In the first episode of the new year, Jordan Sollof, reporter at Digital Health News chats to Rachel Dunscombe, chief executive of OpenEHR International, about the importance of healthcare data, electronic patient records (EPRs) and having more female representation in digital health.  Dunscombe stresses the importance of standardised, quality data in improving healthcare and outcomes and what AI is capable of achieving in 2025 and beyond. She also gives her take on the UK EPR market and whether anything more needs to be done to make better use of the platforms, before highlight ..read more

In the final Unplugged episode of the year, the Digital Health News team reflect on the biggest stories covered in 2024 and look ahead to what they think will be big on the news agenda in 2025. Stories discussed include Lord Darzi’s independent investigation into the state of the NHS and the hotly-anticipated Autumn Budget, in which more than £2 billion investment was announced for NHS technology and digital. Cyber security is also a hot topic, with three major attacks on the NHS including the attack on pathology provider Synnovis causing widespread disruptio ..read more

The latest episode of Digital Health Unplugged explores how data and digital solutions are improving care pathways and advancing clinical research. Brought to you in partnership with Oracle Health, Jordan Sollof passes the hosting duties over to Ryan Irwin, lead client executive at Oracle Health. He is joined by Ameet Bakhai, consultant cardiologist, physician and research director at The Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, and Debbie Phillips, chief clinical information officer (CCIO) at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The pair explain how data and digital solutions can i ..read more

Jordan Sollof is joined by DJ Hamblin-Brown and Simon Weldon in an episode focused on the challenges of clinical coordination in the UK health system and how they can be addressed. Hamblin-Brown, emergency doctor and chief executive at digital health firm CAREFUL, and Weldon, chief executive at South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, discuss what is meant by clinical coordination, why it is important to patients and families and how it is relevant to the Labour government’s new policy agenda. The pair explain why clinical coordination is difficult to achieve, give example ..read more

The Digital Health news team gathered for the latest episode of Unplugged to dissect what Lord Darzi’s independent investigation into the state of the NHS has to say about digital and tech. The report, published on 12 September 2024, says that the NHS is in “serious trouble” and highlights “worrying health inequalities” and a deterioration in the health of the nation. The news team debate Lord Darzi’s view that the last decade has been a missed opportunity to prepare the NHS for the future and embrace technologies that would enable a shift in the model from ‘diagnose and treat’ to ‘predict and ..read more

Jordan Sollof, reporter at Digital Health News, is joined by Lloyd Price and Mohammad Al-Ubaydli to talk about procurement and why the NHS is so difficult to sell to. From their own experience, Price, a healthtech founder, mergers and acquisitions advisor and non-executive director for various digital health companies, and Al-Ubaydli, founder and chief executive of digital health social enterprise, Patients Know Best, shine a light on the main issues that can make selling to the NHS a challenge. The pair discuss success stories of startups which have successfully sold to the NHS, before assess ..read more

Tammy Lovell is joined by Victoria Betton, director at Peopledotcom and Hassan Chaudhury, commercial director at DATA-CAN, to talk about how to overcome racism and discrimination in the digital health sector. Along with NHS doctor Ayesha Rahim, Betton and Chaudhury are founders behind the creation of an Equity Charter, which aims to put anti-racism guiding principles for the sector in place. In the podcast, they discuss how the idea for the charter was formed at Digital Health Rewired in March 2024, following racist remarks made by TPP founder Frank Hestor, reported in The Guard ..read more

Jordan Sollof is joined by Chris Chaney, chief executive of CW+, the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, to talk all things Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest. Chaney, who will once again be part of the judging panel for Pitchfest 2025 announced recently, talks about some success stories that have come from the annual competition for start-ups and how it has been a platform for companies to go on and achieve big things. He then explains what makes a perfect pitch and what exactly the judges are looking for, before highlighting why start-ups should apply for ..read more

In an episode brought to you in partnership with Virgin Media O2 Business, Jordan Sollof is joined by Mark Burton, the company’s health and social care lead, to discuss digital maturity across the NHS and how it can help close the NHS’ ten-year divide. Burton analyses the current state of digital maturity across the NHS, the challenges integrated care boards are facing with integrating and using their data, and the impact on both staff and patients. He then highlights how technology can be used to help close the digital divide across the NHS and what the role of private and public partnerships ..read more

In the latest episode of the Digital Health Unplugged Networks series, Jordan Sollof is joined by Mark Hutchinson, vice-president of healthcare strategy and transformation at Altera Digital Health, to talk all things electronic patient records (EPRs). Hutchinson discusses the traditional ‘big bang’ approach to EPR deployment before explaining how Altera offers a different way of implementing the system in a modular approach. He then gives his take on whether we will fulfil the national EPR mandate before giving his holistic view of the current UK EPR market and whether it will be dominated by ..read more