WhatsApp, Messaging Apps and the future of Digital Health in the UK
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Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership by Nelson Advisors

Messaging apps are the future of digital health technology in the UK. Looking forward 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, secure communication...

- Mar 28, 2020
- 5 min
Should NHS Doctors charge for patient appointments?
Faced with an ageing population and increased demand from diabetic and asthmatic patients, many GPs fear the current NHS system is...

- Nov 24, 2018
- 1 min
Tech Talks : The Digital Health Series
Podcasts with Lloyd Price - Zesty, Juliet Bauer - NHS England, Ali Parsa - Babylon, Keith McNeil - NHS. 1) Keith McNeil - Interview...

- Jan 23, 2018
- 3 min
GDPR : the opportunity for Digital Transformation in the NHS
There is no doubt that digital transformation within the NHS is a significant undertaking. While technology has already revolutionised...

- Jan 14, 2018
- 6 min
DeepMind and the NHS: What it's really like to use Google's kidney health app?
The Royal Free was one of Google's first healthcare partners. Two years on, how is the product of their partnership working out? Back in...

- Dec 26, 2017
- 5 min
AI has no place in the NHS if patient privacy isn’t assured
DeepMind is working on a technical solution to boost transparency when it comes to AI in healthcare – but it's a long road to machines...

- Dec 16, 2017
- 4 min
The long road to Digital Transformation in healthcare
The NHS is powered by a £117.2-billion budget and more than one million staff, who deal with one million patients every 36 hours and a...

- Dec 11, 2017
- 4 min
When will healthcare ‘get digital’? Is guerrilla warfare the answer?
The hit-and-run tactics of guerrilla warfare may seem a strange analogy to use in healthcare but, to those in the know, when it comes to...

- Dec 3, 2017
- 11 min
Can startups save the NHS?
Several tech founders are trying to break into the NHS. How will their smartphone-powered ideas get on in an institution sceptical of...

- Dec 2, 2017
- 3 min
The firms on a mission to drag the slumbering NHS into a Digital age
Squeezed budgets, political opposition and complex bureaucracy have made it difficult to bring the NHS into the digital age. But the life...

- Nov 28, 2017
- 7 min
Alphabet's Deepmind Is Trying to Transform Health Care — But Should an AI Company Have Your Heal
Deepmind, the digital brain foundry owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet, wants to use artificial intelligence to solve… well,...

- Oct 5, 2017
- 2 min
Zesty appoints former NHS Digital CEO Andy Williams
October 5th 2017: Zesty has appointed Andy Williams as a Board Advisor. Andy was CEO of NHS Digital, formerly HSCIC from January 2014...

- Sep 29, 2017
- 2 min
UK Digital Healthcare Council sets out its agenda
The UK Digital Healthcare Council met for the first time today at the Royal Society of Medicine, Chandos House, 2 Queen Anne St,...

- Sep 19, 2017
- 3 min
The Growing Role of Telehealth in the NHS
As the pressures on the UK’s National Health Service continue to mount and appointment waiting times worsen, it’s no surprise that in...
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