Nearly three quarters (73%) of NHS Trusts are still reliant on pen and paper to complete clinical documentation, according to a Freedom of Information request from Nuance Communications, down from 93% in 2017. The request, issued to 40 NHS Trusts, with 26 responding, quizzed Trusts around their use of technology to improve patient care, as well…
Web content editor Ian Bolland caught up with the founder of Diabetes Digital Media and the author of Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare Arjun Panesar about getting onto the NHS Innovation Accelerator, as well as the future of healthcare. The founder of Diabetes Digital Media, who developed the Low Carb Program, has explained that…
Tim Morris, commercial portfolio and partnership director at Elsevier explains how the better use of data can improve patient outcomes across healthcare. AI is now pervading our vocabulary. And it is not really a day unless we’ve said the word AI before breakfast. Many people talk about AI and the impact of AI without perhaps…
NHS IT vendors can no longer ignore technology they didn’t invent, and trusts need to integrate imaging far beyond the radiology department, if AI is to play its big role in diagnosing illnesses, writes Jane Rendall, MD, Sectra UK and Ireland. There is no way Sectra could ever hope to develop even a fraction of…
Professor Michael Thick, chief medical officer and chief clinical information officer at IMS MAXIMS, finds a lot to welcome in the NHS’ latest 10-year plan; not least its conversion to a model of patient owned and accessible records that the company was exploring almost a decade ago. Reading the NHS Long Term Plan this week,…