Scotland is due to launch a refresh of its Digital Health and Care Strategy as early as March 2021. What might the Scottish government set out? Matthew D’Arcy takes a look. For the avid followers of digital...
The winner of Highland Marketing’s #HealthTechToShoutAbout award in 2020 was Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust for its deployment of AI in the fight against Covid-19. Our advisory board invited divisional medical director Rizwan Malik to...
There are no prizes for guessing what has dominated the news this year. Once the novel coronavirus arrived in the UK in the spring, it disrupted the economy, the NHS, its suppliers, and the lives...
The Highland Marketing advisory board wanted to discuss how health and care organisations can make sure they are ready to implement technology and get the best use out of it. Who better to lead the discussion than James Freed, chief information officer for Health Education England?
There has been a rapid uptake of remote working and virtual consultation technology during the coronavirus pandemic, but that has left important areas of NHS IT untouched. Lyn Whitfield asks what has been happening to...
The editor of the Health Service Journal was in Roy Lilley’s virtual hot seat in November. He looked back over almost 20 years’ of editing the NHS’ most prestigious policy and management journal, ranked the...
Former health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt was in the virtual hot-seat for the latest HealthChat with veteran NHS commentator Roy Lilley. Lyn Whitfield listened in. As Roy Lilley’s latest HealthChat got underway, its...
There is a tension between national and local control of NHS IT, and when one clashes with another it can be costly and disruptive. How could we create a more defined environment that is more...
The rapid deployment of healthcare technology has been one of the most commented features of the NHS’ response to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet a significant minority of patients cannot benefit from new, digital services; and...
At its June meeting, Highland Marketing’s advisors discussed some of the challenges that face oversees companies, start-ups and scale-ups in accessing the health tech market; and how they might be overcome so they can play...
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