No Images? Click here Happy New Year from the UK e-Health Week team! We’re gearing up for a busy few months as we confirm our speakers, sessions and workshops for UK e-Health Week 2017. Now is a time like no other in health IT, with key areas like the NHS Digital Academy, Global Digital Exemplars, digital maturity programmes and the professionalisation of CIOs and CCIOs high up in the national health agenda. Through key note addresses, panel discussions and expert-led workshops, the UK e-Health Week programme will focus on these latest developments, scrutinising the opportunities and challenges they will bring to the health system. Don’t forget that NHS, public and charity sector colleagues can attend free-of charge. Register now to secure your place at the biggest and most significant e-health event of the year. Speaker profile: Matthew Swindells, National Director: Operations and Information, NHS England Matthew joined NHS England in May 2016 from the Cerner Group, where he worked as Senior Vice President for Population Health and Global Strategy. He has over 25 years’ experience in healthcare services, and has worked in the Department of Health as a Chief Information Officer and as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State for Health. Matthew began his career at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital in the early 1990s, and went on to become Director of Clinical Services of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital and later Chief Executive of the Royal Surrey County Hospital, in the early 2000s. He is visiting professor and chair of the advisory committee in the School of Health Management at the University of Surrey and Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Population Health Management. Matthew will deliver a key note address on the UK e-Health Week 2017 main stage. Keep an eye on the website for more information on his session. Main stage and theatre highlights The main stage is where attendees will hear from system leaders, industry representatives, patients and NHS colleagues who are making a difference to healthcare through IT and data. Confirmed speakers include: - Matthew Swindells, National Director: Operations and Information, NHS England - Keith McNeil, NHS Chief Clinical Information Officer, NHS England - Will Smart, NHS Chief Information Officer, NHS England - Juliet Bauer, Director of Digital Experience, NHS England - Beverley Bryant, Director of Digital Transformation, NHS Digital - Harpreet Sood, Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer, NHS England - Anne Cooper, Chief Nurse, NHS Digital - Andy Kinnear, BCS Health Chair Theatres Delegates will also attend their pick of expert-led and interactive sessions in five lecture theatres. BCS Health will host two theatres across both days, covering everything from safety in electronic prescribing and learning health systems to clinical leadership and citizen empowerment in health IT. NHS England, NHS Digital, HealthTech Women, NHS England's Genomics team, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Digital Health.London, nursing informatics, Test Beds and STP leads will also host 45 – 90 minutes sessions across the two days. More sessions are being added to the programme daily so keep an eye on the UK e-Health Week website for updates. Latest from the blog 2017: the year of e-health by Jane Dwelly, Director of Strategy, HIMSS UK "The potential of e-health to bring about total change to the way we plan and deliver health brings new demands for true interoperability, new leadership skills and a global search for solutions. The next 12 months will see significant innovation across health and care and with true benefits for patients...." read more here… Sponsor focus: Look out for UK e-Health Week app Attendees to this year’s UK e-Health Week can enhance their visit using an exclusive mobile app. The interactive app will enable users to build their personal agenda, read about our speakers and sessions, and engage with other delegates. The app will also include a floor plan, exhibitor information and the latest UK e-Health Week 2017 news. It will be available to download in March. Keep an eye on the UK e-Health Week website for updates. Texthelp If you are going to UK e-Health Week in 2017 we'd love to see you at the Texthelp exhibition stand #36. Stop by to hear about our award-winning family of literacy support technologies, and how they can empower NHS staff and patients to read, write and be understood wherever and whenever services are delivered. Read&Write, our smart and easy to use support software helps NHS staff overcome literacy and language challenges, helping them read, write and be understood wherever and whenever health services are being delivered. Our digital inclusion software Browsealoud can help the NHS improve engagement with the 12 million people in the UK who are unable to confidently access digital health information and services. Copycert is the most recent addition to our product portfolio and will help measure and improve the readability of the NHS website so that content is more consumable for staff and patients. Our assistive technologies can help to realise the vision of a digital NHS, assist NHS and social care organisations to achieve the Accessible Information Standard and therefore improve communications between patients and their carers with health and social care providers. For more information visit
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