Tag Archive: health

Innovation happening in health

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%...

Patient first – transforming HIV treatment in India

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....

NHS gets it but will we get it?

Hats off to the NHS, they really seem to have got the data tiger by the tail in their white paper entitled Equity and Excellent: Liberating the NHS. Not only have they understood the importance of releasing the organisational data...

Health records – designed by the state for the state

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...

VRM, health records and UK opposition policy

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...