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The best digital health Twitter feeds to follow in 2019

Published by
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!

@R1chardatron

Richard Corbridge, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

 Leader  & & Advisory |  #    | My Own Views.

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.@ukpenguin

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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@InsideHealthCIO

David Walliker, Chief Information Officer, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals University NHS Trust.

CIO at  and  | Life Sciences Accelerator |  2018 |  2018 | Very Tall.

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@stdocherty

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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@LisaEmNHS

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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@NHSCCIO

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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@GoffHickey

Yvonne Goff, Chief Clinical Information Officer, eHealth Ireland.

Chief Clinical Information Officer for   HSE Ireland Passionate about ensuring Health Informatics is the most positive patient enabler.

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@GutteridgeC

Charles Gutteridge, Chief Clinical Information Officer, Barts Health.

CCIO Barts Health, haematologist, ski tourer.

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@Asifmbachlani

Asif Bachlani, Chief Clinical Information Officer, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

Consultant Psychiatrist++Clinical Lead MHTariff  • NHS London Co-Chair Mental HealthICS • GAP Rep SWLondon • =power  + .

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@OsmanBhatti

Osman Bhatti, Chief Clinical Information Officer, East London Health & Care Partnership.

NHS GP with an interest in Diabetes and IT. CCIO for . (all tweets are my own personal thoughts).

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@DomCushnan 

Dom Cushnan, Digital programmes manager, NHS Horizons.

 revolutionising healthcare improvement in the  with  systems leadership, improvement and adoption.

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@helenbevan

Helen Bevan, Chief Transformation Officer, NHS Horizons.

Chief Transformation Officer, . Seeking out ideas, learning & connections to help large scale change in health & care. All views my own.

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@Alex__Butler

Alex Butler, Co-Founder of Foundry³ and Digital Health Innovation Foundry.

Co-founder  Innovation Lab | Inventor of multiple global award winning solutions |  speaker |  | FCIM.

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@SighSam

Sammy Payne, Co-founder, Open Bionics.

Cofounder  at .  alum. Likes .  resident,  Fellow &  Innovator under35.

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@Beverley_Bryant

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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@BHeatherJourno

Ben Heather, Technology Correspondent, Health Service Journal.

Covers tech/digital for  | Also the West Midlands and South West. Open DM for tips/news or email ben.heather@wilmingtonhealthcare.com

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@HannahCrouch_DH

Hannah Crouch, News Editor, Digital Health

 reporter. Covering  and  in London and the south east.

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@picardonhealth

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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@1Leontina

Leontina Postelnicu, Associate Editor, Healthcare IT News & Mobi Health News.

 & associate editor.

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@LisEvenstad

Lis Evenstad, Management Editor, Computer Weekly.

Londoner. Management Editor , doctor’s wife and canine mother with too many vices for my own good. Tech geek and TV addict. Wine. 

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