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Towards a digital health ecology at the NHS : (Record no. 43120)

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Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9781032109749
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Classification number WX 350
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Personal author Betton, Victoria
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Title Towards a digital health ecology at the NHS :
Subtitle healthcare technology adoption through the COVID-19 looking glass
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Place of publication Boca Raton, FL ;
-- Abingdon :
Publisher CRC Press,
Date 2022
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Abstract Towards a Digital Health Ecology : NHS Digital Adoption through the COVID-19 Looking Glass is about technology adoption in the UK's National Health Service (NHS) as told from the inflection point of a disaster. In 2020 the world lived through a disaster of epic proportions, devastating humanity around the globe. It took a microscopic virus to wreak havoc on our healthcare system and force the adoption of technology in a way that had never been seen before. This book tells the story of digital technology take-up in the NHS through the lens of that disaster.<br/><br/>This book documents use of technology in the NHS through the lens of the first pandemic shock. Our healthcare system, paid for by general taxation and free at the point of demand, was conceived and developed in a firmly analogue world. Created in 1948, the NHS predates the invention of the World Wide Web by some forty years. This is not a book simply about technology, it is a study of the painful process of reengineering a mammoth and byzantine system that was built for a different era.<br/><br/>The digital health sector is a microcosm of the wider healthcare system, through which grand themes of social inequality, public trust, private versus commercial interests, values and beliefs are played out. The sector is a clash of competing discourses: the civic and doing good for society; the market and wealth creation; the industrial creating more efficient and effective systems; the project expressed as innovation and experimentation; lastly the notion of vitality and leading a happier, healthy life. Each of these discourses exists in a state of flux and tension with the other. This book is offered as a critique of the role of digital technologies within healthcare. It is an examination of competing interests, approaches, and ideologies. It is a story of system complexity told through analysis and personal stories.
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Subject term Digital technology
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Subject term NHS
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    National Library of Medicine     CEME Library (NELFT) CEME Library (NELFT) Shelves 13/09/2023 WX 350 NE14195 13/09/2023 13/09/2023 Book  
    National Library of Medicine     David Adams Library (Royal Marsden) David Adams Library (Royal Marsden) Shelves 22/03/2022 WA 540 BET 0000007756 22/03/2022 22/03/2022 Book  
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