26 May - 15.00-16.00 BST

We will share best practice advice for greater adherence of patient safety information, and review:
• How Pharma companies are making the transition to digital, with real-life data
• How regulation supports digital information and what needs to change
• Quick wins for Pharma to increase and measure engagement with its patient safety information

About Datapharm
Datapharm is the leading medicines information company in the UK that provides accurate medical information accessible to patients and healthcare professionals. Formed in 1977 to publish medicines information on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry, it now runs emc (electronic medicines compendium) which has become the UK’s most comprehensive, trusted and accessible source of information about medicines. For more information, visit the Datapharm website.

Target audience/who might benefit by attending
* Regulatory Affairs
* Compliance
* Product Director/Manager
* Sales & Marketing
* Commercial 
* Digital Director
* Medical / Scientific Director
* Pharmacoviligance / Product Safety Director 
* Market access
* Europe and UK

Learning outcomes

• The status of medicine information access in Europe
• How the EMA and current regulation support digital information, and what needs to change
• What do Healthcare professionals really need from epi?
• The role of structured data: Learnings from the Gravitate Health epi track under HL7 Vulcan accelerator
• How Pharma companies are making the transition to digital, with real-life data
• Quick wins for Pharma to measure and increase engagement with its electronic patient safety information

Dr. F.A. (Fakhredin) Sayed Tabatabaei, MD, PhD
Project Coordinator ePI (electronic Product Information), Medicines Evaluation Board, Netherlands
 
Fakhredin Sayed Tabatabaei is a medical doctor and an epidemiologist. He has worked as a senior assessor at the pharmacovigilance department of the Dutch national agency (MEB) for more than 14 years. Since 2017, he is part of the ‘Better Use Programme,’ initiated within the MEB, focusing on improving access to product information, so that both patients and healthcare providers can search for, find, consult, and use information about medicines. He is also a member of the ‘electronic Product Information (ePI)’ and the chairman of the ‘Harmonisation of RMP (HaRP)’ projects in Europe.

Arif Govani
Chief Digital Officer, Datapharm

Arif began his career at the Swedish Hydro and Nuclear Power Company as a developer working on mission-critical systems. Alternating between development and infrastructure, Arif joined Microsoft in the UK in 1997 after completing a technology transformation at Vattenfall. 
He spent the next 17 years at Microsoft in various technical and business roles focussing on ‘skunkworks’ within Microsoft, creating new disruptive products. He set up and ran the new Microsoft Health Consumer business in the UK, starting with bringing Microsoft HealthVault to the UK. This led to working inside the NHS for the next three years, initially as the Director of Citizen and Patient Digital Engagement on www.nhs.uk at NHS England followed by Director of Product for Moorfields Eye Hospital developing and commercialising their OpenEyes electronic patient record system. 
Arif is currently the Chief Digital Officer at Datapharm, working on making medicines information more accessible to improve health outcomes. Besides providing the right information and in the right place for healthcare professionals, Arif is passionate about empowering patients to be more involved in their health and wellbeing. 


Craig Anderson
Director, Information Management, Pfizer.

In this role, Craig oversees systems and information driven solutions for Global Regulatory Affairs. Solutions that cover topics such as data standards, terminology management, electronic labelling, and medicinal product information. 
In addition to having biopharmaceutical industry experience, Craig also has regulator experience from Health Canada where he led various informatics projects ranging from the implementation of IDMP to Structured Product Labelling. 
Craig is also Co-lead of HL7’s Vulcan accelerator project for electronic Product Information (ePI) and a member of the Canadian delegation to ISO/TC 215 Health Informatics Working Group 6.


Martin Ingvar
Barbro and Bernard Osher Professor of Integrative Medicine, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Stockholm Sweden

Martin Ingvar M.D. Ph.D., has a background in cognitive neuroscience with a special interest in explicit and implicit communication in health care including subjective well-being. Recently he has devised a structured formalism for decision making in health care in distributed organisations with the aim of sharing knowledge along the patient trajectory. The aim is to standardise decision making in trans professional teams based on shared semantic context that serves the patient health. 

MI acts as the Barbro and Bernard Osher Professor of Integrative Medicine, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Stockholm Sweden. He is the former Dean of Research. MI is a co-founder of International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurements (ICHOM) and serves on the board.
MI has authored and co-authored some 300 academic papers and some 10 books.  His latest book is on artificial intelligence and the transformation of society when the basis for skills, knowledge and collaboration is disrupted.

Moderator


Nat Knight
Director, Datapharm

Nat has been involved in medicines information for the last five years as a Director of Datapharm, the publishers of emc. He is a strong advocate for further digitisation of product information as he believes it will lead to better health outcomes for patients. He is passionate about making medicines more sustainable and his personal ambition is to remove all patient leaflets from packages.
Previously, Nat worked in the financial services industry focusing on the regulation of the markets and the technologies behind them.


This webinar is sponsored by Datapharm

Disclaimer: Whilst TOPRA is running this webinar for Datapharm, this is not an endorsement of Datapharm, Datapharm's affiliates, employees or its products and services. TOPRA is also not responsible for the content or views expressed during the webinar.

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