-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Digital Health Oxford Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:09:14 +0000 From: Richard Harrington richard.harrington2@dph.ox.ac.uk To: secretary@ox.compsoc.net secretary@ox.compsoc.net
Dear CompSoc,
I'm writing to let you know about a meetup that I'm organising for Digital Health Oxford, on Monday 2nd December at 6pm in the University Club (on Mansfield Road, OX1 3SZ). I'm a postdoc working in the Department of Population Health, and have a background in bioinformatics and medical informatics, and set this group up as I know there are a lot of exciting projects in this field going on in and around Oxford, and wanted to provide the opportunity for people to find out what's going on, to learn from people with complementary skills and experiences, and to develop new ideas to make Oxford a hub of Digital Health. It is cross-disciplinary, with developers, clinicians, researchers, engineers, computer scientists, designers, entrepreneurs, and is also cross sector, with people from academia, healthcare and industry. There are a lot of great speakers lined up from both academia and industry, spanning a wide range of subjects from wearable devices, quantified self, telehealth, digital-omics, through to workshops on clinical-focused data systems and architecture.
At the first meetup we'll have talks from Dr Chris Paton from the George Institute / University of Oxford, who will talk about the Heart Failure telehealth project he's been working on, and James Turnbull, co-founder and lead of the dev-team at Incuna who will talk about their experiences working as a digital healthcare agency with academia and the healthcare sectors. Following this will be an opportunity to chat with others over a few drinks either in the University Club, or else at the Kings Arms just up the road. I'm also working on sponsorship for some drinks at the event.
It would help with the organisation if people wanting to attend could sign up at http://www.meetup.com/Digital-Health-Oxford/, else let me know by email/twitter, or just turn up on the day. If you've any questions, please get in touch.
@dhealthoxford www.digitalhealthoxford.org http://www.digitalhealthoxford.org/
Richie
-- Dr. Richie Harrington
BHFHPRG, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford Old Road Campus Oxford OX3 7LF