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Content ArticleIn this study, Mansab et al. examine the COVID-19 community triage pathways used by Singapore, Japan, USA and UK, specifically comparing the safety and efficacy of national online ‘symptom checkers’ used within the triage pathway.Their results suggest that whilst ‘symptom checkers’ may be of use to the healthcare COVID-19 response, there is the potential for such patient-led assessment tools to worsen outcomes by delaying appropriate clinical assessment. The key features of the well-performing symptom checkers are discussed in the paper.
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Content ArticleNHSX's Innovation Team has released its latest digital playbook which focuses on eye care and directs clinicians and organisations to digital tools that can support patient pathways. The resource, which is extensive and features numerous case studies, can be used by eye care specialists looking to digitally enhance their ophthalmology pathways, remote monitoring and sharing of diagnostics.
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NHSX information governance portal
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NHSX has launched a brand new information governance portal providing a 'one-stop shop' for NHS policies and guidance. -
Content ArticleNHSX recently launched a brand new information governance portal providing a 'one-stop shop' for NHS policies and guidance. The new portal covers everything from GDPR in research to record management. But even with the new portal, navigating NHS guidance on data isn't easy. This article in Global Compliance News picks out six essential items to have on your radar if your organisation accesses or uses NHS data.
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NHS X: Digital Clinical Safety Strategy (17 September 2021)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in NHS X
The Digital Clinical Safety Strategy is a joint publication between NHSX, NHS Digital and NHS England and NHS Improvement. It is an addendum to the NHS Patient Safety Strategy, outlining the case for improved digital clinical safety across health and social care. The aim of the strategy is twofold: To improve the safety of digital technologies in health and care, now and in the future. To identify, and promote the use of, digital technologies as solutions to patient safety challenges. In other words, digital clinical safety is about making sure the technologies used in health and care are safe, and then using those technologies to improve patient safety. -
Content ArticleResearchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool for rapidly detecting COVID-19 in people arriving at a hospital’s emergency department. The tool can accurately rule out infection within an hour of a patient arriving at hospital, significantly faster than the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test that has a turnaround time of typically 24 hours.
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Content ArticleThe Good Things Foundation has published a new paper on digital exclusion and its impact on people’s health, social life and economic potential. To support the Health Foundation’s COVID-19 impact inquiry, the Good Things Foundation, the Health Foundation and the King’s Fund came together earlier this year, to focus on tackling digital exclusion and health inequalities. The resulting report from the workshop and meeting provides an overview of digital exclusion and who is affected by it, as well as the impact of the pandemic on this, and some of the policy responses so far.
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Content ArticleThe use of digital health services has risen over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. The digital divide and the resulting impact on people’s experiences of the pandemic have disproportionately affected certain groups of society. Age UK analysis suggested that only 24% of those aged 75+ were using the internet more during the pandemic, and 9% were using it less. And although the population has become better connected since the start of the pandemic, still 6% of homes (around 1.5 million households) in the UK lack home internet access. People in the poorest households are four times more likely to not use the internet at home than those in the wealthiest households. Disability, impairment, and health conditions also correlate with lower levels of digital access and use. In this article, Emma Stone, Director of design, research and communications at the Good Things Foundation, discusses the implications of digital health services on inequalities.
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Citizens Online
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Citizens Online promote an inclusive and equal society, reducing the digital divide by helping organisations and communities ensure the switch to online doesn’t exclude people. To implement successful digital transformation, inclusion and accessibility must sit at the heart of any changes. Citizens Online help to ensure that clients, residents and service users are supported to participate in the digital age, leading to increased take-up of your digital services. -
Content ArticleEvidence regarding the value of virtual care tends to narrowly focus on short-term measures of financial value. There remains little literature regarding the long-term effects of virtual care, such as improvements in access to care, clinical outcomes, the impact on the patient and clinician experience, the potential for operational efficiencies, or the impact on health equity. This report, which was jointly developed by the American Medical Association and Manatt Health Strategies (Manatt Health), expands on existing research by articulating a more robust framework for measuring the value of digitally enabled care that accounts for the various ways in which virtual care programmes may increase the overall “return on health” by generating positive impact for patients, clinicians, payers and society going forward. To read the full report, follow the link below.
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Content ArticleArtificial intelligence tools and deep learning models are a powerful tool in cancer treatment. They can be used to analyse digital images of tumour biopsy samples, helping physicians quickly classify the type of cancer, predict prognosis and guide a course of treatment for the patient. However, unless these algorithms are properly calibrated, they can sometimes make inaccurate or biased predictions, as Howard et al. demonstrate in this study.
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Driving forward digital safety
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This blog discusses the need to ensure a safe digital health system. Kelsey Flott, Deputy Director of Patient Safety at NHSX explains how owing to the pandemic, the NHS like others, have had to embrace digital technology at a rapid pace to cope with the challenges faced in the healthcare system. Due to this adoption of digital technology, it is vitally important that digital safety is included in current and future strategies. -
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In this blog, patient Becky Tatum reflects on two articles in Forbes magazine describing how technology is enabling patient's with multiple chronic conditions who may have been discharged from hospital, to now be provided with aftercare in their own home. Becky looks at the pros and cons of receiving hospital treatment at home from a patient's perspective. -
Content ArticleThis Rapid Evidence Scan from Moore et al. examined the effectiveness of virtual hospital models of care. While no reviews evaluated a complete model, tele-healthcare only and tele-healthcare with remote telemonitoring interventions demonstrated similar or significantly better clinical or health system outcomes including reduced hospitalisations, readmissions, emergency department visits and length of stay, compared to usual care, including those delivered without home visits or face-to-face care. The use of the Internet showed mixed but promising results. The strongest evidence was for cardiac failure, coronary heart disease, diabetes and stroke rehabilitation. Nurses played a central role in home visiting, providing telephone support and education. However, the studies were heterogenous and the results should be interpreted with caution.
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Content ArticleIn healthcare, digital solutions have been adopted with zeal, but there is paucity of evidence for benefits and harms of these solutions. The impact, immediate or long term, of digital applications on healthcare has not been assessed. With the overwhelming numbers and types of digital solutions, it is becoming increasingly important to develop evidence-based insights for the integration of these solutions in routine medical care. Digitalisation can certainly empower and enable patients and physicians to achieve health objectives. The World Health Organization has released guidance for digital health after a critical review of available evidence for the benefits, harms, acceptability, feasibility, resource use and equity considerations of digital health interventions. This guidance can potentially inspire and impact future research endeavours for digital applications. Tarveen Jandoo reviews the guidance in context of the current research situation and insights are shared for researchers engaged in the design and assessment of digital interventions.
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Content ArticleIn this paper, authors review the thinking that underpins the use of safety cases across different safety-critical industries, and then reflect on their potential use for assuring the safety of digital health innovations. This builds in part on a previous review, but also considers the recent debate about the need for an evidence base for safety case adoption.
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We are delighted to announce that Patient Safety Learning's Chief Executive Helen Hughes has been recognised by HIMSS as a global Patient Leader in digital healthcare, alongside Birgit Bauer, Tiffany McKever and Christine Von Raesfeld. -
Content ArticleCatherine Mitchell, Head of cost and value at Healthcare Financial Management Association, explains how NHS finance can take an active role in supporting the use of digital healthcare to transform services and drive value and efficiency.
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Content ArticleThe Once for Wales Concerns Management System Programme was developed from the recommendations made by Keith Evans in the Welsh Government report – “The Gift of Complaints” and is aimed at bringing consistency to the use of the electronic tools used by all NHS Wales health bodies. All organisations currently have varying versions and modules of the DatixWeb and DatixRichClient systems. Following a successful competitive tender, which really tested and explored the market, RLDatix Ltd have been awarded the contract for 5 years, with an opportunity to extend this period if it is successful. The solution is known as DatixCloudIQ and has many enhanced features compared to other systems. It is a new Datix.
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Content ArticleThis article in BMC Health Services Research looks at a range of macro, meso and micro factors influencing eHealth innovation in the English NHS. eHealth is a broad term which encompasses e-health, m-health, telemedicine and telecare, public health surveillance, personalised medicine/patient engagement, health and medical platforms, self-tracking, medical imaging, healthcare information systems, mobile connectivity, social networking, sensors and wearables, gamification, electronic health records, big data, health information technology, health analytics, digitised health systems, robotics and active assistive living. The study found that the fragmentation of the NHS is the most significant factor limiting the adoption of eHealth innovations, arguing that national policy has intensified the digital divide. It states that the NHS Long Term Plan places great emphasis on the role of digital transformation in aiding communication and enabling people to access care quickly and easily, highlighting significant implications for effectiveness, efficiency and equity.
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Content ArticleReports from the G7 working groups on AI governance and interoperability setting out how the G7 are implementing their commitments on digital health.
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Content ArticleIn this 'letter', Dr Soojin Jun, as a healthcare professional and a patient advocate, gives her three recommendations to guard "patient safety" in the digital health era. Your end-users are ultimately patients, no matter who uses your product. Healthcare is not binary, and your digital solutions shouldn’t be either. Please look ahead and consider empathy for “patients” and provide solid feedback loops for the “users.”
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Content ArticleNHS England has set out 10 priorities for the 2022-23 financial year in its annual planning guidance. NHSE chief executive Amanda Pritchard makes clear in the introduction that many of its goals remain contingent on covid, stating: ”The objectives set out in this document are based on a scenario where covid-19 returns to a low level and we are able to make significant progress in the first part of next year.”
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Content ArticleThis World Health Organization (WHO) policy brief takes stock of how digital health tools have been used during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to review what has happened, assess how uptake and use of these tools has been facilitated, identify issues that are emerging, and learn lessons for the longer term to support the sustained use of digital health tools.
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Content ArticleThe COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a source of stress and have important mental health implications for all persons but may have unique implications for men. In addition to the risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19, the rising COVID-19 death toll, ongoing economic uncertainty, loneliness from social distancing, and other changes to our lifestyles make up the perfect recipe for a decline in mental health. In June 2020, men reported slightly lower rates of anxiety than women, but had higher rates of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation. As of September 2020, men sought mental health care at a higher rate than women for family and relationships, with year-over-year visits up 5.5 times and total virtual mental health care visits monthly growth in 2020 was up 79% since January. Because men are not a homogeneous group, it is important to implement strategies for groups of men that may have particularly unique needs. In this paper, Ellison et al. discuss considerations for intervening in men’s mental health during and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including current technology-based cyberpsychology options.
