David Cook and Dr John Sandham provide an insight into improving healthcare technology management to deliver transformation. They argue that the application of technology can be used to facilitate new ways of working and enhance patient safety.
It is internationally accepted that technology can be an accelerant for delivering transformative change. This can only happen if the investment in technology is planned, the staff using the technology have appropriate support and training, and the technology strategy actually delivers more productive healthcare at a lower cost.
The Nuffield Trust recently stated that technology can transform the delivery of healthcare if organisations not only understand the opportunity to transform services, but are also able to ‘grasp’ those opportunities and actually deliver the changes: “Clinically led improvement, enabled by new technology, is transforming the delivery of healthcare and our management of population health. Yet strategic decisions about clinical transformation and the associated investment in information and digital technology can all too often be a footnote to NHS board discussions. This needs to change.1 “This report sets out the possibilities to transform healthcare offered by digital technologies, offering an insight into how to grasp the possibilities and benefits.
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