Evaluating Digital Health...a tricky business
In the wake of our new Health Secretary’s announcement that an impressive £500 million is to be spent on transformative technologies within the NHS (less impressive when we all realised it was coming out of the existing budget) and the controversial rise of Digital Health start-ups (ahem…Babylon), this month we’ve turned our attention to how we go about evaluating health technologies. The evaluation of Digital Health is a minefield, posing a challenge not just to the technolo