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This is the 2019 entries from our transformation blog, showing the best of digital and data technology from NHS Digital, NHS England, and NHSX.

2019 digital transformation blogs

This is from our transformation blog, showing the best of digital and data technology from NHS Digital, NHS England, and NHSX.

A computer hacker sat in front of a screen, yesterday

How TV gets cyber wrong

Hackers and cyber attacks feature in many films and television programmes, but are these portrayals accurate? Hecham Mrabet, cyber security specialist at NHS Digital, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how a cyber security centre runs in real life.

Hecham Mrabet

Senior Security Specialist, NHS Digital,

Good questions can help forms glean useful information

How to write good questions

The NHS digital service manual team has published new forms guidance that will help digital health teams design better forms and transactional services.

Sara Wilcox

Senior Content Designer, NHS.UK,

Is cyber a man's world?

Cyber security still has an out-dated image of being a masculine profession. Charlotte Roe, Cyber Security Apprentice at NHS Digital, talks about her job and why women are needed in the world of cyber.

Charlotte Roe

Apprentice, NHS Digital,

Technology companies and innovators have told us should be the focus as NHSX seeks to drive a user-centered approach to digital transformation across our health and care system.

What do innovators think?

When NHSX launched in July, it committed to serving users’ needs and creating an environment that nurtures innovation. Lisa Hollins, Director of Innovation Delivery at NHSX, talks about what innovators are telling her should be the system’s top priorities.

Lisa Hollins

Director of Innovation Delivery at NHSX,

Why is there an 8am rush on the NHS App?

Josh Dresner, User Researcher, has been digging deep into users' experience of the NHS App. He has found some GP practices using the app to transform access to services, while others are still stuck in old ways.

Josh Dresner

User researcher,

Phil Radford when he worked as a paramedic for the London Ambulance Service

View from the frontline: Dealing with mental health as a paramedic

The next phase of the National Record Locator launches soon, allowing ambulance trusts to access mental health information at the point of care. Business analyst and former paramedic Philip Radford talks about what this means for people on the frontline.

Phil Radford

Higher business analyst, National Record Locator Programme,

How we're improving cyber security

As we kick off Cyber Security Awareness Month, NHS Digital’s Interim Chief Information Security Officer Dan Pearce explains how NHS cyber security has been strengthened over the past two years.

Dan Pearce

Interim Chief Information Security Officer, NHS Digital

Image of a laboratory worker checking notes whilst operating a pipette

Welcoming new health data research hubs

Research partnerships can save and improve lives as long as they are underpinned by robust and ethical frameworks.

Image of a laptop computer showing a sign reading "We need you!"

The NHS digital service manual needs you

Ben Cullimore, a senior interaction designer at NHS.UK, explains how we’re developing a collaborative approach to building the service manual

Ben Cullimore

Image of a mobile phone using fingerprint identification

Citizen Identity – the evolution of username password security

How do we give the public secure access to their healthcare data and NHS services? Lead Delivery Manager Richard McStay talks about NHS login and the NHS Digital Citizen Identity team’s work to ensure people can prove their identity when signing up for online services.

Richard McStay

NHS login Lead Delivery Manager, NHS Digital

A young female assists an older man to use an ipad

Widening digital inclusion

How can we all learn to fail well? This is the question asked by Nicola Gill, Digital Programme Lead at NHS Digital, who has been working in partnership with Good Things Foundation charity to support the most excluded in society with accessing digital health services and tools.

Nicola Gill

A person looking at the NHS chickenpox content on a smart watch

Modularised content: The future of the NHS website

Content modularisation of the NHS website will help our content reach more people via search engines, voice-activated devices, chatbots and wearable devices. NHS Digital Product Manager James Lumgair explains more.

James Lumgair

Product Manager, NHS Digital

Picture of Ian Roddis presenting a digital service manual show and tell

Making digital services accessible

Ian Roddis, Lead Product Manager for the NHS digital service manual, talks about the new guidelines his team has developed to help people working in digital delivery teams meet accessibility standards in time for September 2020’s deadline.

Ian Roddis

Lead Product Manager, NHS Digital

How we are talking to Alexa

The NHS website team has worked with Amazon’s Alexa team to offer health information by voice search. Eva Lake, Head of Engagement for the website, explains how the collaboration is working.

Eva Lake

Head of Engagement, NHS.UK,

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