Highland Marketing advisory board: EPR debate
Digitising hospitals was the focus of NHS IT policy for twenty years. The job is still unfinished: so what are the options for trusts – and the integrated care systems that are planned to take...
The Autumn Budget and the CSR: the morning after the day before
Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered both a Budget and a comprehensive spending review on Wednesday. Health and social care have a much better idea of what their revenue and capital budgets will look like over the...
A spending review to back health tech innovation?
Chancellor Rishi Sunak will be back at the dispatch box next week to tell public services what they’ll have to spend over the next three years. The NHS already knows its revenue limit; but think-tanks...
One Epic to rule them all?
In the first week of October, digitalhealth.net published an interesting op-ed. Long-standing editor Jon Hoeksma asked if NHS England was thinking of doing a national deal with Epic for a single electronic patient record. “Rumours...
What does good look like and who pays for what
The NHS digital agency, NHSX, has published its digital health baseline and funding documents held up by Covid-19 and a change of health and care secretary. Lyn Whitfield looks through them and sums up the...
Health Chat with Roy Lilley and Sir Simon Stevens
The outgoing chief executive of NHS England spoke to Roy Lilley in his regular interview slot for the Institute of Health and Social Care Management. The wide-ranging discussion covered the Covid-19 pandemic, the NHS Long...
It’s going to be quite a handover…
Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has been abruptly replaced by Sajid Javid. The Highland Marketing advisory board consider the huge agenda he is now facing, and what it could – and should –...
The impact of Covid on health tech: one year on
The Highland Marketing advisory board held two discussions of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the adoption of healthcare technology in 2020. A year on, it asked whether there was “no going back”; or...
HealthChat with Roy Lilley and Andreas Haimbock-Tichy
Andreas Haimbock-Tichy is the director of ecosystems at IBM, chair of the health and social care council at techUK, and a non-executive director of Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust. So, when he took the...
Advisory board discussion: what next for social care?
Highland Marketing’s advisory board welcomed Jane Brightman, social care lead at Institute of Health and Social Care Management, to discuss the sector and its technology needs. A lot of hope is being pinned on integrated...
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