Technology trade association techUK has published a HealthTech report to help accelerate the digitisation of the health and care sector.

The report includes 10 recommendations for public sector stakeholders to help bring digital technology to the forefront of healthcare.

The 10 point plan outlines a set of priorities for transformation from industry, focusing on: empowering the public, embedding standards and interoperability, digitising social care, supporting the health and social care workforce, and reforming business environment and procurement.

“The past year has highlighted the essential role that digital health technology can play in supporting the NHS and care sector to deliver better outcomes for patients,” said Julian David, techUK chief executive. “Building on recent successes, this paper distills several complex challenges and issues that the health and social care sector faces into ten logical and, importantly, achievable recommendations.

He said: “The health of the population is the highest priority and this document offers an essential roadmap for working in partnership with the system to improve the delivery of care across the board.”

Andreas Haimböck-Tichy, chair of the techUK Health and Social Care Council; director, healthcare & life sciences, IBM UK and Ireland, said: “The techUK Ten Point Plan for Healthtech is successful in aligning the many views of members into one, holistic policy paper. When taken together, it is the authoritative perspective on what will enable the Tech Industry to support an ambitious and modern health care system.

He added: As we look ahead to the rest of 2021, these recommendations also provide the bedrock for a raft of possible reforms to ensure the UK provides excellent health and social care services to its citizens and is an attractive place for healthtech businesses.”

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