Future gazing: Smart tech in action

How is smart tech changing healthcare and what does this mean for both clinicians and patients. Hear how the use of VR headsets can change the impact for outpatients MVA patients and how the findings can be applied cross trusts. Delve into pioneering a collaborative front on Intelligent Automation development across six acute Trusts. Also, Learn how HPE Aruba Networking solutions tackles healthcare priorities head-on and be future proof for the decade ahead.

Chair: Dr Ameet Bakhai

director clinical research and CRIO, Royal Free London NHS FT; and co-founder, AirEmail

NHS whole working life, cardiology day job, R&D director local and national UKRD group, first CRIO at Royal Free passionate about research and all therapeutic innovations – drugs, devices (pacing and stents), diagnostics (biomarkers and wearables) and digital (AI predictive algorithms and data insights and clinical pathways).

Have 1st ever Cerner heart failure pathway to nudge diagnoses (3-8x increased) and guidance prescribing (now top 10% adherence) and reduced mortality in hospital with 41,000 patient journeys data. Published >120 papers and used to observation to interventional research studies. recently on predicting arrhythmias and heart failure and now CVD from retinal imaging.

Camilla Gow

RPA product owner, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Rob Child

programme manager, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Lauren Trepte

clinical trials team Leader for women’s health research, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS FT

Lauren Trepte is a Senior Research Midwife who leads the Womens Health Research Team at West Middlesex Hospital and has been with the trust since 2020. Lauren has a specialist interest in womens health and reproductive science and is currently enrolled on a Masters of Research programme at University College in London. With her colleague she won funding from CW+ for Project Eirene – the use of Virtual Reality Headsets for women having outpatient management of miscarriage by Manual Vacuum Aspiration.

Natalie Nunes

consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Trust and West Middlesex Hospital NHS FT

Miss Natalie Nunes is a consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Trust and West Middlesex Hospital since 2013. She is the Lead for the Early Pregnancy Unit and is an advocate for utilising #FemTech to improve #womenshealth and #patientexperience.

Natalie completed the inaugural Horizon Fellowship in 2023 at CW+ and DigitalHealth.London where she launched a Virtual Ward and app for women experiencing excessive nausea and vomiting in early pregnancy. With her colleague, she has also won funding for project Eirene for the Use of Virtual Reality (VR) Headsets by patients having Outpatient Management of Miscarriage by Manual Vacuum Aspiration.