Can the NHS get digital? Why has the NHS been so much slower to use information technology than other sectors and what might be done
Clay Shirky, Web Guru, Lecture at the London School of Economics
Cognitive surplus One of the great pleasures of living in London is that a friend can email you (in this case from Salamanca) and say:
UK’s new government backs patient-controlled medical records
Last week, over lunch with a few friends, we discussed how excited we are by the UK’s new government. Some really interesting people are in
How to get people to exercise: piano stairs
Watch how few people use stairs at the beginning of this video. And then watch what happens when they make the stairs into a piano.
What happens when patients start working together?
“Can a patient invite another patient to look at their record?” This question really made me pause. The answer is definitely “yes”, because each patient
Five examples of scaling up
The first example was from Abu Dhabi, which Oliver Harrison, a British doctor, and colleagues have turned into a “living laboratory”. They are aiming to measure