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central and local government could be doing to support business enterprise and growth

Location: Open Innovations - 3rd Floor - Munro House - Duke Street - LS9 8AG Leeds

Date: -

The suggested format / running order (pending confirmation of timings from MCO) is as follows:

1530 Tim Kelsey - NHS England and Tim Straughan - Leeds and Partners providing an introduction/ overview

Followed by seven informal 10 minute slots to demonstrate to MCO the vitality of leading health tech enterprise we have here in Leeds.

1540 Alan McDermott - Patients online - telling the story of GP digital services

1550 Mike Buck - BJSS - talking about some of the agile design and software developments they have been delivering for the NHS eg Spine

1600 Victoria Betton - mHealth Habitat talking about her innovative work with the mobile health community - http://mhealthhabitat.co.uk/

1610 Garry Parlett - Answer Consulting outlining the project they have been doing supporting the Leeds Care Record and open platform work with Dr Tony Shannon (LTHT) and Dylan Roberts (Leeds City Council)

1620 Dr Shaun O'Hanlon - EMIS - sharing some of the health app work they are doing including Apple

1630 Dr John Parry - TPP - talking about some of their exciting software developments to support healthcare

1640 Paul Connell - ODI Leeds - outlining the great progress of the new Open Data Institute in Leeds

1650 Q&A discussion

1700 Close

The format will likely be roundtable and there will be no need for any formal presentations. However it would be useful for each session lead to have prepared a couple of slides that highlight the main messages and perhaps conclude with what more central and local government could be doing to support business enterprise and growth ?

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