IT at scale - turning opportunity into reality
Arden & GEM's IT and productivity leaders discuss the opportunities for ICBs and individual providers to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs by commissioning and delivering IT services and equipment at scale.
How is system-wide data sharing enhancing patient care?
Data, when used effectively, is perhaps the most crucial tool available to help NHS organisations deliver the Triple Aim duty of improved population health, improved service quality and improved value, assert Aaron Atkinson, Helen Duckworth and Jess Hicks from NHS Arden & GEM's BI team.
Using a hackathon to tackle complex NHS challenges in a day
In this latest blog for Healthcare Leader, Alison Tonge, Executive Director of Strategy and Innovation at NHS Arden & GEM, shares how a recent ‘innovation hackathon’ event brought together expert speakers, staff and customers, in facilitated multidisciplinary working groups to find and develo...
Robotic process automation delivers more than simply efficiencies
Craig Kilgour (Robotic Automation Lead) and Sarah Thompson (Business Analyst) from NHS Arden & GEM CSU explain how robotic process automation (RPA) is helping to strengthen cyber security, improve accuracy and pave the way for more flexible working in the latest issue of National Health Execu...
Delivering a strategic data and analytics platform to enable system-wide population health management
Mid and South Essex ICS and Arden & GEM describe how they have taken a multidisciplinary team approach to co-design a strategic data and analytics platform which provides staff across the ICS with the intelligence needed to plan and deliver priorities, using population data to enable more inf...
Why cybersecurity must become everyone’s responsibility in a digitised NHS
Our Head of Cybersecurity, Tej Gudka, considers how we can strike the right balance between building stronger cybersecurity defences and enabling staff to work efficiently in this feature for National Health Executive.
Steps to developing coordinated Integrated Care Records across multiple ICSs
Jayne Rooke, Programme Manager at Arden & GEM, and Alec Price-Forbes, Chief Clinical Information Officer at Coventry and Warwickshire ICS, share their experiences and learning points from a programme involving three Integrated Care Systems.
Tackling barriers to digitally-enabled care
How do we accelerate take-up of digital solutions while maintaining confidence in the quality and safety of patient care? Our Head of Digital Transformation, Adrian Smith, considers this issue in an article for National Health Executive's September/October edition.
What potential does drone technology offer healthcare?
Drones are already in use across the UK to provide an effective solution to a range of logistical challenges. In this article, Amy Hollis, from technological innovation firm, Neuron, shares how this technology is also being applied within healthcare.
How living labs are accelerating the use of medical technology
A new ‘Living Lab’ facility in Buckinghamshire is helping health economies explore how medical technology (MedTech) can transform care pathways and improve outcomes for patients. John Vesey, Business Manager for Health at the Satellite Applications Catapult tells us more.