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The Future is Tomorrow – can you help build it today?

April 05, 2019

By 2024 the vision for the NHS within the Acute (hospitals), community care and mental health care is that of a ‘core level’ of digitisation. That is just under five years away. So what is it that we need and from whom? The NHS Long Term Plan is out and does explain what we need, check it out here. ...

Health Technology – our neighbours on the continent

March 23, 2019

In Austria things are going well for their ELGA, “elektronische Gesundheitsakte” (electronic health records). As of May last year (2018), 80% of hospitals were linked, as were 200 pharmacies and 1,1000 doctors. The system consists of discharge summaries, lab reports, radiology reports and e-medicati...

A Digitally Creative NHS — a realistic opportunity?

March 23, 2019

People talk a lot about STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) as being the elements desperately needed to sustain an economy and an advancing technological one too. I believe it really should read STEAM, the ‘A’, being for the Arts. The fusion of the arts, sciences and business is the bu...

Digital Health Dreams — how far has the NHS really come?

March 23, 2019

Of the 90% of the adult UK population who have access to the internet, only 2% interacted digitally with the NHS in 2018. The astonishing fact that 20% of disabled adults have never used the internet in 2018, is awful and the very group of people who would find it most useful and potentially fulfil...

How humans invented telecommunication messaging

March 23, 2019

6 billion emojis are sent on a daily basis. That’s a lot of non written communication. Through whatever means we use to communicate, drawing, speech, hand signals or specialist technology, being able to communicate is central to all of us, a sense of worth. When not able to do so, through having lo...

The Silent Innovator

March 23, 2019

The triers, the doers, the hidden talent, these people hack away at life’s troubles. The Silent Majority The Challenge makers The Undiscovered The Rebel The Pirate The Introvert The Doer The Hope Seeker The Eternal Optimist The Thought Starter The Idea Maker The Curiosity Seeker You see the things ...

The NeverEnding Story

March 23, 2019

Where should I go to find innovative products I can use with my patients/client group within community practice? Where do I look? Who do I ask? It is like hunting for a beast that turns into a hundred mini beasts. Lots of bookmarks later, saved web links, printed out bits of paper and I feel disillu...

99 problems and diffusion of innovation is one of them

March 23, 2019

Who said spreading innovation was going to be easy? The Industrial Revolution took about 120 years to spread outside of Europe. The internet took less than 10 years. The likes of AirBnB, Uber, Lyft, Tinder took a few years or less to permeate our lives. The time frames within which these innovatio...