Comments on: Journal Club: Driving digital health transformation in hospitals: a formative qualitative evaluation of the English Global Digital Exemplar programme

By: Mary Hawking

Mary Hawking — Tue, 10 May 2022 12:49:38 +0000

“Results We found the GDE programme accelerated digital transformation within participating provider organisations. This acceleration was triggered by: (1) dedicated funding and the associated requirement for matched internal funding, which in turn helped to prioritise digital transformation locally; (2) governance requirements put in place by the programme that helped strengthen existing local governance and project management structures and supported the emergence of a cadre of clinical health informatics leaders locally; and (3) reputational benefits associated with being recognised as a centre of digital excellence, which facilitated organisational buy-in for digital transformation and increased negotiating power with vendors.”
So the conclusion appears to be that putting resources – financial AND organisational – into the planning/introduction/development/training/communication of “digitalisation” leads to slightly better outcomes?
What a surprise!
PS agree with Terry: what are the problems to be addressed – & how does the GDE program (which is about siloed internal Trust arrangements) contribute to communication/collaboration in the wider NHS?

By: Terry Critchley

Terry Critchley — Tue, 10 May 2022 09:59:03 +0000

Nothing useful will happen until root cause analysis (RCA) of the fundamental issues in the NHS which are to be tackled by computing is done. Bumbling on about AI, machine learning plus other shiny new things will not solve the problem unless the base problems are recognised and specified. AI, ML etc have their uses when the base problems are addressed otherwise you have a solution akin to putting make-up on acne; it hides it OK but doesn’t cure it,

By: Christine Arrowsmith

Christine Arrowsmith — Tue, 10 May 2022 09:20:15 +0000

Yes, I wondered about the relationship to NHS DX. Dow the years there have been repeated efforts to link everything up with no end result.

By: Terry Critchley

Terry Critchley — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:27:41 +0000

Is this digital transformation (DX) part of the NHS DX initiative headed up by Dr Tim Ferris?