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The Biggest Cost to Healthcare is not Learning from Best Practice

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03 December 2015
DeonticsOpinion Article by Vivek Patkar, Chief Medical Officer, Deontics.
If the recent publication of the Atlas of Variation shows the human costs of unwarranted variation across the NHS; then The Kings Fund's Better Value in the NHS report showed the financial cost.
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Mobile Technology - a New Infection Risk?

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25 November 2015
FutureNovaOpinion Article by Mike Casey, CEO of FutureNova, former NHS CIO.
Before the advent of modern medicine, a stay in hospital was a risky business - in a crowded, dirty ward, an infection could spread like wildfire. The introduction of good hygiene practices, followed by the development of penicillin, resulted in a dramatic fall in infection rates.
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Driving Out Variations in Clinical Care Across the Patient Journey

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11 November 2015
ElsevierOpinion Article by Robert Dunlop, Clinical Director, Elsevier Clinical Solutions.
Good care costs less, the health secretary announced. How much less? According to NHS productivity lead Lord Carter, around £5 billion a year less. That is the amount that the NHS could save if it reduced the amount of unwarranted variation in clinical care.
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Redefining Technologies in the Quest for Patient Centricity

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02 November 2015
SectraOpinion Article by Chris Scarisbrick, Sectra UK & Ireland.
The advent of the radiology picture archiving and communication system, or PACS, signalled an early and pioneering shift to digital within NHS hospitals some 15 years ago. As an NHS radiographer, and then PACS manager, during the early parts of this journey, I witnessed first-hand the end of working with restrictive light boxes and acetates, and the improved flow of information that resulted from the new technology.
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UK SMEs Can Play a Crucial Role in Meeting NHS Grand Challenges

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09 October 2015
Opinion Article by Donald Kennedy, Managing Director, Patientrack.
PatientrackWhen clinicians at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sought to become the first in the country to be able to predict when patients were at risk of one of the UK's most deadly conditions, the hospital turned to a small specialist UK company to enter into what would quickly become a strong collaboration.
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How mHealth Can Benefit Mental Health

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18 September 2015
AppadoodleOpinion Article by Jamie Prangnell, Managing Director, Appadoodle.
Mental ill health is a huge issue for young people. It is estimated that one in five young people have a mental health problem in any given year. Further research says that around half of all mental disorders begin before the age of 15, and 75% by 24. More than half of all adults with mental health problems saw such issues manifest in childhood, but were not formally diagnosed.
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The Burning Technological Platform for Person-Centred Care

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18 September 2015
Communicare 247Opinion Article by Tom Morton, CEO, Communicare 247.
Integrated, person-centred care is seen as a driving force for building public services around individual needs. It aims to bring care out of the hospital and into the community and home to cope with the growing burden of the 3 million people who will have over three long-term conditions by 2018.
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