Pixelated pathways – a digital health blog

  • CCIO Weeknotes 1.3

    DATA ACCESS Following the Goldacre Review (not forgetting the contribution made by Jess Morley), there has been national investment in building sub regional Secure Data Environments (SDEs) to support safe and trustworthy research and innovation in the NHS. Greater Manchester has been fortunate to a partner in the North West SDE and after huge amounts of work to…

  • CCIO Weeknotes 1.2

    Still Learning After two weeks the size, scale and opportunity of ICS working is continuing to unfold. Although this week has seen challenging news emerge for GM, it’s been incredible to see the positive response from colleagues and everyone’s willingness to view this increased support as a positive opportunity to further improve health across GM. …

  • CCIO Weeknotes 1

    This marks the end of my first week working for the Greater Manchester ICS as their new CCIO. Creating this role is a powerful statement of intent and demonstrates the value that GM places on clinical engagement and clinical leadership.I’m hugely proud to take this role and join the incredible team working in and with…

  • AI in healthcare is just like driving a car…

    The framing of the use and value of artificial intelligence in healthcare is often polarised. Descriptions range from tools that enable and support clinical decision making to transformational technologies akin to medical artificial general intelligence. For clinicians this increases the challenge in evaluating and adopting new tools. Compounding the problem are organisational adoption frameworks that lack real…

  • Digital health needs to embrace clinical complexity

    In online discussions around digital clinical systems there are some evergreen positions that have recently resurfaced… Why can’t my EPR be just like my Apple/Google/Other product. These “just work” and don’t need to be taught to users… Any clinical system that needs users to be trained is too complex and shouldn’t be used… Whilst I…

  • User Experiences informing Digital Governance

    Many NHS organisations, from NHS England to provider organisations, use patient stories to help drive improvement. These are described as: personal accounts of healthcare experiences, shared in a patient’s own words These stories can be positive, negative or mixed. Used well, patient stories allow staff to better Anyone who has seen, heard or read these stories will…

  • What does ‘Digital First’ really mean in healthcare

    Initially posted to Medium 18th July 2020Digital First is a bold statement of intent in healthcare, but one that, counterintuitively, poses a risk to meaningful digital transformation of services.  In the NHS Long Term Plan, Digital First is used to describe providing remote consultations that “…allow for longer and richer face-to-face consultations with clinicians where…