Amy Freeman

Amy Freeman is the Chief Digital Information Officer at University Hospitals of North Midlands. Amy has worked in the world of Information Technology (IT) support and digital since 1998, she joined the NHS in 2002. She has held senior IT and digital Leadership roles at NHS Connecting for Health (now NHS Digital), NHS Commissioning Board (now NHS England) and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Amy moved to work for NHS provider organisations to be closer to frontline care, both Community and Acute, to help make a difference to the safety and quality of care provided to patients. This has included the delivery of a range of clinical systems, most notably electronic patient record systems, patient portal systems and virtual clinic solutions. Amy’s ambition is for ‘geeks to save lives’; using technology to support the clinical decisions that clinicians make with their patients about their care and treatment, reducing the risk of error. More recently Amy has been interested in how