What do governments and large healthcare organisations need to do to empower patients and populations to become more activated and engaged in their own healthcare? A person-enabled health approach requires measures such as allowing access to medical records, blending patient-generated data with other diverse sources of data, and tackling inequalities around digital health access. This session will present the Future Health report Healthcare Data Beyond the Pandemic, which looks at the role of data in supporting the recovery and future delivery of high-quality cancer care in England from a policy perspective. Advances in technology present opportunities to build an enhanced data system for cancer that can support more real time data flows and analysis to support improvements in patient care, but it is important for the underlying data infrastructure to be interoperable, to meet minimum standards and to include high quality data and information. To do this requires government investment.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand the role of governments and large healthcare organisations in empowering patients and populations to become more activated and engaged in their own healthcare.
• Look at measures to enable a person-enabled health approach, such as allowing access to medical records, blending patient-generated data with other diverse sources of data, and tackling inequalities around digital health access.
• Examine the Future Health report Healthcare Data Beyond the Pandemic, which looks at the role of data in supporting the recovery and future delivery of high-quality cancer care in England from a policy perspective.