Highlights of The King’s Fund Digital Health and Care Congress 2018

[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/kf-digital-health-2018-300×145.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]As The King’s Fund itself pointed to these two Digital Health articles, this Editor (who did not attend) will summarize their findings on the two days. Surely more to come!

Day One: digital transformation was not just about patient and clinician tools, but also about culture and partnerships

• The King’s Fund’s researchers presented findings from their recently released report, ‘Digital change in health and social care’ where local organizations can speed change faster than nationally (more detail here)
  • Tight collaboration is necessary to bring change, not only within organizations, but also with providers and suppliers
  • The culture gap is significant between technology and clinical and must be overcome
  • Technology may be the only way “by which the NHS would be able to face “long-term pressures” facing the healthcare system”
• What are lessons learned from national and regional NHS digital transformation projects?
  • How do you bring data together on a large scale?
  • Primary care practice is the obvious place to engage people with technology
• No ‘post code lottery’–All patients should have access to digital services (the standard criticism of Babylon Health)

Day Two: build the technology around the patient

• Put the patient first–some technology does not
• The paramount importance of safeguarding the patient
• Patients should be involved continuously with technology–and patients inspire technology

TTA is a media partner of The King’s Fund digital health conferences and was pleased to be a supporter this year.