Hello and welcome to another episode of Digitell, a Leadership Log mini-series where we chat about navigating the digital healthcare world. We’d like to thank CHIME, the college of healthcare information management executives, for sponsoring this mini-series.

Today we’re going to be talking about what digital healthcare can learn from other industries. Healthcare has for a long time been falling behind the private sector when it comes to harnessing the power of digital. There was a massive change of pace during the pandemic, and we all saw that healthcare was capable of rapid change and uptake of digital technology. Today we’ll be discussing how much further we have to go, and whether there is more to be learned from other industries.

Diarmaid Crean is the Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Sussex Community Foundation Trust where he has worked for the last 3 years. Before he joined SCFT, he had many varied digital leadership roles in fields such as finance, travel and government. He has 24 years experience delivering change across both public and private sectors. He is a passionate practitioner of Service Design and Agile ways of working. His bio tells me that he is always happiest when obsessed with a new opportunity to advance another organisation using the power of digital, technology and data. 

Diarmaid has recently won the Digital Health CIO of the Year award. Find out more here: Winners of the Digital Health Awards 2022 are revealed.

You can read more about SCFT and their Digital Strategy here: The leading Digital NHS Community Trust – SCFT Digital Transformation

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