NHS organisations and suppliers must work more closely to turn promising health tech pilots into scalable solutions, writes Dame Barbara Hakin, chair of the Health Tech Alliance in Digital Health.
The Health Tech Alliance, a collaboration between healthcare and the technology industry, is “absolutely committed” to the adoption of technologies which are “unequivocally of benefit to patients and the taxpayer”, according to Dame Barbara.
But the former deputy chief executive of NHS England warns that promising pilots are not enough to unlock the “large amounts of money” required to scale technology solutions and says that local organisations and suppliers have to do more.
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