The digital integration of healthcare and social care systems is an ongoing process, with most participating organisations receiving only a share of referrals digitally, and only a share of those digital referrals entering the workflow without manual intervention, thereby potentially undoing any benefits that may otherwise have been gained from digitising referrals. Moreover, most organisations […]

Interrogating the assessment data by topic illustrates the degree of variance between the levels of digital maturity participating organisations have reported. This fact may well give rise to potential strategic approaches to the issues at hand: Highly concentrated scores (e.g., Asset and Resource Optimisation, Digital Channels) show that organisations are at a comparable level of […]

Moreover, this assessment shows that the national solutions being made available are not yet being adopted consistently; adoption rates for national solutions for Picture Archiving and Communication (PACS) were most consistently mentioned as being in use among participating organisations.