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(Opinion Article) NHS' Technology Strategy Needs to Go that Extra Mile for Frontline Staff

By Colin Reid, Chief Executive of TotalMobile.
We are on a journey. The Department of Health's (DH) first mandate told the then NHS Commissioning Board where we needed to get to in order to deliver an improved national health service. The DH's 'Power of Information' strategy plotted the routes of healthcare providers, commissioners and technology suppliers to drive better heath, care and support.

Opinion Article: An NHS Doctor's Top 10 Tips to Meet the Digital Challenge

By Dr. Paul Shannon, consultant anaesthetist in the NHS and medical director at CSC.
Following heath secretary Jeremy Hunt's recent challenge to the NHS to 'go paperless' by 2018, doctors and hospitals are going to need IT tools to coordinate care electronically. Care coordination is essential to avoid duplicate treatment and to prevent medical errors.

Opinion Article: Building an Innovative & Cost Effective Health System in Europe

By Elena Bonfiglioli, Senior Director for Health, Public Sector EMEA.
Health modernization empowers citizens to take greater control over the management of their health. Citizens are increasingly demanding personalized health information and quality care. Adopting information communication technology (ICT) in healthcare, therefore, is critical for its transformative nature that provides citizens access to personalized data which can increase levels of transparency and allow patients to make more informed decisions.

Opinion Article: Build and They Will Come

By Wayne Parslow, Vice President of Harris Healthcare EMEA.
It is no secret that IT in healthcare is less advanced than in most other industries. Anyone looking in from banking, where highly personal financial information is continuously and securely shared, or from a background where social media is actively used to publish locations, photos, thoughts and messages on a daily basis, would probably find themselves struggling to get to grips with the way that patient information is stored on a piece of paper in the place where the patient was treated.

Opinion Article: A Smarter Route to Patient-Centred Care

By Shane Tickell, CEO, IMS MAXIMS.
As an ardent believer in the need for progress in healthcare I shouldn't suffer nostalgia for the NHS of yesteryear. But, like many others, there are moments when I have the sense that something has been lost. You know the sort of thing - the lament for a golden era where the GP was almost an extension of the family.

Opinion Article: Cardiac Diagnostics in Practice Puts Patients' Best Interests at Heart

By Joshua Rowe, CEO of Broomwell Healthwatch.
Imagine that you start to experience unfamiliar chest pains. What would you do? Like most people, you're likely to call or visit your GP surgery and ask for an emergency appointment.

Opinion Article: Has Telemedicine Reached its Tipping Point?

By Freddy Lykke, Managing Director, CSC Scandihealth A/S.
Even its most ardent advocates would acknowledge that telemedicine still makes up a tiny proportion of overall healthcare activity worldwide. Clunky technology, cultural and organisational issues and a lack of enthusiasm - even antipathy - from clinicians have been some of the barriers to wider uptake of telemedicine solutions.

Opinion News

(Opinion Article) NHS' Technology Strategy Needs to Go that Extra Mile for Frontline Staff

Opinion Article: An NHS Doctor's Top 10 Tips to Meet the Digital Challenge

Opinion Article: Building an Innovative & Cost Effective Health System in Europe

Opinion Article: Build and They Will Come

Opinion Article: A Smarter Route to Patient-Centred Care

Opinion Article: Cardiac Diagnostics in Practice Puts Patients' Best Interests at Heart

Opinion Article: Has Telemedicine Reached its Tipping Point?

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