Insight
While the many benefits of cloud technology for healthcare organisations and the wider ecosystem are largely understood, the journey to the cloud is not without its roadblocks. As Cegedim Healthcare Solutions’ IT director, Mike Collier, and primary care product director, Tony Thorne, discuss, suppliers play a significant role in realising the NHS’ Cloud First strategy [...]
With the necessity to adopt digital technologies within healthcare becoming more widely realised during the past year, Matt Roberts, healthcare practice lead at Juniper Networks, discusses the fundamental role of digitalisation going forward The COVID-19 pandemic has put the greatest strain on humanity since WWII, and just like WWII there is a need for [...]
With COVID-19 cases again surging globally, Ron Chiarello, founder, CEO and chairman of Alveo Technologies, discusses multiplex testing Despite some developed countries’ progress in vaccinating their citizens against COVID-19, recently surging case numbers across the world have brought into sharper focus the global need for multiplex home testing options. In one two-week period ending in [...]
People working in digital healthcare have an opportunity, perhaps like at no other time in history, to use technology to change lives for the better, says Ezat Dayeh, senior systems engineering manager, Western Europe, at Cohesity The story is similar all across Europe. In Germany, the government introduced the Digital Health Care Act at the [...]
Through the use of AI, dementia can now be detected at an earlier stage, in quicker time and at a lower cost than ever before, with the added ability of remote use. Dr Sina Habibi, CEO of Cognetivity, tells Health Tech World about the team's groundbreaking work in redefining this area of healthcare
Designing the future of healthcare could become everyone’s responsibility. Making that happen will require a new education focus around artificial intelligence for healthcare professionals and patients, write Jane Rendall and Rachel Dunscombe A crisis point could be on the horizon for NHS imaging disciplines. Rising demand and pervasive recruitment challenges mean there will be too [...]
As Matt Hancock criticises EPR suppliers for ‘locking data away’, Garry McCord, chief product officer at Servelec, discusses the commitment that needs to be made by the industry to join up healthcare Data sharing in healthcare is not a new idea and the term ‘interoperability’ is ubiquitous. Health tech companies consistently claim to be [...]
Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership wanted to find out how well it would stand up to a cyber-attack. So, it asked Gemserv Health to put together a scenario-based response exercise that started with some seriously bad news – but uncovered a lot of useful information. It’s 8am and it was a nice day [...]
Five digital health ideas that will help to make the leap.
In order to meet the challenges facing a post pandemic NHS, the digital transformation agenda needs to accelerate even faster, says Chris Barker, CEO of Spirit Health Group Digital transformation was at the top of the NHS agenda for this decade – one that has been accelerated by the plethora of digitally enabled ways of [...]
