Digital Health October 30, 2023
Sustainable and inclusive population health requires a number of prerequisites, including good leadership, appropriate technology and the ability to get buy-in from a range of different services at the start, panelists said in a session at the King’s Fund’s Digital Care Congress earlier this month.
Asim Patel, chief digital officer at Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board spoke of the challenges of serving a geographically diverse population of 1.8 million, a third of which is living in some of the most disadvantaged communities in England. It is within this context, he said, that his ICB is shifting its healthcare focus to early prevention and population health.
“The models previously, and I think today genuinely, are around treating...