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Healthcare · product · engineering

Henry AspdenDigital, product and technology leader

This site is a living snapshot - background, work and tools - mostly in healthcare and healthtech.

Leeds, UK
Henry Aspden running, wearing race kit and hydration vest

Sectors and focus areas

Healthtech and digital healthNHS and independent healthcareDiabetes, community and lived experienceProduct strategy and deliveryClinical pathways and safetyData, analytics and governanceDigital change and maturityIntegrations and architectureCommercial modelling and operations

About

I work on digital services where clinical safety and real-world delivery matter: products, pathways, data and the teams behind them. I also lead digital change - embedding tools in organisations, raising digital maturity through what we ship and how people work together, and nudging culture so digital is seen as a tool to use with intent, not only a means to an end. I keep this site updated as somewhere to point colleagues, collaborators and anyone curious about how I work.

Focus

Product, technology and healthcare - how I tend to split time between direction and delivery.

Enhance-d

Chief Product, Information and Technology Officer - diabetes-focused mobile platform: 5,000+ users in 100+ countries, 600,000+ activities logged, 3bn+ data points processed, 46%+ DAU:MAU.

Product and integrations

Shipped community features, Activity Glucose Response, leaderboards and gamification, nutrition and macro tracking, menstrual cycle insights and education - plus integrations across CGM, pumps, Nightscout, wearables and partners.

COVID platform

Stood up a Covid swabbing, results and certificate platform for LivingCare in days - tens of thousands of patients across five sites and £7m+ revenue.

Canon Medical Arena / CDC

Ran digital and infrastructure delivery end to end: networking, cloud identity, telephony, imaging connectivity and site resilience - finished ahead of schedule and under budget.

Data and commercial

Dashboards, budgets and operating models that moved the needle on utilisation, patient flow, reporting quality, attendance and revenue.

Digital change and maturity

Embedding tools in organisations and boosting digital maturity through delivery and culture - so people see digital as a tool they can wield with intent, not just a project category or box to tick.

Topics

Leading digital change - tools embedded, maturity raisedDigital culture - capability, not only deliveryProduct strategy and roadmapsService and pathway designHealthcare and digital healthInformation governanceCommercial modelling and business casesStakeholder and board engagementDelivery leadershipArchitecture and integrationsOperational improvementAnalytics, KPI design and dashboardsHands-on technical leadership

Experience

Where I’ve spent my time - healthtech, NHS-scale delivery, the diabetes community I co-founded, and long-running client work.

Governance and assurance

  • Board papers, SLT updates, programme reports, investment decks and quality reporting - NHS trusts and startups alike.
  • Budgets, operating models and business cases: service design, financial modelling and using data in real decisions.
  • DPIA, DTAC, GDPR, DSP Toolkit, accessibility, risk and asset registers, incidents, RBAC and least privilege.
  • From vision to vendor selection, issue tracking, version control, releases and troubleshooting - I stay close to the detail.

Tools and platforms

Pick a category - rough map of what I actually use week to week.

RoadmapsUser discoveryService designRelease managementSemantic versioningBusiness casesKPIs and dashboardsMixpanelLinearGitHubCursorCannyMicrosoft Project

Selected work

A few things I’ve helped shape - more detail if it’s useful.

Product, engineering and health data at scale

Enhance-d

Mobile platform for people with diabetes - community, insights, integrations across CGM, pumps, Nightscout and wearables. I also own governance and App Store / Play ops for a global user base.

React NativeAWSHealthcareProduct leadership

LivingCare: rapid delivery under pressure

National COVID testing platform

Swabbing, lab exchange, results and certificates - live in days for tens of thousands of patients across several sites, with the commercial results to match.

DeliveryHealthcare pathwaysIntegration

Clinical digital and site infrastructure

Canon Medical Arena / CDC

Digital, networking, identity, telephony and imaging for a large diagnostic centre - coordinating suppliers and keeping clinical safety tight; delivered ahead of schedule.

AzureHSCNClinical systems

CARBONYZED client work

E-commerce and SME platforms

Long-term retail clients: Shopify migrations, performance, automation and back-office systems, plus broader SME web work and process digitisation.

ShopifyPerformanceConsulting

Products & tools

Filter by who it was for (Enhance-d, LivingCare or freelance) and by type. I only link out when there’s a proper public page.

Work context

Product type

Speaking and contribution

Talks, podcast, open source.

Speaking

Talks on diabetes, exercise and digital health - ACDC, Diabetes Professional Care, ATTD Tech Fair.

Podcast

Host and producer - 100+ episodes; guests include Partha Kar, Mandy Marquardt and Sam Scott.

Open source

Contributor to Nightscout, xDrip+, AndroidAPS and Loop.

Hobbies & interests

Outside work - mostly moving, often with other people, plus tinkering with tech, smart home, automations and health for their own sake - and music when I’m not on a bike.

  • Cycling
  • Running
  • Swimming
  • Endurance sport
  • General fitness
  • Outdoor activity
  • Community & group events
  • Personal tech & tinkering
  • IoT & smart home
  • Digital automations
  • Health, wellbeing & performance
  • DJ / musician

Get in touch

Questions, ideas or just saying hello - email works, or book a time if you prefer a call.