Taking the temperature of Expo19NHS
A session on climate change energised delegates to the annual Health and Care Innovation Expo, where the global digital exemplars had a moment in the sun, but NHSX was hazy about its plans and fog...
Power politics… and Confed 19
The NHS Confederation’s annual conference took place in Manchester from 19 to 20 June, but there was a sense that its normally attention-grabbing agenda had been curtailed by the Conservative Party leadership campaign taking place...
Rewiring the open agenda
Open thinking ran through the first Digital Health Rewired at Olympia London. Lyn Whitfield reflects on how policy, standards and deployment have changed since the idea was last in fashion a decade ago. The idea...
Has NHS IT moved from Star Wars to Star Trek?
Matthew D’Arcy reports from the opening morning of Scotland’s Digital Health and Care 2019 conference. Richard Corbridge is a chief information officer best known for healthcare roles in Ireland and England. But his keynote remarks...
Standards and deliver
New health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has promised that “interoperable data standards” will finally deliver integrated health and care IT systems. Yet standards are not new, and they are not the only thing...
Back in the saddle, again
Expo18NHS in Manchester heard more about the long-term plan for the NHS and about progress on healthcare IT. But all eyes were on new health and social care secretary Matt Hancock, who used his closing...
#EHW2018: Sort out ‘bog standard’ IT; plan for the future
This year’s e-Health Week 2018, organised by HIMSS UK, heard that the NHS is to get a new ten-year plan that will be “digitally enabled at its heart”; but to deliver, it will need to...
EHI Live 2017: tackling damp or papering over cracks?
The annual two-day conference and exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham heard a lot about national IT strategy and a lot about local initiatives. What it didn’t hear was how they are going to join...
Three top stories from this year’s UK Health Show
The UK Health Show took place at Olympia London on 27 September. Lyn Whitfield reports on three key stories from the commissioning, technology and cyber-security events; and the very latest on sustainability and transformation partnerships,...
Expo 2017: Tech, drugs and rock and roll
The annual Health and Care Innovation Expo took place in Manchester from 11-12 September. Lyn Whitfield from Highland Marketing reports on the key speeches and announcements, as the NHS gears up for a tough winter...
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