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The healthcare sector is currently facing a host of challenges when it comes to technology and care delivery. Healthcare bodies are attempting to maximise efficiency, control equipment status and enable access to patient data across organisations for better integration of care. However, the issues of cost pressures and the rising risk of cybercrime are making...

Your Path to Uninterrupted Clinical Excellence Healthcare’s Connectivity Concerns Clinical and administrative staff often grapple with the frustration of lagging systems hindering their ability to provide prompt and efficient care, with their attention often diverted away from their clinical responsibilities – lost to tiresome calls regarding connectivity issues with the IT helpdesk. In healthcare, where...

The NHS and wider health and social care sector in the UK is under severe pressure for a multitude of different reasons, and that is having a knock-on effect on vital healthcare digitisation. According to TechUK, 45% of people working in the sector feel that the current ‘crisis mode’ is the biggest challenge from a...

It seems strange to say that the NHS is under more financial pressure than ever before, despite the fact that funding for it has reached record levels. This is down to a variety of reasons: some of them are knock-on effects of the Covid pandemic, such as ongoing costs and the elective care backlog. However,...

Healthcare providers are under enormous pressure to see more and more patients every day, each one with unique, sometimes complex, circumstance that require specialist care. Clinicians bear the brunt of this expectation, as they deliver an appropriate level of care to as many patients as possible, prioritising where needed, as quickly as they can. Healthcare...

The government has ordered the NHS to stop purchasing fax machines from next month in a bid the phase them out completely by 31 March 2020. The news comes after the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) revealed in July this year that nearly 9,000 fax machines were in use across the NHS in England. This...

Healthcare organisations made up 37% of cyber attacks in Q3 according to cyber security insurance firm Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services. In recent months, the insurance company has seen the number of reported ransomware incidents climb. The number of notifications of ransomware attacks more than doubled in September, when compared with the previous month. In...

It’s a huge challenge and there is unlikely to be any straightforward strategies, but the National Health Service (NHS) still has quite a way to go until it has been fully digitally transformed. The NHS is the fifth largest employer in the world; according to the NHS Confederation, it deals with more than one million patients...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to create more jobs than it erases over the next two decades according to a new report. The report, by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), claims that AI will create an estimated 7.2 millions jobs in the UK between 2017 and 2037. It is estimated to replace seven million others. The multinational professional...

SCC is set to discuss digitisation in Health on Sky digital channel 185. The programme, ‘Digitalisation of Healthcare’, will feature SCC’s Branch Manager for Healthcare and Local Government, James Wallis, who will talk around some of the services SCC offers and how they can in turn impact this discussion. The half-hour programme is set to...

Unreliable and non-responsive IT systems are a no-no in healthcare. As technology weaves its way into every aspect of the practitioner-patient relationship, one IT-blow could literally mean life or death. Healthcare’s technological infrastructure cannot afford to be delicate. Yet worryingly, the sector is a prime target for cyber criminals. According to IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence...