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PENNIE TAYLOR *Health Journalist*	Pennie Taylor is a freelance journalist and broadcaster who specialises in health matters. A former BBC Scotland Health Correspondent, she has also worked for a number of newspapers including The Sunday Herald and Scotland on Sunday. Pennie has a particular interest in public involvement in NHS development, and has led national and local consultations on a range of issues. Having worked as Head of Communications for the-then Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust between 2000 and 2002, she knows how things operate inside the health service as well as on newsdesks. This gives her a uniquely informed perspective from which to approach, and stimulate, debate.


PROFESSOR CHARLES SWAINSON Independent Consultant and eHealth Clinical Lead The Scottish Government	Charles Swainson is an independent consultant working across the NHS and private sectors, including as part time clinical lead on eHealth to the Scottish Government. He served on the Council of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh as an elected member 1991-96 and is now the Honorary Treasurer. He is the medical director and vice chair of the Scottish Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards, currently awaiting a decision on the future of the scheme. He chairs the Quality Strategy Safer Ambition Delivery Group for the Scottish Government and NHSHealth Improvement Scotland. He completed recently two terms on the UK Funding Councils Health Education Advisory Committee. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the UK Faculty of Public Health Medicine, and the RCPE member on the Founding Council of the new Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. From 2003 – 2010 he was Medical Director at NHS Lothian, with responsibility across all NHS services in the area, and the executive lead for research, medical teaching, clinical governance and risk management, liaison with University of Edinburgh, IM&T and e-health. A major role was the design of the new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and the redesign of services to occupy one of the most modern hospitals in Europe, and the development of area wide services across all hospitals and sectors. He has been a member of many national groups that have shaped the NHS in Scotland, including the National Framework for Service Change (Kerr Report). He was honoured by the British Association of Medical Managers as a Distinguished Fellow in 2007 and was a founder member of the Cochrane Renal Collaboration.


PAUL RHODES eHealth Programme Director The Scottish Government	Paul Rhodes is the eHealth Programme Director for the Scottish Government. The eHealth Programme aims to improve patient care through advances in technology, resulting in better access to health information, quicker test results for clinicians and joined-up GP and hospital services. The scope of eHealth includes all IT systems, information and records management, process change and skills development required for healthcare delivery, including supporting infrastructure and business systems. Its strategic objective is to support improvements in patient care and service performance in line with Ministerial objectives.


IAIN ROBERTSON Head of eHealth Operations and Infrastructure NHS Lothian	Iain Robertson has over 20 years of experience as an IT professional. His first role in management was in the corporate world, managing IT across continental Europe introducing new technology and driving IT efficiency. Subsequently he was responsible for IT in the US, Asia Pacific and Japan, where his role involved driving down the cost of IT and implementing new technologies to deliver efficiency for the business. For the last 10 years Iain Robertson has worked within the NHS, where he has continued to bring new technologies to support rapid changes to healthcare delivery, whilst maintaining a focus on making significant improvements in the efficiency of the organisation and dealing with an ever decreasing budget.


ALAN LAWRIE Director South Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership, NHS Lanarkshire	Alan is the Director of the South Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership and has been in post for six years. The SLCHP has a budget of circa £250m including prescribing and independent contractor costs and employs circa 1200 staff. Alan’s role sees him taking operational responsibility for community health services such as Long Term Conditions Nursing, Public Health Nurses and Allied Health Professional services across the whole of South Lanarkshire. This also includes working with GPs, GDPs, Pharmacists and Optometrists within the area. The SLCHP takes the lead role in working with South Lanarkshire Council and is spearheading the current Reshaping Care agenda along with colleagues from the Acute Division. Finally Alan is the Executive with responsibility for the eHealth agenda including the sharing of information electronically with partners. Alan has chaired the Lanarkshire Data Sharing Partnership for the past six years and has overseen the introduction of a raft of new technologies and ways of sharing information between partners, always grounded in the business requirements of the practitioners on the ground.


MURDOCH CARBERRY Head of Reform and Change Management Renfrewshire Council	Murdoch Carberry is Head of Reform and Change Management at Renfrewshire Council, with responsibility for ICT services, Business Support, Customer Services and a corporate transformation programme. He is co presneting with Mark Darroch, Health Information and Technology Joint Services Manager at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde with responsibility for Independent Contractors, Community Children’s Services, Screening and Partnership Joint Working. Both have been engaged with the Health and Social Care information sharing agenda for more than ten years and have promoted the benefits of information sharing through the use of technology to support local health and social care practitioners. More recently they have jointly sponsored the application of clinical portal technology to the challenge of enabling frontline professionals to share information electronically.


MARK MULHOLLAND Healthcare Account Manager (Scotland) emis	Mark Mulholland started his tenure with EMIS as Operations Manager in January 2009 with involvement in planning and implementation of practice migrations to EMIS PCS across various Health Boards, following the Scottish Government’s decision to retire GPASS. From August 2010 to January 2011 Mark was seconded to NHS Glasgow & Clyde’s GPASS replacement project team, overseeing all EMIS operational and technical aspects of implementation. Mark was promoted to position of Health Care Account Manager in January 2011, with responsibility to all fourteen Health Boards. Mark is now involved in various EMIS Web projects with focus on mobilising GP data to extended services, patient portal, etc - in support of single patient record approach to delivering patient care and safe practice in both primary and secondary care settings.


GORDON LORIMER Managing Director Intouch with Health	Gordon Lorimer is Managing Director of Intouch and has significant experience in the areas of Self Service technology. Gordons passion is for systems that are intuitive to use, give positive feedback and deliver organisational efficiency. Since going live with the first system in 2009, Intouch have become the UK market leader by some distance with over 200 self check-in kiosks in over 40 hospitals. Included in the Intouch customer group are many of the largest hospitals in the UK. Gordon’s experience includes over a decade in healthcare IT includes progressive senior time with BT, IBM and NCR. Gordon joined the Intouch team when the company was looking at moving into Healthcare Self Service, building upon their decade of leadership in patient self help systems, like Scotland’s Life Begins at 40. Gordon gained his degree in Computer Science and Digital Microelectronics from Dundee University.


PROFESSOR BILL BUCHANAN Professor of Computing School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University	Bill Buchanan is a Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and a Fellow of the BCS and the IET. He currently leads the Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks, and Security, and works in the areas of e-Health, security, next generation user interfaces, Web-based infrastructures, e-Crime, mobile computing, and simulation. Bill has one of the most extensive academic sites in the World, and is involved in many areas of novel research and teaching in computing. He has published over 27 academic books, and over 150 academic publications, along with several awards for excellence in knowledge transfer, and for teaching, such as winning at the I ♥ my Tutor Awards (Student voted), Edinburgh Napier University, 2011, and has supervised many award winning student projects. Presently he is working with a range of industrial/domain partners, including with the Scottish Police, health care professionals and the FSA. His current work includes a current collaboration with Microsoft plc on a £2million project which aims to improve the care of the elderly using Trusted Cloud-based services, and previously with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on a next generation Health Care platform. This also matches up with other funded projects with the FSA and the Scottish Police. The current work on an e-Health Platform promotes a next generation infrastructure using Cloud Computing and integrates identity and rights into every part of the infrastructure, which is dynamic, robust and scalable e-Health infrastructure. Overall it integrates security into every part of the system, and now integrates assisted living with primary and secondary health care. Its overall aims to create a proactive system which reduces patient risks, and focuses on holistic care for patients. This platform has now been promoted at a range of events including ARAB Health 2012, and IEEE Cloud. The e-Health platform also received awards, in 2011, from both the BCS and IET for innovation and enterprise.


IAN WELSH Chief Executive Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland (LTCAS)	Ian Welsh is Chief Executive of LTCAS and has extensive experience in the public, private and voluntary sectors in executive, non-executive and consultancy roles. Prior to taking up post he was Director of UK Services for the Dublin head-quartered, international and not-for-profit Rehab Group, leading a family of charities working in care, supported employment, rehabilitation and training. He has also held roles as Chief Executive of Momentum Scotland and Chair of the Scottish Advisory Committee of the Voluntary Sector National Training Organisation. As Chief Executive of Kilmarnock Football Club, he led the club through a period of business and footballing success building a number of innovative community programmes. Ian was briefly the MSP for Ayr having been involved in local government for many years as a local elected member and as Leader of Kyle and Carrick District Council and then South Ayrshire Council. He served on the Board of Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire for many years and is currently the Chair of Ayr United Football Academy, Prestwick Sports and Leisure, Ayr Gaiety Partnership Limited and the Policy and Resources Committee of the University of the West of Scotland. He is a Board member of Borderline Theatre Company Limited and also sits on Ayrshire and Arran Health Board.


DR LIBBY MORRIS Clinical eHealth Lead for Primary Care The Scottish Government	Libby Morris is a GP principal in Edinburgh. Libby is a member of the Health Informatics Group of RCGP (UK) and the Joint GP IT group. While Chairman of the GPASS Users Group she helped to set up SCIMP, and continues to be involved on behalf of the group in projects such as the Emergency Care Summary, the ePalliative care Summary, Key Information Summary and the Docman Transfer Project and supporting the IT facilitators. She works for the Scottish Government Health Department as a Clinical eHealth Lead for Primary Care.