Digital Health July 16, 2019
In his latest column for Digital Health News, Dr Neil Paul talks about the struggle of introducing innovation to primary care, and whether we’re doing enough to remove the obstacles.
I’m passionate that technology is part of the solution to the NHS’s problems. This is because I believe that technology is one of the real ways of doing more with less. A lot of new treatments and advances in the medical world increase demand, or increase workload or cost. Few actually reduce them.
We are seeing several, real game-changing technologies at the moment and it is interesting to think about how their application – done right – might reduce our workload.
The smartphone is one such technology – a personal...