3 - 4 November 2015, Birmingham, UK.Outgoing NHS director for patients and information Tim Kelsey will speak for the last time in his current role to healthcare technology leaders at EHI Live, the UK's largest digital health event.
As one of the keynote speakers, Kelsey will open the conference, and share his final thoughts on how the NHS can build on the vision to harness the power of information to support health and care services. In December, Kelsey plans to take a new job in Australia to become commercial director of Telstra.
A driving force behind a revitalised approach to health technology within the NHS, Kelsey is closely associated with national policy initiatives such as the National Information Board’s Personalising health and care 2020 framework, and the controversial Care.data scheme.
The free-to-attend event, now run by Informa Life Sciences Exhibitions, will take place at the NEC Hall 1, Birmingham on 3rd and 4th November 2015, and is considered one of the most important and best-attended events in the UK eHealth calendar.
Tim Kelsey joins a prestigious list of other speakers from NHS, academic and industry backgrounds that includes: Beverley Bryant, director of digital technology at NHS England; Andy Williams, chief executive of the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC); Professor Ian Greer, vice president and dean, faculty of medical and human sciences, The University of Manchester; Dr Afzul Chaudry, CMIO, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and Kevin John Dean, non-executive director of Genomics England.
The Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) National Conference and Health Chief Information Officer (CIO) National Conference also run as part of the show, and will look at how health technology leaders can achieve the ambition for a paperless NHS, and how digital health can support integrated health and care.
The show will feature 13 free-to-attend conferences, which cover topics that are at the very core of digital health today. Experts from across the UK will come together to tackle big industry issues such as IT leadership; health and social care integration; interoperability; open source technology; genomics; big data; wearables; imaging informatics and health apps.
The 13 strands of the conference programme are:
- EHI Keynotes - addressing the big themes in healthcare IT: leadership, innovation and best practice.
- Annual CCIO Conference - focusing on interoperability and digital health development.
- Annual CIO Conference - focusing on the local development of digital health strategies.
- Health and Social Care Integration - featuring selected case studies from 29 NHS Vanguard sites.
- Big Data and Imaging Informatics - focusing on the significant challenges for the NHS in terms of security, governance and meaningful use, as well as genomic medicine.
- Open Source, Data standards and Governance - developing guidelines and standards for information exchange.
- Social Media Village - bringing together everyone in healthcare that is making social media work for the benefit of patients and citizens.
- Pipeline - innovative healthcare suppliers leading sessions that provide a glimpse into the future.
- Digital Primary Care - focusing on digital primary care developments.
- Imaging Informatics Group Autumn Conference - including case studies and latest developments in imaging informatics.
- Integration and Interoperability - examining medical information exchange in the NHS.
- 3D Printing - exploring how 3D printing is being applied to medical devices, prosthetics, dentistry, pharmaceuticals and drug discovery.
- HANDI Health Apps - Exploring the full potential of wearable technology.
New for 2015, NHS England will be hosting the "Digital Primary Care" conference, which will focus on topics such as remote monitoring of patients, patient activation, asset and resource optimisation, and the need for patient information to be available digitally to all healthcare professionals. Such data access is felt to be crucial to maximise efficiency, lower costs and improve care in primary care.
Speakers include, Tracy Grainger, head of digital primary care development, NHS England; Alan McDermott, programme director patient online, NHS England; Dr Massod Nazir, national clinical lead, NHS England and patients.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.ehilive.co.uk
About EHI Live 2015
In its 8th year, EHI Live, organised by Informa Life Sciences Exhibitions, attracts technology enthusiasts from around the UK and beyond. The exhibition gives visitors the chance to see the best that NHS IT suppliers have to offer the health service. EHI Live will focus on the frontline use of technology by IT staff and clinicians alike. The exhibition will host the annual HANDI Health Apps conference which comes with its own specialist app zone, a feature dedicated to use of open source technology, the co-location of the CCIO Leaders Network and the second Health CIO Network Annual Conference.