Digital Transformation: AI, EHRs, and Data Interoperability

Hatim is Chief Executive Officer for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex, part of the NHS Health Innovation Network.  Alongside this role, he continues to practice as a General Practitioner.

In 2018, Hatim was appointed National Medical Directors Clinical Fellow to Professor Wendy Reid by the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. His key achievements were co-author and member of the Sir Keith Pearson Commission into NHS Staff and Learner Mental Health and co-founding the ‘Topol Programme for Digital Health Fellowships’ launched by Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in 2019. He later became the National Clinical Lead for AI and Digital Workforce at NHS England providing clinical leadership to the NHS Digital Academy and leading on AI in the NHS’s historic Long Term Workforce Plan.

Hatim studied Medicine at the prestigious Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, going on to complete a Masters in Sports and Exercise from the University of South Wales, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Health Leadership from Imperial College London. Hatim holds Membership of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and the Royal College of General Practitioners, as well as Fellowship of Advance Higher Education.

Hatim has been a Senior Lecturer at Brunel University London, supporting the Physician Associate MSc and development of Brunel Medical School. Hatim is a Honorary Senior Lecturer at Keele University, working with European partners to develop a Masters in Explainable AI in healthcare management. Hatim is also a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Technology Appraisals Committee, and the Coalition for Health AI Steering Committee.

Hatim is an advocate for safe, ethical and responsible digital and AI transformation and ensuring workforce preparedness for new innovations and technologies in health and care. He regularly speaks internationally and has contributed to the publication of academic papers and white papers spanning workforce, education reform, primary care, digital health and AI.

Outside of work Hatim enjoys travelling and football, and you will likely find him touring England’s best restaurants with his family. 

Dr Faris Al-Ramadani is an award-winning GP, PCN Clinical Director, and HealthTech consultant dedicated to enhancing patient care through technology and innovative clinical pathways. As a GP Partner, his practice, St Wulfstan Surgery, was named HSJ Primary Care Provider of the Year (2024) and in 2023 ranked number one in England for patient satisfaction for practices with more than 10,000 patients. His leadership at Warwickshire East PCN also led to a shortlisting for PCN of the Year (2024).

To further bridge the gap between innovation and real-world application, he founded and leads the St Wulfstan Digital Accelerator, a pioneering initiative that pilots cutting-edge digital health solutions within a primary care setting.

A respected thought leader and keynote speaker on digital transformation, Dr Al-Ramadani advises HealthTech companies through his consultancy, One Health. He is passionate about redesigning clinical pathways, particularly in mental health, and fostering collaborations that successfully integrate new technologies into clinical practice to deliver tangible benefits for both patients and providers.”

Matt is a consultant acute physician and visiting professor at Hampshire Hospitals and the University of Southampton and Clinical Director for Digital Innovation at Wessex AHSN.

His roles at NHS England are as National Clinical Director for Infection Management, AMR and Deterioration; National speciality advisor for sepsis, National clinical lead for COVID pathways/oximetry@home/virtual wards and the Deterioration and Sepsis CQUINs.

He has led the development of a standardised national methodology for assessing the burden of infections and sepsis, their outcomes and improvement.

He co-developed and co-led the implementation of NEWS2 across all hospitals and ambulance trusts nationally, and the deterioration CQUIN that has been implemented across 114 acute trusts and represents a global first in incentivising the optimal management of acutely ill patients most at risk of death.

He co-developed/led on national sepsis, deterioration and COVID clinical pathways in all community/interface settings, developing and then publishing evidence on the home oximetry monitoring strategy (through leading a national community of practice and clinical reference groups) that led to the purchase of 1.2 million oximeters and national implementation within 38 days and across a further 18 countries during the pandemic.

He is currently developing community-based, acute respiratory infection assessment hubs, having published papers demonstrating their effectiveness as integrated care models supporting urgent care and primary care transformation. 363 were set up last winter, seeing over 740,000 patients in 4 months.

HSJ award winner in Sepsis 2019, Deterioration 2020 and Patient Safety 2021

An Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner by background, Linda Vernon is Head of Digital Empowerment at Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board.

Passionate about how technology can empower individuals, communities & our workforce to thrive, and the principles of user-centred design & co-production, Linda leads the digital citizen portfolio across Lancashire & South Cumbria, as well as the overarching digital and data strategy for the wider digital portfolio.  She also drives the digital, data and AI literacy agenda for the ICB, and is passionate about empowering our workforce and our citizens to access and benefit from digital tools.  She is an ‘upstreamist’ with a focus on how we can better support the prevention and population health agendas.

Linda enjoys climbing fells in the Lake District, playing guitar, ukulele and singing, and believes the health of the planet and her inhabitants are mutually dependant.

Split persona, working with some of the leading names in both the property and healthcare industries, building a property portfolio in Yorkshire that provides investors with secure, stable returns; whilst also supporting some of the largest healthcare organisations both in the UK and internationally to achieve their goals.

Accomplished leader with a high record of achievement in the NHS, managing multidisciplinary teams in excess of 200 people, and multi-million pound budgets. Dedicated individual with the ability to create a collaborative vision, garner appropriate buy in and take through to implementation. Able to not only build the strategy but carry it through to full application.

Most recently, the Lead for the Scan4Safety Programme across the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of 6 acute Trusts with a shared vision to provide the best patient outcomes through innovation. Previously responsible for delivering the largest public sector open source software & infrastructure programme in the UK whilst at HSCIC (now NHSD); Spine 2.

Truly passionate about successful delivery, looking to work with forward thinking organisations that embrace new technology and practices.

- PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner, Qualified Professional Scrum Master and Agile Project Management Practitioner
- Agile coach with experience in all aspects of software delivery
- Digital business analyst with sound understanding of open source technologies

Francesca has been working in the remote monitoring space for the London Region Digital team since the start of the pandemic. Francesca supported London ICBs to stand up remote monitoring programmes in Care Homes and respiratory pathways as part of the Covid response through the Regional Scaling Programme; growing to include LTC, VWs and MH RM by the end of the programme.   

Working closely with a wide range of stakeholders from health, care, academia and Industry on planning, implementation, change management, workforce, delivery, evaluation and benefits at pace over the pandemic; Francesca has a quickly developed a wealth of knowledge and wide network of relationships in the digital healthcare sector. 

As part of the London VW Programme team, Francesca provides digital transformation and technology expertise to London ICB VWs leads and engages with Industry to influence and support clinically driven innovation.   

Lee is a fellow of the BCS, FEDPI Leading Practitioner, CHIME Certificated Health Chief Information Officer and an alumnus of the Digital Academy.

He has three decades of transformation and programme management experience. His first decade focused on UK military aircraft projects and for the last two decades he has focused on digital transformation in the NHS.  He is currently leading the Yorkshire & Humber Care Record development to provide interweave as an open platform for shared care record and population health systems.  He is also the CIO of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, Senior Responsible Owner for the mental health digital transformation of Humber & North Yorkshire ICS, member of the PRSB advisory board, member of the National ICS Digital Council and vice chair of Northern, Yorkshire and Humberside Digital and informatics Forum (NYHDIF).

Specialties: Digital Transformation, Portfolio, FHIR, Programme & Project Management, Agile, lean, PRINCE 2, MSP, CHCIO, FBCS, FEDIP.  Lee is likes to read, a keen runner and a children’s football coach and referee. 

I am CCIO and Consultant Stroke Physician at the Neuroscience Division at Queen's hospital, London and North East London Stroke Network Lead. I have gained postgraduate training in London. I have pursued my dedication to Stroke with sub-speciality Stroke at Cambridge and Southend. I am an innovator of HOT-TIA which has been awarded me with Hospital Hero and team with EHI award, HSJ award and NHS Innovation challenge prize of £100,000.

I am also the recipient of the Outstanding Clinician Award by EMS for the year 2016 and the Excellence Award as rated by patients on Iwantgreatcare in 2018. My team has won the Future NHS Award of 2018 at BHR Trust.

Dr Betul Gokkaya is a researcher at the University of Southampton specialising in AI risk, cybersecurity, and socio-technical system safety. Her research focuses on understanding AI-related risks across different domains, with a current emphasis on healthcare AI regulation and how regulatory requirements can be meaningfully implemented within software development and deployment practices. Her work bridges AI governance, cyber resilience, and real-world system design, with the aim of supporting safer and more trustworthy AI-enabled healthcare services.