Yvonne Odegbami
Strategic Healthcare Operational and Digital Transformation Consultant
UK/Africa
Yvonne Odegbami has 28 years’ experience working in both in-house and consulting capacities in the Healthcare Industry combining a broad range of specialized knowledge of healthcare commissioning and service design, value for money and cost-benefit analysis, performance evaluation, digital transformation, informatics, and predictive modeling using strategic consulting and project/program and portfolio management skills. Her engagements have allowed her to raise awareness, inform and educate key stakeholders from C-Suite to frontline staff.
She has worked in an advisory capacity for a professional body, district and regional health authorities; both acute and primary care providers as well as a healthcare regulator, – commission for health care improvement, a big five consulting firm- KPMG, various clinical commissioning groups , a commissioning support group and as a senior contract manager, writing procurement specifications and managing service implementations.
Having obtained an MSc. in Medical Informatics with a focus on Hospital Information Systems, Decision-Making Theories, Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence she later obtained certification in Information Security Management Principles adding Security Principles and Risk Management, Encryption Techniques and Business Continuity Planning to her repertoire. She worked on the UK NHS national programme for IT as a health economy implementation specialist and a clinical software house as a delivery consultant, a business analyst identifying business requirements to design Niche Clinical systems; and Programme Relationship Manager – Client and Supplier: BT Led Consortium
She has functional expertise and in-depth knowledge of all aspects of technology implementation project life cycles and construction of key business intelligence and performance solutions pertinent to a healthcare setting, as well as demonstrable history of concept visioning, strategy formulation and the ability to articulate complex requirements and support digital transformation with the use of astute analytics within a chaotic environment.
This vast experience of collaborating across business functions to ensure portfolio oversight of performance is enhanced by her ability to plan, balance and cope with competing priorities, thereby positioning her to support boardroom decisions via programme performance monitoring highlight reports and providing recommendation’s on strategic improvements . Yvonne is adept at identifying strategic opportunities and threats while determining the feasibility of deliverables, creating a range of strategies to optimize service provision by design and execution of digital transformational roadmaps which incorporate blockchain technologies and a greater use of analytics with curated big data and where possible machine learning and artificial intelligence. She is keen to design innovative solutions to drive improvements and efficiencies in the Healthcare /Wellness arena.
A creative problem solver with a talent for investigative analysis, developing and simplifying procedures , her strengths lie in her ability to combine strategic and systems thinking with practical implementation methodology in her resolve to deliver on engagements with a can-do attitude with excellent stakeholder management – strategic, functional and technical.
Yvonne’s BSc in Human Physiology has been enhanced with comprehensive postgraduate and clinical training in Personalized Nutrition. This has given her a detailed understanding of biochemical, physiological, nutritional and psychological concepts as they pertain to dietary intake and lifestyle and an interest in the power of Nutrigenetics as a preventative and predictive strategy to support wellbeing.
She is passionate about the benefits a Healthcare / Wellness ecosystem (encompassing healthcare, genomics. biochemical, physiological, anatomical perspectives of state of wellbeing) could derive from blockchain technology. She has consolidated this theoretical view and obtained a deeper understanding of Blockchain with certification in Blockchain Technologies, Business and Transactions from the Linux Academy and Insead. and intends to build a Blockchain based Wellness Service.
