About this event
- Date and time Wed 23 Oct 2024 from 12:30pm to 5:30pm
- Location Royal Society of Medicine
- Organised by Digital Health
Digital health solutions are rapidly integrating into medicine, but ensuring they maintain high standards of care for everyone is crucial. Inclusivity and diversity are key to this effort, beyond just varied training sets. This event will unite clinicians, researchers, and industry members to discuss how to prevent digital health solutions from exacerbating health inequalities.
By attending this event, you will:
- Understand the problem of health inequalities in digital health
- Understand the tools being used in clinical practice to decrease health inequalities
- Reflect on subgroups who may need extra support with digital health solutions
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Agenda
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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and Introduction
Dr Alice Byram, Council Member, Digital Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Dr Michelle Tempest, Council Member, Digital Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Keynote presentation: To boldly go…where no one has gone before
Professor Partha Kar, Type 1 Diabetes Lead, NHS England, Author of Medical Race Equality Action Plan Report
Session one: What is the problem we are trying to solve?
Chair: Julia Ross, Chair, British Association of Social Workers UK
How can I use digital health to find health inequalities
Dr James Ferguson, General Practitioner, Cambridge, Primary Care Lead, East of England, Eastern GMSA, Associate Director Eclipse
What digital health inequalities look like in the gypsy, roma and traveller community - lesson learnt from diabetes
Michelle Gavin, Head of Development, Friends, Families and Travellers and Community member Emma Bray
Digital health in community care: Challenges and opportunities and the rise of social care
Tommy Henderson-Reay, Social Worker, Digital Engagement, Programme Manager, Digital Workforce & Skills, Social Care lead, British Association of Social Workers
Questions and answers
Session 2: What are the solutions you could adapt to your practice
Chair: Dr Tim Ringrose, Past President, Digital Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Remote monitoring opportunities and challenges
Tobey Basey-Fisher, Chief Executive Officer, Entia
Tailoring interventions to mitigate for intervention decay in kidney health pathway in West Yorkshire
Sarah De Biase, Senior Programme Manager, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and Dr Tahir Waqas, Diabetes Clinical Lead, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
Using digital health to empower everyone in prehospital life saving situations
Mark Wilson, Professor of Brain Injury, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Co-Founder and Director, GoodSAM
Questions and answers
Tea and coffee break
Session 3: Ethics and considerations when developing digital health solutions
Chair: Dr Michelle Tempest
What does inclusion mean?
Shivani Sharma, Professor of Health Equity and Inclusion, Aston University
Designing for all stages of life: A continuous life cycle in the technology and the person
Chen Mao Davies, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Anya
Inclusive innovation design
Hadeel Ayoub, Founder, Fiddlie and BrightSign
Questions and answers
Keynote Presentation: Technologies of the future - digital twins to reduce health inequalities
Professor Peter Coveney, Associate Director, Advanced Research Computing Centre, University College London and Director, Centre for Computational Science, University College London
Keynote presentation: Your tool kit of solutions
Helen Milner, Group Chief Executive Officer, Good Things Foundation
Closing remarks
Dr Ali Connell, Council Member, Digital Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Close of meeting
Drinks reception
Location
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
Registration for this event will close at 12:00 on 22 October 2024. Late registrations will not be accepted.
The agenda is subject to change at any time
If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM’s discretion.
All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.
This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.