About this event
- Date and time Thu 23 Apr 2026 from 1:00pm to 5:10pm
- Location Royal Society of Medicine
- Organised by Digital Health
This half-day event will explore how wearable technologies and bio-sensors are transforming health monitoring, clinical care, and creating powerful tools that improve patient outcomes. Leaders from academia, medicine, and industry, including Google Health, Oura, Garmin, and Monix, will be brought together to discuss the clinical utility, data integration, and innovation driving the next decade of precision health.
Why attend?
- Engage in topics regarding how wearable technologies are changing health monitoring, clinical care, and how they enable continuous health insights.
- Understand how wearable data can be integrated within healthcare and research systems to improve patient outcomes.
- Investigate the opportunities and challenges of integrating wearable data into NHS systems.
- Discuss the ethical and governance considerations that are shaping adoption.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand the current landscape of wearable health technologies and their applications in clinical and consumer settings.
- Describe how wearable data is being integrated into NHS systems and research frameworks.
- Recognise the opportunities and challenges of using wearables for chronic illness management, population, health, and personalised care.
- Evaluate the ethical, clinical, and data governance considerations of wearable technology adoption.
- Understand the future direction of bio-wearables, including continuous hormone monitoring and digital twin models.
Who can attend?
- Clinicians.
- NHS managers.
- Digital Health professionals.
- Policymakers.
- Data scientists.
- MedTech industry experts.
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Agenda
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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction
Alistair Connell, President Elect, Digital Health Section
From steps to science: Unlocking health insights from wearable data
Professor Aiden Doherty
Physical activity and monitoring for managing chronic illness
Dr Rebecca Robinson
Wearables in the NHS: Integrating real-world data for care and research
Professor Will Dixon
Panel discussion: Wearables and the NHS 10 Year Plan
Chair: Vin Dewakar
Panel: Will Dixon, Rebecca Robinson
Tea and coffee break
Detecting cardiac arrest with the Pixel watch
Dr Jake Sunshine, Research Scientist, Google
Cardiorespiratory metrics with the Oura ring
Dr Pauli Ohukainen, Senior Research Scientist, Oura
Remote monitoring with Garmin wearables
Miya Miyake
Continuous hormone monitoring
Lida Ahmadi, Co-founder and Chief executive officer, Monix
Francois Smuts, Chief Scientific Officer, Monix Health AG
Panel discussion: The Future of Wearables
Chair: Dr Alice Byram
Panel:
Lida Ahmadi, Co-Founder & CEO, Monix Health AG
Lesley Jordan, Technology Access Lead, Breakthrough T1DM,
Amy McKenzie, Director of Medical Affairs, Lingo
Closing remarks
Dr Alice Byram, President, Digital Health Section
Drinks reception
Location
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
Registration for this event will close on 22 April 2026 at 8:00am (GMT). Late registrations will not be accepted.
The agenda is subject to change at any time
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