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Highland Marketing has been named as the communications partner for the HETT North show, which will take place at Manchester Central on 26 February 2025. The continued collaboration with the team behind the Healthcare Excellence Through Technology conferences and exhibitions follows the success of the support that Highland Marketing provided for HETT at ExCeL London in September.

Continued collaboration follows success at Healthcare Excellence Through Technology at ExCeL London in 2024

The specialist health tech research, PR, marketing and sales support agency will provide media, content and digital services for HETT North, which will take place at a critical time for NHS IT, as the government finalises its 10 Year Health Plan and digital, data and technology strategy.

The event will also have a northern flavour, with commissioners and providers from the Midlands and North showcasing the great work they are already doing to scale innovation and tackle the big challenges facing health and care, from waiting lists to prevention.

Rikki Bhachu, head of marketing at HETT organiser GovNet, said: “We chose Highland Marketing to support HETT because of its excellent reputation in the health tech market, so we are looking forward to continuing to work with its expert team.

“We want to make sure that everybody with an interest in digital transformation knows about HETT and HETT North because of the unparalleled opportunity they present to discuss the current issues and meet some of the leading suppliers from the UK and beyond.”

This year’s HETT North will have a conference built around two streams: a main plenary stream and a digital maturity forum looking at how IT can address waiting lists, support the shift from cure to prevention, support the roll-out of genomic medicine, and bridge the gender health gap and build resilient cyber security defences.

Alongside the conference streams, there will be an insights zone to provide additional networking opportunities and content for attendees and an exhibition on the main show floor to give visitors the chance to meet health tech suppliers and innovators.

Mark Venables, chief executive of Highland Marketing, said: “We are very pleased to be supporting the HETT team once again, at HETT North.

“Conferences and exhibitions are highly valued by NHS digital leaders and exhibitors, and it is great to see the organisers focusing on the health tech landscape outside London and the South.

“We look forward to working with the HETT team before, during and after the event to make HETT North as successful as possible at such a critical moment for healthcare and the health tech industry.”

In addition to media, content, and social media services, Highland Marketing will be working to amplify the views of exhibitors at the show. It will be filming short videos at the event and using social media to spread the most inventive ideas from the exhibition floor.

The Highland Marketing team will also be available throughout the show for one-to-one conversations on effective approaches to health tech marketing and focused communications to the market.

Companies interested in our full range of integrated services should come and find Highland Marketing on its stand or get in touch via its website: highland-marketing.com

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Digital Health has unveiled the draft programme for its Rewired25 event which will take place at the NEC in Birmingham in March next year. 

With a new government, new policy direction and significant new investment, making more effective use of digital and data to improve productivity, patient safety and high quality care will underpin the government’s 10 year health plan.   

The Digital Health Rewired25 draft programme showcases the most important national programmes and local initiatives underway to accelerate the shift from analogue to digital health. 

Jon Hoeksma, chief executive of Digital Health, said: “Rewired25 comes at a critical moment for NHS renewal.

“Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS in England identified accelerating digitisation of the NHS as crucial to improve productivity and quality of care. This will underpin efforts empower patients to take control of their health and shift services out of hospitals. 

“Politicians are right to identify the need to accelerate and spread digitisation. Fortunately, there are myriad examples of how that is already being done in almost every part of the NHS.   

“The Rewired25 conference programme and exhibition will showcase and share the widest range of fantastic and inspiring initiatives already underway through case studies, best practice and deep dive sessions.”

Delivered across nine stages, the Rewired25 programme will bring together an inspiring mix of national policy, researchers, thought leaders, NHS board executives, plus a broad range of local digital leaders and teams to explore the latest developments in digital health and care.

It will also feature keynote sessions mixing the best national and industry leaders with headline sponsors The Access Group and Microsoft.  

Digital Transformation, sponsored by Microsoft includes:  

• Dr Jess Morley, researcher and self-proclaimed ‘health data nerd’, Digital Ethics Centre, Yale, will challenge assumptions on AI in health;  
• Prof Joe Harrison, national director, NHS Digital Channels, will chart the future of the NHS App; 
• Charlotte Refsum, director of health policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, will argue the need for digital health and care records. 

Integrated Care, sponsored by The Access Group includes:  

• Helen Thomas, CEO Digital Health and Care Wales and Rashik Parmar, group CEO the British Computer Society will explore collaboration and people;  
• Professor Rachel Dunscombe, CEO, OpenEHR International, will provide an international perspective; 
• Alec Price-Forbes, the new national CCIO at NHS England, will set out his priorities for digital health and care. 

Leadership and Teams includes:  

• Neil McDonald, CEO, and Mitchell Fernandez, deputy chief nurse, Buckinghamshire Health NHS Trust, will explore AI and patient safety;  
• Dr Robert Smillie, chief medical information officer, Royal Free Hospital, will focus on culture and teams;  
• Dr Liz Breen, director of the Digital Health Enterprise Zone, University of Bradford, will examine the digital skills needed by the NHS workforce. 

AI and Data includes:  

• Ming Tang, chief data and analytics officer, NHS England and Dr Nicola Byrne, National Data Guardian for health and social care, will examine the future of patient data; 
• Dr Hatim Abdulhussein, CEO Health Innovation Kent, Surrey and Sussex; and Prof Susan Shelmerdine, Roentgen Professor at the Royal College of Radiologists, children’s imaging expert, UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health, will explore harnessing AI in health; 
• Joe Home, clinical lead, Bupa and Dr Dom Pimenta, CEO, Tortus, will take a trip through the wild west of health tech. 

Digital Nursing, Midwifery, Allied Health Professionals (AHP) and Pharmacy includes:

• Helen Balsdon, chief nursing information officer (CNIO), NHS England will explore the evolution of leadership roles 
• Dr Crystal Oldman, CEO, the Queen’s Nursing Institute, will examine community nursing in the digital age; 
• Nishali Patel, clinical lead digital medicines, NHS England; and Yousaf Ahmad, director of medicines NHS Frimley, will share latest developments in prescription tracking using the NHS App. 

Cyber Security and Infrastructure includes: 

• Denis Lafitte, chief digital information officer, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, will lead a deep dive session with colleagues on the clinical impact of the Synnovis attack and lessons for the wider NHS; 
• Mike Fell, executive director of national cyber security operations, NHS England, will discuss building cyber foundations to accelerate the shift to digital; 
• Sarah Thomas, director of digital, New Hospitals Programme, will explore building digital health infrastructure. 

Patient Engagement highlights include: 

• Rachel Power, CEO, The Patient Association, will examine whether digital can provide the tools to put patients first; 
• Prof Sara Shaw, professor of health policy and practice, University of Oxford; and Dr Sonja Marjanovic, director healthcare innovation, industry and policy, RAND Europe, will share lessons on large scale remote patient monitoring projects.  

Innovation highlights will include:  

• Dr Malte Gerhold, director of innovation and improvement, The Health Foundation, will discuss how technology can best help the NHS; 
• Professor David Lowe, clinical director of innovation, Scottish Government, will discuss the need to align, people, pathways and performance to implement innovation;     
• Jacqui Cooper CNIO, Health Innovation Manchester, will share how innovation can be harnessed to make an impact on nursing. 

There will also be a Best Practice stage, with speakers soon to be announced.

Eleanor McGrath-Williams, conference manager, at Digital Health, said: “In addition to the speakers named in the draft programme a record number of NHS CEOs will take part in Rewired25, a reflection of how critical the digital agenda has become to every NHS organisation. 

“The sessions and initial speaker announcements in the draft programme will next be joined by many of the digital leaders and teams who responded to the Rewired open call, with a full programme to be published in December.” 

Digital Health Rewired 2025 will take part at the NEC in Birmingham on 18-19 March 2025. 

Rewired25 is free for those in the NHS and public sector. Private sector tickets are available from £495 +VAT. Register now and book your accommodation early to secure the best rates. 

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The dedicated new two-day conference will bring together health professionals, researchers, analysts, data scientists, start-ups, for educational sessions and best practice case studies the latest
and best examples of data science, AI and analytics in action across UK healthcare.

Hear from influential keynotes and expert speakers including Chris Wigley, CEO of Genomics England, Ming Tang, chief data and analytics officer for NHS England, Dr Raghib Ali, chief medical officer at Our Future Health, Stefan Zohren , associate professor in engineering science at University of Oxford, Joe Harrison, national director of NHS App, Umang Patel, CCIO at Microsoft UK, Hatim Abdulhussein, national clinical lead for AI and digital workforce at NHS England and many more.

Experience a CPD-accredited conference programme featuring a mix of NHS case studies spanning AI, data, and analytics, together with key health data research initiatives linking NHS organisations, universities, research bodies and life sciences companies.

View the programme, which features over 100+ unmissable speakers, including: 

• Ming Tang, chief data and analytics officer, NHS England
• Dr Katharine Halliday, president, The Royal College of Radiologists
• Joe Harrison, CEO of Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS trust and national
  director of NHS App
• Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram, CEO and founder, Proximie
• Chris Wigley, CEO of Genomics England
• Dr Ben Maruthappu, founder and CEO, Cera
• Dr Raghib Ali, chief medical officer and joint chief investigator, Our Future Health
• Dominic Cushnan, director of AI, imaging and deployment, NHS England
• Stephan Zohren, associate professor of engineering science, Oxford University
• Ruth Holland, deputy CIO, Imperial College Healthcare NHS FT
• Dr Umang Patel, CCIO, Microsoft UK

Register today

AI + Data is free for NHS, public sector, start-ups, charities, education and research. Commercial tickets start from £275+VAT. Secure your place.

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Maximise your brand awareness, showcase your products and connect with digital leaders within this fast-evolving area of health and care. Download the sales brochure or contact us at
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At the webinar, five medical brands showcased their latest innovative med-tech equipment. All presenting medical brands are winners of the Taiwan Excellence Awards, which is a prestigious award given to made in Taiwan products displaying outstanding features in research and development, quality, design, and marketing. The participating companies and their products are:

• iXensor’s infectious disease management/ chronic disease management/ female health management
• Wellell’s SleepWell solution
• United Orthopedic’s Hinge Knee & Limb Salvage System
• MiiS’ telemedicine solution products
• IEI’s Medical Image Management System (POCi-W22C-ULT5)

The webinar once again attested to Taiwan’s medical industry’s ability to quickly adapt and combine technology and service to facilitate healthcare provision even in low resource settings, such as a pandemic. Matthew Huei-Ming Ma, MD, PhD, professor of Emergency Medicine and the Vice Superintendent of National Taiwan University Hospital (Yunlin Branch), commented that “hospital physicians worked very closely with the telecommunication and medical companies to enhance the best care for patients while also protecting our valuable healthcare staff” thereby emphasising the synergy between the medical and technology sector to address healthcare needs during emergency situations.

The webinar is available to watch on demand and can be found via https://youtu.be/ZVygWc_PDgA

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Taiwan is well-known for its solid industrial foundation, comprehensive supply chains in ICT and precision machinery, and significant experience working with electric medical devices through OEM/ODM services. Altogether, these serve to strengthen Taiwan’s medical industry.

Organized by the Bureau of Foreign Trade at Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, and TAITRA, Taiwan’s leading trade promotion organization, an upcoming webinar will present five award-winning brands from Taiwan offering innovative medical technology and applications.

This event will feature Medimaging Integrated Solution (MiiS), iXensor, Wellell (formerly Apex Medical Corp), IEI and United Orthopedic. These medtech brands emerged stronger from the coronavirus pandemic and are keen to share their insights on building resilience and managing healthcare statistics more proactively.

The webinar will also feature opening remarks from a representative of the Taiwan Medical and Biotech Industry Association, and from Dr. Matthew Hui-Ming Ma, Vice Superintendent of National Taiwan University Hospital, Yunlin Branch.

This free event will take place on Thursday 16^th June at 9:00 am BST. Register HERE.

For more information:

Event Website: https://sites.google.com/view/2022-smart-medical-application/

Taiwan Excellence Award https://www.taiwanexcellence.org/en

Taiwan Healthcare Hub: https://healthcare.taiwantrade.com/home/home.html

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The business program of AUTOMA+ 2022 is created to cover the topics of the healthcare industry:

• Social aspects of digitalization
• Data capture and usage from self-monitoring technologies
• Strategies to improve patient centricity for health systems
• Building trust in digital health tools
• New patient-centric solutions
• Smart digital medical devices and smart hospitals

During 2 days of intensive networking, participants get direct access to the whole value chain of the healthcare industry. Among the highlights of the program is C-level opening panel discussion, redrawing healthcare with AI and robotics, gamified education and virtual health and start-up closing session.

Healthcare Automation and Digitalization Congress is an annual B2B networking event. Among participants, there are representatives of  Lundbeck, Bluefish Pharmaceutical, Novo Nordisk, Ferrer, Sheba City of Health, University Medicine Essen, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and others. AUTOMA+ Healthcare is the place to discuss innovative solutions and business practices and share case studies and insights.

Request the full business program of AUTOMA+ Healthcare on the website:  https://bit.ly/3K2bsFr

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The catalyst for this has been the accelerated technological adoption in clinical trials, but a general feeling still that enough isn’t being done for patients, failing to develop co-created, data-driven, standardised and accountable trial design.

Senior leaders from Sanofi, Pfizer, Bayer, FDA, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol Myers Squibb, Roche, Novartis and more are collaborating on May 17^th, with one mission in mind: it’s time to develop a better system. “We must establish new industry-wide benchmarks, leverage digital technology, and ensure permanent cultural change toward patient- centric trials. If we don’t act immediately, we risk losing patient trust.” Said Usmaan Khan, Global Project Director and leader for Reuters Events: Pharma Clinical 2022.

The community is growing every day so don’t miss out on the opportunity to be part of this movement- this event is free for pharma and biotech executives, patient advocates and patient associations! Secure your pass today: https://bit.ly/3w81QFY

About Reuters Events: Pharma Clinical 2022, May 17-19^th

Reuters Events: Pharma Clinical is proud to host a one-of-a-kind line-up, with more than 40 world-class and professional speakers. Among the speakers are:

• Jijo James, CMO, Medical Devises, Johnson & Johnson
• Lionel Bascles, SVP, Global Head of Clinical Sciences & Operations, Sanofi
• Craig Lipset, Advisor and founder, Clinical Innovations Partners
• Loredana Regep, VP Medical and Regulatory Affairs, Roche
• Najat Khan, Chief Data Science Officer, Global Head, Janssen R&D Strategy and Operations, Johnson & Johnson
• Dietmar Berger, CMO, Global Head of Development, Sanofi
• Tracy Vanderslice, VP & Head, Pharma Global Clinical Operations, GSK
• Venkat Sethuraman, SVP Global Biometrics and Data Science, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Click here to discover the full speaker line-up now!

Why should you attend? 

On last year’s event, Mo Ali, VP Digital Analytics and Performance said: “Clinical 2021 allows for open discussions around how we can do this, by sharing experiences and learnings, we expand on the art of the possible from what once several years ago may have been viewed as impossible”

Clinical 2022 builds on this with our insight-driven agenda co-created with industry leaders to guarantee you acquire practical knowledge that will help you succeed. With 40+ speakers, you’ll access critical sessions related to:

• Benchmark industry-wide clinical innovation: Align standards across stakeholders, establish benchmarks, maintain accountability, and set industry-wide goals to improve patient experience and trial performance
• Co-creation or no creation: Create shared missions, education programmes, and centre digital advances around patients to create trial designs that work in the real world
• Optimise your digital and data strategies for novel endpoints: Develop trial flexibility, design efficiency, and unique RWE endpoints through standardised and tested innovations
• Data collaboration: Ensure smooth interoperable data transmissions across the company’s digital innovation and health networks for streamlined trials
• Evolve decentralised trials: Allow decentralised trials to thrive by providing ongoing trial breakthroughs that are backed by regulators and prioritise the patient.

Interested in sponsoring or speaking at Clinical 2022? Fill out the form and we’ll get back to you!

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For the first time, the event was fully hybrid, facilitating the participation of more than 1,200 in-person and 300 online delegates from over 70 countries. For four days, leaders and decision-makers in the healthcare community shared knowledge and good practices, exchanged new ideas and innovations, and networked with other senior executives.

The theme for the 44th World Hospital Congress was, “People on board: Transforming healthcare by blending agility, responsiveness, and resilience”. During the event delegates shared many lessons and experiences from the Covid-19 pandemic. Alongside this hospital leaders were keen to build upon those experiences and implement strategies that can help mitigate mass public health issues in the future.

Highlights of the programme included:

• An Opening Ceremony keynote address by Dr Hans Kluge, Regional Director for Europe of the World Health Organization, who paid tribute to health and care workers: “I want to ask you to convey – on behalf of WHO – a message of gratitude, respect and support to the teams you lead and their families, for the commitment, altruism and resilience you have all shown in the past two years.”

• Public health leaders and hospital CEOs in Europe and North America exchanging ideas on getting ready for the next global pandemic. Hospital Clínic de Barcelona’s CEO-Clinical Hospital, Prof Josep M. Campistol, shared that: “We need an integrated healthcare system if we are to be ready for the next global pandemic. This involves using artificial intelligence, digital technology and new IT infrastructures.” Meanwhile, Vaccinations Coordinator at The White House/USG, Dr Bechara Choucair, ended his virtual presentation with a reminder and challenge: “We already have the tools. We just have to finish the job with the truth, science… and confidence.”

• Key stakeholders from industry, government and public health shared the lessons to learn from accelerating research, development and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. Dr John Nkengasong, Director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, shared the vaccine situation in Africa: “Vaccine hesitancy is not a problem here. The key challenge we have in the content is access to vaccines and how to get predictable access to vaccines.” and called for a new public health order for Africa.

• Leaders in nursing outlined their critical contribution to transforming healthcare during a worldwide pandemic. Dr Maria Eulàlia Juvé Udina, Board Member at International Council of Nurses, Nurse Executive at the Catalan Institute of Health, and Nurse Researcher at IDIBELL Universitat de Barcelona, shared that: “Even before COVID-19, there was already the imbalance between required hours by patients and available professional nursing hours.” This imbalance weakens hospitals resulting to situations like poor care quality and clinical outcomes, and even higher mortality.

• A European-focused session explored ways to adopt, implement and scale up the organizational and technological innovations to come from the pandemic. Led by Dr Josep Figueras, Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, who emphasized the power of collaborations between hospitals and stated: “The innovation is the implementation of the existing innovation.”

• Also, during the event the IHF launched a Special Interest Group on “Leadership for Sustainability”, teaming up with Deloitte to support healthcare leaders in taking action on climate change and the winners in each of six prestigious categories of the IHF Awards 2021 were announced at a special ceremony. You can see all the winners at https://worldhospitalcongress.org/2021-winners/

The WHC is the premier event in the International Hospital Federation’s (IHF) calendar and the organizing partner and host for the 44th World Hospital Congress was La Unió Catalana d’Hospitals (UCH). The 45^th World Hospital Congress will take place in Dubai (UAE) on 9–11 November 2022.

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Each brand presented their latest medical and health innovations, including TANbead’s Automated Nucleic Acid Extractor, Miicraft’s Optical 3D Printer, Aeon’s Acti PRP and A-BMC treatment, and EZYPRO®, an Arrhythmia Diagnostic Solution from Sigknow. These companies demonstrate Taiwan’s strengths in biotesting and customized treatments, as well as highlighting the upcoming trends of diversification and specialization in the healthcare industry.

“Under the threat of the pandemic, we are seeing the new emerging business model of biomedical industries. Medical services are moving from centralized to personalized to look after the individual needs, and smart medical care is believed to be the next wave that could change the world.”, remarked Dr. Chii-Wann Lin, Vice President and Director of Biomedical Technology and Device Research Laboratories at Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute.

With the help of the country’s solid foundation in the ICT industry, Taiwan’s healthcare leaders are now eager to expand Taiwan’s presence in the post-pandemic health industry by combining biotesting solutions, preventive medicine, telemedicine and customized health equipment. The organisers welcome healthcare professionals from Europe and the U.K. to watch the webinar and see what Taiwan’s medical industry can offer.

Watch  the Smart Medical Solutions and Biotesting webinar now: https://youtu.be/utvaKQKIeB0?t=1767

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