Nelson Advisors featured in PA Consulting article 'Less burden, more benefit' explaining how healthcare leaders can make digitally powered prevention strategies work

Nelson Advisors has been featured in the PA Consulting article 'Less burden, more benefit' explaining how healthcare leaders can make digitally powered prevention strategies work.

Source: https://www.paconsulting.com/newsroom/healthcare-today-less-burden-more-benefit-20-april-2026

Take the guesswork out of selection

From screening to clinical note-taking, there are many proven examples of technology reducing the burden on staff and performing tasks as well as, or better than, a human. However, badly designed or poorly implemented technology increase the burden. The challenge is differentiating between the good and the bad – especially when there are so many options to choose from.

The sheer volume of unregulated suppliers of ambient voice technology (AVT) – which combines speech recognition and natural language processing to capture patient-clinician conversations in real-time for notes and letters – has been likened to a ‘wild west’. In response, NHS England has created a pre-approved AVT framework to take the guesswork out of selection. Importantly, a national, digital Health Store will help ICBs and practices choose from medically-approved diagnostic devices. These devices will be available on the NHS App, supporting smooth selection.

The action for healthcare leaders is to engage with these frameworks. But they can also look to promising pilots for specific solutions, identifying pilots with strong outcomes to justify expansion into other use cases. Crucial to this is an overarching evaluation framework that supports comparisons and scalability across the system.

https://www.healthcare.digital/single-post/nhs-braces-itself-for-the-avt-revolution-ambient-voice-technologies-set-to-unlock-productivity-and

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