Healthcare
Reimagining the NHS: A Collaborative Journey
Published in September 2024, Lord Darzi’s report on the state of the National Health Service (NHS) in England gives a sobering account of the challenges facing the healthcare system. Increasing costs combined with rising demand for care set against an ageing infrastructure, present entirely new challenges for the NHS. Dr Mark Davies and David […]
Streamlining Life Sciences Research: Simplifying Data Access with Design Principles
Life Sciences research and development is complicated: complex tasks are carried out in an environment of big data, specialised technology and regulated processes. The challenges of this complexity risks making processes and interactions iterative, slow and expensive. To accelerate innovation in the development of safe and effective treatments, Life Sciences organisations need to cut through these challenges […]
Reimagining the NHS: A Collaborative Journey
Published in September 2024, Lord Darzi’s report on the state of the National Health Service (NHS) in England gives a sobering account of the challenges facing the healthcare system. Increasing costs combined with rising demand for care set against an ageing infrastructure, present entirely new challenges for the NHS. Dr Mark Davies and David […]
IBM and Genomics England Forge New Partnership to Transform Patient Care
Genomics, the study of how your genes interact with the external world, is transforming how medical science works. England is leading the world in using this information in the healthcare system, enabling clinicians to bring these insights to determine the treatment for a particular patient – this is precision medicine. Understanding genomes can provide evidence […]
With the spread of airborne pathogens, where you sit when using mass transit matters
New research into how aerosols move through the air could help reduce the spread of diseases, such as COVID-19, providing insights into the ventilation requirements of public transport, healthcare facilities, and workplaces. On a regular day, whether you’re at home, at work, or out socializing, it’s highly likely that you’ll come face-to-face with someone else […]
Privacy Preserving Health Credentials Can Help Get Us Back to Normal
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated the need for public and private sector organisations to rethink their use of shared spaces to help keep employees and citizens safe. As we move forward toward not only a return to the workplace but the return to ‘normal’, the use of health credentials – for example a credential […]
Emerging stronger and smarter: A three-stage strategy to help clear the NHS backlog and build operational resilience post-lockdown
As the UK steels itself for potential further waves of COVID-19, we are still calculating the toll on our health service. With NHS resources significantly consumed by the pandemic, what will be the impact on healthcare provision in the medium term, and how can technology help alleviate the pressure? A new Ipsos MORI online poll […]
IBM and the NHS: Working in Partnership
As a new generation of technology is changing our lives there are no shortage of opportunities for technology to revolutionise the National Health Service (NHS). But it’s not just about getting the current systems working better for the 1.4 million NHS staff and over a million patients the NHS sees every day. As I discussed […]
Home is where the heart is
The modern family is not one where we all live in the same house, this is often driven by our desire for independence, once we become adults, we more often than not want to spread our wings and build our own nest. However as “adult children” move away, their parent and elderly relatives grow older […]
NHS England looks to the future
This year the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) turned 70, making it the ideal time to reflect on its many achievements, and also to look ahead, and consider how the NHS can continue to deliver quality care for all in the face of modern challenges such as an ageing population and a rise in lifestyle-related […]
Cloud computing; is it the treatment for our over-burdened NHS?
Faced with a growing, maturing population and diminishing resources, it’s crunch time for the NHS. Rising patient numbers mean there’s more data to interpret, which puts a strain on ageing technology. Combine this with a public that expects faster, more secure, more personalised care, and something has to change. Under these pressures, the NHS struggles […]