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Digital healthcare is a juggernaut that can’t be stopped, but with so many gaps needing to be addressed – including, among others, digital skills; funding and investment; estate infrastructure; and privacy and governance – how do we go about managing the many risks that this new model of care presents and capitalise on the myriad opportunities it offers? These were some of the questions debated last week at an expert roundtable, organised by European Healthcare Design as part of its ‘Future Health 2050 series’ and supported by Lexica. 
Chair: Tina Nolan, Managing director, Lexica Panel: Fiona Daly, National deputy director of estates, NHS England Simon Bolton, Non-exec director, advisor and former chief executive, NHS Digital Kevin Sureshkumar, Director, Spanswick Professor James Barlow, Chair in technology and innovation management, Imperial College London Business School Eamonn Gorman, Head of Clinical Informatics New Hospital Programme NHS England
Hosted at the King’s Fund, London, from where the webinar was live-streamed via SALUS TV, the panel began with Professor James Barlow, chair in technology and innovation management at Imperial College London Business School, providing an overview of what digital transformation means for healthcare and how we should consider its potential impact on patient care and outcomes.
He described digital health transformation as about re-imagining business and service models, enhancing business processes, and improving patient experiences – underpinned by new digital technologies and innovations. The power of these technologies, he added, can be elevated by combining systems with data analytics, including artificial intelligence (AI), enabling new ways of thinking about care delivery, feeding into business cases, and so on.
In regard to impact, digital health will reinforce some of the ongoing trends in healthcare, such as preventive health, patient-centred care, greater integration, and care closer to the community. In the longer term, however, he warned there is a greater unknown, particularly about the role of the global tech giants in reshaping health systems and the way we think about healthcare.
Looking ahead to 2050, he said: “I think we’re going to see a mix of new entrants and incumbents coming together in new ways, creating new ecosystems for particular aspects of healthcare, whether it’s wellbeing, prevention, acute care. It’s all up for grabs.”
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In February 2024, the Future Hospital 2050 webinar series on innovation in healthcare planning and design examined the role of digital applications in healthcare services that are being delivered now and in the future to 2050.

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