After writing about the effects of ransomware on the healthcare industry as part of an ongoing series of analyses, Ian Bolland caught up with blog author Allan Liska about the challenges healthcare faces. You can read his analysis, here. How can healthcare providers become less of an ‘easy’ target to ransomware actors? Strong defences are…
At HETT 2019 Ian Bolland sat down with Patrick Mitchell, director of innovation and transformation at Health Education England as they discussed the changes that are needed to see a more digitally literate workforce within the NHS. Mitchell worked on the Topol Review as part of the review board and feels that NHS boards need…
Ian Bolland sat down with Dean Moody and Steve Killick from WiFi Spark at HETT who explained how providing WiFi and its other software services can help the NHS frontline staff. The company has been operating since 2003 and says it provides services to 75% of NHS Trusts in the UK and is now trying…
Digital health technology companies have sounded warnings about using outdated computer systems after Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard said it takes 17 minutes for her computer to load. It came to light after her conversation with health and social care secretary Matt Hancock was played aloud to delegates at the Royal College of GP’s conference in Liverpool….
More than half of people in the UK are optimistic about the future of health according to findings from the Stada Health Report 2019 – a study in attitudes to healthcare. The report, unveiled during an event at Thornton & Ross in Huddersfield, suggests that 50% of people surveyed are willing to use technology in…