The best digital health Twitter feeds to follow in 2019
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Rory Bibb
PR & Marketing Executive, Silver Buck
With a vast and ever-growing number of news media outlets, prolific tweeters and leading industry voices, it is becoming increasingly difficult to follow and track the digital health news agenda.
To help cut through the noise – and for the sake of your eyes, sanity and your overworked touchscreens – we’ve picked out some of the best Twitter feeds for you to follow.
Our list of top tweeters, ranging from journalists to CIOs, are some of the most active, followed and well-respected names in digital health. If you think we’ve missed anyone let us know and we’ll be sure to update the list!
Richard Corbridge, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
#Digital Leader @LTHTrust & @DITLeeds & Advisory @KLASresearch, @SilverBuck_UK | #CIO100, #PinkSocks, #Transformation, #Leeds, #HouseMusic, @BarnsleyFC | My Own Views.
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Rachel Dunscombe, Chief Information Officer of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust & Director of Digital for the NHS.
Visiting Prof, IC, CEO NHS Digital Academy, Director NCA+SRFT, No6 CIO100 ’18, Most Disruptive CIO ’16, No 3 in CIO100 ’17, NHS-KLAS-CHIME (views my own).
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David Walliker, Chief Information Officer, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals University NHS Trust.
CIO at @RoyalLpoolHosps and @liverpoolwomens | Life Sciences Accelerator | #himssfuture50 2018 | #cio100 2018 | Very Tall.
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Stephen Docherty, Chief Information Officer of South London & Maudsley NHS Trust.
CIO of South London & Maudsley NHS Trust. Chair of London CIO Council. Views are mine.
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Lisa Emery, Chief Information Officer, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
CIO, Royal Marsden NHS FT. Digital Health Advisory Panel, Vice-Chair London CIO Council. Promoting women in science & tech! Loves a pun. Views my own.
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Simon Eccles, Chief Clinical Information Officer for Health and Care.
Chief Clinical Information Officer for Health and Care: DHSC, NHSE, NHSI. All views expressed are my own.
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Yvonne Goff, Chief Clinical Information Officer, eHealth Ireland.
Chief Clinical Information Officer for #ehealthlireland #CCIO HSE Ireland Passionate about ensuring Health Informatics is the most positive patient enabler.
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Charles Gutteridge, Chief Clinical Information Officer, Barts Health.
CCIO Barts Health, haematologist, ski tourer.
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Asif Bachlani, Chief Clinical Information Officer, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
Consultant Psychiatrist+#CCIO+Clinical Lead MHTariff @SWLSTG • NHS London Co-Chair Mental HealthICS • @RCPsych GAP Rep SWLondon • #Data =power #GAPData19 + #bame.
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Osman Bhatti, Chief Clinical Information Officer, East London Health & Care Partnership.
NHS GP with an interest in Diabetes and IT. CCIO for @EastLondonHCP. (all tweets are my own personal thoughts).
Dom Cushnan, Digital programmes manager, NHS Horizons.
@horizonsnhs @nhsenglandrevolutionising healthcare improvement in the #NHS with #AI systems leadership, improvement and adoption.
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Helen Bevan, Chief Transformation Officer, NHS Horizons.
Chief Transformation Officer, @HorizonsNHS. Seeking out ideas, learning & connections to help large scale change in health & care. All views my own.
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Alex Butler, Co-Founder of Foundry³ and Digital Health Innovation Foundry.
Co-founder @the_Foundry3 #Pharma Innovation Lab | Inventor of multiple global award winning #digitalhealthsolutions | @TedMed speaker | @Digitally_Sick | FCIM.
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Sammy Payne, Co-founder, Open Bionics.
Cofounder @openbionics at @BristolRobotLab. @disneyaccel @techstars alum. Likes #startups #robots. @PMStudioUK resident, @WIRED Fellow & @MIT Innovator under35.
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Beverley Bryant, Chief Operating Officer at System C & Graphnet Care Alliance.
Chief Operating Officer, System C & Graphnet Care Alliance, Women in IT ‘Digital Leader of the Year’ 2017.
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Ben Heather, Technology Correspondent, Health Service Journal.
Covers tech/digital for @HSJnews | Also the West Midlands and South West. Open DM for tips/news or email ben.heather@wilmingtonhealthcare.com
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Hannah Crouch, News Editor, Digital Health
@DigitalHealth2 reporter. Covering #digitalhealth and #NHS in London and the south east.
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André Picard, Health columnist, The Globe and Mail.
André Picard is the health columnist at The Globe and Mail. Author of “Matters of Life and Death.” I tweet and RT about health issues, running and journalism.
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Leontina Postelnicu, Associate Editor, Healthcare IT News & Mobi Health News.
@HealthITNews & @MobiHealthNews associate editor.
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Lis Evenstad, Management Editor, Computer Weekly.
Londoner. Management Editor @computerweekly, doctor’s wife and canine mother with too many vices for my own good. Tech geek and TV addict. Wine.
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