Opinion

Give Staff the Tools to Deliver NHS Change

Opinion Article by Dr. Julia Fishman, Vice President Clinical Operations at TeleTracking Technologies.
We can't hide from the huge financial challenge facing the NHS. The well-documented numbers are staggering - productivity improvements are needed immediately to meet a predicted £30bn annual funding gap by 2021. To put this into perspective, £30bn would pay for over 130,000 nurses, which accounted for 35% of England's nursing workforce in 2014.

How Nursing Informatics Leaders Can Help Make a Digital NHS a Reality

Opinion Article by Debbie Guy, Registered Nurse and Director of Clinical Operations at Nervecentre.
Technology is becoming more important to clinical practice, not just as a management reporting tool, but as an instrument to change the way we deliver care for the better. The government's ambitions are clear - Simon Stevens, NHS England's CEO is calling for technology to help "drive down variations in quality and safety of care" and reduce instances of avoidable patient harm in his Five Year Forward View.

Getting IT Right: Technology and the NHS

Opinion Article by Julia Ball, Assistant Director of Nursing at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
When I walk through the doors of a supermarket, I usually have a very good idea of what I want to buy. When NHS trusts are looking to procure an IT system however, they will often only have a basic knowledge of their specific requirements. One example of this is when clinical and IT teams do not have a common understanding around what is needed from the technology.

Opinion Article: Open Source Can Bring NHS IT Back to the Future

By Malcolm Senior, Director of Informatics at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
In many respects open source software is not really understood within healthcare. A lot of people hear about it and imagine a teenager who downloaded a piece of code off the Internet. The lack of control and ownership of the code is seen as a risk to clinical safety. And they would be right - if that were the case.

Opinion Article: Understanding Individuals - What Population Health Means to the NHS

By Wayne Parslow, General Manager EMEA at MedeAnalytics.
People have been talking public health for the last 200 years. But the publication of Simon Stevens’ Five Year Forward View now heralds a five year change phase for the NHS, one which could see health and social care fundamentally shift to managing the health of populations in a very different way.

Opinion Article: What Answers Does health IT Hold for the EU Baltic Region?

By Rainer Herzog, Managing Director, HIMSS Europe.
In May, the eyes of European health IT practitioners are going to be fixed in one place: Riga, Latvia, in the lovely Baltic region of North-Eastern Europe. Once frozen in time under a rigid Communist oppression, that country has rapidly opened itself up, becoming not just part of the wider European Union political structure but also becoming one of the most Internet-friendly, 'wired-up' countries in the whole continent.

Opinion Article: Putting Agile Intelligence into Community Care

By Richard Tarring, Commercial Director at Sirona Care and Health Community Interest Company.
Procurement processes and IT deployments in the health service are rarely known for their flexibility or agility. So what happens when you combine a not-for-profit community interest company (CIC) and two innovative UK technology suppliers? The answer for people receiving learning disability and community services in South Gloucestershire is starting to emerge.

Opinion News

Give Staff the Tools to Deliver NHS Change

How Nursing Informatics Leaders Can Help Make a Digital NHS a Reality

Getting IT Right: Technology and the NHS

Opinion Article: Open Source Can Bring NHS IT Back to the Future

Opinion Article: Understanding Individuals - What Population Health Means to the NHS

Opinion Article: What Answers Does health IT Hold for the EU Baltic Region?

Opinion Article: Putting Agile Intelligence into Community Care

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