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Jeremy Hunt's Legacy Needs to be Future Proofing the Health of the Nation with 'Black Box Thinking'

Opinion Article by Michael Thick, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Clinical Information Officer at IMS MAXIMS.
Jeremy Hunt's announcement last week on ways to improve the learning culture within the NHS and in turn minimise clinical mistakes, prompted me to revisit a presentation I have been using for the last eleven years.

Leveraging Innovation to Realise the Human and Financial Benefits of Digital Care

Opinion Article by Tom Morton, CEO of Communicare247.
Growing elderly populations and stretched resources means great hope is being placed in technology-enabled care to help citizens to maintain independence and provide support for their carers.

£4bn NHS Tech Move will Unleash Confidence in UK Companies

Opinion Article by Donald Kennedy, Managing Director at Patientrack.
New confidence can be taken by healthcare technology and solutions companies across the UK, following the government’s latest announcements on NHS IT investment.

Paperless NHS Investment Should Focus on People, Not Products

Opinion Article by Shane Tickell, CEO, IMS MAXIMS.
The UK Government's commitment to invest £4bn in technology for the NHS in England yesterday is welcomed, but the taxpayer's money needs to be spent wisely to have the anticipated impact.

NHS Must Move Beyond 19th Century Cancer Diagnostics to Save 11,000 More Lives

Opinion Article by Chris Scarisbrick, Sectra UK & Ireland.
Radical recommendations were set out by England's Independent Cancer Taskforce in July 2015. The goal: to allow an additional 30,000 patients every year to survive cancer for 10 years or more by 2020.

The Biggest Cost to Healthcare is not Learning from Best Practice

Opinion 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.

Mobile Technology - a New Infection Risk?

Opinion 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.

Opinion News

Jeremy Hunt's Legacy Needs to be Future Proofing the Health of the Nation with 'Black Box Thinking'

Leveraging Innovation to Realise the Human and Financial Benefits of Digital Care

£4bn NHS Tech Move will Unleash Confidence in UK Companies

Paperless NHS Investment Should Focus on People, Not Products

NHS Must Move Beyond 19th Century Cancer Diagnostics to Save 11,000 More Lives

The Biggest Cost to Healthcare is not Learning from Best Practice

Mobile Technology - a New Infection Risk?

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