Dr Jing Ouyang

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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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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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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We're absolutely delighted to share the success of our 12-week collaboration with Floki Health and Hartree Centre SME Hubs. Together, we developed an interactive enhancement to our platform that visualizes and optimizes the distribution of hospital equipment, significantly improving efficiency and resource management. This will not only save the NHS time and money but also ensure that medical facilities are better equipped to provide timely and effective patient care. 👍 🎯 Outcomes from the project: - Enhanced patient care - Better asset management - Enhancements to our platform and its accessibility - Valuable insights for future projects The project showcases the power of collaboration in achieving actionable insights and innovative solutions, something of a mantra for us here. We're proud to have worked with Hartree Centre in driving positive change in the healthcare industry via this improvement to our platform. We utilized advanced data analytics and visualization techniques to identify inefficiencies in equipment distribution. By optimizing the allocation of resources, we are able to not only improve patient care but also reduce costs for hospitals. This is a win-win situation for all stakeholders involved - patients receive better care and hospitals save money. This project is just the beginning. The valuable insights gained from this collaboration will guide future projects and help us to help the NHS further improve healthcare delivery. Stay tuned for more updates on our future collaborations, we have some very exciting developments in the pipeline. We highly recommend participating in a collaboration project like this and Hartree Centre SME Hubs next round of open calls for their Collaborative Data Projects opens next Tuesday so get in there. 🗓️ Open call live from Tuesday 9th of July to Tuesday 30th of July. To finish, we just want to say thanks so much to Fergus McClean, Georgia Carr, Natasha Bowers, Stephen Dowsland, Jordan Connolly, Peter Michalák, Sunderland Software City, National Innovation Centre for Data, Newcastle University and the rest of the team. It really was a fantastic experience. Here's a link to a short video about our successful partnership, we'd love you to take a watch... https://lnkd.in/eis_rHW6 #healthcare #collaboration #innovation #datascience #visualization #NHS

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🚨 Hold onto your hats – BIG news from the Spark Care HQ! 🚨 Guess what? After months of caffeine-fuelled planning, intense whiteboard scribbling, and putting ourselves firmly in the shoes of our brilliant care providers, we’ve launched our shiny new website! 🌐✨ 🎉 I’m so excited, I might just need a celebratory cup of tea (or two). But really, this has been a labour of love and a real reflection of our mission at Spark Care: Making technology work for care homes, not the other way around. 🙌 As someone who’s seen both the joys (and occasional chaos) of working in care homes AND the world of tech, I know just how much you’ve got on your plate – and it’s not just biscuits with that tea! Whether it’s managing compliance, juggling schedules, or simply trying to improve the wellbeing of those in your care – it can be a lot. That's where Spark Care steps in! 💪 At Spark Care, we believe technology should simplify, not complicate. We’re here to help you spend less time on paperwork and more time delivering the amazing care you’re passionate about. 🧐 Curious? Check out the new site and tell us what you think! 👇 https://spark-care.co.uk #CareTech #CareSector #SparkCareLaunch #TechForGood #InnovationInCare #CareHomeSolutions #DigitalTransformation

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

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Privileged and exited to be one of the mentors for the Accelerating FemTech programme . 21 of the best start-ups, university spinouts and entrepreneurial-minded academics who have early-stage innovations for women’s health. These innovations have the potential to address urgent challenges in women’s health, including menstruation management, maternity and neonatal safety, menopause management and sexual health. LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/dhfA3K4d #AcceleratingFemTech

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SHIFTING POWER FROM INSTITUTIONS & ORGANISATIONS TO PEOPLE & COMMUNITIES Annual expenditure on UK healthcare currently sits at just below £300 billion, almost 10% of our gross domestic product. The NHS has a clear mandate to deliver healthcare free at the point of access, but what constitutes the "health" this service is trying to is less obvious to those of us working in it. Is the priority to keep people alive as long as possible (#lifeexpectancy), or to delay the onset of disease and disability (#healthexpectancy)? Given advancements in technology and drug development it is shocking to learn that both life AND health expectancy rates are starting to fall, whilst health inequalities increase. This is against a backdrop of concern about #burnout in health professionals, the carbon footprint of the #NHS and the negative impact of #climatechange on our health and health inequalities. Every government paper talks of the need for a "paradigm shift", and yet there is no articulation of what such a service would look like if we could wave that magic wand and modernise the vast bureaucratic monolith that is the NHS overnight. As we say in the coaching room if you don't know where you are trying to get to then you have absolutely no chance of getting there! Having worked as a GP in the NHS for over two decades it has been revelatory to discover #lifestylemedicine #integrativemedicine and #mindbodymedicine over recent years and integrate this cutting edge science into my NHS consultations. I have realised how much power I was holding when using a conventional approach to healthcare and shifting from a #dramatriangle dynamic to an #empowerment dynamic has prompted feedback such as "I've been waiting for this consultation for years". I was therefore delighted to hear about not for profit movement Heal Scotland, which is on a mission to help educate, inspire, and support people so they can take care of themselves using simple methods and protocols in a way that is accessible, approachable, and fun. I am honoured to be invited to deliver a workshop describing my work as a holistic NHS GP in #Alness and #Invergordon at the Heal Scotland Wild Medicine Festival this weekend in Broadford for which a few day tickets are still available for tomorrow using the link at the bottom of this post. The workshop will intertwine the most powerful concepts from the worlds of psychology and neuroscience with spoken word art telling James Hickson's incredible story of recovery from #PTSD and #addictions, aiming to inspire personal change and share a vision for an NHS that is kinder to people, health professionals and the planet. We hope to see you there! https://lnkd.in/eXqQSDf2

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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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🔍 Just reviewed a fascinating report on uniting the UK's health data systems - a critical blueprint for the future of healthcare delivery and research. The UK has a goldmine of health data covering 67 million people through the NHS, with records dating back to the 1950s. However, we need to fully leverage this incredible resource due to fragmented systems and complex data governance. Why This Matters: Integrating health data systems isn't just about efficiency but saving lives. Imagine a healthcare ecosystem where: - Your GP instantly accesses your complete medical history - Researchers can quickly identify patterns across millions of patient records - AI systems can predict health trends before they become critical - Social care and healthcare data work seamlessly together Real-World IoT Example: Smart home sensors are revolutionizing preventive care. Consider this scenario: Motion sensors and smart devices in an elderly person's home can: - Track daily movement patterns - Monitor sleep quality - Detect changes in bathroom visit frequency - Measure home temperature and humidity - Note changes in eating habits through smart appliance usage When these patterns deviate from average, the system can alert healthcare providers about potential health issues before they become emergencies. The future of healthcare lies in connected data systems. We must support initiatives that break down silos and create a more integrated, efficient, and life-saving healthcare ecosystem. #HealthTech #DigitalTransformation #Healthcare #DataScience #IoT

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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 have been digging into the strategy docs across all 42 NHS integrated care systems in England to see what the priorities and goals are. Each strategy contains exactly what you would expect to see, with objectives across - prevention and early intervention, addressing health inequalities, population health measurement and initiatives, digital health transformation, economic and social development partnerships, workforce efficiency and productivity. There are no major surprises, but there are definitely some trends- 💡 All ICS strategies emphasise tackling health inequalities, but there is sometimes a contradiction between the rhetoric and the proposed implementation, e.g. driving digital health transformation when there is a lack of digital access could actually be widening inequality. 💡 Boosting productivity and value is a key theme in all strategies, but the nuts and bolts of achieving this is often ‘workforce optimisation’ or ‘streamlining services’, which is probably cutting jobs in a lot of cases, which might have a negative impact on patient care. 💡 All strategies aim to drive local economic growth outside the system e.g. by tackling community issues like unemployment and housing - this is great, but it does feel like it stretches the role of a system too far in some cases, especially when the system has not got foundations in place, e.g. like a shared care record to connect services. It must be extremely difficult to plan and deliver an ICS strategy, it is a fine balancing act when there are so many conflicting priorities, and whilst remaining patient-outcomes focused is always the main aim, there will also always be an unavoidable clash between driving efficiencies and the human cost. I have put the strategies into a summary table, with a link to the ICS strategy doc, so it is easy to get a quick feel on each ICS strategy, (without reading through the 100+ page 🙄 strategy doc) 👉 https://lnkd.in/eKJqCwbQ.

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Draft budget 2025/26 for Wales: £600m “extra revenue and capital funding” for health and social care with promise for investment in digital tech Story: https://lnkd.in/ewX9wUFA

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Draft budget 2025/26 for Wales: £600m “extra revenue and capital funding” for health and social care with promise for investment in digital tech Story: https://lnkd.in/ewX9wUFA

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Another hard hitting update on the desperate financial state of local NHS systems. Now 75% of ICS' unable to balance budgets for 24/25. Will impact anyone in #digitalhealth and #healthtech - deets below 👇 In latest HSJ update 31 out of 42 ICSs planning deficits this financial year. That is the highest figure I've seen to date, and up until now I was quoting over half at 25/42. NHS England providing £2.2bn to cover local budget gaps. Systems already behind financial plans in first two months of the financial year (which runs April to March). Total system spend £300m off plan by end of May. No shock there. 11 additional ICSs warned of "significant concern" about finances. They are Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire; Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West; Coventry and Warwickshire; Devon; Dorset; Hertfordshire and West Essex; Humber and North Yorkshire; Northamptonshire; South West London; Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent; and Sussex. 9 highest-risk ICSs ordered to bring in consultants for efficiency review. I covered this in a recent post - https://lnkd.in/e_c86X43 Costs in prescribing and NHS-funded care packages increasing faster than allocations. Given the meds budget is around 19bn per year and hard to control, uncontrollable growth can easily swallow the extra investment promised. Agency staff spending reduced to £3bn in 2023-24, down £500m from previous year. This year I think it's going to be much lower, although sources suggest that it's now flowing through 'service integrators' (consultancy groups) who are the only option for many and significantly more expensive than the contractors. Providers aim to further reduce agency spending to less than £2.5bn, but as above I think this will be a false number. New finance rating system is being implemented to monitor ICS performance. Financial rules overhauled in May 2024 with harsher penalties for unbalanced budgets. So in other words more financial penalties for not slashing care enough to meet the national pressures foisted upon them. This. Is. An. Unsustainable. Crisis. #NHSFinance #IntegratedCareSystems #HealthcareManagement

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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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