Opinion

The Burning Technological Platform for Person-Centred Care

Opinion Article by Tom Morton, CEO, Communicare 247.
Integrated, person-centred care is seen as a driving force for building public services around individual needs. It aims to bring care out of the hospital and into the community and home to cope with the growing burden of the 3 million people who will have over three long-term conditions by 2018.

Trusting Data is the Next Stage of the NHS' Digital Journey

Opinion Article by Professor Michael Thick, Chief Clinical Officer at IMS MAXIMS.
As a clinician who has been closely involved in clinical IT for all my working life, my first observation is that very few organisations have an electronic patient record (EPR) working properly. My second observation is that unless we use technology to enable a transformation in service delivery, we are whistling in the wind as far as filling the £30bn funding gap goes.

Population Health Management: Lessons from Abroad

Opinion Article by Colin Henderson, Managing Director, Orion Health UK and Ireland.
Enlightened policymakers have moved beyond just looking at health and social care integration, and are looking to population health management to safeguard the future of the people they serve. Population health management recognises that people's lives involve more than health and social care.

Your NHS Needs You!

Opinion Article by Myriam McLoughlin, Account Director, Highland Marketing.
The BBC recently reported that the Welsh Conservative party would introduce a £10 fine for patients who frequently miss NHS hospital appointments, should they win power at next year's assembly election.

Human Plus Machine Equals Better Medicine

Opinion Article by Dr. Guy Wood-Gush, CEO of Deontics.
A turning pointing for artificial intelligence (AI) came when the computer Deep Blue beat world champion Garry Kasparov at chess 18 years ago. Since those early days some of the best minds have been working on applying AI in medicine. Today, I'd like to see where AI could take us in clinical practice.

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.

Opinion News

The Burning Technological Platform for Person-Centred Care

Trusting Data is the Next Stage of the NHS' Digital Journey

Population Health Management: Lessons from Abroad

Your NHS Needs You!

Human Plus Machine Equals Better Medicine

Give Staff the Tools to Deliver NHS Change

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

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