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HTN Now April: EPR strategies, ICS, digital identity, EPMA, data, change management and more…

On 13 April 2021, we open the latest in the HTN Now series; four days of engaging, practical and insightful sessions where we welcome leaders from across health and care to share their work.

Across the first three days, we will host 12 live sessions that will cover a range of subject areas including EPR strategies, public facing digital services, change management, EPMA, digital exclusion, transformation strategies, digital identity, maturity and adoption.

On the final day it’s over to HTN, where we will share with you a series of video interviews we’ve been working on and release our first health tech trends series report!

To view the session agenda and timings please click here, and if you wish to register please do so here.

Each session will last up to an hour and provides a practical insight into various digital transformation programmes. If you missed any of our previous sessions from the HTN Now series, you can watch our videos here.

The live sessions include:

Digital Health and Care Wales / ABUHB All-Wales Regional Implementation of WellSky Pharmacy

In this session we are joined by Lisa Forey, Pharmacy Manager / Principal Pharmacist Procurement, Mark Collard, Principal Technician, Pharmacy Technical Services, and Kate Headley, Project Manager, Digital Health and Care Wales, to share an insight into their regional implementation programme.

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Discover how Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust work in partnership with HCI, to produce and deliver digital solutions, including the multiple conditions app, CONNECTPlus, which forms an integral part of the Trust’s 2021 transformation strategy. We are joined by Adel Jones, Director of Transformation and Partnerships at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust and Richard Wyatt-Haines, CEO at HCI.

The Power of Digital Identity: Solving Healthcare IAM Challenges

During this webinar, we’ll hear the value of taking an organised approach to identity management and discuss how proactively managing your digital identities will empower you to securely manage whatever comes your way.

Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust – Digital Programmes

In this session we explore the digital programmes and strategy at Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust. We hear about the programmes over the past year and what is coming up during 2021. We welcome Grace Birch, Associate Director of IM&T, Data Protection Officer, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust.

Hillingdon Hospitals NHS FT

We are joined by Dr Martin Cohn, from The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS FT, to explore the technologies adopted to support its response to the pandemic. Dr Cohn will be exploring the potentials of CO-LINK, a mobile app supporting trainees and medical students to access critical clinical learning experiences

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and WellSky HEPMA Implementation

In this session we see Dr Alastair Bishop eHealth SDPM – Safer Medicines, Robert Puckett, Lead HEPMA Pharmacist and Fiona Leung, Clinical Teaching Fellow – HEPMA team, sharing their work.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS

Find out how the Healthy Together team at Leicestershire Partnership NHS has been using the digital tools at their disposal, including health-based websites, digital health and wellbeing forms and text messaging, to reach families, children and young people across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

In this session we welcome Stephen Bromhall, Chief Information Officer for the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust and hear about the new ECPR Programme, following its initial roll-out in spring.

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire’s Integrated Care System

This session focuses on the digital transformation programme working across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire’s Integrated Care System and shares how they set out to revolutionise health and care services on behalf of their local population and professionals.

Through co-design and co-production, the NHS App and Patients Know Best (PKB) integration initiative has successfully been delivering the Public Facing Digital Services mandate for empowering local people to better manage their health, to self-care, self-manage and self-serve. We welcome Jayne Birch-Jones, Change Management Lead, Jane Scarborough, Project and Change Manager and Rosie Atkin, Project Implementation Manager, Connected Nottinghamshire.

Digital Health Platform – making data useful to clinicians

In this session we are joined by Malcolm Pradhan, Chief Medical Officer, Alcidion and Andy Kinnear, Partnerships Director, Ethical Healthcare Consulting, who will focus on the importance of data to clinicians and healthcare professionals.

Change Management – what does “good” look like for successful digital health systems adoption

Here we explore the importance of change management in achieving adoption and therefore delivering benefits. From a simple change strategy to developing a change mature organisation, we look at what a “good” transformation journey looks like and how to overcome common challenges. We are joined by Gaelle Fertil, Director of Transformation and Change, Ideal Health.

NHS EPR Strategies

A group of NHS clinicians and IT experts interested in EPR strategies for the NHS will host a seminar to get wider discussion going on this topic and how it affects local and national IT policies. In particular, we would like to debate how ICSs should digitise and compare the use of Shared Care Records, EPRs, population health and AI/analytics innovations.

Session Topics

  1. What are the digitally enabled transformations being formed locally and nationally?
  2. What digital transformation strategies should ICSs adopt?
  3. What EPR systems are used in the UK and US and the trends
  4. How OpenEHR and open source EPR developments fit into digital healthcare transformation strategies
  5. How do open interoperability standards like FHIR support these future strategies?

Find out more details on HTN Now or register here.