International Digital Health and Care Congress: Improving health through the use of technology

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Highlights from this event

Ray Hammond: the future of digital health and care

Ray Hammond, futurologist and author of The World In 2030, identifies the key drivers that will shape digital health and care over the coming decades.

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Kathleen Frisbee: assessing the impact of mobile health apps

Dr Kathleen Frisbee, Connected Health Programme Director, explains more about the Department of Veterans Affairs' family caregivers programme.

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Ali Parsa: using mobile technology to simplify access to health care

Dr Ali Parsa, Founder and Chief Executive of Babylon, explains why he is optimistic about the future of health care.

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Paul Rice: a paperless NHS

Paul Rice, Head of Technology Strategy at NHS England, looks at the benefits of integrated digital care records and at how a paperless NHS could be achieved.

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Sian Jones: an exploration of the large scale implementation of telehealth monitoring in Bristol

Sian Jones, Head of Service Improvement at Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group, explains how NHS Bristol provides telehealth monitoring to patients with chronic conditions.

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About this event

Our three-day event brought together researchers, policy makers, practitioners and innovators to explore how the use of technology is supporting improvements in the care of people with long-term conditions and other health and social care needs.

This was our fourth annual congress and it attracted more than 500 international delegates who came to hear about the design and application of new technologies; to share experiences; and to showcase new ideas, new research and new innovations in digital health, mobile health, telehealth and telecare.

Speakers

The following speakers featured in the plenary sessions:

Paul Rice

Head of Technology Strategy, NHS England

Paul spoke about how the NHS is embracing technology. The presentation featured examples of some of the products and processes that NHS England is currently working on. These include the Open Source Programme which is delivering digital solutions, such as Electronic Health Records, to the care community, and the Integrated Digital Care Fund, which is supporting the effective delivery of digital health projects.

(Day two: Thursday 11 September)

Ray Hammond

Futurologist, author of The World in 2030

Ray, Europe's most experienced futurist, closed the congress on day three. He took delegates on a journey into the future and made us consider just how much technology will have an impact on our health care. An inspiring speaker, who regularly gives keynote speeches for the world's major companies, governments and NGOs, Ray was one of the highlights of the congress.

(Day three: Friday 12 September)

Dr Ali Parsa

Founder and Chief Executive, babylon

Ali outlined how babylon's new app is changing the way people access health care services. He explained how the app lets you book virtual GP consultations with professional clinicians; monitor symptoms and receive prescriptions; and what apps like this mean for the future of health care delivery.

(Day three: Friday 12 September)

Dr Kathleen Frisbee

Co-Director, Connected Health (Program Director), The Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America

Kathleen talked about work that The Department of Veterans Affairs has done in assessing the impact of mobile health apps and predicting mobile health app use.

(Day two: Thursday 11 September)

John Stewart and Cathy Hassell

Director of the Quality Framework, NHS England; Programme Head Technology Enabled Care Services, NHS England

John and Cathy talked about NHS England's Technology Enabled Care Services programme.

(Day two: Thursday 11 September)

Jonathan Field and Dave Newell

Partner at Back2Health & Chair Pain Faculty, Royal College of Chiropractors; Director of Research, Anglo European College of Chiropractic

Jonathan and Daveintroduced a web-based Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) collection system for monitoring and service evaluation in musculoskeletal patients.

(Day one: Wednesday 10 September)

Modesto Sierra Callau

Innovation and new Technologies Department, Barbastro's Hospital, Spain

Modesto presented lessons from the European SmartCare project on how technology is supporting integrated care.

About the SmartCare project:

The SmartCare project will formalise two care pathways and support their implementation and piloting in ten European regions. The individual pathway steps are described in local care plans which make use of modern ICT tools to allow health and social care professionals to deliver the best possible care to citizens and patients.

(Day two: Thursday 11 September)

Maximillian Johnston

Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London

Maximillian presented a project that has looked at the innovation of communication technology to improve information transfer during handover.

(Day one: Wednesday 10 September)

Dr Miren David

Researcher. Kronikgune, International Center for the Research of Chronicity

Presentation title: Assessing the organizational change towards care coordination and telehealth. Advancing Care Coordination and Telehealth Deployment (ACT) Programme: Example of the Basque Region

(Day one: Wednesday 10 September)

Edurne Alonso Morán

Biostatician Researcher, Collaborative Research of Osatek, SA, Public Society of the Basque Government

Presentation title: The relationship between activities of daily living and multimorbidity. A view from telecare

(Day one: Wednesday 10 September)

Iben Fasterholdt

PhD-student, Odense University Hospital and University of Southern Denmark

Presentation title: Early forecasting of expected return of new innovative medical technologies in hospitals. Study case: telemedicine patient briefcase

(Day one: Wednesday 10 September)

Dr Sarah Elison

Head of Research, Breaking Free Online

Presentation title: Using the Medical Research Council (MRC) Effectiveness Research Framework to Evaluate Computer Assisted Therapy (CAT) for 'Dual Diagnosis'- Breaking Free Online

(Day one: Wednesday 10 September)

Hazel Harper and Marilyn McGee-Lennon

Assisted Living Innovation Platform Leader, Technology Strategy Board; Lead Research Scientist, dallas programme

Hazel and Marilyn presented lessons from the dallas (delivering assisted living lifestyles at scale) programme and talked about how the programme is driving sustainable transformational change.

(Day two: Thursday 11 September)

Sian Jones

Head of Service Improvement, Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group; Service Development Director, Safe Patient Systems

Sian explored the large scale implementation of telehealth monitoring in Brisol.

(Day two: Thursday 11 September)

Dan Bladon and Kash Mahmood

Co-Founder, Design and Prosper; Director of Digital and Healthcare Technology, Alliance Boots

Dan and Kash joined us for a panel session on Friday morning to discuss how personal health monitoring is changing the health landscape, and how we can change the system to allow for a person-centred model.

(Day three: Friday 12 September)

Day 1

Session one

Welcome and introduction
Dr Nick Goodwin, Chief Executive, International Foundation for Integrated Care, and Senior Associate, The King's Fund

A web-based Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) collection system for monitoring and service evaluation in musculoskeletal patients: Care Response
Jonathan Field, Partner at Back2Health & Chair Pain Faculty, Royal College of Chiropractors
Dave Newell, Director of Research, Anglo European College of Chiropractic

Innovation of communication technology to improve information transfer during handover
Maximilian J Johnston, Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London

Questions and discussion

Refreshment break and networking

Session two

Welcome back
Dr Nick Goodwin, Chief Executive, International Foundation for Integrated Care, and Senior Associate, The King's Fund

Assessing the organisational change towards care coordination and telehealth – Advancing Care Coordination and Telehealth Deployment (ACT) Programme: example from the Basque region
Dr Miren David, Researcher. Kronikgune, International Center for the Research of Chronicity

The relationship between activities of daily living and multimorbidity – a view from telecare
Edurne Alonso Morán, Biostatician Researcher, Collaborative Research of Osatek, SA, Public Society of the Basque Government

A novel model for early forecasting of expected return of new innovative medical technologies in hospital – case study: telemedicine patient briefcase
Iben Fasterholdt, PhD-student, Odense University Hospital and University of Southern Denmark

Using the Medical Research Council (MRC) Effectiveness Research Framework to evaluate Computer Assisted Therapy (CAT) for 'Dual Diagnosis' – Breaking Free online
Dr Sarah Elison, Head of Research, Breaking Free Online

Closing comments
Dr Nick Goodwin, Chief Executive, International Foundation for Integrated Care and Senior Associate, The King's Fund

Close of day one

Day 2

Thursday 11 September 2014

Breakfast workshop

Ageing Well: using technology to support people as they age

Global health systems continue to grapple with the demands of a rapidly ageing population and the rise in long-term conditions.

Hospital A&E admissions continue to rise, bed occupancy levels are running hot, timely access to primary care is still a challenge and the squeeze on social care budgets, is making it increasingly more difficult to place elderly people into the most appropriate care setting.

During this breakfast seminar, Medtronic shared insights into how technology can support the systematic challenges described above.

This breakfast workshop was open to all attendees and was hosted by our sponsors, Medtronic.

Session one

Welcome and introduction
Professor Chris Ham, Chief Executive, The King's Fund

Keynote: Technology enabled care services
John Stewart, Director of the Quality Framework, NHS England
Cathy Hassell, Programme Head Technology Enabled Care Services, NHS England
Keynote: A paperless NHS
Paul Rice, Head of Technology Strategy, NHS England
dallas...driving sustainable transformational change
Hazel Harper, Assisted Living Innovation Platform Leader, Technology Strategy Board
Marilyn McGee-Lennon, Lead Research Scientist, dallas programme

Questions and discussion

Session two: Breakout sessions

11.30am–12.45pm

Each breakout session was related to one of the congress streams. The sessions featured innovative digital health projects that were submitted during the call for papers for the event. Flick through the slideshow below to see the full list of presentations:

Breakouts: Thursday, session two

Lunch, exhibition and networking

Session three: Rapid-fire posters

Chair: Dr Nick Goodwin, Chief Executive, International Foundation for Integrated Care and Senior Associate, The King's Fund

Each speaker had three minutes to describe the outcomes of their digital health project. Posters included:

Talking Ankylosing Spondylitis
James Gardner, Brand IT Manager, Abvie Western Europe and Canada
Clinicians experience of using a digital media tool in rehabilitation services to help patients communicate the nature of pain and body perception disturbances
Dr Ailie Turton, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol
Digital First: Community Health and Wellbeing project (An NHS England widening participation flagship)
Charlie Young, Senior Consultant, Transform UK Limited
Gillian Rudge, Associate, Transform UK Limited
Working towards integration: Advancing Care Coordination and TeleHealth Deployment (ACT) Programme
Rosemary Davidson, Research Fellow, Health Services Research, School of Health Sciences, City University London
Missing mums-to-be and smartphone technology: Addressing antenatal clinic DNAs with novel uses of a mobile application
Alexander Oboh, Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Clinical Lead for Gynaecology, Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust
Amelia Bull, Medical Student, Hull York Medical School
Alan Gopel, Medical Student, Hull York Medical School
Understanding research In care homes – an open online training tool
Mick Mullane, NIHR Patient Learning and Engagement Manager, Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Research Network
Introducing Talking Health
Julia Stackhouse, Communications and Engagement Coordinator, NHS Central Southern Commissioning Support Unit
Smartphone Breast Apps – is the evidence racking up?
Mohammad Mobasheri, CRF Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London
Using psychophysiology to study the emotional impact of words used in behaviour change text messages
Gabriel Mata-Cervantes, PHD Student, Leeds University
Using telehealth to avoid hospital admissions and improve the quality of life for people with dementia in residential care homes
Richard Farrell-Smith, Group Product Manager-Homecare Tunstall Healthcare
Future of Social media in health and care with co-production
Hadi Daneshvar Farzanegan, PHD Student, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
"Joining Forces" – A mental Health App for the Armed Forces and Veterans
Dr Martin Deahl, Consultant Psychiatrist, South Staffordshire and Shropshire Partnership NHS Trust
Casserole Club
Ingrid Karikari, Product Lead, FutureGov#
Staff engagement with telehealth and coordinated care programmes: a landscaping study across EU regions
David Barrett, Nurse Lecturer and Deputy Head of Department - Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull
Digital room-layout planning for complex manual handling hospital discharges
Dr Brian Abraham, Bioengineering Research, Newcastle University

Session four: Breakout sessions

Breakouts: Thursday, session four

Session five

Welcome back
Chair: Professor George Crooks, Medical Director, NHS 24

Assessing the impact of mobile health Apps on family caregiver burden levels and the factors predicting mobile health App use
Dr Kathleen Frisbee, Co-Director, Connected Health (Programme Director), The Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America
Transformation in practice: an exploration of the large scale implementation of Telehealth monitoring in Bristol
Sian Jones, Head of Service Improvement, Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group
Smart care : how technology supports integrated care
Modesto Sierra Callau, Innovation and new Technologies Department, Barbastro's Hospital, Spain

Closing comments

Congress dinner

The evening included a pre-dinner reception, three-course meal with wine, coffee and liqueurs.

Day 3

Friday 12 September 2014

Breakfast workshop

Getting Care Coordination and TeleHealth to scale: going from individual projects to routine practice

This breakfast workshop focused on sharing expert views and initiatives, to help enable care co-ordination, telehealth and self care hubs concepts to be effectively incorporated into routine practice and to scale. Panel members spoke about findings derived from the Whole System Demonstrator, European Commission Initiatives, and the EU programme Advancing Care Coordination and Telehealth.

Care co-ordination, telehealth and self care hubs can be important factors to address the challenges of HealthCare in the future. There is rising evidence that they can help deliver effective care to patients with long term conditions. In this workshop experts addessed some of the primary hurdles, and shared concepts currently being implemented to overcome boundaries.

This breakfast workshop was open to all attendees and was hosted by our sponsors, Philips.

Session one

Welcome and introduction
Professor Chris Ham, Chief Executive, The King's Fund

Keynote: Using mobile technology to simplify access to health care
Dr Ali Parsa, Founder and Chief Executive, babylon
Wearable technology as a tool in health monitoring

Panel session: How is personal health monitoring changing the health landscape? How can we change the system to allow for a person-centred model?

Dr Ali Parsa, Founder and Chief Executive, babylon
Dan Bladon, Co-Founder, Design and Prosper
Kash Mahmood, Director of Digital and Healthcare Technology, Alliance Boots
Robert Johnstone, Chair, Access Matters

Questions and discussion

Session two: Breakout sessions

Breakouts: Friday, session two

Session three: Breakout sessions

Breakouts: Friday, session three

Session four: Rapid-fire posters

Chair: Dr Nick Goodwin, Chief Executive, International Foundation for Integrated Care and Senior Associate, The King's Fund

Each speaker had three minutes to describe the outcomes of their digital health project. Posters included:

First for Stroke: Using the Microsoft ‘Kinect’ as a facial paralysis stroke rehabilitation tool
Dr Judi Edmans, Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
Caring is easier when you do it jointly
Madeleine Starr, Director of Business Development, Carers UK
Improving communication to effectively prevent and manage chronic illnesses in old age
Aditya Kasliwal, Director, SpeakSet
Remote monitoring of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms using mobile phone technology
Dr Lucy Simons, Research Fellow, NIHR MindTech Healthcare Technology Co-operative
Usability and engagement with an online platform to support the self-management of symptoms
Abigail Clifton, Research Assistant, King's College London

Session five: Closing keynote

Chair: Dr Nick Goodwin, Chief Executive, International Foundation for Integrated Care and Senior Associate, The King's Fund

Keynote:The future of digital health and care
Ray Hammond, Futurologist, author of The World In 2030

Questions and discussion

Closing comments and announcement of Best poster and Patient Award

Partners and supporters

We would like to thank the organisations who supported the congress. If you would like information on how you can support our events please contact Ben May, Events Marketing Manager, at b.may@kingsfund.org.uk.

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