Health 2.0 Edinburgh March 2016 meet-up

Wednesday 23rd March 2016: Edinburgh BioQuarter Nine

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Health 2.0 Edinburgh 23rd March 2016

Edinburgh Health Informatics is again hosting Health 2.0 Edinburgh.

Health 2.0 promotes healthcare innovation and technologies worldwide, organising conferences, code-o-thons, pitching events and meetings.

Register to attend and connect with fellow healthcare and well-being innovators.

 

Next meet-up at Edinburgh BioQuarter (level 2) on Wednesday 23rd March 2016

Limited space; please register.

 

•   1 great speakers

•   2 great demos

•   brainstorming

•   networking

•   great food !

 

Speaker:

Andrew Fowlie

Health and Care Innovations, Scottish Government

Talk title: “Challenges and opportunities of adopting new innovations into health and social care.”

Andrew works for the Scottish Government's Health and Social Care Innovation Team with a focus on bringing new health and social care innovations into the National Health Service and Social Care. Andrew helps to leverage exponential change in mobile computing, digital manufacturing, robotics, artificial intelligence, networks & sensors and systems biology, while supporting convergence of activity in these areas through proactive collaboration between industry, academia and the NHS.  He engages with international experts to resolve known local challenges and find future solutions through creative collaborations.

He has worked in senior positions in Social Work Management, the Third Sector, Education and extensively in Health Care Executive management in the NHS.   Andrew has set up several new organisations and led the development of new care models to meet changing health and social care need.

Demos:

Steven Wexelstein

COO, Planys Cloud Ltd

Talk title: “Click Go - Innovation in Self Directed Support”

Steven is a seasoned senior technologist with 18 years experience, working in both technical and operational roles within a variety of sectors including gaming, banking, telecoms and internet of things.  Steven is currently COO and Founding Director at Planys Cloud and Director of Click Go Ltd. 

Planys Cloud is an employee-owned digital product and services company based in Dunfermline that has produced award-winning products such as Real Rider - the only NHS approved crash detection system for motorcyclists and Click Go. 

Click Go is a Google award-winning digital product for the implementation of Self Directed Support, having been developed in a unique and innovative partnership between Planys Cloud and Carr Gomm, a large Edinburgh based Care Service Provider.

Susanne Mitschke

CEO & Founder, MindMate Ltd

Talk title: “MindMate - world's fastest-growing Alzheimer's platform.”

Susanne did her Bachelor degree in Business and Economics at the renowned Vienna University of Economics and Business. During her studies and gap year she worked in different part-time and full-time positions and had the chance to experience different industries, including a consultant position for PwC as well as gaining start-up experience in two totally different young but high-growth companies.

During her MSc. in International Management & Leadership at Glasgow University, in March 2015, Susanne launched with three Co-Founders, MindMate which offers a platform to assist people with dementia as well as support for carers and family-members to better manage the condition.

The team won several awards in the past (in Scotland, the UK and internationally) and participated from September 2015 to December 2015 in the leading tech-accelerator ignite100. MindMate launched in November 2015 and recorded end of February more than 15,000 active users. A

part from private users, MindMate is also being used in the NHS Trusts Glasgow & Sheffield, plus in several care homes in the UK and USA.  

 

Agenda

6.00 – 6.30 p.m. arrivals and drinks

6.40 – 6.50 p.m. Introduction to Health 2.0

6.50 – 7.00 p.m. Talk by Andrew Fowlie

7.05 – 7.10 p.m. Demo by Steven Wexelstein

7.15 – 7.20 p.m. Demo by Susanne Mitschke

7.20 - 7.35 p.m.  Q & A

7.40 – 9.00 p.m. Dinner and Networking

Now: Register to attend