The NHS’s future is digital – but not if we simply replicate poor paper processes

The NHS’s future is digital – but not if we simply replicate poor paper processes Unlocking the potential of IT to transform healthcare requires using technology to reimagine how we work and designing it to make people’s job easier

Information technology often makes things worse, rather than better, is the view held by many senior doctors. If the previous government throwing £10bn at the problem under the National Programme for IT hasn’t solved it, they argue, what would?

Having completed a substantial piece of research on the subject, which is published today, I am convinced the future of healthcare is digital, but it requires sophisticated clinical, technical and change-management expertise to realise the potential benefits. Continue reading... The Guardian