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Supporting the Frontline: Beyond COVID-19 - Leveraging digital health to support, empower and protect your workforces
Supporting the Frontline: Beyond COVID-19 - Leveraging digital health to support, empower and protect your workforces
What you'll learn
Learning objectives:
- Discover how COVID-19 has accelerated the deployment of digital health solutions in large hospital systems, including the use of apps and online consultations to maintain quality of care for patients during the crisis
- Learn how crucial it is to involve health professionals in new implementations and make sure that digital is truly supporting, empowering and protecting the frontline, instead of adding a layer of complexity to their clinical practices
- Learn how with human resources scarcity changing demographics challenges, digital health needs to remain a mainstream support of the frontline beyond the current crisis
Dr. Afzal Chaudhry
Consultant Nephrologist, Director of Digital & Chief Clinical Information Officer
Cambridge University Hospitals, UK
Bio info: Dr Afzal Chaudhry is a Consultant Nephrologist and the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) at Cambridge...
Dr Afzal Chaudhry is a Consultant Nephrologist and the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust (CUH). He leads the CUH eHospital programme, delivering a trust-wide HIMSS Stage 6 electronic patient record, and the Informatics component of the Population and Quantitative Science theme in the Cambridge NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. He is also an Associate Site Director for the Cambridge Health Data Research UK site.
In 2017 Dr Chaudhry was recognised as the UK CCIO of the Year, and in 2018 he received a Special Recognition Award in the UK Government sponsored Public Sector Paperless Transformation Awards.
Dr. Charles Alessi
Chief Clinical Officer
HIMSS, UK
Bio info: Dr. Charles Alessi is a globally recognized and trusted leader in health care. He brings to HIMSS a wealth of...
Dr. Charles Alessi is a globally recognized and trusted leader in health care. He brings to HIMSS a wealth of experience, particularly around health systems and the interface between healthcare, social care and the personalization of wellness. He is a physician in London, with more than 35 years of experience in all aspects of clinical practice in the UK National Health Service. Most recently, he served as the Chairman of the National Association of Primary Care, part of the NHS confederation, where he was at the heart of the recent health and social care reforms.He is also the Senior Advisor to Public Health England, a position leading thought leadership around productive healthy ageing including dementia, targeting risk reduction. Furthermore, he fulfils key roles in PHE around digital interventions, particularly those that involve behavioral change. Other responsibilities include air quality and antibiotic prescribing. He forms part of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Panel that is formulating new guidelines around risk reduction in dementia globally and also leads thought leadership around productive healthy aging. He has extensive experience in military medicine, being a past Medical Director and Director of Clinical Governance for the British forces in Germany and was recently appointed to serve on the Reference Committee tasked with renewing military medicine in the United Kingdom.He holds a variety of international academic positions both in Europe and the Americas and has published widely in the media and journals. He is an Adjunct Research professor in Clinical Neurosciences at the Schulich School of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, Canada and Visiting Scholar at the Odette School of business in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He continues to advise major corporations and national governments around health and care reform, particularly where systemic reform and digital interventions are being considered.
Dr. Peter Gocke
Chief Digital Officer
Charité, Germany
Bio info: Dr. Med Peter Gocke was already successful in digitization of radiology department as a radiologist at Essen...
Dr. Med Peter Gocke was already successful in digitization of radiology department as a radiologist at Essen University Hospital. With him as CIO, the UKE Hamburg-Eppendorf was the first paperless clinic in Europe to receive the HIMSS EMRAM Award of Level 7 in 2011. In 2017, he became the first Chief Digital Officer (CDO) in the German healthcare sector to head the newly created Digital Transformation department at Charité Berlin. Dr. Gocke is an author, a sought-after speaker and editor of KMA (klinik management aktuell), a member of the HIMSS Europe Governing Council and an expert for the Federal Ministry of Health.
Jan Kimpen
Global Chief Medical Officer
Philips, The Netherlands
Bio info: As the leader of the global clinical team, Jan works with 40 clinicians and medical PhDs with the responsibility for...
As the leader of the global clinical team, Jan works with 40 clinicians and medical PhDs with the responsibility for advocacy, customer partnerships, clinical research and medical consulting, and he is responsible for the annual publication of the Philips Future Health Index.
Jan chairs the Chief Medical and Scientific Office Leadership Team consisting of the clinical leaders of each Philips Cluster and in which the markets are represented. A frequent speaker on value-based care and digital innovation in healthcare, Jan participates in the WEF Global Future Council on Healthcare, the American Heart Association alliance and the Board of Sanara Ventures in Israel. Jan is Board Member of COCIR (formerly president, 2018-2020), the European trade union for imaging, healthcare informatics and radiotherapy.
Details

Event Type : On Demand
Date : Jun 24, 2020 07:00 AM CT
Cost : Complimentary
Credits : CPHIMS, CAHIMS
Speaker(s) : Dr. Afzal Chaudhry, Dr. Charles Alessi, Dr. Peter Gocke, Jan Kimpen
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