January’s Cyber Security Summit line-up announced

Digital Health’s Cyber Security Summit series is returning on 24 January, 2017, hosted at the Royal College of Physicians.

The January summit will cover cyber security issues in both health and social care, for the first. This will include the managing both cyber threats and information governance challenges while the NHS and social care move towards greater information sharing and integrated records.

Places at the Digital Health and Care Cyber Security Summit, sponsored by Westcon, are exclusively for NHS and public sector digital leaders.  https://www.digitalhealth.net/event/47997/digital-health-and-care-cyber-security-summit-2017

The event, which builds on Digital Health’s cyber security summit in August, will again operate under the Chatham House rule to encourage the sharing of knowledge and experience.

The programme has been built to provide a cross-section of perspectives on the emerging challenges of cyber security health and care.

Adrian Byrne, IT director at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and chair of the Health CIO Network is chairing the event.

Speakers include:

– Lorraine Jackson, director of digital and data policy, Department of Health, who will provide the national policy perspective. 
– Dan Taylor, head of cyber security, NHS Digital, will provide an update on CareCERT programmes and assistance available to health and social care providers.
– Sarah Pickup, deputy chief executive of the Local Government Association, will outline the key cyber challenges of integrating health and care
– Terry Dafter, head of IM&T group at the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), will cover the challenges of cyber security in social care.
– Keith Strahan, social care lead at NHS Digital, will discuss what is needed to set the bar on information governance at the right level to enable sharing with Care Homes.
– Andrew Rose, senior policy officer at the Information Commissioner’s Office will explore the relationship between IG and cyber security and how the ICO can assist.

A key part of Digital Health’s Cyber Security Summits is the session in which speakers candidly share their experiences of suffering attacks, covering the impact, how they responded and lessons to be learned. 

The dispatches from the front line of cyber security panel will include:

– Dr Paul Atkinson, chief information officer, Gloucestershire CCG
– Philip Graham, IT director, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
– Derrick Bates, trust Information and security officer, North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

For full programme details and to book your place visit here.