Presented at Nesta event on 24/04/14 - Digital Medicine: Refilling the Innovator’s Prescription. A debate on how digital technologies are changing patient care http://www.nesta.org.uk/event/digital-medicine-refilling-innovator%E2%80%99s-prescription

1. Digital Medicine
Refilling the Innovator’s Prescription
#nestahottopics
Jessica Bland

2. A new wave of digital medical technologies
Changing medical practice
The healthcare sector’s response

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£bn Global Venture
Capital funding for
medtech
£bn Medtech global
market
£bn US national
public and private
healthcare
expenditure

6. A new wave of digital medical technologies
Changing medical practice
The healthcare sector’s response

9. A new wave of digital medical technologies
Changing medical practice
The healthcare sector’s response

11. NHS
Technology Enabled Care Services Improvement Plan
2014-17
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Outcomes based commissioning is the future and we need to help develop
commissioning skills and capabilities
Procurement should be more flexible and take a longer term view to adapt
to rapidly changing technologies
Information governance should support the most appropriate intervention,
and the individual and carers should be educated about how data can be
shared.

12. A new wave of digital medical technologies
Changing medical practice
The healthcare sector’s response

13. Digital medicine is a different phenomenon to
wider category of medtech
Systemic change is a long way off and needs to be
sensitive to the peculiarities of the healthcare
sector
The healthcare sector needs a two track approach,
supporting new players while gradually improving
capacity in current system