What are the key challenges we have discussed over the past two days for digital health? What are the challenges and opportunities for future leadership? And, what does it mean to be a leader for 2030?
Chair: Jon Hoeksma
chief executive, Digital Health
Jon is the founder and CEO of Digital Health, the health IT B2B news, research and events publisher and professional networks specialist. He previously co-founded and edited eHealth Insider, and is a leading journalist, commentator and thought leader on UK health IT. In 2014 he led the trade sale of eHealth insider to Informa Plc.
Achievements of note include: founding the UK CCIO movement, from launch of CCIO campaign in 2011 to development and growth of CCIO Networks and community; the development of Digital Health Networks – centred on CCIO and CIO Networks – as the leading independent online best practice community of NHS IT professionals – 5,000+ members as of November 2020; plus growing Digital Health Summer Schools into the premier health IT leadership event in UK; and launching Digital Health Rewired in March 2019 as the most dynamic and compelling Expo in digital health space.
Dr Jordi Piera Jimenez
director of the digital health strategy office, Catalan Health Service
Dr Jordi Piera-Jiménez is dually trained in Computer Science Engineering and Business Management by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He also holds an MSc in Telemedicine, a PhD in Medical Informatics from the Open University of Catalonia, and an MBA from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In the acadèmic field, Jordi is associate professor in informatics at the Open University of Catalonia, the DS3 research group’s principal investigator lead and is affiliated with the IDIBELL research institute. Jordi is currently the Director of the Digital Health Strategy Office at the Catalan Health Service and Director at openEHR International.
Shauna McMahon
chief information officer and executive board member, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT
Shauna is currently the Chief Information Officer at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She has over 15 yrs. experience working in the Canadian Healthcare system. She relocated to the UK in late 2015 to join Frimley Health as their CIO and then went on to be a Partner in Digital Transformation Consulting at South Central & West CSU. The role she held before coming to the UK was Director of Technology & Infrastructure Renewal at a District Health Authority in Canada. In this role she provided leadership for IT infrastructure, facility planning & all construction, commercial leasing, capital planning and clinical engineering across 8 hospitals and 26 community health care centres. Shauna is passionate about the positive impact effective digital transformation can have in the health and care system. As a leader she is grounded in the belief that healthy relationships with people are key to success, in combination with a positive attitude to lead and coach teams to achieve and exceed results and targeted deliverables. This in combination with attention to continuous learning she believes are critical components of being a successful Leader.
Andrew Greenway
managing director, Public Digital
Andrew is a founding partner of Public Digital. As Managing Director, he leads the consulting business, ensuring our work is high quality and impactful.
He is an expert in digital strategy and reform in government and public services. He led the UK Government’s work to create new digital guidelines and standards, a model now used in many governments worldwide.
Andrew is highly experienced in carrying out reviews of major government programmes to support efficient and cost-effective delivery of public services. He has provided strategic advice on digital transformation to ministers and senior government leaders in public administrations as diverse as Canada, Peru, Australia and Japan.
Andrew has worked with the government of British Columbia to conduct independent reviews of challenged large-scale IT programmes, as well as leading reforms to the government’s approach to funding digital and technology.
He has also worked with senior leaders in the Nova Scotia government for several years, helping them turn around technology programmes, deliver crucial services during the pandemic, and scale the digital team from a small innovation unit to an 800-person and $200m budget department.
A former senior civil servant, Andrew is passionate about public service reform in the UK and beyond. His writing on this subject has been published widely, including in the Guardian and the Spectator, and he was the driving force behind Public Digital’s book, Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery. This has become the recognised reference text for digital government, selling more than ten thousand copies. He has spoken on the topic at conferences around the world.
Andrew is also a non-executive at the University of Exeter, a global top 150 university, where he is a member of Council and supports the university’s executive team to bolster the organisation’s digital practices.
Prof David Lowe
clinical director innovation, University of Glasgow, and clinical lead for health innovation, CSO Scottish Government
Professor David J Lowe is Clinical Director Innovation University of Glasgow, Emergency Consultant at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow and Clinical Lead for Health Innovation for Scottish Government. David has significant experience of creating the infrastructure and conditions to develop innovative devices, services and solutions with a range of industry and academic partners both UK and worldwide. He is clinical lead for a number of projects with DHVL and previously iCAIRD including ensemble based AI techniques for COVID, osteoporosis as well as supporting evaluation and development of AI solutions across a range of imaging modalities. He leads on range of projects including trauma for the STN (thetraumaapp.com), Dynamic COPD (support.nhscopd.scot) and OPERA(early diagnostic heart failure utilising AI). Such projects focus on developing AI/ML clinical decision support by embedding a data driven approach combined with patient co-management into clinical care pathways. David also established the EmQuire research group focusing on data, device and decisions within Emergency Medicine.
Dr Minal Bakhai
director of primary care transformation, NHS England
Dr Minal Bakhai is the Director of Primary Care Transformation at NHS England. She is a practicing GP, working at an inner-city London practice for over 12 years.
Minal has a unique portfolio with experience stretching across national policy, strategy, industry, research and leadership of large-scale change and digital transformation. Additionally, she has been an expert advisor at NICE appraising the effectiveness of health technology.
She is passionate about enabling high quality, sustainable primary and community services. Most recently enabling modern general practice and leading the national general practice improvement programme, which is evidence-led, data driven and deeply rooted in clinical practice – working in partnership with systems, PCNs, practices and communities to drive locally led transformation and improvement and support the realisation of the biggest benefits in the shortest timeframe.
