Dr Vin Diwakar, national director of digital transformation NHS England, will provide the keynote of Digital Health Rewired, setting out the national priorities and funding on digital and data as the NHS attempts to tackle record waiting lists and intense pressures in the run up to the General Election. Matthew Taylor CEO of NHS Confederation outlines the health of the NHS, the key challenges ahead and what policy prescriptions are required for enduring NHS recovery. Daniel Johnston from Imprivata will provide-frontline perspectives on health IT benchmarking to inform system thinking and drive successful transformation in patient care. And Jessica Morley will explore if digital transformation is technically feasible and ethically justifiable.
Supported by:
Chair: Jon Hoeksma
CEO, Digital Health
Jon is the founder and CEO of Digital Health, the health IT B2B news, research and events publisher and professional networks specialist. He previously co-founded and edited eHealth Insider, and is a leading journalist, commentator and thought leader on UK health IT. In 2014 he led the trade sale of eHealth insider to Informa Plc.
Achievements of note include: founding the UK CCIO movement, from launch of CCIO campaign in 2011 to development and growth of CCIO Networks and community; the development of Digital Health Networks – centred on CCIO and CIO Networks – as the leading independent online best practice community of NHS IT professionals – 5,000+ members as of November 2020; plus growing Digital Health Summer Schools into the premier health IT leadership event in UK; and launching Digital Health Rewired in March 2019 as the most dynamic and compelling Expo in digital health space.
Dr Vin Diwakar
interim national director of transformation, National Transformation Directorate, NHS England
Dr Vin Diwakar is the Interim National Director of Transformation, leading the NHS’s work nationally in transforming the way that care is delivered, enabling the access to best care and outcomes for people that the NHS serves and the people who work in it.
Prior to this role Vin was the Medical Director for Transformation in NHS England, providing clinical leadership to improvement and transformation. Additionally while in this role, Vin led teams supporting improvement and transformation of a number of different clinical areas including diagnostics, urgent, emergency, acute and planned care, and was responsible for improving clinical effectiveness.
Formerly Vin provided clinical leadership to London’s health and care system, and was a key member of the multi-professional regional team which led the capital through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vin has been in the NHS for 33 years, working as a consultant paediatrician in Birmingham.
Dr Jessica Morley
postdoctoral researcher, Digital Ethics Center, Yale University
Dr. Jessica Morley has worked in NHS data, tech, and AI policy for the past ten years. Originally working in the NHS and the Department of Health and Social Care, she transitioned to working full-time in academia in 2019: working for the Bennett Institute of Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford on OpenSAFELY and the Goldacre Review until April 2023.
Now, having completed her PhD “Designing an algorithmically enhanced NHS”, also at the University of Oxford, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Yale Digital Ethics Center. All Jess’s work focuses on ensuring healthcare systems can capitalise on the opportunities of better use of data, whilst mitigating the ethical harms.
Matthew Taylor
CEO, NHS Confederation
Daniel Johnston MRes, RN
senior clinical workflow specialist & UK NHS clinical safety officer, Imprivata
Daniel has assumed a range of leadership roles in emergency care provision in both clinical and R&D positions in NHS, Harvard University Hospitals and Health IT industry.
Throughout maintaining his clinical practice, Daniel has occupied management and operational roles directing frontline services to meet the contemporary challenges in healthcare provision. He is also a recipient of a NIHR Clinical Research Fellowship award at King’s College London, researching Emergency Department Overcrowding, Human Factors and Organisation Resilience.
Daniel continues to be active within the nursing community championing the development of Nursing Chief Information Officer role at a national and European level: with involvement in GDE Nursing & Midwifery Learning Community and HIMSS Europe Nursing Informatics Community.