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

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Category: Opinion
18 March 2016
IMS MAXIMSOpinion 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.

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

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Category: Opinion
17 February 2016
Communicare247Opinion 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.

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

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Category: Opinion
15 February 2016
PatientrackOpinion 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.

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Paperless NHS Investment Should Focus on People, Not Products

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Category: Opinion
08 February 2016
IMS MAXIMSOpinion 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.

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

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Category: Opinion
03 February 2016
SectraOpinion 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.

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The Biggest Cost to Healthcare is not Learning from Best Practice

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Category: Opinion
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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Category: Opinion
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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More Digital Health News ...

  1. Driving Out Variations in Clinical Care Across the Patient Journey
  2. Redefining Technologies in the Quest for Patient Centricity
  3. UK SMEs Can Play a Crucial Role in Meeting NHS Grand Challenges
  4. How mHealth Can Benefit Mental Health
  5. The Burning Technological Platform for Person-Centred Care
  6. Trusting Data is the Next Stage of the NHS' Digital Journey
  7. Population Health Management: Lessons from Abroad
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