Unlocking 'remote monitoring' for effective diabetes care

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For people with chronic diseases such as diabetes managing their condition is a lifelong collaboration with healthcare professionals and community based support.

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About the event

This event investigates this complicated disease and how today’s remote monitoring solutions measure up to existing diabetes indications and established care pathways. We identify what technical challenges remain to be solved and discuss how pathways can unite towards an improved care, lower cost, connected future.

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Agenda

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13:00

Registration and networking with lunch

13:30

Introduction to Healthcare from Paul Winter, TTP Group

13:40

Welcome from event supporter, Dr Hans Hagen, Cambridge University Health Partners

13:50

Diabetes in the 21st century; still exploring uncharted seas; Dr Tony Coll, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science

The principle of overcoming a hormone deficiency with replacement therapy is a simple one and remains at the heart of diabetes care. However, to do this safely over a long period of time remains difficult for many patients. In particular, there remains the challenge of balancing the avoidance of long term complications of poor glucose control with the need to minimise iatrogenic harm from therapies. In trying to tackle these problems, the diabetes community has always been a ready embracer of technology, both in terms of drug delivery apparatus and biochemical monitoring systems. In this session, I will give a brief overview of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus and consider some of the medical and financial issues that diabetes care continues to face.

14:10

Q&A

14:15

Remote Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM); Melissa Holloway, INPUT Patient Advocacy and Speaking Diabetes Ltd

This talk will provide a whirlwind overview of current diabetes technologies that allow for remote data access, including continuous glucose monitoring, flash glucose monitoring, blood glucose meters with Bluetooth, and cloud-based diabetes data management systems.

14:35

Q&A

14:40

Be all you can be, Always! - integrated mobile connected hardware and software as a service to improve quality of life for people with diabetes; Henrik Norström, Brighter

Brighter has sought to use state of the art technological solutions - such as blood sugar monitors and insulin pens - for diabetes care integrated into a single device, logging the data and transmitting this through a global mobile connection to its platform to close the loop to the different stakeholders in the care chain. With the patients at the epicentre, enabling a higher motivation to adhere to the treatment, we also create the opportunity to empower the patients in relation to the medical condition and the costs. Adherence is low, costs of complications are high. By reducing barriers to effective direct care, adherence should increase and costs of complications should be reduced, resulting in a lower lifecycle cost and high quality of life - Be all you can be, Always!

15:00

Q&A

15:05

Refreshments and networking

15:30

Artificial pancreas – the next step in connectivity and digital treatment of type 1 diabetes; Dr Roman Hovorka, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Lab

Rapid progress over the past decade has been made with the development of the ‘Artificial Pancreas’, also known as the closed-loop system, which emulates the feedback glucose-responsive functionality of the pancreatic beta cell. The recent FDA approval of the first hybrid closed-loop system makes the Artificial Pancreas a realistic therapeutic option for people with type 1 diabetes. The introduction of the artificial pancreas into clinical practice represents a milestone towards the goal of improving the care of people with type 1 diabetes. There remains a need to understand the impact of the technology, its data remote monitoring capabilities, and implication on current diabetes management and care.

15:50

Q&A

15:55

Disrupting the diabetes integrated care pathway; Dr Sufyan Hussein, Royal Free Hospitals Trust

This talk reviews the current response ecosystem and how technology advancements, integration and data analysis may better support stakeholders and impact care pathways

16:15

Q&A

16:20

Panel session with all speakers chaired by SIG Champion, Paul Winter, TTP Extra Panellist - Stuart Stafford, AstraZeneca

16:50

Event Closes

Speakers

Dr Tony Coll - University Lecturer/Honorary Consultant Physician, Wellcome Trust

Melissa Holloway - , Input

Roman Hovorka - Director of Research, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Lab

Sufyan Hussein - Consultant, Royal Free Hospitals Trust

Henrik Norström - COO, Brighter

Stuart Stafford - Functional Project Manager, AstraZeneca

SIG Champions

Peter Ferguson - Director of Connected Health, Capgemini UK plc

Michael Morgan-Curran - CEO, Asclepius MedTech Ltd

Michael has a successful track-record in ethical pharmaceuticals, medical technologies and digital therapeutics. Working with some of the world’s best-known pharmaceutical, life science, medical device, telecoms and research organisations across EMEA, US and Latam, he has built and led teams accountable for market intelligence, strategy, marketing and commercialisation, product design, regulation and market authorisation, pharmacovigilance, clinical trial development, clinical effectiveness and health economics.

As CEO of start-up Asclepius MedTech Ltd; he and his team are building a platform for use in pre- and post-operative surgical assessment to support clinicians and surgical teams ameliorate shared decision-making and stratify patient care.

Daniel Nickalls - Consultant, TTP plc

Daniel is a TTP project leader focussed on decentralized healthcare solutions including the detection and treatment of chronic conditions at home. These projects cover the entire development lifecycle, from early-stage ideation and opportunity validation, through proof-of-concept development, to regulated device development for large-scale manufacture. Daniel particularly enjoys combining engineering insights, rigorous human-centred design and thorough business case validation to realise effective solutions.

Laurence Weir - Freelance, Unaffiliated

Since graduating in Engineering from Cambridge University in 2006, Laurence has worked for Broadcom, Cambridge Mechatronics, Illumina and PA Consulting, and Plextek Services Ltd. Due to the range of sectors Laurence has worked in, from smartphone technology to DNA sequencing, he has an appreciation for the different skills and expertise required to deliver multi-disciplinary engineering projects, as well as the applicable regulatory environments that exist. His experience in business development is coupled with technology leadership on projects and practical engineering delivery.

Mick Withers - SVP Commercial Business Development, Plextek

Involved in Technology consulting around Cambridge for the last 34 years, Previous roles include Managing Director at Sagentia, as well as a couple of stints at TTP, and 5 years helping TeraView transition from a startup to a product company. Now I am charged with helping Plextek diversify its service offering into the Commercial (i.e. non-defence) space.

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William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge, CB2 0SP

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