TECHNOLOGY
NHS, recently announced a scheme that allows patients with diabetes and high blood pressure to benefit from artificial intelligence – turning a smartphone camera into a clinical-grade tool to detect early kidney disease.
NHSX is supporting
Healthy.io to offer 500,000 patients technology-supported home-testing kits over the next three years. More than 3,500 patients have already received their kits. Patients taking part receive a simple test kit and smartphone app that allows them to test, scan and transmit their results to their GP within minutes, without leaving home. With chronic kidney disease affecting around 1 in 10 people in the UK, this new testing and technology is designed to reduce unnecessary trips to the GP and hospital. It should encourage more people to seek an early diagnosis, saving thousands of lives each year.
Ultimately, digital home monitoring and testing technologies can enable the NHS to provide greater efficiency and improve outcomes, as well as empowering patients. “It isn’t a case of having to pay more to get more. Often it costs less to achieve better outcomes,” Andrew commented. Data and the use of digital technologies has the potential to become a significant driving force in shaping today’s society and economy. As we have seen during the pandemic, the pace of transformation can be fast.
“Many large systems in society are like giant tankers that have to be turned around very slowly, yet digital health is characterised by agility and democratisation,” commented Dean. “50 years ago, one would assume that the digital technologies people are using would be developed by government or large organisations. Now, start-ups – that have originated in someone’s bedroom – could
go on to change the world next year. With this in mind, we must seek to understand and discuss the pace of change: what is acceptable, how should legislation play out and what standards need to be in place? “At the heart of all of this, we must focus on the patient experience, safeguarding and health outcomes,” Dean continued. “In helping to shape the discussion around this digital health ‘triangle’, we believe the APPG could be a real force for good. “I look forward to the APPG connecting parliamentarians with the health system, industry, academia, third sector organisations and civil society, so that collectively, we can shape a safe and trustworthy framework that will benefit patients and establish the UK as a home for digital health excellence,” he concluded.
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References 1 Adam Thomas, How the unthinkable led to the unimaginable, Clinical Services Journal, March 2020.
2 Department of Health and Social Care, Bioscience and health technology sector statistics 2019. https://www.
gov.uk/government/statistics/bioscience-and-health- technology-sector-statistics-2019
3 A guide to good practice for digital and data-driven health technologies, Updated 19 January 2021, accessed at
https://www.gov.uk/government/ publications/code-of-conduct-for-data-driven-health- and-care-technology/initial-code-of-conduct-for- data-driven-health-and-care-technology
About the Digital Health All-Party Parliamentary Group
The Digital Health All-Party Parliamentary Group connects Parliament with the health system, industry, academia, third sector organisations and civil society to stimulate public debate and inform policy making on the use of data and digital technologies in delivering health services, supporting citizens to live healthy lives and supporting the UK economy. For further information, visit
www.digitalhealthappg.org
About the ABHI
ABHI supports the Health Tech community to provide products and services that help people live healthier lives. The organisation aims to highlight the value of health technology and overcome the barriers to adoption. Members include leading multinationals through to small and medium sized enterprises. It represents the Health Tech industry to key stakeholders, such as governments, healthcare systems and regulators. For further information, visit:
https://www.abhi.org.uk
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