Thanks @GCInvestor for providing the link. Certainly looks like...

Thanks @GCInvestor for providing the link. Certainly looks like a very interesting read and shows the value of being strategic and develop a long term plan for the health system in UK.

A lot of the points mentioned in the plan is also easily applicable to Australia.

I also note with interest some of the views expressed by industry leaders on some of the tech trends for 2019, in particular those expressed by the CEO of Draper & Dash Healthcare, available here.

His key tech takeaways are as follows:

• Stronger Cloud Adoption: 2018 saw a higher adoption of Azure, 2019 will see a lot of usage and development
• Data Science, Predictive, ML and AI: 2018 saw a lot of investment by private firms as a means of getting ready to sell AI driven solutions. I think in 2019 will see healthcare providers either adopt this from suppliers or build their own.
• Health IOT: we will see a lot more CIOs wanting to learn about this and how they can leverage the technology, still early adoption.
• Out of Hospital Technologies: this will be significant for 2019 from more patient centric devices to data driven insights for providers, as catering to out of hospital is poised to grow by 30% in 2019.

His views are consistent with those previously expressed by many of us here and those by the management to some of us at the agms and investor presentations. More information on the latter can be found in older posts summarising the AGMs and etc.