Tony Blair is right…
About one thing. Digital Health Records. https://www.institute.global/insights/public-services/preparing-the-nhs-for-the-ai-era-a-digital-health-record-for-every-citizen
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But isn’t he the guy who could have made this happen 25 years ago? He was indeed. There were people telling him of the need for personal health records, but by all accounts he didn’t listen. Or rather he listened for 10 minutes, then signed off £12bn and handed the show to consultants. Huskies etc. pitched fights with the BMA.
25 years on he seems a bit more clued up on the architecture that will make this happen.
But only half right. Whoever wrote the report is still writing about interoperability, something which has held up the development of user owned digital health records for a very long time.
