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NHSX Brings A New Digital Dimension In UK

New Digital Opportunities Must Be Shaped By Healthtech

 
• By Ashley Yeo

The UK continues to build its digital health care infrastructure, as seen in the recent funding pledge for a new AI Lab. Andrew Davies is the newly appointed digital health lead at the UK’s ABHI medtech industry association. He says stakeholders first need to understand the scope of digital health care, and then adopt a networked approach, with medtech playing a full part in that evolution.

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Stakeholders in the digital transformation of health care delivery expecting quick action must remain patient: the digital opportunity is still being shaped. The honest view of the extent to which IT-based devices and software applications will revolutionize health care is that no one can predict it with certainty. Delegates at the 2019 Medtech Forum, in Paris, were saying as much, but that does not mean that the medtech industry should be a hostage to developments. Quite the contrary.

(Also see "MedTech Forum 2019: Consumers And Wellness, Or Patients And Health Care? " - In Vivo, 17 July, 2019.)

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