On episode seven of The Decentralized Web, Jonathan Bingham was joined by Monica Jones from Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), where she is Chief Data Officer at DATA-CAN, Associate Director of the North Better Care Partnership and contributing author to the UK Department of Health and Social Care's seminal Data Saves Lives policy.
Monica has an incredible career starting in the UK Army, where she specialised in Advanced Information Systems. Now a leader in healthcare and life science data and a qualified enterprise and solution architect, she has worked with some of the biggest health research charities in Europe, as well as supporting NHS England in the Ministry of Defence.In this podcast, Monica and Jonathan explore interoperability, and the challenges of siloed systems and information sharing within healthcare systems; why data modelling helped ensure cancer services were being delivered during the COVID pandemic; and how the pandemic "unlocked" many doors of digital health. Plus much more!