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Background
This policy briefing responds to the Topol Review into how technology and digital tools will affect patient care and clinicians’ lives and the implications for training and upskilling professionals.
Introduction
Digital healthcare technologies, genomics, digital pathology, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics all have a current and future role in pathology disciplines: robotics in blood sciences; genomic testing of bacteria in microbiology; digital pathology in histopathology and haematology; point of care testing (PoCT), self-testing and personalised therapy such as CAR-T cell therapy in lymphoma treatment.
The College agrees that digital technologies will not replace the vital role of clinicians but will enhance and change it. They have the potential to significantly aid our overstretched workforce in providing patient care. We believe that mobile devices and AI could also be used to promote or encourage health-benefitting habits and uptake of cancer screening.
Patients
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Briefing: The Topol Review
8 March 2019
BackgroundThis policy briefing responds to the Topol Review into how technology and digital tools will affect patient care and clinicians’ lives and the implications for training and upskilling professionals.
Introduction
Digital healthcare technologies, genomics, digital pathology, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics all have a current and future role in pathology disciplines: robotics in blood sciences; genomic testing of bacteria in microbiology; digital pathology in histopathology and haematology; point of care testing (PoCT), self-testing and personalised therapy such as CAR-T cell therapy in lymphoma treatment.
The College agrees that digital technologies will not replace the vital role of clinicians but will enhance and change it. They have the potential to significantly aid our overstretched workforce in providing patient care. We believe that mobile devices and AI could also be used to promote or encourage health-benefitting habits and uptake of cancer screening.
Patients
The central role of patients is especially important when evaluating technology and we welcome this central tenet. The College has an excellent public engagement programme which is ideally placed to incorporate public education about genomics which will enhance the patient’s role in shared decision making.
PoCT and self-testing also have enormous potential to help patients manage their own health. The key factor is the governance around use of such devices to ensure accurate, reliable results, not just MHRA regulation of devices but ongoing quality systems accredited by UKAS to ISO 22870:2016. We agree that connectivity of such devices is important to ensure a link with the patient record.
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