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Towards a Digital Ecology - NHS Digital Adoption through the COVID-19 Looking Glass (Paperback)
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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. 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. 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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