The first Greater Manchester Connected Health Ecosystem of the year was hosted by the University of Manchester’s Digital Futures and Health Innovation Manchester on Thursday 21st January 2021. The meeting focussed on two upcoming opportunities for funded support and collaboration for companies involved in health innovation – particularly in digital health: Health Innovation Manchester’s Research & Innovation Health Accelerator, and …
The University of Manchester and the University of Melbourne have established a joint fund to deepen and extend collaborative research links between the universities. The fund covers travel and subsistence costs for staff to undertake short-term visits in both directions. Visits should enable collaborators to develop outputs and outcomes that leverage external funding. 2020 fund …
We had the pleasure of hosting a very busy Pop-Up Ecosystem today focusing on the challenges in Home and Social Care with the COVID-19 Emergency. We have fantastic input from our Ecosystems in Italy, Wales, Greece, Northern Ireland and North West England and for the first time our soon to launch ecosystem in Montreal – …
This platform is a partnership between the Department of Health and Social Care, the UK Bioindustry Association, British In Vitro Diagnostics Association and the Royal College of Pathologists. We are seeking new and novel solutions to help deliver 100,000 coronavirus tests a day by the end of April. We have set four challenges. Please add your …
Users of a new health and wellbeing app are contributing to a publicly-available heat map of people with COVID-19 symptoms, providing a national picture of the outbreak and its spread over time. The app was developed by UK company, Evergreen Life, in collaboration with data and health scientists. As more people add their responses to the data, the accurate …
A world first was achieved over 24 hours from 27 November 2019 to 28 November 2019 when ecosystems from across the 5 nations of England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales came together to ‘learn and grow’. Among the broad range of innovative case studies were RiTTA, a Chatbot supporting chemotherapy patients; examples of the …
NHS Digital have published their report ‘Digital inclusion for health and social care’ as a guide to help healthcare providers, commissioners, and designers ensure that services delivered digitally are as inclusive as possible, meeting the needs of all sections of the population. To read the full report and download the guide please click here.
NHS England’s global digital exemplar strategy in doubt amid looming cull of central IT projects Promised £200m second wave of exemplar trusts in limbo Strategy has been led by departing NHS England deputy CEO Matthew Swindells The future of the national strategy to improve NHS providers’ IT systems is in doubt amid budget constraints and …
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Rachel Dunscombe, Head of Digital, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Global Digital Examplar says: “The role of apps is absolutely essential to creating a good digital health environment. With their breadth and depth of knowledge, ORCHA has helped us to develop a good ecosystem of safe and secure apps we could never have achieved on …
