Digital Health News podcast on all things IT and digital technology in the NHS
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Jordan Sollof is joined by DJ Hamblin-Brown and Simon Weldon in an episode focused on the challenges of clinical coordination in the UK health system and how they can be addressed.
Hamblin-Brown, emergency doctor and chief executive at digital health firm CAREFUL, and Weldon, chief executive at South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, discuss what is meant by clinical coordination, why it is important to patients and families and how it is relevant to the Labour government’s new policy agenda.
The pair explain why clinical coordination is difficult to achieve, give examples of best practice and highlight the main issues that the NHS is facing.
They suggest how digital can play a key role in the helping the health system to become more coordinated, before looking ahead with optimism for the future.
Guests:
DJ Hamblin-Brown, emergency doctor and chief executive at CAREFUL
Simon Weldon, CEO at South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Wednesday Nov 27, 2024
Wednesday Nov 27, 2024
The latest episode of Digital Health Unplugged explores how data and digital solutions are improving care pathways and advancing clinical research.
Brought to you in partnership with Oracle Health, Jordan Sollof passes the hosting duties over to Ryan Irwin, lead client executive at Oracle Health.
He is joined by Ameet Bakhai, consultant cardiologist, physician and research director at The Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, and Debbie Phillips, chief clinical information officer (CCIO) at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The pair explain how data and digital solutions can improve care pathways and clinical research that brings significant opportunity for improving health outcomes, and the need to ensure effective planning, staff and patient engagement and implementation strategies.
The episode also highlights how Milton Keynes is designing enhanced clinical workflows that are underpinned with technology and use data for continuous improvement.
Digital Health would like to thank its partner for this episode, Oracle Health.
Panel:
Ryan Irwin, lead client executive at Oracle Health
Ameet Bakhai, consultant cardiologist, physician and research director at The Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust
Debbie Phillips, CCIO at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
Wednesday Dec 11, 2024
In the final Unplugged episode of the year, the Digital Health News team reflect on the biggest stories covered in 2024 and look ahead to what they think will be big on the news agenda in 2025.
Stories discussed include Lord Darzi’s independent investigation into the state of the NHS and the hotly-anticipated Autumn Budget, in which more than £2 billion investment was announced for NHS technology and digital.
Cyber security is also a hot topic, with three major attacks on the NHS including the attack on pathology provider Synnovis causing widespread disruption to services in south east London. The team also discuss the federated data platform and controversy surrounding its supplier Palantir.
Listen on to hear the news team’s analysis of 2024 and predictions for the new year…
Panel:
Jordan Sollof, podcast host and news reporter at Digital Health
Jon Hoeksma, chief executive at Digital Health
Tammy Lovell, news editor at Digital Health
Thelma Agnew, features editor at Digital Health
Thanks for listening to the show throughout 2024. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
In the first episode of the new year, Jordan Sollof, reporter at Digital Health News chats to Rachel Dunscombe, chief executive of OpenEHR International, about the importance of healthcare data, electronic patient records (EPRs) and having more female representation in digital health.
Dunscombe stresses the importance of standardised, quality data in improving healthcare and outcomes and what AI is capable of achieving in 2025 and beyond.
She also gives her take on the UK EPR market and whether anything more needs to be done to make better use of the platforms, before highlighting the importance of women having leadership roles and there being diversity in the digital health sector.
Dunscombe is a confirmed keynote speaker at Digital Health Rewired 2025. She looks ahead to the event and explains what she is hoping to take from it and get across to the audience.
Digital Health Rewired takes place on 18-19 March 2025 at the NEC in Birmingham and is free for those in the NHS and public sector.
Guest:
Rachel Dunscombe, chief executive at OpenEHR International
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
Tuesday Jan 14, 2025
The latest episode of Digital Health Unplugged features Holly Coole, senior manager for digital mental health at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), talking about the regulation of digital mental health technologies (DMHTs).
Tammy Lovell, news editor at Digital Health News, chats to Coole about the three-year Digital Mental Health Project, which aims to improve outcomes for people with mental health conditions by ensuring that both medical professionals and the public have safe and effective access to DMHTs.
In the podcast they discuss how the project, led by the MHRA in partnership with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, aims to provide clarity around the key considerations for the regulation and valuation of DMHTs.
They also talk about the challenges of regulating this area and why it is so important to protect patient safety, and ensure access to effective products for mental health.
Coole, who is a registered mental health nurse, co-authored a paper on the project, published in The Lancet Digital Health in January 2025.
Listen to this episode to discover what this project means for the future of mental health technology in the UK.
Guest:
Holly Coole, senior manager for digital mental health at the MHRA