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The Digital Health Unplugged episode examines why innovation stalls in the NHS, featuring Mindy Simon of the NHS Innovation Accelerator and Alina Nenova, CEO of Feebris, to unpack scaling challenges and systemic lessons. They stress that robust evidence of cost‑effectiveness and patient benefit is mandatory; the NHS prefers platform‑wide solutions over niche pilots, and the effort to pilot equals that of scaling, demanding realistic resource planning. They also note the need for three internal champions—clinical, operational, economic—to navigate the system. Simon warns many innovators lack tangible productivity gains, while Nenova highlights that first‑mover advantage is weak; trust and evidence built over years matter. A notable quote: “Pressure is probably the biggest enabler of change in the NHS,” reflecting how crises accelerate adoption. The implications are clear: startups must design scalable platforms, secure multi‑disciplinary advocacy, and tolerate long procurement cycles. Policymakers should streamline regulations and funding pathways to prevent bureaucratic roadblocks, ensuring that proven innovations reach patients efficiently.
The BMJ Health and Care Informatics journal club presented a qualitative evaluation of the Scan for Safety programme, a national demonstrator that applied GS1 global standards to barcode medical devices, medicines, patients and staff across NHS hospitals. The study examined...
The episode of Digital Health Unplugged focuses on the NHS’s retreat from a publicly documented open‑source policy, highlighted by the sudden disappearance of policy pages after the NHSX merger into NHS England. Host Jordan Soloff and GP‑turned‑digital‑health advocate Marcus Bore...
In a candid Digital Health Unplugged interview, Epic Systems founder and CEO Judy Faulkner recounts how a basement‑startup in 1979 grew into one of the United States’ largest private health‑IT firms, now serving roughly ten percent of acute NHS trusts. She...
The podcast 'Exploring the interoperability conundrum' examines whether the NHS's shift from analog to digital, as outlined in its 10‑year health plan, is sufficient to create a truly interoperable, data‑driven system. The guests argue that sheer volume of digital records does...
