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Advances in medical and digital technology are changing the health and social care landscape. Here we examine the opportunities these bring and the information governance required in the use of sensitive patient data.

Overview

An interactive timeline of digital health policy

This timeline features key milestones in digital health policy from the 1960s to present day and beyond.
This timeline features key milestones in digital health policy from the 1960s to present day and beyond.

Related publications

A digital NHS? - An introduction to the digital agenda and plans for implementation | by Matthew Honeyman, Phoebe Dunn, Helen McKenna

A digital NHS?

An introduction to the digital agenda and plans for implementation
22 Sep 2016
Matthew Honeyman, Phoebe Dunn, Helen McKenna

In recent years, the digital agenda in health care has been the subject of an array of promises and plans. Following on from the Wachter review of health technology, our new briefing assesses the progress made and what needs to happen next.

Reading Room

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Blogs on technology and data

Patching up NHS cybersecurity: five lessons to be learned

23 May 2017
Matthew Honeyman, Harry Evans

Patching up NHS cybersecurity: five lessons to be learned

23 May 2017
Matthew Honeyman, Harry Evans
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Presentations and events

Dame Fiona Caldicott
Slideshow

Dame Fiona Caldicott: Data security in the NHS

Fiona Caldicott
Video

Matthew Swindells: The importance of digital health in the implementation of the NHS five year forward view

Matthew Swindells

Digital Health and Care Congress 2017

Embedding technology in health and social care.
See more related audio/video

Related articles

Helen Arthur on learning from technological innovation in the vanguards

8 Jun 2017

Online support: investigating the role of public online forums in mental health

13 Apr 2017
David Buck, Matthew Honeyman
Josh Smith, Jamie Bartlett

Map of technology and data in health and care

Case studies of places that are implementing new technologies to achieve better health outcomes.

Our work on this topic

Article
Helen Arthur on learning from technological innovation in the vanguards
8 Jun 2017
Blog
Patching up NHS cybersecurity: five lessons to be learned
23 May 2017
Matthew Honeyman, Harry Evans
Blog
The NHS and technology: turn it off and on again
2 May 2017
Harry Evans
Project
Could online user-generated content revolutionise health services?
13 Apr 2017
Blog
The power of digital health: what can we learn from one million posts?
13 Apr 2017
David Buck
Article
Online support: investigating the role of public online forums in mental health
13 Apr 2017
David Buck, Matthew Honeyman , Josh Smith, Jamie Bartlett
Blog
Seizing opportunities for digital development in the NHS
14 Feb 2017
David Maguire
Event
Digital Health and Care Congress 2017
31 Oct 2016
Blog
NHS England says it cannot fund all cost-effective treatments promptly
19 Oct 2016
Nicholas Timmins
Blog
Saving paper, saving money or transforming care?
22 Sep 2016
Matthew Honeyman

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