Information Governance
Defining new guidance for data sharing and challenge the statutory sector to improve interoperability and data sharing between consumer and statutory sectors for continuity of care and assisted living purposes.
Medical Apps
Developing a freely-available road map from app coding through to patient use, to inform developers, GPs, and patients on key issues. Promoting the DHACA case for NICE’s remit to be enlarged to include medical software.
Self Care
Developing a strategy to ensure maximum adoption of self-care services by those people who could benefit from self-care, encouraging new innovations at scale within a local economy and connected to national initiatives.
Healthcare Education
Exploring ways to support the training of healthcare professionals to use innovative digital technologies in their workflows and professional relationships with patients.
Reference Architecture
Developing a common technical framework for interoperable digital health and care ecosystems, for stakeholders to develop systems, components and APIs that interconnect according to business requirements with minimal technical barriers.
Economics and Business Modelling
Providing emerging digital health and care service entrants with an understanding of the landscape & market architecture to large-scale, sustainable consumer businesses, and the required business opportunities & partnerships.
Benefits and Values
Measure and demonstrate the effectiveness and benefits a digital health and care system, to justify investments. Measuring more than just cost-avoidance, and do justice to the scope, power and value of digital health and care systems.
Recent Posts
News, announcements, and opinion from DHACA
Late April newsletter: departures and arrivals, regulation, Michael Collins, pretty wearables and much, much more
This week we feature a draft version of our new logo for you to see, and if you want to, comment on. This is preparatory to a website upgrade that will allow us to add [...]
Latish April newsletter: Calling all app developers and prescribers with great news!
A short-ish newsletter this week with a principal focus on our webinar next Wednesday describing a new service for prescribing apps in secondary care. This is aimed very much at app developers, and prescribers, especially [...]
Mid April newsletter
We have a relatively short newsletter for you this week, with a section on upcoming webinars, one on the research use of Lego, and the usual collection of interesting tidbits. Webinars Precision medicine - empowering the [...]
Early April newsletter – A veritable cornucopia of funding offers, events, export help, digital therapeutics, important announcements…and a great April Fool
We have a mammoth edition of information today that have arrived in the inbox over Easter. There are lots of competitions for funding, help for exporters, an opportunity to see Matt Hancock and Chris Whitty [...]
Very late March newsletter
- disrupting power balances, digital therapeutic prescribing, a knotty translation challenge and much, much more We have a short read for you this this week, comprising a final call for tomorrow's very exciting webinar, a [...]
Latish March Newsletter – Great free webinars, European funding, apps that know you’re ill before you do and much, much more
We have three very different webinars for you this week with a further one, on practical assessment of app security by Kryptowire scheduled for 19th May, being developed as I write. I am particularly keen [...]