ABHI’s Need to Know Newsletter: Digital Health
Digital Transformation Wins Big
Healthcare digitisation has recently been going from strength to strength. We have seen steps towards the wider adoption of AI through the recent i.AI and NHS England Collaboration Charter, and a recent investigation revealed that 94% of people are happy for the NHS to use their data to improve their care.?
The most tangible digitisation win was the NHS streamlining expenditure by over ￡1 million last year. Millions of patient text messages have been sent every year for some time now, but over 2023/2024, a total of 22.5 million messages were sent via the NHS App. This may not seem as exciting as "AI supercomputer reduces time-to-treatment", for example, but if digitising comms can save ￡1 million a year, the wider potential impact on the NHS is huge.?
More globally, the World Health Organisation has been championing digital prescriptions as a positive for the entire prescription process, reinforcing the shift towards digital-as-standard. 2.7 million users monitoring prescription statuses via the app last year, and The World Health Organisation championed this feature in their latest digital health report for supporting health workers and, called for expanding similar digital health tools.?
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Top Down AI Moves?
AI has had similar wins with The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI) and NHS England (NHSE) signing a Collaboration Charter to enhance NHS operational efficiency. The charter seeks to empower the NHS workforce by expediting patient care through AI technologies and free up time for clinicians to spend with patients. The MHRA has also recently outlined its AI strategy, which will be balancing patient safety with industry innovation. Both are significant examples of top-down steps towards AI acceptance.?
Barts Health NHS Trust recently demonstrated machine learning tools' time and life-saving potential. By analysing thousands of clinical outpatient letters, machine learning tools saved admin tools hundreds of hours for admin teams, reducing patient waiting time and ultimately improving safety. Each clinician letter was split into a category with a corresponding action depending on key phrases and correlating health records, illustrating the potential for such innovations to key government bodies, including the MHRA.?
ABHI supports all steps and initiatives towards the NHS' digital transformation and the adoption of time, cost, and life-saving innovations. To learn how ABHI can support your digital health business, visit read our Digital Health Report or contact ABHI Executive Director for Digital Health Andrew Davies.