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Attended an excellent event at Nesta this morning. Four great speakers all revealing how new services designed around the user are making real savings for the NHS and other parts of the NHS. The introductory remark was that if 1% of consultations could take place at home, this would save the NHS £250m a year. It's a huge saving and opportunity.
* Adil Abrar, founder and director, Sidekick Studios. Sidekick are behind the Buddy project, part of NESTA’s Reboot Britain programme looking at new solutions for public services, helping patients with anxiety and depression to track…
With personal health records from the likes of Google and Microsoft heralding the beginning of a new information enabled era, Janssen (Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceutical company) has been rethinking how to tackle one of the world's best known killers: HIV. Instead of taking a ‘more drugs' approach, they are helping patients live healthier, longer via tailored personalized information about their treatment, based on information they volunteer - what we'd call Volunteered Personal Information.
The service is still in its early stages - the business benefits have yet to be specifically tied down (see below). That said, the general direction of…
Some of you may be vaguely following the flip-flopping of the incoming Government over the design and use of patient records. A couple of weeks ago was a seminal report on the "summary care record", described by the Health Service Journal as facing wicked problems.
The article is well worth a read:
The Department of Health-commissioned evaluation, by University College London researchers, says spread of the SCR is limited and, where it has been used, there is limited evidence of the benefits
The detailed evaluation comes to similar conclusions for HealthSpace – the government programme to…
Smart Healthcare has just published an article by me about health records, opposition policy and the role of VRM.
The emergence of person-centric health records, imperfect as they may yet be, suggests that healthcare may be the first sector to get this right. The NHS provides an interesting paper-based precedent for this: the red book of maternity and infant records which is held by parents. Anyone who has used them know how well they work and how carefully parents look after them.
Now imagine electronic tools many times more powerful – although no more powerful than your office…