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EHR Wales: Adapting NHS Insights to Shape a Scalable Welsh EHR
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08:30 am
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17:00 pm
Date
18 Nov, 2025
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Cardiff Marriott Hotel, Mill Ln, Cardiff CF10 1EZ,
EHR Wales: Adapting NHS Insights to Shape a Scalable Welsh EHR
Tirwedd Gyfredol a’r Heriau:
Mae GIG Cymru ar foment dyngedfennol yn ei thaith trawsnewid ddigidol. Er bod yr uchelgais ar gyfer system iechyd a gofal gysylltiedig, wedi’i gyrru gan ddata, yn glir, mae’r llwybr i’w chyflawni yn dal i ddatblygu. Mae’r rhan fwyaf o fyrddau iechyd Cymru yn dal i ddibynnu ar systemau papur neu offer digidol arwahanol, gan greu rhwystrau i ryngweithredu, rhannu data, ac effeithlonrwydd clinigol.
Yn wahanol i rannau eraill o’r DU, lle mae rhaglenni rhanbarthol a chenedlaethol eisoes ar waith, mae’n rhaid i Gymru nawr wynebu penderfyniad strategol hanfodol: a ddylai’r wlad fabwysiadu un datrysiad unedig o ran Cofnod Claf Electronig (CCE), neu rymuso mentrau rhanbarthol a lleol wedi’u teilwra i anghenion a chyd-destunau penodol?
Mae cymhlethdod strwythur GIG Cymru – gyda byrddau iechyd unigol sy’n meddu ar lefelau amrywio o aeddfedrwydd digidol – yn gwneud y cwestiwn hwn yn fwy brys ac yn fwy cynnil. Gallai’r dull anghywir arwain at fuddsoddiad wedi’i wastraffu, gweithredu hirfaith, ac effaith fach ar ganlyniadau i gleifion. Gallai’r dull cywir agor y drws i welliannau trawsnewidiol mewn cydlynu gofal, diogelwch cleifion, ac effeithlonrwydd y system iechyd.
Amseroldeb y Digwyddiad:
Mae’r uwchgynhadledd hon yn digwydd ar foment allweddol i Gymru. Gyda Llywodraeth Cymru ac arweinwyr y GIG yn cyflymu’r ymdrechion i ddigideiddio, bydd y penderfyniadau a wneir nawr yn siapio seilwaith iechyd y genedl am ddegawdau i ddod. Mae’r angen i bennu’r graddfa orau ar gyfer gweithredu CCE yn fwyfwy brys oherwydd argaeledd cyllid newydd, galluoedd newydd gan werthwyr, a’r profiad cynyddol gan wledydd eraill y DU. Wrth i fyrddau iechyd baratoi i wneud buddsoddiadau strategol, mae’r uwchgynhadledd hon yn cynnig cyfle unigryw i oedi, cydgyfeirio, a phennu’r llwybr gorau ymlaen ar y cyd i Gymru.
Pynciau Allweddol a Phwyntiau Ffocws:
- Graddfa Strategol: Modelau CCE cenedlaethol vs rhanbarthol vs lleol — beth sy’n gweithio orau i Gymru?
- Seilwaith ac Aeddfedrwydd: Asesu aeddfedrwydd digidol ar draws byrddau iechyd Cymru.
- Arweinyddiaeth Glinigol a Chymorth: Ymgysylltu â CCIOau, CNIOau, a thimau clinigol yn y broses ddylunio.
- Dysgu gan Eraill: Gwybodaeth ymarferol gan yr Alban, Gogledd Iwerddon ac ICSau Lloegr.
- Cost, Ansawdd ac Amserlenni: Deall y cyfnewidfeydd mewn dulliau gweithredu.
- Hyblygrwydd Technolegol: Sut mae gwerthwyr yn cefnogi datrysiadau CCE graddadwy ac addasadwy.
- Gweledigaeth ar y Cyd: Siapio blaenoriaethau buddsoddi digidol drwy bleidleisio byw a sesiynau rhyngweithiol.
Pam Mynd:
I arweinwyr digidol, clinigwyr a thimau rhaglenni yng Nghymru, mae’r uwchgynhadledd hon yn fwy na chynhadledd — mae’n gyfle prin i ddylanwadu ar gyfeiriad strategaeth iechyd ddigidol y genedl. Gyda Chymru ar groesffordd dyngedfennol, bydd y cynrychiolwyr yn clywed yn uniongyrchol gan gydweithwyr ar draws y DU sydd eisoes wedi wynebu’r un cwestiynau a llywio’r un cymhlethdodau.
Drwy gymryd rhan, byddwch yn cael mewnwelediadau ymarferol, cymryd rhan mewn trafodaethau ystyrlon, ac yn helpu i ddiffinio dyfodol Iechyd Electronig yng Nghymru.
Current Landscape and Challenges:
NHS Wales stands at a pivotal moment in its digital transformation journey. While the ambition for a connected, data-driven health and care system is clear, the path to achieving it is still emerging. Most Welsh health boards remain dependent on paper-based systems or fragmented digital tools, creating barriers to interoperability, data sharing, and clinical efficiency.
Unlike other parts of the UK, where regional and national programmes have begun to take hold, Wales must now confront a critical strategic decision: should the country adopt a single, unified Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution, or empower regional and local initiatives tailored to specific needs and contexts?
The complexity of NHS Wales’ structure—featuring distinct health boards with varying levels of digital maturity—makes this question more urgent and nuanced. The wrong approach risks wasted investment, prolonged implementation, and minimal impact on patient outcomes. The right one could unlock transformative improvements in care coordination, patient safety, and health system efficiency.
Timeliness of Event:
This summit comes at a defining moment for Wales. With the Welsh Government and NHS leaders accelerating the push for digitisation, decisions made now will shape the nation’s health infrastructure for decades to come. The urgency to determine the optimal scale for EHR implementation is intensified by the availability of new funding, emerging vendor capabilities, and the growing body of experience from other UK nations. As health boards prepare to make strategic investments, this summit offers a unique opportunity to pause, align, and collectively determine the best path forward for Wales.
Key Topics and Focus Points:
- Strategic Scale: National vs regional vs local EHR models — what works best for Wales?
- Infrastructure and Readiness: Assessing digital maturity across Welsh health boards.
- Clinical Leadership and Buy-In: Engaging CCIOs, CNIOs, and clinical teams in system design.
- Learning from Others: Real-world insights from Scotland, Northern Ireland, and English ICSs.
- Cost, Quality and Timelines: Understanding trade-offs in implementation approaches.
- Technology Flexibility: How vendors are supporting scalable, adaptable EHR solutions.
- Collective Vision: Shaping digital investment priorities through live polling and interactive sessions.
Why Attend:
For Welsh digital leaders, clinicians, and programme teams, this summit is more than a conference — it's a rare opportunity to influence the national direction of digital health strategy. With Wales at a critical crossroads, delegates will hear directly from peers across the UK who have already faced the same questions and navigated similar complexities.
By participating, you'll gain practical insights, engage in meaningful dialogue, and help define the future of EHR in Wales.
Attendance Policy:
Please note that attendance at this event is strictly by pre-registration only. Only registered NHS delegates and approved attendees will be admitted on the day. Private sector representatives or unregistered guests will not be permitted entry.
If you have not received a confirmation email, please contact info@convenzis.co.uk before attending and our team will reissue your registration details.
If your place has been declined and you believe this may have been in error, please email info@convenzis.co.uk and our team will be happy to review your application.
Sponsors & Partners
Your Pass Includes....
- This conference is CPD accredited. Attendees will be eligible to gain 8 CPD points upon completion of the event.
- Access to a leading conference speaker programme
- Interactive Q&A sessions
- Fireside interviews
- Cross-sector best practice
- Meet the supplier opportunities
- Hot breakfast & Lunch included
- Access to post event drinks reception and Street food
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Event Speakers
Anthony
Tracey
Cyfarwyddwr Digidol / Director of Digital
Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Hywel Dda / Hywel Dda University Health Board
Read biography
Dr Penny
Kechagioglou
Chief Clinical Information Officer and Consultant Clinical Oncologist
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
Read biography
Gayle
Dellow
Lead Digital Midwife | Chair of MNDN for East of England
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Read biography
Janet
Young
Director of Digital Transformation & Systems
One Lancashire and South Cumbria CIO
Read biography
Linda
Watts
Associate Director of Digital Transformation | Programme Director Digital Outpatients
Imperial College Healthcare Trust, Barts Health NHS Trust
Read biography
The programme
08:30
Registration & Networking
Attendance Policy:
Please note that attendance at this event is strictly by pre-registration only. Only registered NHS delegates and approved attendees will be admitted on the day. Private sector representatives or unregistered guests will not be permitted entry.
If you have not received a confirmation email, please contact info@convenzis.co.uk before attending and our team will reissue your registration details.
If your place has been declined and you believe this may have been in error, please email info@convenzis.co.uk and our team will be happy to review your application.
09:30
Hadleigh Stollar
Opening Remarks & Event Overview
Opening Remarks & Event Overview
Welcome and introduction to the day’s programme. The chair will set the strategic context for digital transformation in NHS Wales and outline the event’s objectives.
09:40
Anthony Tracey
Keynote Presentation - Digital transformation across Wales: Strategic prioritisation and our journey ahead
Session Overview:
- National Target Architecture and what that means in terms of opportunity for
strategic prioritisation. - Our journey towards the NDR/CDR.
10:00
Dr Penny Kechagioglou
Gayle Dellow
Panel - Building a Unified Digital Health Future for Wales
Session Overview:
Expert panel discussing opportunities and barriers to delivering a unified, modern Electronic Health Record across Wales. Perspectives on strategy, clinical adoption, and patient impact.
10:30
Dr Penny Kechagioglou
Innovation Spotlight - Leading Digital Change
Session Overview:
A showcase session from a digital leader, highlighting cutting-edge approaches, lessons learned, and future priorities for health IT in Wales.
10:50
Morning Break
Morning Break
11:50
Hadleigh Stollar
Morning Insights & Key Themes Recap
Morning Insights & Key Themes Recap
A brief reflection on key themes and insights from the morning sessions, preparing the audience for the case studies and applied examples ahead.
11:55
Case Study - Uniting Wales to Realise Strategic Vision - brought to you from the people who authored the Welsh National Target Architecture
Session Overview - Aire Logic:
Vicky Rothwell and Matthew Pattison from Aire Logic, a UK B Corp Health Tech Consultancy, are sharing their story behind their recent National Target Architecture (NTA) project - a transformative blueprint for empowering change in Welsh healthcare, co-delivered by Aire Logic and Channel 3 Consulting in partnership with Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW).
Vicky is world leading expert Enterprise Architect and has co-authored the book “Business Architecture: A comprehensive guide”. Matthew worked closely with Vicky on this ground breaking piece of work which will revolutionise health architecture.
Vicky and Matthew will go into detail about:
- The two incredible women at the heart of the project, Vicky Rothwell and Rhian Rice, who led the enterprise architecture vision to overcome decades of fragmented digital systems, uniting seven Health Boards and three national trusts under one shared, data-driven future.
The result of the project: A Healthier Wales and better patient care for everyone.
- A 10-year roadmap towards a modern, interoperable health service, underpinning an estimated £200 million of digital transformation investment across NHS Wales.
- A unified target architecture that aligns everyone around a single, coherent view of patient care across the nation.
- A thriving Community of Practice of 30+ architects, the first of its kind in Wales.
This is a presentation not to be missed.
12:15
Dr. Dennis Rausch
Case Study - Transforming Patient Care Through Digital Integration
Session Overview - Dedalus:
Dr. Dennis Rausch will speak about how EMRs can finally fulfil the promise of being an indispensable tool for clinicians. Along that line, he will also share insights from Dedalus’ collaboration with Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), where a single, integrated digital health record now connects 39 hospitals serving 14 million patients. The initiative enhanced care continuity, efficiency, and collaboration - offering valuable lessons for Wales’ journey toward a connected digital health ecosystem.
12:35
Janet Young
Linda Watts
Fireside Chat
Session Overview:
Helping people to understand the importance process mapping in readiness for the change - From paper to now using Harris Flex 25 years in EPR - first 10 didn't know what EPR(EHR) means. Go through documents, standardise beforehand - get a few individuals to be the allies.
12:55
Darren Ransley
Case Study - Alcidion
Session Overview - Alcidion:
Exploring Alcidion’s work on intelligent clinical decision support and operational visibility. Examples of improving patient flow, safety, and workforce productivity.
13:15
Lunch & Networking
Lunch & Networking
14:15
Hadleigh Stollar
Afternoon Outlook & Priorities
Afternoon Outlook & Priorities
The chair sets the scene for the afternoon programme, summarising earlier insights and introducing the next phase of presentations and case studies.
14:20
James Millington
Vanessa Funmi Ullam
Case Study - What happens when access to your EPR is compromised? Rethinking Business Continuity for Healthcare
Session Overview - IGEL:
Title: What happens when access to your EPR is compromised? Rethinking Business Continuity for Healthcare
For healthcare, downtime isn’t just an IT headache, it puts care at risk. IGEL’s new Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BC&DR) solution ensures clinicians can restore access to EPRs within minutes, even after ransomware, device failure, or major incidents.
Move from reactive recovery to built-in clinical resilience.
14:40
Sarah Lomax
Dr. Dennis Rausch
Dr Jonathan Bloor
Ron Hurtado
Making every pound count: Lessons from the EPR Ecosystem
Session Overview:
- Practical insights from 18+ years of NHS digital transformation: Sarah shares lessons learned from delivering electronic patient record systems across the NHS and beyond.
- Key success factors for EPR implementation: Covering pre-procurement readiness, vendor relationship management, team engagement, and long-term sustainability.
- Actionable strategies for NHS leaders: Learn how to build internal capability, manage change effectively, and realise lasting benefits for patients and staff.
15:00
Dr Jonathan Bloor
Case Study - EPR-Native Ambient AI: The Future of Healthcare
Session Overview - System C:
Dr Jonathan Bloor, Medical Director at System C, explains how EPR-native AI, complete with ambient listening technology deeply embedded in the EPR, is now coming on-stream, and should be the go-to option for maximum safety, compliance and efficiency, as opposed to risky third-party standalone apps.
15:20
Karen Russell-Surtees
Rob Nimmo
NHS Case Study - Why the EPR and Shared Care Record need to co-exist: Life Outside the Hospital Walls
Session Overview:
As healthcare systems move toward more integrated, person-centred models, the traditional boundaries between acute, community, mental health, and social care are rapidly dissolving. Yet digital infrastructure often remains siloed and slow to adapt.
In this session, Rob Nimmo, Head of Digital Transformation at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICS, argues that Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) and Shared Care Records (ShCRs) should not be seen as competing solutions, but as complementary systems that must work in tandem.
Drawing on real-world examples from across the NHS, Rob will discuss how EPRs are essential for managing care within organisations, while Shared Care Records provide the crucial connectivity needed across settings, supporting continuity of care outside hospital walls. He will challenge the myth of a single system solution and highlight the dangers of siloed digital thinking, offering practical guidance for enabling effective co-existence.
This will be an opportunity to discuss the distinct roles and strengths of EPRs and Shared Care Records and some of the key considerations around governance, consent, and trust in data sharing.
15:40
Andy Meiner
David Hancock
Panel Discussion - Things you need to consider other than functionality when choosing your EPR
Session Overview:
In this panel discussion Andy and David will look at interoperability, data (access, migration, standards), usability, flexibility, and AI through the different lenses of Clinician, Nurse and C-Suite, focusing on why each is important and how it affects them.
It will cover business process, data migration, legacy apps and data, and is based on their experiences working for EPR vendors, responding to tenders, and how vendors are really good at saying 'yes'.
16:10
Hadleigh Stollar
Chair's Closing Remarks
Chair's Closing Remarks
16:15
Food, Drinks & Networking
Food, Drinks & Networking
17:00
End of Day
End of Day
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