TY - JOUR T1 - Smart phones at the ready! JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - 156 LP - 157 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.4-3-156 VL - 4 IS - 3 AU - Sheena Visram AU - Mark Temple Y1 - 2017/10/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/3/156.abstract N2 - Four out of five UK adults own a smartphone, collectively checking them over a billion times a day.1 We share data across numerous channels, media and timeframes and this personal culture of digital connectedness helps shape our perspective of digital solutions in healthcare.Professor Robert Wachter opened his report for NHS England, Making IT work, by stating:In order for the National Health Service (NHS) to continue to provide a high level of healthcare at an affordable cost, it simply must modernise and transform. This transformation will involve enormous changes in culture, structure, governance, workforce, and training.2In this second FHJ issue focused on digital technology in healthcare, we explore the state of readiness of organisations to … ER -