International Digital Health and Care Congress

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 Dave introduced 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)

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

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 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.

Congress parners 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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