The Digital Opportunity Must Be Shaped By Healthtech, Say UK Medtechs
Executive Summary
The UK continues to build its digital health-care infrastructure, as seen in last week’s government funding pledge for a new AI lab. But this is set against criticism of the lack of digital resources at health-care providers. As the ABHI’s newly appointed digital health lead, Andrew Davies says stakeholders first need to understand the scope and needs of digital health care, and then adopt a networked approach, with medtech playing a full part in the helping the system evolve appropriately.
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