Digital

Special report: Digitising healthcare - the dream for 2023

BBH editor, Jo Makosinski, explores the trends and challenges facing the health sector as it looks to enhance patient care and drive efficiencies, and the role technology has to play moving forward

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The benefits of a digitally-enabled NHS

Technology can attract new staff, relieve stress, and enhance care, reveals new BT research conducted with NHS employees

Hospitals face widespread disruption as PSTN withdrawal date approaches

44% of hospital trusts in England and Wales have no strategy for the 2025 PSTN withdrawal, survey claims

Budget provides boost for medtech industry

Chancellor's Spring Statement provides support for companies looking to break into the health sector, but technology experts claim more needs to be...

Comment: The importance of clinical correspondence within integrated care

Jonathan Elliott (pictured below), managing director of Epro, explains how clinical correspondence solutions leveraging mobile technology and speec...

Plan to forge a better Britain through science and technology unveiled

Medtech leaders welcome Government's new Science and Technology Framework

Offsite patient records will create 10,000 extra beds

Records expert claims switching to remote records could free up space in UK hospitals

Usability: Why EPRs could, and should, do more

In this article, Fiona Dawson, director of Mayden, looks at the evolution and adoption of electronic patient records and calls for suppliers and he...

Building Better Healthcare Awards 2021 now open for entries

Today sees the opening of the 2021 awards which will honour the very best of the industry

Comment: Digital transformation ‘key’ to helping the NHS cope post pandemic

Dr Peter Ingham (pictured below) from the BT Clinical Advisory Board speaks to BBH about why he is pushing for digital transformation to continue f...

Intelligent disease management ‘vital’ to NHS survival

The burden of chronic disease has been growing for decades, draining resources, expanding health inequalities, and multiplying costs. Here, Paul Mc...

Comment: Driving data efficiencies in healthcare

Chris Smith (pictured below), regional director for the UK and Ireland at Citrix, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, looks at how the emergin...

Matthew Gould: September is only the first chapter for shared care records

The chief executive of NHSX told delegates to the IHSCM’s Integrated Care Conference what to expect as shared care records become mandatory in 2021...

Comment: Integrated care systems start with integrated operations

Ian Sturgess, an urgent and emergency care expert, creator of the Directory for Ambulatory Emergency Care for Adults, and advisor at TeleTracking U...

Independent sector ‘key’ to solving NHS Wales backlog battle

With patient backlog and staff shortages in NHS Wales growing to alarming heights, health boards across face an intense battle of attrition, but te...

Comment: Does the NHS really need a health tech evolution?

Brian Murray, director at Orion Health, discusses the demand for a health tech evolution within the NHS

Achieving NHS digital change cost effectively

Jonathan Elliott, managing director of Epro (pictured below), calls for the NHS to embrace proven, UK-developed solutions that build on existing NH...