Opinion
Digital technology will play a pivotal role in shared care services, and remote monitoring will mean older people can stay in their own homes for longer. Helen Dempster of Karantis360 tells Health Tech World that advanced 24/7 remote patient monitoring will have a big impact on GPs, social services and carers The familiar saying ‘social [...]
A £5m investment in manufacturing to deliver a library of vaccines – just one of the Chancellor’s handouts. Andrew Meade, Accenture UK&I Life Sciences lead exclusively assesses the impact of the Budget on the health tech sector for Health Tech World. “Over the past year, the UK has emerged as a dominant player in the [...]
Can the subscription model fix healthcare? Amy Konary, customer business innovation chief at Zuora has spent 20 years advising firms on subscription business strategies, and set up the think tank Subscribed Institute. She tells Health Tech World that subscription can increase access and improve health outcomes. As the coronavirus pandemic lays bare the dismal state [...]
There is no simple fix to prevent cyber criminals from attempting to plunder your most precious resources, but it is possible to keep them from walking out with the data they want. Wai To of Wellbeing Software discusses how good cyber security can keep the hackers out. The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light [...]
Remote communication between the clinician and patient has been critical during the last 12 months. But how do we provide patient service, anytime, anywhere? Brian Atkinson of Cloud contact centre software provider Five9, takes up the challenge. The pandemic has made it clear: even in the healthcare sector, it is essential to be accessible and [...]
In a webinar, seasoned NHS chief information officers outlined the challenges that they had encountered with training for big system go-lives and heard how uPerform by ANCILE Solutions can address them; building on the experience of Infirmary Health in the US. “Training is a hot topic,” Cindy Fedell, a former NHS chief information officer [...]
Nobody can predict how the coming year will pan out, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to rage. But in healthcare, technology and business things change all the time. Mark and Susan Venables, the co-founders of Highland Marketing, argue that to succeed in an uncertain environment NHS IT companies need a flexible plan that will keep [...]
David Lawson, chief procurement officer at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, on how a new partnership with technology group Omnicell will improve patient safety and drive efficiency. I am delighted to announce a ground-breaking development partnership with leading automated medication management and supply solution specialists Omnicell to transform the way hospital inventory is [...]
The recent General Medical Council (GMC) report titled ‘Caring for doctors, caring for patients’ outlined that “Medicine is a tough job, but we make it far harder than it should be by neglecting the simple basics in caring for doctors’ wellbeing.” Here Simon Applebaum, MD of Spirit Digital, discusses how digital solutions can help to [...]
A collaborative 'Huddle' event at the North West HealthTec Cluster. The North West HealthTec Cluster is hosted by Sci-Tech Daresbury and supports growth in the Liverpool City Region, the North West, and beyond, as Dr. Phil Carvil explains for HT World. The North West HealthTec Cluster was launched in June 2019 as a [...]
