Digital Health April 29, 2024
A new survey from The Health Foundation has highlighted the technologies clinicians say could offer the biggest opportunities to save time in the NHS – with electronic health records and communication tools both ranking highly.
With healthcare professionals facing huge demands on their time, the 2024 Spring Budget highlighted how technology would be central to realising the ambitions of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan. The purpose of The Health Foundation survey was to determine how clinical staff felt about the prospect of technology being used to boost productivity and relieve time pressures.
The survey revealed that when presented with a list of technologies, more than half of respondents (51%) picked video conferencing to talk to colleagues as their biggest...