As Integrated Care Systems start to materialise across the NHS, IT departments are working to bring new colleagues from different organisations together. Now is an ideal time to look for ways to deliver quick wins to prove the new collaboration concept, while supporting a health and care system under tremendous pressures.

In this webinar, hosted by Andy Wilcox, Senior Solutions and Enablement Manager at Imprivata, and Daniel Johnston MRes, RN, Senior Clinical Workflow Specialist & UK NHS Clinical Safety Officer, Imprivata, you’ll learn more about the vision for ICSs, and how to make that vision a reality at your organisation. Join us to hear about how a robust digital identity framework can help facilitate the process and: Deliver patient information instantly at every point of care; Manage the full identity lifecycle, thereby reducing security risks and easing the burden of regulatory compliance; and Improve workflows, resulting in gained efficiencies for clinicians and IT alike.

NHS England’s Transformation Directorate has set an objective for convergence of healthcare applications to enable improved healthcare outcomes. During this session, Shaun Collings and James Norman will focus on the key challenges that organisations face in implementing an infrastructure and data architecture to address the directive of the convergence of NHS systems.

In this Digital Health Webinar session, Claire Florey, SRO for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICS will share their journey of Outpatient Transformation, highlighting the benefits to patients, staff and the organisation.

When it comes to integrated care, digital is an enabler. Physical smartcards and readers used to be the only answer – but now, you can ensure streamlined, secure access to NHS Spine-enabled applications with just a password.

Medway NHS Foundation Trust recently went live with its EPR, deploying in less than five months during a time when the trust was experiencing intense pandemic pressures. The EPR team were innovative and worked collaboratively across programme and clinical workflows, to achieve what their Director of IT called ‘the smoothest roll out [he’d] ever seen.’

Hear how Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn implemented Imprivata ConfirmID and CareFlow Medicines Management in their Pharmacy dept, where they leveraged optimised secondary authentication when clinicians were e-charting, e-signing and e-witnessing to deliver clinical benefit through efficient prescribing workflows.

Digital tools, platforms and services offer a variety of ways for UK health services to help manage the unique challenges of the Covid-19 public health emergency, ranging from mobilising entire workforces, triaging patients, providing advice and guidance through to shifting from in-person to video consultations.

Liam Abbott, Head of IT Infrastructure and Cyber Security Lead at Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust will talk about their experience of successfully rolling out the Imprivata Single Sign-on solution at the hospital and the benefits that have been realised. Liam will also talk about the strategic approach to IT projects that has been implemented within the STP and how it helps drive success across the organisation.

Meeting the fluid needs of a changing population will require an increasing use of technology and innovation in the NHS. In this webinar, Accenture speakers Chris Gibbons and Guy Player, alongside a health-tech start-up will unlock some of the secrets to successful NHS innovation and collaboration with start-ups.

In May 2019, Aasha Cowey and Di Bullman undertook an online survey with the health informatics community as part of the Building a Digital Ready Workforce Programme. The aim was to understand how we can improve recruitment, retention and progression by learning from the collective experiences of the workforce. 507 individuals completed the survey which explored contextual information, career pathway information, reflections and looking to the future. This included capturing over 600 unique job titles and exploring movements between roles. In this webinar, Aasha and Di will be presenting on the key findings and recommendations following this research.

The Topol review sets the NHS a grand ambition to become a world leader in healthcare technologies. It highlights clearly that workforce is a key differentiator to the success of this ambition. In the past five years the NHS has outlined several different initiatives to deliver a better equipped and digitally enabled workforce.

In our first ever Digital Health Networks Ask Me Anything (AMA) session, Marcus Baw, @pacharanero, our resident Discourse wrangler will answer your questions about getting more out of our forum platform on 18 October. If you’ve ever wanted to know how to get from being a new community member or lurker, to a confident poster, then this hands-on AMA session is for you.

This webinar will provide the opportunity to find out more about the research project at Alder Hey and the challenges and opportunities that the use of eObservations in Paediatrics present.

With interoperability now widely regarded as a top priority for NHS IT leaders, this webinar provides an overview of a shared care record platform which has the potential to define the standard for integrated care in England and disrupt the existing landscape.

Join Marcus Baw and Jon Hoeksma for an introduction to Discourse for everyone who’d like a little support and guidance on how to better take part in the online community, which now has 3,500 members.

With a cloud and digital first strategy now being not only an aspiration, but a standard for the delivery of technology in health and care, UKCloud present and discuss “Cloud First”, which will cover the journey they have been on, their work with the supplier market and their exciting offerings that is having traction and interest across health and care.

In this exclusive Digital Health Intelligence webinar the priorities of NHS IT leaders and key take-aways from messages from the Digital health NHS IT Leadership Survey, 2019 will be revealed.

Lincolnshire is the fourth largest county in England, over half of its population live in rural locations and, with one in ten residents over the age of 70, it has a disproportionately large elderly population. In 2013 Lincolnshire’s healthcare partner organisations undertook a major review aimed at transforming its health and social care services. Its goal was also to move healthcare out of hospitals, to situate it closer to patients’ homes wherever possible.   During the webinar Liz and David will expand on: What the Care Portal is and how it works, The benefits already being felt by clinicians and patients,And the next steps on their transformation journey.

In this webinar, we will explore whether the idea of a 360-degree view of a patient is a pipedream? Does too much information cause as many issues as not having enough? Or are there real-life examples of forward-thinking NHS organisations that are moving ever closer to providing a complete digital patient record? To answer these and other questions, we have a number of esteemed panellists from a range of NHS Trusts who will share their thoughts, ideas and experiences when it comes to accessing patient information.

More and more hospitals are investing in initiatives to digitise their patients records, but will they succeed in harvesting all of the possible benefits from these programmes. Lisa Harris of IMMJ Systems will be sharing her experiences and showcasing their next generation EDMS to hopefully offer a few pointers in this direction

Data-driven technology in health and care has the potential to create efficiency gains and enable augmented care. Much has been written and spoken about the potentials and hurdles of AI. In this session hear about what work is currently underway across government and regional areas to enable to safe, effective and evidenced development of these types of technologies. Including some practical evidence-based case studies, this session will cover some practical solutions to enable the safe implementation of these technologies.

The Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive) is the first piece of cybersecurity legislation passed by the European Union (EU). The NIS sets a range of network and information security requirements which apply to operators of essential services and digital service providers (DSPs).

The challenge of ensuring a consistent level of knowledge among healthcare informatics professionals is well established. It ties into complex issues about professionalisation, and accreditation, and delivering learning and development in the always-stretched environment of the NHS. For the past eight years, the North West Informatics Skills Development (ISD) Network has provided a means of bolstering the skills of informatics professionals in this region. In this exclusive Digital Health Best Practice Webinar, key leaders will explain more about how the network has developed, the benefits it has created, and offer advice to others seeking to support the professional development of informatics professionals.

The Homerton transformation team have driven initiatives focused on how the Trust organises and delivers administrative support and outpatient services in gastroenterology and musculoskeletal specialties. Working closely with clinicians and medical secretaries they have re-visited outpatient workflows and processes and re-designed them for long-term efficiency and to free-up precious administration resources for a greater focus on patients. The team have deployed Nuance Dragon Medical One speech recognition integrated into the hospital-wide EPR. Clinicians now use their voice to capture the patient consultation more naturally, efficiently and on their terms.

There is growing demand for secure alternatives to ‘WhatsApp’ for use by clinical teams, but this need extends beyond hospitals and secure messaging alone. This webinar will showcase the CareFlow Connect platform and the work we are doing to provide event driven care coordination for whole health economies.

The webinar will provide you with insights into how and why the trust selected and implemented Fortinet. You will also learn how the use of SIEM has helped improve compliancy, driven efficiencies and enabled the trust to better utilise information from their existing technology assets to gain useful and insightful knowledge from their network.

Join Accenture for our webinar where we will discuss our experience in digitising patient journeys and empowering patients and staff. We’ll show examples of real improvements in health outcomes, efficiency and the patient experience.

Find out how Leeds and York Partnership trust identified a need for a Single Sign On Solution, to address issues with application access within the trust and how they evaluated potential solutions. David Martin will also talk about how the deployment was project managed to ensure success and some of the challenges they faced along the way.

Knowledge sharing has always been central to the vision for the global digital exemplar (GDE) programme. Blueprinting is key to this – the idea that formal documents will be created which provide a guide to successful implementation of an initiative or system. As the blueprinting programme reaches the end of its first year, Digital Health is holding an exclusive best practice webinar to review progress so far and consider plans for the future.

The Five Year Forward View sets out that to meet rising demand, the NHS must harness the power of information and technology to provide care that is convenient for patients, efficient for the NHS and which get people the right services as quickly as possible. This webinar will provide you with an update on our plans to empower people to take control of their health and care based on the recent publication of our new ‘Empower the Person’ roadmap version 2.

A national update on guidance and preparation for the revised standard contract; further learning from PSO project teams on what worked, and what didn’t as they plan and deliver paperless referrals across their health community; e-RS system development roadmap update.

This webinar is aimed at CCG Clinical IT Leads, CCIOs, CIOs and Heads of Digital. By joining us you will learn how the GP IT operating model will support resilient infrastructure for practices, and much more.

This webinar will summarise findings from the #DigitalReady consultation, led by the NIB programme “Building a Digital Ready Workforce” in which 1,061 informaticians were polled to determine a crowd-sourced strategy for the informatics profession.

This webinar will share more on the feasibility, prototyping and user testing on a future target model described as ‘Primary Care as a Platform’ to seek challenge and feedback from the CIO/CCIO community.

The North West Informatics Skills (ISD) Network has been running their Excellence-in-Informatics (workforce) Accreditation scheme for a number of years, 33% of organisations are currently accredited to the level 1 standards. NW ISD volunteered this year to pilot a peer validation process for the Digital Maturity Assessment. Six organisations (including one Mental Health Trust) participated in this process which involved gathering of evidence and face to face peer meetings to discuss finding and ratings.

When University Hospital Southampton decided to embark on a new ward based whiteboard project, they knew one of the factors to would include replacing the old handwritten boards with a new digital system. Not only would it display the information in a clear “at a glance” way, it would be tactile and user friendly, making the overall transition easier for all involved.

If you’re a clinician, CCIO or digital health professional who wants to get an update on FHIR and its impact on health interoperability, this webinar is for you.

NHS Digital Academy was established to accelerate the development of senior NHS digital leaders. The Academy will begin its first intake at the start of 2018. This webinar will provide an update on the NHS Digital Academy for members of the CCIO and CIO Networks.

Join the Digital Health Intelligence team for exclusive insights into the current and planned IT infrastructure of NHS organisations from our new 2017 Infrastructure data collection.