Opinion

An NHS-Wide Cloud for Diagnostics?

Opinion Article by: Jane Rendall, UK Managing Director, Sectra; Fredrik Gustavsson, Chief Technology Officer.
Pressure to improve sustainability and reduce isolation in healthcare has renewed the hunger for a different approach to IT. Installing software in individual organisations, and then managing it locally on hospital servers, is a resource hungry method that for many organisations is starting to reach its limits in the race to digital maturity.

Listening to Patients and Staff Key to the Future of Health and Care

Opinion Article by John Morley, CEO, Formic.
Many of the most successful organisations in the world aim to deliver high quality services that are built around the needs of the customer, informed by the voice of frontline staff. So why not so for health?

Empowering Laboratories of the Future: The Urgent Need for Clinical Context

Opinion Article by Martin Wilkinson, Director of Product Introduction, Strategy and User Adoption at InterSystems.
Laboratories across the world still work largely in isolation to clinical providers. Even today, in the digital age of sharing information, a large majority of laboratory professionals are not given the full clinical perspective on the very patients they are carrying out tests for, something that must change with urgency.

NHS Must Empower CCIOs and Security Leads to Tackle New Data Threats

Opinion Article by Dr Saif F Abed, EMEA Medical Director at Imprivata.
Take the perfect recipe for a new model of care. A well thought out local digital roadmap to improve efficiency through IT, a forward thinking acute trust, collaborative partners across care settings and a novel vanguard model, all combine to create a project with the potential to achieve local and national integrated care objectives.

Achieving Clinical Credibility in NHS IT Projects

Opinion Article by Dr Chris Swinburn, Clinical Lead at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
Anyone who knows me will know I am not very good with computers. Which makes me a curious choice to lead clinical engagement in an important IT implementation for our trust. Two years ago I took a step back from clinical practice as a consultant physician at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to work as chief clinical information officer and clinical lead

Invest in Talent, Not Gender

Opinion Article by Shane Tickell, CEO of IMS MAXIMS.
The technology industry prides itself on addressing challenges head on, solving problems and enabling effective decisions. But one challenge we still face today is the lack of women employed in our industry.

Mobile Technology: Is the NHS Closing the Skills Gap?

Opinion Article by Steve Carvell, head of healthcare at CommonTime.
Technology skills are in higher demand than ever. Look across any vertical and developers who can create mission critical apps and push organisations into the mobile era, are highly sought. NHS trusts tend to only have small teams of developers - but is this enough to cope with the modern and abundant technology needs of the NHS?

Opinion News

An NHS-Wide Cloud for Diagnostics?

Listening to Patients and Staff Key to the Future of Health and Care

Empowering Laboratories of the Future: The Urgent Need for Clinical Context

NHS Must Empower CCIOs and Security Leads to Tackle New Data Threats

Achieving Clinical Credibility in NHS IT Projects

Invest in Talent, Not Gender

Mobile Technology: Is the NHS Closing the Skills Gap?

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