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Digital Update: UK Peer Pressure, US Tech Advances And EU Common Goals Put eHealth To Top Of Agenda

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Funding is taking a long time to come through for the UK NHS's digital health care transformation, but as the national provider's head of technology strategy, Dr Paul Rice says, "We can't afford to remain non-digital." Estonia, currently holding the presidency of the EU Council of Ministers, gets that too, while US digital champions like Kaiser Permanente and disruptive technology inventors like Mindstrong Health are forcing the pace.

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How well is the UK NHS, the world's biggest single-payer health care system, integrating digital health technologies and techniques for faster, more efficient delivery to patients? Not as quickly or a well as desired, but the past decade has shown progress in moving up through the maturity scale, according to Dr Paul Rice, NHS head of technology strategy.

While UK primary care and NHS mental health trusts are fairly advanced in terms of their integration of digital health-care...

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