Enabling patient-centred care through information and technology

“Better use of technology and data is a prerequisite for supporting and enabling the key developments needed to reshape the health and care system, which are at the centre of the Department of Health’s vision for health and care and the NHS’s five year forward view.”
– Personalised Health and Care 2020

About this event

With the NHS five year forward view’s focus on harnessing the information revolution and the National Information Board’s proposals that by 2020 all patient and care records will be digital and that by 2018 all individuals will be enabled to view their records, now is the time for health and care professionals to seriously consider how they can better use data and technology to deliver improved services for patients.

This is the focus of our Digital Health and Care Congress, which explores how the innovative use of information and technology is supporting improvements in health and social care services.

Featuring digital health projects led by those on the ground, the event is an opportunity for you to learn about exciting new digital health technology, research, and innovative service delivery methods that are having a positive impact on care providers and patients.

Key sessions

• Enabling patient-centred care through information and technology (day 1)
  Tim Kelsey, National Director for Patients and Information, NHS England, will open the congress with a look at how the better use of data and technology give patients and citizens more control over their health and wellbeing.
• The future of health and care services in the UK: views from the National Information Board (day 2)
  The opening session on day two is being run in conjunction with the National Information Board. The session features presentations from Simon Stevens and Beverley Bryant, followed by a panel discussion with members of the National Information Board.
• How can information and technology support self-care for patients? (day 2)
  Dave deBronkart, widely know as e-patient Dave, is a cancer patient and blogger who, in 2009, became a noted activist for health care transformation through participatory medicine and personal health data rights.

Reasons to attend

• Let our speakers inspire you
  All of the digital health projects that will be featured at the congress have been through an extensive, peer-reviewed submission process. Let these innovative approaches to care delivery inspire and motivate you.
• See new digital health technology
  Check out some of the new digital health applications and wearable devices you may have heard about in the exhibition hall and innovation hub.
• Discuss and network with your peers
  Mix and mingle with more than 500 fellow attendees from the NHS, local government, academic institutions, third sector, commercial providers, digital health start-ups, entrepreneurs and innovators.

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