Medical Devices and Digital Tools Guidance
Benefits
The guidance highlights several benefits of digital tools including: improved access to care through digital communication channels, patient empowerment for self-care at home with monitoring devices and condition-specific apps, support for families/carers in long-term patient care, reduced medication prescribing through alternative digital interventions, and new ways of identifying or treating disease using AI to improve early diagnosis.
Details
- Tool name
- Medical Devices and Digital Tools Guidance
- Organisation
- NHS England
- Status
- live
- AI method (as recorded)
- Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Computer Vision
- Usecase
- Health AI
- Origin
- england.nhs.uk
- Owning team
- NHS England Digital Team
- Date added
- 25 May 2023
- Scrape date
- Source note
- The document provides comprehensive guidance on medical devices and digital tools in healthcare, including their definition, classification, regulation, and implementation. It emphasizes the importance of safety, proper implementation, and reporting adverse incidents. The guidance also discusses the Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) used by the NHS to evaluate digital technologies. [Source]