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Great King's College London London Institute for Healthcare Engineering data-driven ecosystem network breakfast thanks to Hassan Chaudhury HonFAPM Alex Merwin Mike Denis Naomi Azmi Anushka Patchava MD, MBA Sebastien Ourselin FREng FMedSci - lots of interesting collisions and standing room only.

Some people still don’t truly grasp that conferences and events aren’t all equal. They prevaricate and behave as if every opportunity to attend a gathering has the same value. They’re wrong. In a sense, they’re like recreational fishermen*, angling for a catch, one at a time not caring which stretch of the river (or which river) they sit at for the day. They differ from the big-game players specifically looking out for marlin and adjusting accordingly. Others in the game think bigger, and act like commercial fishermen. Of these some are like trawlers with fishing nets which are indiscriminate, impacting the habitat, damaging the seabed, and accidentally catching unwanted species (bycatch) like sea turtles and dolphins. Other commercial players are more subtle, deploying purse seines (large walls of netting which can be drawn closed like a purse) so they efficiently enclose and capture species which school together close to the surface like mackerel. A rare few invest in intensive fish farming (pisciculture), deploying artificial enclosures for controlled cultivation and harvesting so they never have to risk going out in the wild. Which one are you? If you are unsure about where you land, reflect for a moment on the opportunity to register for HLTH Europe - the ultimate health ecosystem event for the continent - before the price rises tonight (Friday 13th December) at midnight N.B. discount code in the image below. Your answer to whether you have booked yet or not will help you understand what type of fisherman you really are, and which type you really want to be. *with fisherman as the accepted gender-neutral term, rather than fisher, fisherwoman etc. **I have no idea if the #HLTHEurope team knows how to fish, but I will suggest it as a competitive activity for their next team away day and guess now that Lina Behrens will win.

This is the start of something important. And it took place at the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE).   Our inaugural LIHE Breakfast was organised specifically to kick off the creation of a supportive ecosystem for the betterment of health and care provision.   And it fittingly happened at LIHE, the destination for MedTech. With LIHE co-locating King's College London's experts, industry partners such as NVIDIA, Siemens Healthineers and deepc, and being the home of the King's Health Partners Digital Health Hub, already the stage was set for such an event to take place here.   With a keynote by Prof Sebastien Ourselin FREng FMedSci, head of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences and director of LIHE and the Digital Health Hub, to explain that "digital" is not a future state but that it permeates MedTech and the delivery of care already today, the tone of the event was one of urgency but also one of collaboration.   Hosted by the inimitable Hassan Chaudhury HonFAPM, who worked relentlessly to make certain the right stakeholders were in the room, and organized in partnership with Meet Health Events, the Breakfast was a resounding success by all measures.   We have a series of events to catalyse the ecosystem already planned for 2025.   We are only getting started. 

What happens if an NHS Trust invests seriously in developing world-class digital maturity, and succeeds? What happens if this NHS Trust also builds its own innovation ‘island’ separate to the main hospital, housing its own digital research unit, with its own secure data environment (SDE) in partnership with Aridhia – Digital Research Environment – DRE, and develops leading capabilities in data stewarding, data engineering, and data science? What happens if this NHS Trust then embarks on a unique, long-term partnership with Roche UK, a major pharmaceutical company, around personalised data to uncover how the practical elements of such a collaboration could work with two very different organisations? What happens if Roche invests funding and staff in a multi-year deal, where the NHS Trust does not share data, and also retains intellectual property rights (IPR)? What happens if both organisations write it up into a playbook, explaining what worked and what didn’t, to share with the rest of the NHS and the sector at large? This is the story of what GOSH DRIVE (the innovation and analytics unit of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust) has been doing with Roche, but there’s far more progress to share. If you are looking for an NHS partner to do something truly innovative in data and analytics or with innovative solutions (not just in paediatrics), and you appreciate there should be a fair exchange of value, reach out. We have a lot to offer.

If you are thinking about an events partner, and you need a group which understands healthcare, which listens, which exudes imagination and style, which has the right values and attitude, which does what they promise, and which gets things done, may I suggest Meet Health Events? Naomi Azmi writes below of the success of our LIHE Breakfast event last week (and the wonderful post-event response*), but characteristically she doesn’t claim the credit she is due. The truth is that she and her team put in a tremendous amount of effort to make it happen, working on logistics, booking calls, conducting dry runs, coordinating with London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) etc. freeing me to gather more and more partners. Naomi deserves her flowers in public. As we (Vita Healthcare Solutions and Meet Health) plan the 2025 programme of events together with our core partners, it’s important to recognise we now have a mandate, and a corresponding responsibility to do the right thing for our ecosystem. We promise we will listen carefully to feedback, and make it valuable for as many people as we can, which is exactly what Meet Health have been doing for years. *Post-event press release by Silver Buck - https://lnkd.in/e6C6nYRg

A huge thank you to everyone who made it to the LIHE Breakfast yesterday from me and Omar Butt of Vita Healthcare Solutions, and huge apologies to those who couldn’t get a place. I was so grateful for the response from across the ecosystem, and it felt like we have sparked something new, something different. For everyone who made it, we had 6 on the waitlist who we honestly couldn’t offer a place to, but we had to respect the capacity. We were standing room only, even with the early start and the travel disruptions. More than 60 organisations were named as founding partners. They trusted us, gave us their logo, promoted the event, and sent out comms to their people. I have told them all, each partner has the right to call it their event, and can work with us to direct it, to help curate it so it works for their constituents. Way too many people to thank, but Sebastien Ourselin FREng FMedSci and Nicolas Huber deserve all the recognition for what they’ve accomplished already at The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE), with more to come. Meet Health Events put on a slick show as usual (even though I asked them to do a show they weren’t planning), and we couldn’t have done it without them. Thank you, Naomi, Amrita, Leah, Charlie, and team. So many superconnectors bought their star power including Alex Merwin, Henry Stoneley, Nathan McNally, Ian Coyne, Dominick Kennerson, Molly Gilmartin, Steve Roest, Clive Flashman 💙, with so many more I couldn’t list them. Grateful to the headline partners AWS Startups, HLTH Europe, P4 Precision Medicine Accelerator, Coulter Partners, HSBC Innovation Banking, Health Innovation Network South London, Dell Technologies, Flagship Pioneering, CHIME International, and Public Policy Projects. Grateful to the NHS, the accelerators, the communities, the media partners, the trade bodies etc. too. We had a great panel on innovation and partnerships; Stephen Dorrell is the best in the country at what he does, and Verena Stocker and Phil Waywell were exceptional on stage with him. I’m in debt to them all. We will go again in 2025, with events at LIHE, and also bigger events at a larger venue with more capacity, more partners, more collisions. If you want to get involved with either or both, we’re wide open. If you missed out, I’m so sorry again. If you did attend, thank you. You will understand when I write that we will need a bigger pinball machine.

The sun shone down for an incredible day of GBSH Executive Education #UCLGBSHExecEd off-site innovation visits yesterday with the KFAS Executive Leadership for Healthcare Management group🌞 . First to @GOSHDRIVE to learn about all things data and digital technologies innovations in healthcare, exciting projects and new approaches leveraging data infrastructure and system integrations. Participants were amazed at the projects shared and the potential ideas they can apply to their own organizations. Many thanks to Hassan Chaudhury HonFAPM, Chris Rockenbach, Shiren Patel and Steve Mathews for the incredible talks and tour of GOSH afterwards.   Second, a fantastic trip to The BMJ at BMA House for a exceptional talk on BJM Innovations in Healthcare and BMJ Best Practice with @KieranWalsh, from publication best practice and journal access, to the considerations for multiple comorbidities management, and the need for accessible and reliable decision support tools for healthcare professionals. Thank you Kieran and the team at BMJ for hosting us and showing us the amazing BMA house. Charlotte Wu, MD MSc Shing-Wai Wong (She/Her), Sarah Al-Abdullah, Yousef Alabdullah GTML, TAP.dip #UCLGBSHExecEd #UCLGBSH #ExecutiveEducation

Introducing you to our new Head of Commercial Hassan Chaudhury HonFAPM 👋 As a world expert in digital health, Hassan is responsible for generating and reviewing commercial opportunities for GOSH, including within GOSH DRIVE. Hassan said: “In my role at GOSH I am working across the entire Trust to understand where we can collaborate with trusted partners both old and new, deploy even more innovative solutions, and secure fair value for us. We have huge ambitions for our patients and our people, and it's more important than ever before that there is fair value exchange. That is my remit. “GOSH DRIVE is a pioneering hub for innovation that has developed the most advanced and most capable health data research asset in the NHS, and not just in paediatrics. This resource was developed for GOSH first and foremost, engaging with patients, families and staff, and working with major industry players. However, it's clear that this should be a 'shared utility'. “I want to take the DRIVE offer out nationally and internationally, working with our partners, and sharing our learning with global centres who aspire to be at the forefront of digital health and care.” Meet the rest of the DRIVE Team over on our website: https://lnkd.in/e9N9_CUu

It's my job to tell you that #hltheurope is brilliant and that you should come. But what I say, frankly, doesn't matter. What matters is what the people driving the European healthcare ecosystem think. Hassan is one of them, so if you're considering whether to come to Amsterdam, read his post or message someone who came last year and ask them what it was REALLY like. Attending events is an investment of money, but more importantly, time. Time is our most precious resource, so spend it where it has impact. Do fewer events, not more, and do the one(s) that matter. ⏳ 💜