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BlogThe future of healthy ageingThursday May 24, 2018Women have 19 years of unhealthy life expectancy and men 16 years. With this fact in mind, participants at our healthy ageing workshop explored how personalised healthcare technologies could help people stay healthy in later life. Rebecca Burbidge reports
BlogMental health for young people in a digital ageThursday May 17, 2018The highs and lows of digital interventions for mental health in young people were discussed at our recent My Healthy Future workshop. Louise Gaynor reports.
BlogYoung people. Do they have the mix for a healthy future?Wednesday May 16, 2018Liz Cairncross was a participant in the My Healthy Future workshop on adolescent health. Here she writes about the Health Foundation's inquiry to understand the future health prospects of young people.
BlogHealth in a digitalised worldThursday May 10, 2018In this blog, the first in series from My Healthy Future workshop participants, Santino Coduri-Fulford reflects on how the increasing prevalence of technology in the 21st century will affect health and healthcare.
BlogNew paradigms for health as the genomics revolution hitsMonday May 7, 2018A new report endorsed by the Garvan Institute in Sydney sets out current and emerging health and commercial applications of genomics.
BlogHealth data: the national data opt-out and the GDPRMonday April 23, 2018Confused about the new national data opt-out (NDO) and how (if at all) it works with the GDPR? Johan Ordish untangles the web in the first of two blogs on the incoming opt-out process for health data
BlogScience, data, partnership – the CSO’s annual conferenceSunday April 22, 2018This year's CSO annual conference saw delegates gather at the Royal Society for two packed days focusing on the importance of science in health
BlogAI in healthcare – seizing the benefits, avoiding the pitfallsSunday April 22, 2018Dr Sobia Raza commends mix of optimism and pragmatism from HoL Select Committee on AI in her healthcare-focused summary of their new report.
BlogGetting the most out of genomics for the UKThursday April 19, 2018Philippa Brice gives a detailed overview of a new report from the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee ‘Genomics and genome editing in the NHS’
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