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With uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 ramifications, healthcare organisations need to establish resilient and agile systems going forward. The facilitation of clinical decision support solutions reduces unwarranted variability. 

The extra £50 million investment will boost improvements in technology across the NHS to speed up the diagnoses of diseases like cancer.

Stakeholders stressed the importance of a patient-identification strategy in an ONC working session Monday.

“We have doubled the number of patients seen on a daily basis because of the telehealth capabilities,” said Central Kansas Mental Health Center’s IT director.

A wide-ranging JAMA study showed that early adopters of direct scheduling were more often young, white and commercially insured.  

The UK’s Royal Marsden Hospital in London has developed an e-form solution using Hyland OnBase that captures and tracks COVID-19 symptom responses from cancer patients remotely, prior to an appointment or treatment visit.

Facing unprecedented challenges, many healthcare organisations and government institutions have turned to Watson Assistant, IBM’s AI-powered virtual agent to assist in responding to the deluge of inquiries from patients, employees, and the public at large.

“The pace of innovation with COVID-19 has been extraordinary but the challenge is to maintain that pace and benefits from it,” said Peter O’Halloran.