UHSFT
“Communications technology is going to really take us on to a level where we can monitor patients from secondary care in a much better way than we have ”
ADRIAN BYRNE CIO UHSFT
many different digital strategies and technologies to support its operations ultimately improving patient services .
“ One of the things that we do as an organisation is run a personal health record service called My Medical Record . We ' ve got more than 100,000 patients on that now and it ' s growing around 5,000 a month ,” said Byrne .
“ It ' s a big thing for us . We ' re a leader in it , in terms of secondary care . You can see the impact of technology . Communications technology is going to really take us on to a level where we can monitor patients from secondary care in a much better way than we have , and in fact , do things that we could never even think of doing even five years ago . The pace of change is rapid ,” he added .
Pinto celebrated the work Byrne and his team have executed over the years : “ What ' s really interesting is that Adrian ' s time at the Trust as the CIO has been coincident with this rapid , just extraordinary expansion in services over that time .”
EXECUTIVE BIO
ADRIAN BYRNE
TITLE : CIO INDUSTRY : HEALTHCARE , TECHNOLOGY LOCATION : UNITED KINGDOM
“ As Chief Information Officer at UHSFT Adrian oversees the strategy and operational digital services for a large University Teaching Hospital with more than 1,200 beds and £ 1Bn turnover . Adrian ' s experience includes project and IT management over more than 20 years . A keen supporter of open data platform approaches to health systems , he has worked with a multivendor integrated electronic medical record , and a cloud based connected personal health record called My Medical Record . Adrian was also chair of the Health CIO network for six years until 2021 , but is still on its advisory panel , where one of the key aims is to improve the professional standing of the Health CIO .”