Anne Kinderlerer: Can digital solutions really fix outpatient care? (11 June 2024)

Summary

In this blog, consultant rheumatologist and RCP Digital Health Clinical Lead Anne Kinderlerer looks at how digital solutions could improve patient care and safety in outpatients. She highlights that existing triage systems make it difficult to manage risk across pathways and outlines how digital tools might enable patients to access the right support at the time when they most need it. She also describes why increasing interoperability and sharing of data between primary and secondary care will be vital to improving how the health service predicts and manages risk, reducing health inequalities and preventing patients getting 'lost in the system'.