Opinion

The NHS Long Term Plan: Cracking the Da Vinci Code?

Opinion Article by Prof. Michael Thick, Chief Medical Officer, Chief Clinical Information Officer, IMS MAXIMS
Reading the NHS Long Term Plan this week, I had a definite sense of déjà vu. And that's not just because we have seen similar plans in the past.

We have, of course, but this plan is still of interest and welcome. I think everybody would be very surprised if itwere to last ten-years, but it’s good to have a clearly articulated vision for the service and where the technology should go.

How Blockchain Technology will Change the eHealth Industry

Opinion Article by Michael Krusche, founder and CEO of K&C.
Let's imagine a world where all medical information about a patient is securely kept within a single system, and they can share it with any healthcare professional, without red tape. Until now, such a dream has been impossible. With the help of blockchain, however, all of that will change.

No Cash, No Staff: How can the NHS Afford to Digitise?

Opinion Article by Leesa Ewing, Commercial Director, IMS MAXIMS.
Ongoing news of an NHS 'cash flow crisis' has continued to appear in the media in recent weeks, despite new funding pledges from the government in November's budget. Arguably a bold move from Number 11, new capital and revenue commitments from the chancellor were better than many expected.

Next Steps for Standards

Opinion Article by Andrew Meiner, Managing Director, Stalis.
Just before the general election was called, NHS England set out the progress that it wants to see taken on the Five Year Forward View. The Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View report reiterated the message that the key to closing the growing gap between funding, demand and cost is for health and social care organisations to do things differently.

An NHS-Wide Cloud for Diagnostics?

Opinion Article by: Jane Rendall, UK Managing Director, Sectra; Fredrik Gustavsson, Chief Technology Officer.
Pressure to improve sustainability and reduce isolation in healthcare has renewed the hunger for a different approach to IT. Installing software in individual organisations, and then managing it locally on hospital servers, is a resource hungry method that for many organisations is starting to reach its limits in the race to digital maturity.

Listening to Patients and Staff Key to the Future of Health and Care

Opinion Article by John Morley, CEO, Formic.
Many of the most successful organisations in the world aim to deliver high quality services that are built around the needs of the customer, informed by the voice of frontline staff. So why not so for health?

Empowering Laboratories of the Future: The Urgent Need for Clinical Context

Opinion Article by Martin Wilkinson, Director of Product Introduction, Strategy and User Adoption at InterSystems.
Laboratories across the world still work largely in isolation to clinical providers. Even today, in the digital age of sharing information, a large majority of laboratory professionals are not given the full clinical perspective on the very patients they are carrying out tests for, something that must change with urgency.

Opinion News

The NHS Long Term Plan: Cracking the Da Vinci Code?

How Blockchain Technology will Change the eHealth Industry

No Cash, No Staff: How can the NHS Afford to Digitise?

Next Steps for Standards

An NHS-Wide Cloud for Diagnostics?

Listening to Patients and Staff Key to the Future of Health and Care

Empowering Laboratories of the Future: The Urgent Need for Clinical Context

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