Katie Davis, director general and managing director NHS informatics at the Department of Health, will be launching her NHS information strategy "real soon".
The conference closed with Katie Davis, director general and managing director NHS informatics at the Department of Health, saying that she was confident that it would be close to having "world beating" informatics within five to 10 years.
Neil Darvill, who is director of informatics at the trust and director of health informatics service, says: "We had to digitalise it in terms of scanning – it is always the legacy issues which are the most challenging – but we also had to have a system which could capture information in real time".
Ramsey points to the example of Xiaolin Zhang, the director of the fledgling institute, who was born in China and trained in the west before becoming director of informatics at AstraZeneca's research facility in Boston, Massachusetts.
According to Dr Charles Gutteridge, the DH's national clinical director for informatics, in 2013 the NHS Commissioning Board will publish standards for interoperability and have a process which "both rewards people who use the standards and applies sanctions to those who do not".
Asked whether the strategy needed sanctions and rewards to incentivise change, Dr Charles Gutteridge, the Department of Health's national clinical director for informatics, said: "I think it is clear now from the experience in the US that careful application of sanctions and rewards does make a difference to the adoption of such systems".
Tim Hubbard, the director of informatics at Britain's Sanger Institute, a factory-sized sequencing lab, says one thing ENCODE offers the world is a much better idea of what it looks like for a cell to be programmed to be a muscle cell, or a stem cell, or whatever.
Michael Ramaker, associate director of informatics, used a similar strategy to complete his MBA in 2005 while working full-time.
To the three v's of big data, Stephen Cleaver, executive director of informatics systems at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research NIBRR) in Cambridge, Massachusetts adds complexity.
Orlando Agrippa is associate director of business informatics at Colchester hospital University NHS trust This article is published by Guardian Professional.
