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Learnings from the AWS Healthcare Accelerator
From the difference between working in the business and working on the business, to unexpected tips for raising investment, Infinity Health’s CEO, Elliott Engers, reflects on the recommendations from the AWS Healthcare Accelerator that he found the most valuable.
How can we ensure clinical safety when digitising PIFU?
Read Dr Jo Garland’s views on how digitising PIFU and rolling it out nationally will help create clinical bandwidth to see the patients that really need it, when they need it. Crucially Jo writes about the clinical risks can be mitigated with a digital tool like Infinity.
How can PIFU reduce NHS waiting lists?
Patient Initiated Follow-Up - known as PIFU - is an alternative way to manage outpatients, moving away from regular in-person follow-up appointments which are often not necessary, towards appointments only when needed. Care can be personalised to suit individual patients.
In conversation with… Hassan Chaudhury, Digital Health Specialist at DIT
Hassan Chaudhury gives insight into what companies looking to take their digital health product overseas should consider, what selling his own business felt like, and how a career full of “accidents” led him to becoming one of the UK’s foremost experts on digital health exports.
In conversation with… Michelle Tempest, Partner at Candesic
Dr Michelle Tempest tells us why she thinks automation is one of the only realistic routes to dealing with the NHS’s staffing crisis, and why she thinks the UK has a unique opportunity to rocket boost digital health solutions globally.
What are virtual wards?
Appropriate digital tools are a key part of the NHS’s future and in the medium-term, virtual wards will be an important contributor to getting the NHS back on its feet after the pandemic. They will enable it to provide treatment to the patients that are waiting as a result of the backlog.
In conversation with… Alan Davies, Innovative Programmes and Partnerships Director at Health Education England
Alan Davies, Innovative Programmes & Partnerships Director at Health Education England, calls for visibility and persuasion in the NHS’s COVID-19 recovery strategy.
What are Integrated Care Systems (ICSs)?
Integrated Care Systems aim to remove historic silos and divisions between health and care providers. Using Infinity, staff working in Integrated Care Systems can allocate tasks, share and collaborate on caseloads, and communicate without the need for outdated and unsafe tools like paper or WhatsApp.
In conversation with… Daniel Barlow, Head of Innovation Policy at BSI
Daniel Barlow, Head of Innovation Policy BSI talks to us about the role of standards and digitisaton in healthcare.
What are the best clinical communication tools?
The real issue with NHS clinical communication tools is a lack of a shared, real-time repository of information about patients and the tasks required to treat and care for them. A “digital to-do” list like Infinity, which shows all patients within a service, that relevant multidisciplinary staff can access and add to at any time.