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Who are you? – I’m a delivery director and I specialise in the design, development and deployment of Digital Hospitals / twins and Control Centres
What is your industry and profession? – I work in the global healthcare sector as a consulting Director for Hitachi Vantara and have previously worked in the NHS leading transformation programs, prior to this I worked for one of the Big four consulting companies. However, I originally starting my career as a manufacturing systems engineer in the aerospace, electronics and automotive manufacturing sectors
Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? – I first started to look at digital twins when I was in the NHS as a way of being able to monitor and coordinate resources across a widely dispersed geographical area and the impacts on population health management about 8 years ago, however for the last 5 years I have been working on the design, development and deployment of a digital control center for the NHS, which incorporates a digital twin of the patient. On a personal note, I am extremely passionate about what and how digital twins / control centres and predictive capability can do to do to help improve both patient and users lifes.
Why have you decided to join the DTHub? – I wanted to network with like-minded people and really start to understand how I can help make a difference for people and also show some of the work that I am leading at Hitachi to improve patients life’s
Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? – No not yet but i intend to join in as soon as i can 🙂
Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? – Yes, i can showcase the work we have been doing in Hitachi with a large NHS Trust in the Northwest of England to design, build and deploy a digital control center, a series of new digital products and AL / ML driven predictive capabilities which support clinicians and operational staff to undertake improved decision making in areas such as flow, demand and capacity, care task management, discharge coordination, operational and performance management, Emergency department optimization, etc.