Opinion

Overcoming the AI Applicability Crisis and Preparing for Agentic AI

Opinion Article by Harry Lykostratis, Chief Executive, Open Medical.
The government’s 10 Year Health Plan makes a lot of the potential of AI-software to support clinical decision making, improve productivity, and guide patients around the NHS.

That optimism may be well founded: AI models are being developed and improved rapidly. However, what we are seeing right now is that health is struggling with applicability.

Digital ECGs at Barts Health: A High-Impact Win for NHS Digitisation

Opinion Article by Dr Krishnaraj Sinhji Rathod, consultant in interventional cardiology, Barts Health NHS Trust.
Picture the moment. A patient in an ambulance, enroute to hospital with new chest pain. Paramedics understandably suspect a possible heart attack having carried out an electrocardiogram (ECG).

Integrating Care Records is Good. Using Intelligence to Make them Active is Better

Opinion Article by Dr Paul Deffley, Chief Medical Officer, Alcidion.
A single patient record already exists in the NHS. Or at least, that’s a perception shared by many. A survey of a thousand members of the public, conducted by NHS Confederation hosted organisation Understanding Patient Data, found that more than 6 in 10 UK citizens believed information on their NHS history was already collated in a single repository.

The 10 Year Health Plan: What do We Need to Deliver?

Opinion Article by Piyush Mahapatra, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Chief Innovation Officer at Open Medical.
There is a new ten-year plan for the NHS. It will "focus efforts on preventing, as well as treating ill-health"; make "out of hospital care a much larger part of what the NHS does"; and "upgrade technology and digitally enabled care."

Are we talking about the 10 Year Health Plan that will be published next summer?

Why the NHS is Seeking to Make Media Services Free for Patients

Opinion Article by Dean Moody, Healthcare Services Director, Airwave Healthcare.
Tim Kelsey and Martha Lane Fox called for WiFi to be made available free of charge throughout the NHS back in 2015.

The vision of NHS England’s then national director for patients and information, and the former UK digital champion, was to give patients greater access to digital health apps, self-help tools, and social networks, in ways that could "support recovery and promote well-being".

Why the NHS Needs a Transparency Revolution after Darzi

Opinion Article by Dr Mark Ratnarajah, NHS paediatrician and UK Managing Director for C2-Ai.
Wes Streeting wanted 'no stone left unturned' when he asked Lord Darzi to examine the current state of the NHS in England. Laudable to be sure - but we need to keep doing this at every level, and dig deeper without burdening busy teams. Here's why.

Huge NHS Cloud Deals Mean Tough Questions: Here's What Imaging Tech Suppliers Must Prove

Opinion Article by Chris Scarisbrick, Deputy Managing Director, Sectra.
The largest public cloud projects to ever take place within the NHS are beginning. Regional procurements for public cloud hosted diagnostic imaging solutions have recently seen the earliest of adopters go-live.

Now, a tsunami is set to follow, with projects involving vast amounts of data needed for the care of millions of patients, soon to become commonplace.

Opinion News

Overcoming the AI Applicability Crisis and Preparing for Agentic AI

Digital ECGs at Barts Health: A High-Impact Win for NHS Digitisation

Integrating Care Records is Good. Using Intelligence to Make them Active is Better

The 10 Year Health Plan: What do We Need to Deliver?

Why the NHS is Seeking to Make Media Services Free for Patients

Why the NHS Needs a Transparency Revolution after Darzi

Huge NHS Cloud Deals Mean Tough Questions: Here's What Imaging Tech Suppliers Must Prove

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