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Kanthan Theivendran
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Husband| Father| Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon🦴| Hon Prof
@AstonEPS🎓|HealthIT📱|Research🧐|Views my own
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Kanthan Theivendran @ktheivendran.bsky.social · Apr 22
This blog was inspired by some recent family health issues and navigating the healthcare system has shown me the reason for my enthusiasm for championing PROMs, openEHR and openOutcomes.⬇️

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Shaping the Future of Orthopaedic Research in the West Midlands 🦴🏥
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Shaping the Future of Orthopaedic Research in the West Midlands 🦴🏥 It was fantastic to meet colleagues at the recent West Midlands orthopaedic leaders workshop, convened by Birmingham Health Partners...
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February 15, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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February 13, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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February 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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The Future of Medicine: AlphaFold meets openEHR @openehr.bsky.social

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#alphafold #deepmind #isomorphiclabs #openehr #drugdiscovery #healthtech #ai #precisionmedicine #kaizen | Kanthan Theivendran
The Future of Medicine: AlphaFold meets openEHR The future of medicine is about more than just predicting protein structures; it's about bringing those insights directly to patients. 🔬💊 With Google ...
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February 12, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Introducing my book review of “Health Care in the Information Society” by Professor David Ingram published in the BMJ Leader Journal.
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#openehr #openstandards #clinicalinformatics #healthit #singlepatientrecord #spr #ai | Kanthan Theivendran
Introducing my book review of “Health Care in the Information Society” by Professor David Ingram published in the BMJ Leader Journal. I recently had the opportunity and honour to review Professor Dav...
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February 3, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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Curiosity Saves Lives: Why Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs/PROMs) must be core to NHS outcomes Data ⬇️

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Hospitals ‘must be more curious’ to catch rogue surgeons | Kanthan Theivendran
Curiosity Saves Lives: Why Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs/PROMs) must be core to NHS outcomes Data. The Sunday Times article “Hospitals must be more curious” delivers a powerful message: patient har...
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February 2, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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There are ways to look at outcomes from the patients perspective by using Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs/PROMs) if utilised effectively & systematically at the point of care using openOutcomes ⬇️
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February 1, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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This is worth a read to anyone interested in a 'True patient centric record'. In particular to NHS England and Department of Health and Social Care tasked with building the 'Single Patient Record (SP...
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January 27, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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🚨 Why NHS digital transformation must put data first and not software

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🚨 Why NHS digital transformation must put data first and not software. In healthcare, not seeing all your patient’s records isn’t a glitch. it’s the predictable consequence of fractured systems and d...
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January 26, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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Health systems are choosing data-centric platforms over application-centric EHRs, with openEHR and HL7 FHIR becoming the default for durable, governed clinical data. blackbookmarketresearch.com/global-growt...
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January 23, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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A less morose one compared to some of my recent posts!😂
#theNHSkeepsworking
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#everydaythenhsworks #uber | Huma Naqvi
#everydaytheNHSworks Yesterday morning started early at 5am It was to look outside, see the inches of snow blanketing the street & to get ready for work A walk down a Dudley hilly street & making a ...
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January 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Proud to share our latest publication in BMJ Open Quality 🎉📄

🩺 Implementation of Digital Consent at Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust: A Quality Improvement Project

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#qualityimprovement #digitalhealth #patientcentredcare #informedconsent #healthcaretechnology #nhs #traumaandorthopaedics #clinicalinnovation | Kanthan Theivendran
Proud to share our latest publication in BMJ Open Quality 🎉📄 🩺 Implementation of Digital Consent at Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust: A Quality Improvement Project As co-authors, we evaluated t...
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December 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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🚀 2025 Rewind — A year where clinical practice, digital health education and real-world deployment all came together.

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🚀 2025 Rewind — A year where clinical practice, digital health education and real-world deployment all came together. This was the year I moved from studying digital health to actually putting it int...
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December 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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🚨 Open standards in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Closed Health Data - Why the Contrast Matters 🚨
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#openstandards #healthcareit #interoperability #digitalhealth #opensource #fhir #openehr #omop #snomed #ai #linuxfoundation #aaif #healthdata | Kanthan Theivendran
🚨 Open standards in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Closed Health Data - Why the Contrast Matters 🚨 Anthropic recently donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the The Linux Foundation, helping c...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🚀 The RCPCH Incubator demonstrates a powerful, transferable model for how Royal Colleges can move beyond guidance as publications towards best practice as code.
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#digitalhealth #interoperability #openehr #clinicalinformatics #opensource #healthdata #royalcolleges #nhs #aiinhealthcare | Kanthan Theivendran
🚀 The RCPCH Incubator demonstrates a powerful, transferable model for how Royal Colleges can move beyond guidance as publications towards best practice as code. Paper: https://lnkd.in/edUxa_-d By emb...
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December 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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✨ SPARKED AU ➡️ A Blueprint the NHS Shouldn’t Ignore ✨ It was an absolute pleasure to meet Kate Ebrill in person at the Shared Care Record Summit 2025 and have a fantastic conversation about the future of interoperability in healthcare data. 🤝🌍
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#openehr #fhir #snomed #omop #interoperability #spr #singlepatientrecord #healthit | Kanthan Theivendran
✨ Sparked AU ➡️ A Blueprint the NHS Shouldn’t Ignore ✨ It was an absolute pleasure to meet Kate Ebrill in person at the Shared Care Record Summit 2025 and have a fantastic conversation about the futu...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Excited to share the publication of important new findings from the WHiTE study, comparing outcomes for patients with extracapsular hip fractures treated with long vs short cephalomedullary nails. 🦴📊
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#hipfractureresearch #orthopaedics #traumasurgery #clinicalresearch #whitestudy #evidencebasedpractice #nhs #cephalomedullarynail #patientoutcomes #medicalresearch #traumacare | Kanthan Theivendran
Excited to share the publication of important new findings from the WHiTE study, comparing outcomes for patients with extracapsular hip fractures treated with long vs short cephalomedullary nails. 🦴📊 ...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🚀 Transforming patient safety and enhancing patient centred outcomes through interoperable health data and openOutcomes ⬇️
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#interoperability #openstandards #openehr #digitalhealth #patientsafety #proms #prems #medicaldevices #udi #healthtech #openplatforms #nhs #datadrivenhealthcare #openoutcomes | Kanthan Theivendran
🚀 Transforming patient safety and enhancing patient centred outcomes through interoperable health data and openOutcomes. After recent personal experiences navigating healthcare as a carer, one thing ...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Why openEHR Matters for the NHS Single Patient Record (SPR)
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Why openEHR Matters for the NHS Single Patient Record (SPR) As the NHS advances toward a truly unified Single Patient Record (SPR), one principle matters more than any vendor or platform: open, seman...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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🌍 Scotland takes a major step toward truly interoperable, patient centred care ➡️ powered by openEHR! 🧑‍⚕️💙⬇️

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🌍 Scotland takes a major step toward truly interoperable, patient centred care ➡️ powered by openEHR! 🧑‍⚕️💙 Huge congratulations to the teams behind Scotland’s first digital ReSPECT (Recommended Sum...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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🚀 openOutcomes Post Go Live update at @swbhnhs.bsky.social

A major milestone for digital health and patient centred care using openoutcomes.apperta.org ⬇️

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🚀 openOutcomes Post Go Live update at Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust A major milestone for digital health and patient centred care ➡️ openOutcomes™ (openoutcomes.apperta.org) has been live at S...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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🌟 Looking forward to the Shared Care Records Summit at the ICC Birmingham, UK on Wednesday 29th October!
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#openehr #sharedcarerecords #openehr #interoperability #nhs #digitalhealth #healthtech #patientcentriccare | Kanthan Theivendran
🌟 Looking forward to the Shared Care Records Summit at the ICC Birmingham, UK on Wednesday 29th October! This event is always a fantastic opportunity to see the progress being made across care settin...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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💡 From Productivity to Value: Reimagining the NHS Operating Model

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💡 From Productivity to Value: Reimagining the NHS Operating Model Great to see the recent Digital Health AI and Productivity Gains webinar where Alec Price-Forbes, National CCIO, highlighted the need...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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✨ Reflecting on #ICHOM2025
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✨ Reflecting on #ICHOM2025 This week’s ICHOM conference has been a truly inspiring experience. A gathering of passionate leaders driving the global movement toward value based healthcare. Some of my...
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October 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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#ces #digitalhealth #patientsafety #interoperability #openehr #aiinhealthcare #clinicalinformatics | Kanthan Theivendran
🚨 New study alert: Our quality improvement project on suspected cauda equina syndrome (CES) documentation has just been published in BMJ Open Quality Journal. Using our existing Electronic Patient Re...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM