Month: December 2022

Our latest Movers and Shakers roundup features key departures from NHS England and moves involving NHS Providers and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust.

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Professor Jonathan Benger is leaving his role as acting national CCIO at NHS England to become the new chief medical officer at the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).

In an NHS England internal bulletin Dr Tim Ferris, director of transformation, said: “Jonathan has played a significant role in NHS Digital’s leadership in recent years, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic, and I have appreciated his expertise and advice.”

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Dr Gareth Thomas, the long-serving deputy national CCIO at NHS England is also departing to take up a new role as digital innovation director across the Greater Manchester health and care system.

The new role is a joint appointment between Health Innovation Manchester and NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care.

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Mark Cubbon, current NHS England chief delivery

Digital Health and Care Wales has triumphed at the British Computer Society’s annual UK IT industry awards, being named the best place to work in IT.

The NHS Wales organisation is taking the lead on technology-enabled transformation across the industry. It was honoured for providing the best employment and career opportunities for IT professionals working in the UK.

Judges awarded it top marks for Digital Health and Care Wales’ commitment to diversity and inclusion as well as the skills and career development of its staff.

Helen Thomas, Digital Health and Care Wales CEO, said: “It is a fantastic achievement for all of us and shows how building a great team brings success both for staff and for our stakeholders.

“We are very proud of the work we do to help the NHS in Wales use digital for better care.”

The company has offices in Cardiff, Swansea and Mold, and employs

Strasys and Silico have signed an agreement to deliver digital twins of entire hospitals and healthcare systems, to optimise decision intelligence.

The partnership formalises the integration of Silico’s business process simulation (BPS) software with Strasys’ technology that creates digital twins. The BPS platform will allow Strasys to create digital replicas of individual business processes to test the efficiency of potential changes.

By linking the digital replicas to form a digital twin, Strasys can simulate the outcome of different decisions across healthcare ecosystems. The process helps to optimise decision-making in the sector, enhance operational processes, ensure services run effectively and achieve better patient outcomes.

Naeem Younis, CEO at Strasys, said: “Through the Strasys approach, using Silico, health and care systems will be able to bring together disparate datasets, ML/AI algorithms and qualitative data to create digital twins of their ecosystem – creating the foresight to bring stakeholders together to make better

Bigfoot Biomedical, a medtech company based in California, has developed the Bigfoot Unity System, a diabetes management technology for patients on multiple daily injection therapy. The system uses continuous glucose monitoring data and doctor recommendations to provide insulin dose recommendations, helping patients to avoid uncertainty.

The company argues that type 2 diabetes patients have been historically underserved by the medtech industry, in part because such patients typically tend to be older at diagnosis, and perhaps less inclined to adopt new technologies. This contrasts with type 1 “power users” who are more aware of the nuances of their disease at an early age and are better disposed to adopt new technologies to help manage it.

Bigfoot aims to provide technological solutions to help such patients to manage their disease more effectively.

Medgadget last spoke with Bigfoot Biomedical CMO Red Maxwell in March 2020. Now, we talk with Jeffrey Brewer, CEO