Navigating the Landscape of Digital Health – United Kingdom

Navigating the Landscape of Digital Health – United Kingdomvi NAVIGATING THE LANDSCAPE OF DIGITAL HEALTH – UNITED KINGDOM 1 The English digital health ecosystem and its regulations 1.1 Overview of the digital health ecosystem in England Digital Health is "the field of knowledge and practice associated with the development and use of digital technologies to improve health" (World Health Organizatio. [...] Navigating the Landscape of Digital Health – United Kingdom1 NAVIGATING THE LANDSCAPE OF DIGITAL HEALTH – UNITED KINGDOM 1.2 The national digital health strategy The complexity of the digital health ecosystem is reflected in the lack of a single, dedicated national digital health strategy in England. [...] In more recent years, the government set out its vision for the use of technology, digital and data within the Future of Healthcare report (2018b), while the Topol review (2019), also commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health, advised on the technology-induced change to roles and functions of clinical staff, related implications and consequences for training the health workforce of the fut. [...] Important milestones are the framework for action published by the National Information Board (2014), the Wachter review (Wachter, 2016) on the need for the digitalisation of the NHS and the Topol Review highlighting specific areas of change and encouraging a culture of learning in the NHS to support its growth in this direction (Topol, 2019). [...] Navigating the Landscape of Digital Health – United Kingdom28 NAVIGATING THE LANDSCAPE OF DIGITAL HEALTH – UNITED KINGDOM The last stage of the approval pathway is the commissioning and adoption of the technology.