Programme

Chair’s Opening Remarks

Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC Technology Correspondent (confirmed)

Improving Efficiency in Care through ICT

• Protecting public health funding through ring fenced budgets
• Weighting budgets towards the most disadvantaged areas through health premium payments
• Enabling local NHS organisations to hold their own budgets
• Incorporating local NHS organisations, local authorities, voluntary organisations and local businesses to work towards improving the health of residents
• Incentivising GPs to prioritise preventative measures
• Encouraging behavioural change
  

Charles Gutteridge, National Clinical Director for Informatics, Department of Health (confirmed)

NHS What is the "Vision"? Building an EPR for an Acute Hospital

• Why an EPR is needed for an Acute Hospital, focussing on a case study of the benefits and ROI of ALERT in an acute care setting
• How to make the ‘ Vision Decision’ – focussing on the way in which an organisation can present a successful business case for an EPR
• Buying power – how to procure a solution and what makes a good procurement
• Choosing a supplier – the ALERT Case study
• Being successful – focussing on the key things needed to ensure successful implementation of EPR solutions

Beki Ruban, Head of UK Business Development, ALERT Life Sciences Computing (confirmed)

Importance of technology adoption in a flat-cash environment 

• Cost saving possibilities by adopting beneficial innovative technologies
• Understanding the challenges facing NHS senior managers in delivering new technology to frontline services
• Assisting NHS organisations to navigate the complexities of technology implementation
• Supporting  senior NHS managers to facilitate the sustainable implementation of medical technology

Colin Callow, Programme Director, NHS Technology Adoption Centre (confirmed)

ICT and Effective Commissioning in the NHS

• Understanding local population needs and planning services to meet them
• Procuring resources efficiently
• Evaluating service quality and outcomes
• Benchmarking your organisational activity against similar NHS organisations

Steve Peacock, Head of Commercial Services, Commissioning Support for London

Taking NHS to the next level of NIMM and G-Cloud

• Market dynamics
• Novell helping with the NIMM
• Intellingent Workload Management
• The Novell approach to Intelligent Workload Management
• Charting a path for the future with Novell

John Stetic, Vice President of Product Management, Novell (confirmed)

Engaging the Public, Transforming Patient Care

• Future of healthcare ICT post spending review

• Utilising ICT as an opportunity to engage the public, promoting healthier lives
• Empowering patients to make more informed choices about their health and personal care: NHS Choices and NHS Direct
• Promoting personal health organisers to manage, locate, and store important health information
• Improving the NHS through better research, planning and management
• The NHS “information revolution” – boosting transparency, accountability and strengthening the collective voice of patients
• ICT as an enabler of patient choice, and the role of HealthWatch England
  
• Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) - How Technology will help you deliver on the QIPP Programme
• Importance of consultation on data security issues to allow patient access to information
• The effects of patience centred health systems on provider choice, healthcare supplier competition and the healthcare economy

Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health, Department of Health (confirmed)

Seminar Session I

Afternoon Streams

Stream I: More Time to Care through Collaborative & Interactive Technology Sponsored by:

Stream II: Making the most of Mobile and Wireless Healthcare Technology: Putting Patient Care at the Heart of the NHS Sponsored by:

Stream III: Information Assurance in the Health Service: Ensuring Security and Confidentiality of Patient Data Sponsored by: