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
Mid October newsletter – DAQ replacement, CEO search, the future of telehealth, webinars and much, much more
DHACA Webinars Since returning from a week's leave, I've started work on scheduling a winter season of Wednesdaywebinars starting on November 4th at 10am. So far the following webinars are forming: all about ICSs, explaining [...]
End September newsletter – NHS Tariffs, Prospecting for Gold Part II, Webinars, Voronoi diagrams and much more
Important - NHS Tariffs I was on a webinar recently where an eminent commentator described how NHS tariffs incentivised hospital attendance for outpatients, so I thought I'd just remind everyone that the NHS is now [...]
Mid September newsletter; prospecting for digital health gold, Proteus lessons, the dangers of relying on intuition and much more
Prospecting for digital health gold - part I I was intrigued to see the US Mobihealthnews headline "An untapped market for digital health innovation exists among seniors hoping to age in place" as I wondered [...]
Early September newsletter – UK & EU medical device regulation, webinars and lots of interesting snippets
Regulation of medical apps post 31 December The MHRA has now published guidance on how the regulatory regime will look in 2021 and beyond. Clearly this will be subject potentially to significant change depending on [...]
August 2020 newsletter – very important reads, webinar reflections, jobs on offer, an amazing toilet seat and much more
As promised in our last newsletter I have sumarised my summer of webinars. However as it is still long I have put it at the end of this newsletter, to ensure that readers don't miss [...]
End July newsletter – Eric Topol live for £36, great webinars, no Privacy Shield, and the mystery of many fewer premature babies
WebinarWednesdays and other interesting events This week's WebinarWednesday features Redesigning NHS care pathways around patient generated data, It features four speakers from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust who will discuss the various aspects of this key [...]