the Cloud
By Andy Callow, Chief Digital Information Officer at Kettering General Hospital (Twitter: @andy_callow) As part of the HTN Health Tech Trends Series, Andy Callow, CDIO at Kettering General explores the potential of the Cloud in healthcare and argues why it makes sense. What is the NHS Waiting For? In behavioural […]
Part Two: Health tech experts reflect and share learnings
In the second part of our feature, HTN asked the health tech industry to reflect on some of their learnings this year. In part one of the feature contributors responded to our open brief with a variety of comments, touching on the importance of people and looking after your teams, […]
Health tech experts reflect and share learnings
In this two part feature HTN asked health tech experts to reflect on some of their learnings this year, an exercise we also did at HTN and found extremely valuable. Following an open brief, we were looking for a variety of comments, in which we have received. The contributors reflect […]
Andrew Raynes, CIO, Royal Papworth Hospital: The next Cyber Attack – Will it or won’t it hurt?
By Andrew Raynes, CIO, Royal Papworth Hospital The cyber threat to health and care has never been more prevalent it seems than now. The pandemic has seen an increase in ripples of spam and phishing attempts, but in more recent years the real threat to our systems which support services […]
4 examples of AI in present-day healthcare
Over recent years there has certainly been hype around artificial intelligence and whether the reality of this technology meets those expectations. We tasked our reporter Matt White, as part of our Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, to explore and research four examples of how artificial intelligence is being […]
