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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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...

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...

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...

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: 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...

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

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...

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...

How technology can enhance patient care

New White Paper seeks to identify the ‘wealth of opportunities’ to help the NHS meet rising demand through innovation and technology

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...

Transforming primary care with effective integration of services

Today, too many Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are unable to deliver collaborative care due to lack of integration...

Preventing healthcare cyber attacks from spreading

According to Check Point Research, the healthcare sector was the most-targeted industry for ransomware during the third quarter of 2022. In this ar...