Health Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust 28 June 2018
- A review of four current trends in technology in healthcare and what they might mean for health care over the next 5–10 years if they continue to progress.
- Genomics and precision medicine can target treatment interventions at specific sub-groups of patients, potentially making them more effective and opening up new therapeutic possibilities.
- Remote care can improve access to health care services, enabling patient needs to be addressed as early as possible and potentially making systems more efficient.
- Technology-supported self-management can help to empower patients to better manage and understand their condition, supporting improved behavioural and clinical outcomes.
- Data can provide new ways for the NHS to learn, improve and generate new research – alongside artificial intelligence (AI), which is providing new analytical capacity for diagnosing patients, effective triage and logistics.
- Part of The NHS at 70 - a series of reports requested by the BBC to inform the national conversation about the past, present and future of the NHS.
