EPR Summit: Strategic Foundations for Digital Care 2026

Digital Infrastructure & Security

08:30 am
03 Mar, 2026
The Vox Conference Venue, Resort World, Marston Green, Birmingham B40 1PU

EPR Summit: Strategic Foundations for Digital Care 2026

Digital Infrastructure & Security

08:30 am
03 Mar, 2026
The Vox Conference Venue, Resort World, Marston Green, Birmingham B40 1PU

All Convenzis Events Provide 8 CPD Points Per Delegate

Summit theme: Strategic Foundations for Digital Care

The focus for 2026 is shifting from achieving EPR coverage to realising measurable improvements for staff and patients. National strategies such as What Good Looks Like, the NHS Long Term Plan and the Plan for Digital Health and Care 2022 set the direction, but local delivery now determines success. With more than 90% of Trusts live with an EPR, the priority is turning digital ambition into operational outcomes across every ICS and Trust.

Core Themes:

  • Aligning national policy with frontline EPR delivery.
  • Moving from capital-driven adoption to sustained optimisation and interoperability.
  • Strengthening organisational digital maturity through frameworks such as DIMM.
  • Funding models that support long-term improvement rather than one-off deployment.
  • Workforce engagement and clinical leadership in EPR optimisation.
  • Delivering consistent, safe, connected care across regions and systems.

Delegate Outcomes - By attending this summit, delegates will gain:

  • Practical insights for translating national mandates into local digital programmes.
  • Understanding of evolving funding expectations for optimisation and interoperability.
  • Strategies to strengthen digital maturity and system-wide alignment.
  • Real-world lessons from Trusts and frontline teams improving care through their EPR.
  • Networking with peers, suppliers and national leaders shaping the 2026 agenda.

What’s New for 2026:

  • Increased focus on outcome-based investment beyond capital funding.
  • Greater emphasis on optimisation, data quality, and interoperability.
  • Introduction of the Digital Interoperability Maturity Model (DIMM).
  • A new drive to evidence measurable clinical and operational impact from EPR use.
  • Spotlight on cross-setting EPR journeys, including ambulance and specialist services.

Why Attend:

This summit provides a unique opportunity for NHS leaders, clinicians and digital teams to understand how the national direction is evolving and how to deliver practical value on the ground. With leading suppliers, Trust case studies and national speakers, the programme supports organisations at every stage of their digital journey.

Who Would Benefit:

This summit is designed for NHS leaders and teams responsible for shaping, delivering and optimising digital care.

It will be particularly valuable for CIOs, CCIOs, CNIOs, Directors of Digital, Transformation and Operations, as well as programme directors, EPR managers and clinical digital leaders working across Trusts and ICSs.

Professionals involved in digital strategy, data, interoperability, clinical safety, infrastructure, frontline engagement or system-wide transformation will gain practical insights and real-world lessons.

The event is equally suited to operational leads, clinical champions and system managers seeking to maximise the value of their EPR and accelerate organisational digital maturity.

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.

Headline Sponsor

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

Chair Opening Address (Confirmed)

Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium

Chair Opening Address

A welcome to delegates and framing of the summit focus.

09:40

Keynote Presentation

Derm Ryan
Director of Digital Transformation, Transformation Directorate
NHSE

Speaker: Derm Ryan, Director of Frontline Digitisation, NHS England (Provisionally Confirmed)

National priorities, progress and direction of travel for the next phase of EPR development.

10:00

Panel Discussion - Worcestershire

Exploring Worcestershire’s approach to implementing national mandates at Trust level.

Panellists TBC:

  • Jackie Edwards, Chief Clinical Digital Engagement Officer Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (Invited)
  • Additional Panellists (TBC)

10:30

Main Sponsor - Altera Digital Health

Main Sponsor - Altera Digital Health

About us:

Altera Digital Health is a leading provider of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems in the UK. Our flexible, integrated EPR brings together clinical, administrative, and patient flow capabilities, helping the NHS deliver safer, more reliable care while accelerating digital maturity.  At Altera Digital Health, over 45% of our UK team has direct NHS experience—a figure that’s not just a statistic, but a reflection of our alignment with the values, challenges, and priorities of the NHS. This deep-rooted understanding allows us to design and deliver solutions that truly resonate with clinicians, administrators, and patients alike.

10:50

Morning Break & Networking

Morning Break & Networking

11:50

Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)

Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium

Chair Morning Reflection

Summary of morning themes and introduction to mid-day sessions.

11:55

Case Study - Aire Logic

Case Study - Aire Logic

12:15

Case Study - Proact IT LTD

Case Study - Proact IT LTD

About us:

Through our portfolio of technology solutions, Proact support healthcare organisations on the journey to digital maturity. With over 25 years of industry experience, Proact Healthcare Solutions helps providers drive improved patient care. We work with you, optimising systems to deliver highly available and secure data that can be accessed anywhere.

12:35

Leadership and Digital Strategy in a Specialist Trust

Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium

Chair - Hadleigh Stollar

Panellists:

  • Andy Raynes, CIO, Royal Papworth (Invited)
  • Simon Brown, Head of Digital, Royal Papworth (Invited)

12:55

Case Study - Dedalus

Case Study - Dedalus

About us:

Dedalus has been a trusted NHS partner for over 40 years, with a proven track record of delivering clinically led digital solutions that improve patient care. Our ORBIS EPR, adopted by over 1,000 hospitals in France and Germany, is the leading EPR system across Europe, is now supporting the NHS and HSE on their digital transformation journeys.

Designed by clinicians, for clinicians, ORBIS incorporates best practice content, standards, and pathways to support safer, more efficient care. With experience at national, regional, and local scale, Dedalus brings real-world insight from a mature, connected EPR network - enabling data-driven, patient-centred care aligned with Wales’ digital health ambitions.

13:15

Lunch & Networking

Lunch & Networking

14:00

Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)

Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium

Chair Afternoon Address

Setting up the afternoon’s maturity and optimisation focus.

14:05

Case Study - Bridgehead Software

Case Study - Bridgehead Software

About us:

Fed up of painful, expensive data migrations when replacing imaging systems? Are your clinicians frustrated they can’t easily access the images, reports and associated data they need when diagnosing and treating patients? Sick of productivity grinding to a halt when your PACS goes down? Finding it difficult to power your AI initiatives with a rich imaging dataset?

Re-imagine your Enterprise Imaging strategies and take back control of your imaging data with BridgeHead’s Clinical Data Repository, HealthStore® – a future-proof, fully interoperable, next-generation vendor neutral archive (VNA).

14:25

Panel Discussion - Digital Interoperability Maturity Model (DIMM)

Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium
Andy Meiner
CEO
Si-Squared
David Hancock
Director and Chair
INTEROPen

Shaping the Future of Digital Maturity Assessment

Chair: Hadleigh Stollar

Panellists:

  • Andy Meiner, CEO, SI-Squared (Confirmed)
  • David Hancock, Director and Chair of INTEROPen (Provisionally Confirmed)

The healthcare sector is evolving rapidly, and digital interoperability has never been more critical. To support this journey, SI² and HIC are developing the Digital Interoperability Maturity Model (DIMM), the UK’s first digital maturity assessment. How should Digital Maturity Assessments evolve to better capture operational optimisation rather than compliance with baseline standards?

14:45

Case Study - InterSystems

Case Study - InterSystems

About us:

When you’ve been given the remit to be EPR enabled, and the clock is ticking, you need an experienced supplier that can not only quickly get you up to speed, but who will also help you along your journey. 

With over 45 years’ experience delivering healthcare solutions, and working with over 60% of NHS Trusts, we know how important information is to the care provider, and presenting the right information, at the right time is critical, especially in high octane, multi-device departments like Emergency. 

We also know implementing an EPR is hard, and it involves change, but you can rest assured that with our global experience in deploying TrakCare in 29 countries, and our focus on customer success, we will be with you all along your entire EPR journey and beyond. 

15:05

Panel Discussion - EPR Optimisation Challenges

Dr Penny Kechagioglou
Chief Clinical Information Officer and Consultant Clinical Oncologist
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
Janet Young
Acting CIO
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Making EPRs Work for Staff: Funding, Workforce and Maturity

Frontline Digitisation has delivered EPR coverage across 90% of Trusts but owning a system isn’t enough. This session examines how to optimise EPR use through workforce alignment, better funding models and strategic maturity planning, ensuring digital tools truly support staff and patients.

Chair: Dr Penny Kechagiolou (Confirmed)

Panellists:

  • Jackie Edwards, Chief Clinical Digital Engagement Officer, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (Invited)
  • Kas Russell-Surtees, Digital Programme Manager, Cambridge Children’s Hospital (CCH) (Invited)
  • Janet Young, Acting CIO, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Provisionally Confirmed)

15:25

NHS Case Study - The Ambulance EPR Journey (Confirmed)

David Davis
Chief Clinical Information Officer
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust

The unique challenges and learnings from mobile, high-acuity digital documentation.

15:45

Panel Discussion - EPR Network White Paper

Sarah Lomax
VP - Healthcare
Capgemini

Strategic Foundations for Digital Care: Insights for 2026

Discussion on the findings and recommendations from the latest UK EPR Network white paper.

Panellists:

  • Sarah Lomax, Vice President and Head of Health Consulting, Capgemini (Provisionally Confirmed)

16:05

Closing Remarks (Confirmed)

Hadleigh Stollar
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Innovation Consortium

Closing Remarks

16:10

Hot Buffet Food & Drinks

Hot Buffet Food & Drinks

17:00

End of Day

End of Day

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