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Healthcare Conversations Episode 3 - Making the most of digitisation to improve MSK care
Healthcare Conversations Podcast - Versus Arthritis in Conversation
English - March 02, 2022 09:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MB - ★★★ - 1 ratingHealth & Fitness Science arthritis healthcare conversations versus arthritis clinicians arthritis research osteoarthritis rheumatoid arthritis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Healthcare Conversations Episode 2 – The State of Chronic Pain
Versus Arthritis Senior Clinical Policy Advisor and Consultant Rheumatologist, Benjamin Ellis, hosts the third episode of Healthcare Conversations. In this episode we will be discussing how to make the most of digitisation to improve the end to end outcomes for people with MSK conditions whilst ensuring high quality, safe, effective and personalised care.
Thank you to our special guests who joined Benjamin for this conversation:
Larry Koyama - Innovation Lead at Imperial College Health Partners but at the time of recording, A Senior Consultant at PPL. A physiotherapist by background who has worked at the CSP as Head of FCP Implementation and as a Darzi Fellow leading on a project for new models on MSK care. Larry is also a Versus Arthritis MSK Champion and is passionate about improving access to healthcare and reducing health inequalities.Melanie Martin - Senior Delivery Manager in the NHS Transformation Directorate, which at the time of recording was NHSX. Also a physiotherapist by background, Melanie has completed a Topol fellowship which focused on implementing a digital service which supported rheumatoid arthritis patients to track disease progress between visits. Melanie is an advocate for using digital technology to add value and impact, to connect services and level out opportunities, but recognises that patients need to be offered a choice.