HETT: The UK’s leading digital health event

HETT is the leading platform to connect digital, operational and clinical leadership and buyers from across the UK health sector with suppliers of new technology, services and innovations. Here, we look at the four agenda tracks for September’s event

Taking place from 29-30 September 2020, HETT, the UK’s leading healthtech and digital health event, will connect the entire healthtech and digital health ecosystem and be the destination of choice for healthcare organisations looking to adopt and invest in the digital revolution.

Attracting 4,000 attendees and in excess of 140 exhibitors, HETT is the leading platform to connect digital, operational and clinical leadership and buyers from across the UK health sector with suppliers of new technology, services and innovations. With hundreds of face-to-face meetings onsite, endless networking and learning opportunities and interactive features, HETT is the must-attend UK healthtech event of 2020.

In light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the organisers of the event, GovNet, maintain that they have no plans to postpone or cancel HETT 2020, and will ensure that all sensible steps to make sure HETT 2020 proceeds safely and successfully. However, extra steps will be taken.

In line with the World Health Organisation’s standard recommendations for the general public to reduce exposure to and transmission of a range of illnesses, HETT is introducing new measures at the show to increase the safety of all attendees. Hand sanitisers will now be provided at the registration desk at the events, in addition to hand sanitation already installed in all toilets and washrooms. Extra signage will also be noticeable around the event to promote high hygiene standards.

A digital agenda

HETT 2020 contains four main agenda streams, covering: Digitally Empowered Patients; Culture & Implementation; Integration & Interoperability; and Digital Maturity Forum.

Pressures on the NHS are greater than they have ever been, and patients are at the centre of every decision made in health and social care. An increasingly digital world means there are higher expectations from patients around the use of up-to-date technology, online provision of care, and how their data is managed by healthcare organisations.

The evolution of new models of care have driven the need for better information sharing between different care settings, organisations and geographies

By creating models of care and treatment that empower patients, focus can be turned to prevention and engagement with services that support personal health through both illness and wellness. The Digitally Empowered Patients track will cover: IoT, apps and wearables for remote treatment and patient monitoring, hospital and community; how to evaluate digital health products and interventions; Personal Health Records (PHRs) and improving patient pathways; digital inclusivity, digital skills and human-centric service design; perspectives from patient representatives; and online triage, self-triage and prevention models of care.

Speakers within this stream include: Ross O’Brien, Digital Innovation Director at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; and Nicola Haywood-Alexander, Chief Information Officer at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust.

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Culture and Implementation

Building solid infrastructure and taking incremental approaches to transformation are crucial to achieving operational excellence in digital transformation at scale. No transformation project can succeed without aligning the vision across an organisation and ensuring clinicians are engaged with digital teams, from both a leadership and front line perspective.

Explore the tools needed to build your digital-ready workforce and create the right organisational culture, developing the workforce whilst reducing technology burden and burnout. This track will include: arming the clinical and IT workforce with the right digital skills; digitally literate commissioning, procurement and funding; NHS Digital Academy taster sessions; HEE Topol Fellowships and TEL Programme; diversity and bias, and ethical implications of work; and the view from the frontline – nurses, AHPs, pharmacists and dentists.

Confirmed speakers in the Culture and Implementation stream include: James Freed, Chief Information Officer at Health Education England, Sara Gorton, head of Healthcare at UNISON; Rizwan Malik, Consultant Radiologist at Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust; Rachel Dunscombe, Chief Executive Officer at the NHS Digital Academy; Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive Officer at the Health Foundation; Paul Jones, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Gareth Thomas, Chief Clinical Information Officer at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; and Matthew Gould, the Chief Executive Officer for NHSX.

Building solid infrastructure and taking incremental approaches to transformation are crucial to achieving operational excellence in digital transformation at scale

Integration and Interoperability

The emergence and evolution of new models of care have driven the need for better information sharing between different care settings, organisations and geographies. In turn, effective data sharing between healthcare providers and patients, so that they can receive joined-up, integrated care, has never been more important.

This track will provide valuable insights for digital health leaders on how to achieve interoperability at scale, as well as deliver the benefits to patients, including: the pathways from STP to ICS, and the formation and delivery of PCNs; open standards and APIs, technical interoperability, and cloud-based data sharing; standard setting for clinicians and technology users, and benchmarking for integrated care; shared care records, LHCRs, and the potential to develop mature record sharing at a national level; best practice approaches to delivering integration projects, working collaboratively across organisations, and effective cyber security and information governance; and common challenges to EPR rollout and delivering accelerated and maintained progress, plus gaining buy-in from clinicians and eliminating workarounds.

Within this agenda stream, speakers include: Rhidian Hurle, Chief Clincial Information Officer at NHS Wales; Terence Eden, head of Open Technology at NHSX; Glen Hodgson, head of Healthcare at GS1 UK; Dylan Roberts, Chief Digital and Information Officer for Leeds City Council and Leeds CCG; Simon Eccles, Chief Clinical Information Officer at NHS England; and Mark Hutchinson, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Digital Maturity

When it comes to digital maturity, a select number of advanced organisations are leading the way. This track asks how the rest of the health system can catch up to the front runners and how advanced sites are pushing forward with innovation through the latest and emerging tech.

Learn actionable insights from mature sites to establish the basics and create a foundation for future digital development, including: accelerating adoption of AI and machine learning, including regulatory updates; AR and VR use cases; scaling up and spreading success from GDEs and Fast Followers using blueprinting; benchmarking digital maturity in primary, secondary, community and mental health settings; disrupting the status quo and engaging with innovators in industry; and utilising robotics, 5G and future technologies to improve healthcare delivery.

Confirmed speakers include: Piers Ricketts, chair of the AHSN Network; Tom Stocker, policy manager for Innovation in Care at the Care Quality Commission; Ian Newington, head of Special Projects for the Health Innovation Challenge Fund, part of the National Institute for Health Research; and Indra Joshi, director of AI at NHSX.

FURTHER INFORMATION: https://hettshow.co.uk/