Delivering value with digital technology
Helping NHS finance staff support the transformation of care through digital technologies
Policy and guidance
This map brings together tools and resources that will be useful to finance teams supporting digital transformation within their own organisations.
Dorset Intelligence and Insight Service has been set up to enable people working across the health and social care network to access digital tools.
The digital agenda is increasingly important to NHS trusts.
This case study describes Alder Hey’s model for innovation, identifying the key factors that make it a success.
The briefing sets out the process that NHS bodies and their auditors follow when determining the appropriate accounting treatment.
This case study describes a radio-frequency identification (RFID) system tracks medical assets.
The association has responsed to the Health and Social Care Committee’s inquiry on digital transformation in the NHS.
Explore how Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust approached making better use of the information held in their clinical systems.
This case study describes how digital technology can improve access to pulmonary rehabilitation as a treatment for chronic lung conditions.
This briefing focuses on identifying and realising benefits for digital transformation.
This case study describes how research teams from two biomedical research centres in London have used natural language processing AI.
This briefing explores how funding and accounting interacts when considering digital projects.
News and analysis
NHS England head Amanda Pritchard this week defended levels of NHS productivity, arguing the current measure did not fully reflect improvement.
Four chief finance officers make up this year’s shortlist for the HFMA Finance Director of the Year Award in the 2023 HFMA awards.
The government rejected MPs' calls to allow additional remuneration for digital, data and technology specialists to improve recruitment and retention.
Digital solutions can help deliver the NHS’s quadruple aim, but staff need the right skills to take advantage of these opportunities.
Every £1 invested in community or primary care could provide a return of up to £14 into local economies.
NHS England has announced details for when patient-level costing data will need to be submitted as part of the 2023 national cost collection.
The digital agenda is increasingly important to NHS trusts.
An HFMA roundtable, supported by Optum UK, said the NHS needs to improve digital business cases and fix an imperfect allocation and approval process.
Recent technical developments
The new Diagnostics recovery and transformation strategy was a key objective in last year’s planned care transformation plan.
NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has won the contract to deliver the next generation of the integrated single financial environment (ISFE), whic
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Events
A discussion of common priorities, challenges and successes within their field
Clinicians, finance staff and informatics professionals came to consider how digital technologies such as AI can transform services and drive value.
Topics incluced system assurance, feedback of the sustainability audit, an overview of ISA 315 and 240, and the findings from the 2021/22 DHSC audit
This webinar explores how allocative value can identify the most effective ways for ICSs to use their resources.
Dr O’Connor explores the opportunities and threats presented by the growing prevalence of AI technologies in healthcare settings
September 2023
In this webinar, Jacqui Cooper and Richard Cox explore what came next after they went live with their Electronic Patient Record (EPR).
This one-day event brought together professionals from finance & technology sectors to explore the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence.
This two day event will provide colleagues from across the East Midlands region the change to reflect and exchange ideas.
The procurement forum will bring together finance and procurement-based colleagues to explore the benefits of joint working and best practie
As part of the HFMA's programme of work this event is aiming to increase awareness amongst NHS finance staff about digital healthcare technologies