The Journal of mHealth Vol 2 Issue 2 (Apr 2015) | Page 30

How Digital Health Can Change Condition Management

How Digital Health
Can Change Condition
Management

By Dr Alexander Graham

Dr Alex Graham is a medical doctor by background, having trained in London before entering the
business world. He is currently a founding partner at AbedGraham, a research and strategy consultancy
which assists global IT corporates to navigate the clinical, organisational and commercial complexities of
the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). He is also medical director of EMEA for Imprivata.
So much of the talk around the digitisation of healthcare and indeed a huge part
of my work in healthcare IT revolves
around the ‘bricks and mortar’ solutions. In the UK, we are almost singularly focused on initiatives such as the
‘paperless NHS’ or EHR maturity that
it’s sometimes easy to forget the impact
of technology on conditions and individuals, which is after all the reason that
healthcare systems exist. Similarly, it’s also
worth revisiting the colossal cost that
widespread, chr