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Commenting on The Health Innovation Network’s Impact Report 2023-24, Dr Vin Diwakar, Interim Director of Transformation for NHS England, said: “The latest report highlights that investing in innovation, research and life sciences can significantly enhance patient outcomes and benefit the UK economy and society.” Read the report: https://lnkd.in/eKYmriY2

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How can we make sure that people have better experiences when interacting with health systems? The main message coming through from these recommendations is how important good communication is during the health journey. #RuralHealth #RuralHealthCareers #RuralCommunitites #HealthEquity #HealthJourney

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The NHS Community Health Services Data Plan contains a clear vision to provide a 'single source of the truth'. It states that data about community health services must be relevant, good quality, linkable, consistently defined and of low burden for providers to collect. NHS England has said it will develop an aligned, strategic approach to primary and community data development that supports integrated care by March 2026 - but progress can be made now, especially with EPR interoperability. The guidance states that limited #interoperability of provider IT systems and complex information governance (IG) procedures make it difficult to deliver and plan joined up, integrated care locally. Very true, but it's not impossible to solve with the right suppport. https://lnkd.in/evbVFEMq

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This is an excellent report and could be timely for those Industry Leaders that want to work with the NHS on decarbonising clinical pathways of care

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As NHS Integrated Care Systems shift towards more proactive, value-based care models, the role of Population Health Management (PHM) solutions is becoming increasingly important. PHM solutions enable healthcare providers to better manage diverse populations by leveraging data to predict health trends, identify at-risk patients, and address inequalities before they become critical. In our latest article, we explore PHM solutions designed to support NHS ICSs in their mission to deliver better, more equitable care. From Oracle's chronic condition management tools to Epic's social determinants of health integration, each platform offers unique features that cater to the needs of healthcare providers, patients, and the broader community 👉 https://lnkd.in/eVHmgvgZ #healthcare #populationhealthmanagement #NHS #digitalhealth #valuebasedcare #ICS #healthIT #data

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A great assessment of the AI landscape which is precariously balanced on the scales of promise and reality.

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I wanted to share this article demonstrating how we as an organisation help and support the NHS. #digitaltransformation #healthcare #nhs #interoperability #integration

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Today, Understanding Patient Data has published a new report by White Tail Consulting based on in-depth interviews with leaders from Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) across England about how ICSs use patient data. The findings of the report show considerable variation in maturity of ICS data infrastructure, sharing and use, with some systems and areas better able to realise the opportunities of using data to improve population health. Despite challenges relating to variation across the country, capacity, organisational culture and development of data skills, and recruitment and retention of staff, participants report a desire to collaborate to drive improvements in the use of data nationally, with many examples of best practice already present. Read more👇 https://hubs.li/Q02zF-M00

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Reference to some strong evidence in this article. Worth reading 🤓

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HealthTech Predictions for 2025 The HealthTech sector is evolving rapidly. Here are my 5 predictions of what we will see more of in 2025- 1. The NHS will get hard(er!) to sell to A change in government has understandably led to significant shifts within the NHS. With the new 10-year health plan set to be introduced in Spring 2025 and the NHS workforce plan expected by Summer 2025, there will be substantial changes ahead. It is likely to become more challenging for tech companies to secure larger projects as NHS buyers remain uncertain about their spending plans over the next few years. However, companies that align their services with the three strategic objectives of transitioning from hospital to community care, moving from analogue to digital systems, and shifting from sickness care to a focus on prevention will be in a better position to succeed. 2. AI Will Go Beyond Diagnostics AI isn’t just for analysing scans or predicting patient outcomes anymore. By 2025, we’ll see AI embedded in everyday clinical workflows. Tools which support GP triaging, or DeepMind's health AI, which helps predict patient deterioration, will evolve to offer personalised treatment pathways and real-time clinical decision support. I expect greater uptake of predictive analytics in both the NHS and private healthcare​. 3. Telemedicine Will Become the Norm Following a surge during the pandemic, telemedicine is here to stay. I think that in 2025, we will see a broader adoption of telemedicine, expanding beyond primary care into specialties such as dermatology and mental health. This change will enhance access to services for individuals in rural areas or those with mobility issues, offering greater convenience for patients. It is essential, however, to ensure that patients who are not digitally savvy have access to necessary services. 4. Wearables and Remote Monitoring Will be Mainstream In line with the NHS's objective to transition from hospital care to community care, wearable and remote monitoring technologies will become commonplace. We can anticipate a rise in virtual wards, where patients receive care in their homes, with wearables and other technologies enabling remote monitoring and management, especially for chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease. 5. Mental Health Tech Will Boom Mental health is receiving more attention than ever, partly due to social media. Research from AXA Health indicates that 52% of individuals aged 16-24 have self-diagnosed a mental health condition online, often due to difficulties in securing NHS appointments and long waiting times. AI-powered mental health tools like Wysa and ieso Digital Health are expected to see widespread adoption, offering scalable and affordable solutions. I expect both the NHS and the private sector are anticipated to invest heavily in tech solutions to meet the growing demand for mental health support.

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Thinking about an electronic document management system #edms? 💡 Have a read of Restore Digital’s case study and how the digitisation of paper medical records 📖 transformed healthcare in London North West Healthcare NHS Trust 🏥 #MediViewer #Mizaic #EDMS #HealthRecords #DigitalTransformation ⬇️

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Missed our panel discussion this week where NHS consultants discussed their 'Top 10 learnings from clinical validation'? Don't worry; we've made the recording available for you to watch on demand. Through our work with more than 20 hospitals covering over 70,000 referrals, we’ve seen that consultant-led clinical validation and prioritisation returns 30% of patients to their GPs with management plans and up to 50% in some specialties, like neurology. We have gained insights into pathway efficiencies and opportunities that NHS consultants shared in our panel discussion earlier this week. You can catch up on the recording below: #ClinicalValidation #ReferralTriage #NHSLeaders #ElectiveRecovery

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At Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we have mapped our data into the OHDSI (Observational Health Data Sciences & Informatics) OMOP Common Data Model (>1.5M patients, >450M measurements, ~18M visits, etc. https://lnkd.in/e9bz_Dqx. 🎞 📷 ) When I first set LTH on this journey, I knew of no one else in the Northwest of England doing this, let alone at this scale and not in the way I wanted this to be done. In less than 12 months, we accomplished quite a bit - including incremental daily refreshes so that our OMOP data is as fresh 🍀 as the midnight before extending the use of OMOP to much more than research uses. At about the same time I decided that we were going to do this, I also discovered dbt Labs's data-build-tool (https://getdbt.com/). This radically changed how we were able to do this as a team and accelerated development. See our ELT documentation here -> https://lnkd.in/evb_yshe. I was fortunate to have an incredibly talented data engineer who was willing to learn dbt and OMOP fast and is now doing a PhD in data engineering! And, Tim Howcroft joined the team as well and is leading on the cancer work. As we look to scale the OMOP transformation work to all of Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) with University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust next, am I wrong to consider swapping dbt for SQLMesh (https://sqlmesh.com/)? One way to find out is to evaluate them. So, I rebuilt the OHDSI Achilles scripts in both dbt (for SQLServer and Databricks) and SQLMesh. They all work (including DataQualityDashboard in dbt for Databricks). dbt_achilles: https://lnkd.in/ePHjw-Xs sqlmesh_achilles: https://lnkd.in/eDHY5sxE dbt has been phenomenal so far 🚀 but with our OMOP data in Databricks and as the complexity and scale of ELT grows, SQLMesh promises certain advantages over dbt. We have spent a year getting good at using dbt and wonder if SQLMesh's approach is superior enough to pivot for our use case. This will be an important decision in the coming weeks - one that will have ramifications for how we operate as a team 🤼 , our ability to scale as well as manage our cloud consumption costs. 💰 I would welcome thoughts from anyone here 🙏 .

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Digital Health and Care Wales is to develop new functions for Wales' National Data Resource platform for health and social care - the plan is an element of one of five missions set out in the new strategy, to run until 2030, from the special health authority with responsibility for #digital #transformation in the Welsh #NHS. Under the first mission – to provide a platform to enable digital transformationthat went live last year – there is now a roadmap prioritising the addition of local datastores and reference, demographics and medicines data. All part of the effort to build a #data infrastructure to enable use of new #analytics and #AI technologies. More... https://lnkd.in/eabaTym9

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Fascinating reading NHS Confederation's response to the Lord Darzi report. At Alocura we were particularly taken with their recommendations that health and care leaders need to ensure every pound was spent as effectively as possible, that capital expenditure wasn’t just about buildings but developing IT and digital tools - and that ICS leaders in England needed to innovate. EXACTLY! Innovation is at the heart of what we do and it’s why we’re able to say that Rostrata is the solution to some of Lord Darzi’s misgivings – and the NHS Confederation’s suggestions. Our pioneering cloud-based care management system offers the kind of digital tool they’re talking about to operate and interrogate every element of the care process in out-of-hospital settings. We've looked into this in a bit more detail in this month's Alocura Insights - but the main message is this: The market as it is currently shaped is not configured to deliver digital transformation. So this has to be led by NHS and Local Authority commissioners. The tools to assist this transformation are emerging. Rostrata is one solution, designed from the outset to capture all of the management information collected during the care process and to present it in a way which will drive efficiency and quality, for both care providers and commissioners… a rare ‘win-win’ https://lnkd.in/eiYpJC6C

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👩‍⚕️ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐇𝐒: 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐇𝐒 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 🏥 Today at GIANT Health Event I enjoyed the fireside chat where health policy analyst Roy Lilley interviewed Richard Meddings, the chair of NHS England. Hugely popular session, standing room only! Here are some of the highlights: 🌍 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞, 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞, 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞! 👉The healthcare workforce shortage is not just a UK issue. Nations are competing for talent, making recruitment increasingly difficult. 👉Upskilling allied health professionals (AHPs) and expanding training pathways is vital. 👉While long-term workforce plans are necessary, they’re only one part of the picture. 📱 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 🔸NHS App: This is evolving into a powerful hub, but integration with legacy systems remains a challenge. Progress has been made, with 44,000 healthcare systems moved to the cloud—more work still needed. (https://lnkd.in/eEgUP3ZW) 🔸Federated Data Platforms: Tools like Palantir are providing a “translation layer” to unify data across institutions, ensuring interoperability and analytics potential (https://lnkd.in/eakTYhu5) 🔸NHS Number: This universal identifier could hold the key to connecting health records into insights on economics, habits, and preventative care. 🔸AI in Action: From ophthalmology to breast screening, AI is already helping diagnostics. Ambient documentation pilots (voice-to-text tech) are also underway, promising significant time savings for clinicians. 🏥 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬: 𝐀 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲? 🔸With 95,000 hospital beds operating at 97% capacity, virtual wards are a key strategy for tackling overcrowding. 🔸Over-65s make up 25% of the population but drive 50% of hospital admissions and 74% of bed occupancy. 🔸Proactive virtual care for conditions like UTIs could reduce unnecessary admissions and free up critical capacity. 🚀 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 🔹NHS Priorities: Digital, prevention, and community-based care will be central to the long-term plan (https://lnkd.in/e2XVyXaa) 🔹Exponential Innovation: We’re achieving what seemed impossible five years ago, and the pace of change is accelerating. 🔹Focus on Fewer Initiatives: To drive real breakthroughs, the NHS must concentrate resources on core strategies, avoiding the risks of fragmented funding. 🔮 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 Richard Meddings offered a hopeful outlook for the NHS five years from now. Despite exponential demand and structural pressures, innovation holds the key to transformation. He ends by stating the vision of a health system that is free and accessible remains worth fighting for!

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We are a pre seed start-up company and we are looking for a Bank to guide and support us. We are already signed up for the NHS Innovation Hub and I am a lay subject matter expert for NICE and I am a Research Champion for the London North West NHS. Other qualifications are in my personal profile attached. We are launching a new rPPG (using the Camera on a Smartphone or on a Tablet to assess a person’s vital signs). We are at the forefront of cutting edge technology and we propose to stay there. Remote Patient Monitoring solutions linked to one of our Medical-Grade Tellihealth Smartwatches give you even more assessment of even more health issues and concerns. We are also considering adding a Holter Cardio Smart Wearable Patch as well as other emerging technologies so that we are ahead of all other offerings in the market place. We propose a soft launch in January 2025 and to launch fully in March 2025. Just to confirm that I am forming a Medical Advisory Board for our not for profit arm of TDihealth Community Interest Company. This far we have two entities. Total Digital Inclusion Global Limited the commercial arm of the Tellihealth business. We distribute and sell Tellihealth Smartwatches, Blood Pressure Monitors, Digital Thermometers and a host of other Home health test equipment. We also sell monthly and annual subscriptions to the TDihealth Facial Scanning solutions, our Ambulatory Holter Smart Wearables and other health Technology solutions. Under the TDihealth Facial Scanning solution we propose to offer a limited trial period to everyone FREE of charge. The goal is to hopefully hand responsibility for one’s health and wellness back to the patient and HOPEFULLY A take some pressure off of our overstretched NHS. There is an option to subscribe to continued use on a monthly or annual basis but limited access to everyone is to remain FREE for life. That is my goal. I propose to have a Medical Advisory Board of maximum 5 people (3 already appointed). This board to include 4 Medical Doctors with various specialties and PPI lay person to add a patient’s perspective. The main board will be made up of 6 people, myself, a Technical Director, Sales Director a Marketing Director, an Operations Director and a Company Secretary, all already appointed. You can see what we are planning on www.tdihealth.co.uk with lots more technology to come mid 2025. Very happy to hear from innovative technology companies with easy to add AI and all other other assessment, monitoring and management technologies that we can add to our platform. My email address is [email protected] and my telephone number and WhatsApp is +447455969035. I look forward to hearing from you

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📣 We welcome the Innovation Ecosystem Programme recommendations, published today. The report rightly highlights the need for a focus on clearly defined national health innovation priorities, incentivising the partnership working required to deliver innovation, and improved alignment and shared accountability for innovation adoption performance. Our decade’s experience of innovating in the NHS has demonstrated that innovation is a team sport, and it works best when all the necessary players are enabled to play their specific, but coordinated, roles as the examples laid out in this report highlight. Read our response to today's report 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eKjNUExB Richard Stubbs NHS Transformation Directorate

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