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Digital Health Unplugged

Digital Health News podcast on all things IT and digital technology in the NHS
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Digital Health Unplugged: Digitally managing NHS pressure

Host Andrea Downey, chief strategy officer for Servelec Garry McCord, co-founder of Locum's Nest Dr Nicholas Andreou and board member for Health Education England Dr Harpreet Sood, discuss how digital tools can be used to ease pressure on the NHS. The panel also looks at the importance of electronic patient records and upskilling the workforce.

Apr 07, 202036 minEp. 13

Digital Health Unplugged: Coronavirus special

Digital Health Unplugged is bringing you a special edition of the podcast this week, focusing on coronavirus and the response from the NHS and suppliers on the ongoing outbreak. Join our news team, editor Hannah Crouch and senior reporters, Andrea Downey and Owen Hughes, as they talk through the Covid-19 stories making headlines for us.

Mar 27, 202036 minEp. 12

Digital Health Unplugged: March news team debrief

Our latest Digital Health Unplugged news team debrief is now live, looking at the biggest stories of the last month. Join our news team as we discuss the biggest stories of the month on Digital Health Unplugged. This month we look at coronavirus and the Digital Aspirants.

Mar 24, 202030 minEp. 11

Digital Health Unplugged: Women at Rewired

Digital Health Rewired has come and gone for another year, with some 1,800 people attending the event. A key theme at this year's Leadership Summit and Expo was diversity, inclusion and representation, and Digital Health Unplugged hosted its first, but certainly not last, all-women panel discussion. Joining host Andrea Downey to talk about all things Rewired, leadership and diversity were: Prof Julia Riley, clinical lead at Coordinate My Care and consultant in palliative medicine at the Royal Ma...

Mar 10, 202035 minEp. 10

Digital Health Unplugged: February news team debrief

This week's Digital Health Unplugged focuses on the biggest headlines at Digital Health News this month. Join us as Digital Health's editor, Hannah Crouch, editor-in-chief Jon Hoeksma and senior reporter Andrea Downey discuss the news Epic has reportedly told it's customers it will stop working with Google Cloud; the Department of Health and Social Care's new £140 artificial intelligence award; and the possibility of NHSX setting a minimum spend for technology.

Feb 26, 202030 minEp. 9

Digital Health Unplugged: Tech talk with Matthew Gould

NHSX cheif executive Matthew Gould joins Andrea Downey on this week's podcast to talk funding, technology, standards and provide an update on NHSX's core commitments. Gould gives us a look into how the newly announced £40m funding for improved login times will be allocated; what the Digital Aspirant programme will entail; and how organisations like NHSX will set out "what good looks like" through standards that will feed into how the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will begin to assess digital cap...

Feb 11, 202029 minEp. 8

Beer, pizza and Rewired

Ever wondered how beer and pizza could hold the key to scaling innovation in the NHS? Our latest Digital Health Unplugged unpacks that, and much more. Joining Andrea Downey for this week's podcast are two speakers confirmed for Digital Health Rewired 2020: Ross Fullerton, director of strategy and technology for London Ambulance Service; Tom Whicher, founder of DrDoctor; and Jon Hoeksma, Digital Health's editor-in-chief.

Jan 28, 202030 minEp. 7

Digital Health Unplugged - news team debrief

Our first podcast for 2020 has a fresh new look - we will now be publishing fortnightly! Alongside our usual panel discussions with industry experts, we will also be hosting debriefings with the Digital Health news team, looking at the biggest stories of the month. This week's podcast is our first news debriefing with Hannah Crouch, Digital Health's editor; Owen Hughes, senior reporter; Andrea Downey, senior reporter; and Jon Hoeksma, editor in chief.

Jan 14, 202025 minEp. 6

Digital Health Podcast: How NHS trusts can encourage innovation

Joining Andrea Downey on this month's podcast to discuss how trusts can encourage and support innovation is Chris Chaney, chief executive of Chelsea and Westminster’s charity CW+, Sunita Sharma, an obstetrician and gynaecologist who developed the Mum & Baby app which links women to maternity services and Tom Newsom-Davis, a consultant oncologist who leads on the acute diagnostic oncology clinic at Chelsea and Westminster.

Nov 19, 201925 minEp. 5

Digital Health Podcast: Accelerator programmes and adopting innovation

This month’s Digital Health Podcast explores the need for accelerator programmes and the challenges start-ups and SMEs face with turning their innovation from a working concept into reality. It features DigitalHealth.London’s accelerator programme director Sara Nelson, Infinity Health’s chief executive Elliot Engers and Vine Health’s co-founder and chief executive Dr Rayna Patel.

Oct 22, 201919 minEp. 4

Digital Health Podcast: The Shuri Network

This month's Digital Health Podcast with the Shuri Network explores the need for diversity in digital health and what needs to be done to encourage more women to take up IT roles in the NHS. Founders of the network Dr Shera Chok and Sarah Amani joined the panel, along with Dr Ayesha Rahim, CCIO at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust and Professor Joe McDonald, executive director of Connected Health Cities and the former chair of the Digital Health CCIO Network.

Sep 17, 201929 minEp. 3

Digital Health Podcast: Hack Day

In Digital Health's second podcast we chat to the winners of Hack Day at Summer Schools, Hear My Record, about their idea to link medical records with Amazon Alexa. Pitched by Kev Hamer, Matt Beedle and Paul Gisborne of the My Medical Record team at University Hospitals Southampton, the innovation allows patients to manage their own healthcare from checking lab results to booking appointments.

Aug 27, 201917 minEp. 2

Digital Health Summer Schools

Digital Health has launched a new podcast, with the first taking place at Summer Schools 2019 in the form of a panel discussion. Key themes included the highlights of Summer Schools, the launch of the Shuri Network – the first NHS network for BME women in digital health, and the importance of networking and sharing ideas among colleagues.

Jul 23, 201917 minEp. 1
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