The headlines this year will focus on elections on both sides of the Atlantic, global warming and Olympic games, but in healthcare the march of AI and digital health will remain in the news.

In our annual Forward View we consider the challenges and opportunities digital health brings, the impact of recent legal decisions that will play out in the year ahead as well as key issues such as the discount rate review that will impact high value claims and fixed costs impacting low value cases.

A full list of articles can be accessed here:

• Increased use of ‘digital health’ will bring new challenges for developers, manufacturers, suppliers and users
• Spotlight on four cases
  • The future of secondary victim claims: “a medical crisis is not an accident”
  • Informed consent will remain a patient-centric process, but clinical judgment still has a role to play
  • Will there be more claims based on material contribution following the Court of Appeal decision in Holmes?
  • Dispute resolution: the focus will continue to be on “out of court” methods with litigation as a last resort
• On the horizon
  • Potential for much bigger Schedules of Loss in catastrophic injury cases
  • New streamlined process for lower risk clinical trials may encourage more sponsors to conduct clinical trials in the UK
  • Elite athlete welfare will remain a focus for claims litigation
  • Early preparation will be key to managing the impact of the Personal Injury Discount Rate (PIDR) Review
  • Major change to costs regime for lower value clinical negligence cases

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To discuss how any of these issues may affect your organisation, please get in touch with Majid Hassan or Chery Blundell.