Insight

  • Digital pathology: Forging our own future

    By Liam Canavan, Healthcare Lead at Loadbalancer.org  Liam partners with medical imaging providers and hospitals worldwide, building strategic alliances and using cutting-edge technology to tackle tough data storage problems and ultimately enhance patient care. The ARPA-H INDEX programme and DPA have outlined a broad digital strategy for pathology, yet simultaneously acknowledge that infrastructure shortfalls are [...]

  • The 20/80 rule: Why your medical device marketing is failing 80% of your audience

    By Eat More Fruit Communications If you're leading marketing for a medical device company, chances are you're focusing on the wrong things. Your novel mode of action. Your breakthrough technology. Your innovative mechanism. Here's the uncomfortable truth: only 20 per cent of Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) will ever care about that level of detail. The other [...]

  • A people-led digital NHS: Aligning tech to purpose for real transformation

    Cloud21 responds to the UK government’s 10 Year Health Plan The new 10 Year Plan for the NHS in England outlines a clear vision for a digitally-enabled health service. Acknowledging a service left behind in terms of a modern user experience compared to other sectors and other countries, is absolutely right. However, our healthcare teams [...]

  • 5 Norwegian tech companies streamlining healthcare delivery

    Digitalisation is a global megatrend, and Norway is a role model for the digital transformation of the healthcare sector. Its focus on developing and deploying cutting-edge solutions for diagnosis is driving progress in prevention and treatment, both in clinical settings and at home. The Norwegian health industry has some distinct advantages, including world-leading AI and [...]

  • Integrating care records is good. Using intelligence to make them active is better

    What is needed for the single patient record to deliver intended benefits? Dr Paul Deffley, Chief Medical Officer for Alcidion and former NHS commissioning professional, considers how emerging policy could help patient record systems to become more active and intelligent, enhancing the delivery of care. A single patient record already exists in the NHS. Or [...]

  • NHS long term plan, in the short term: Where tech must help now

    Strategic realignment over the next 10 years is important. But what are the practical, inarguable early wins the government must try to achieve for an NHS now? Dr Mark Ratnarajah, UK managing director of C2-Ai and practising NHS paediatrician, offers some answers. As the unveiling of the long-awaited NHS 10-year plan rapidly approaches, the need [...]

  • Shared care, AI and app enabled management tools: What does the nursing profession really think?

    And insight for developers and the tech world. An interview with Ashleigh Tropp, Community Paediatric Nurse, Ealing District Written by Libi Stein, EatMoreFruit Communications Community healthcare is the backbone of the NHS, accounting for 13 per cent of daily activities and reaching over 200,000 people each day. Much of this care supports individuals managing long-term [...]

  • Why data, user-centred design and expert collaboration must shape the future of UK health tech

    Drawing on over 23 years of NHS and international digital health experience, Sarah Corbridge, Business Development Director at Hippo, explores the crucial role of data, user-centred design and expert collaboration for the digital future of the NHS. The NHS is data rich and insight poor. It holds vast amounts of valuable data that could inform [...]

  • UK AI adviser to step down after six months

    Matt Clifford, artificial intelligence adviser to Sir Keir Starmer, is stepping down from his role after six months for family reasons, Downing Street has confirmed. Clifford, who led development of the government’s AI opportunities action plan, will leave his position at the end of July. He is understood to have a good relationship with Number [...]

  • The cyber security charter is a start. Now the NHS must enforce it

    By Trevor Dearing, Director of Critical Infrastructure at Illumio On 15th May, NHS England launched its new voluntary cyber security charter for suppliers. With it, the NHS is sending out a strong message: cybersecurity is a shared responsibility, and suppliers are responsible for improving resilience. The charter outlines eight security pledges that should be in [...]