Hear and see at first hand from the clinician, informatician, technician collaborative on their successful journey/battle for the design, funding, development, implementation, and use of a universal PROMS platform that actually meets their needs based on the Apperta Foundations seminal Defining an Open Platform document as co-authored by the late, great, Ewan Davis.
Peter Coates
managing director, The Apperta Foundation
David Jobling
digital health specialist
Digital Health Specialist with two decades of experience in system design and architecture; with a focus on the public sector, particularly health and social care, he has been involved in national, regional and local transformation projects as a lead, analyst and informatician. His expertise includes process modelling, strategy development, relationship management, and ensuring clinical safety compliance as a principal clinical safety engineer.”
Prof Mike Reed
openOutcomes committee chair
Professor Mike Reed is a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Following medical school in Newcastle and his MD in Sheffield, Mike trained in trauma and orthopaedics in the North of England, and completed fellowships in New Zealand. Currently, he is a full-time hip and knee replacement surgeon, with trauma commitments within a busy Trauma Unit. At Trust level, Mike has run improvement programmes in hip fracture care, infection prevention and enhanced recovery. He is the Clinical Director at Northumbria leading a high performing team, supported by a group of committed and talented colleagues. His research, supported by industry, charity and government funding, focuses on his specialist interest in infection prevention, diagnosis and management, and outcome prediction using large datasets. He is Chief Investigator for clinical trials at the University of York, and is on the executive of the National Joint Registry.
Anji Kingman
clinical outcomes manager, Northumbria Healthcare
Anji has worked in healthcare for over 30 years and for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for 20 years where she has been managing the trust’s extensive in-house elective orthopaedic PROMs programme since 2015.
Anji is passionate about PROMs and using the resulting data to improve patient care as well as to inform clinical practice and is co-ordinator for The National PROMs Network.
She is the PROMs & Admin Lead for the development of openOutcomes (an open standard, open-source platform for the collection, recording and reporting of PROMs) and is a member of openEHR International
In addition, Anji is the PROMs and administration lead for the UK Bone and Joint Infection Registry, a member of its steering committee, and the newly formed BOA affiliated Bone and Joint Infection Society (BAJIS) and enjoys working alongside leading clinicians with a special interest in this area.
Steve Wilkinson
project director, staircase13 Ltd
Steve is a highly experienced software consultant, holding senior positions in the software industry for over 25 years including running a team of over 200 software consultants and engineers. He is skilled at putting together multi-disciplinary teams to analyse and solve complex problems using digital technology. He sits on the board of openEHR UK to further the agenda of open standard healthcare both in the UK and worldwide. Interests include behavioural economics and the application of mathematical, statistical, machine learning and other AI techniques to analyse healthcare data. He holds an Executive MBA from Manchester Business School and a BSc. in Mathematics from Bath University.