Digital health
GOV.UK – no health but still quite exciting
GOV.UK was switched on for real earlier today. It’s some achievement, and the team at the Government Digital Service deserve all the praise they get. It’s a bigger deal for other bits of government than it is for the Department of … Read more → – GOV.UK – no health but still quite exciting
Digital health – guidance and best practice for the health and care system
If you haven’t already, you should take a look at our Digital Health site. It’s not new, or a new idea, but it has been getting a bit of extra love recently. Alice, our head of channel strategy, has posted a … Read more → – Digital health – guidance and best practice for the health and care system
Digital first: the information strategy for health and care
The information strategy for health and care was published on the DH website this morning. It covers lots of things, providing a ten year framework for transforming information for the NHS, public health and social care. Readers of this blog … Read more → – Digital first: the information strategy for health and care
Maps and apps for health and care – what next?
When we launched our Maps and Apps crowd-sourcing exercise, I’m not sure we fully appreciated quite what we were starting. We had a neat internally-rhyming name for it, some excellent people involved, and we knew that we could find examples … Read more → – Maps and apps for health and care – what next?
Maps and apps for health – a call for ideas and examples
Smartphones changed the way I use the internet. My previous online behaviour seems almost quaint now. Online maps, for example, were already pretty useful before I could access them on my phone. But a map on my phone – that … Read more → – Maps and apps for health – a call for ideas and examples
A wonky gene and the web – my son and my job
My son has a wonky gene. It’s a gene that affects the structure of the body in the womb. As a result he was born with a few bits of his body not quite finished. The biggest problems that this … Read more → – A wonky gene and the web – my son and my job
Digital health – what’s that then?
The challenge is fairly straightforward: how can we use digital tools and techniques and internet culture to help deliver the objectives of the Department of Health? I joined the Department in August, and I’ve been on a crash course since … Read more → – Digital health – what’s that then?
