Three digital health companies have been selected to receive extra support to spread their healthcare solutions within the NHS.
The East Midlands Digital Health Accelerator, delivered by the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network, is a support programme for a small number of digital health companies who have innovations that can make a real difference to the health and care system.
The Digital Health Accelerator is run by the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN), the innovation arm of the NHS in the East Midlands. One of a network of 15 AHSNs around the country, the EMAHSN helps to develop collaboration across all sectors involved in healthcare - the NHS, social care and public health, universities, third sector and industry - to identify, test and spread ways to drive NHS transformation.
Following a selection process, including a panel made up of EMAHSN and external experts including Patient, Public Involvement representatives and NHS stakeholders, EMAHSN selected three innovations to support:
- MyCognitionPRO app which enables people to correct and improve their cognitive functioning, strengthen their mental resilience and increase their productivity.
- WoundWorks InSight enables accurate, consistent wound assessments and supports clinical decision making across all wound areas.
- Qardio’s QardioArm BP offers in clinic, home blood pressure remote monitoring and 24 hour ambulatory recordings in an easy to use device.
These companies will receive support from EMAHSN experts to further the nationwide spread and adoption of their innovations. This support will include one-to-one advice sessions, support with funding applications, further opportunities to meet NHS stakeholders and a platform to showcase their innovations to this audience.
The EMAHSN will continue to work with alumni from the 2018 East Midlands Digital Health Accelerator Cohort. Spirit Health Group and their digital platform CliniTouch Vie provides remote clinical monitoring of medical conditions by healthcare professionals to help people who have had multiple admissions stay out of hospital. Alongside Howz and their Home Care Kit which learns patterns of behaviour and spots key changes, which is often an early indication of health deterioration.
EMAHSN commercial director Tim Robinson says: “We’re delighted to be working with these five digital health companies as part of our Digital Health Accelerator. We have selected them on to our scheme because we feel their innovation can make a real difference to health and care. We are in a unique position within the health and care system, placed between the NHS and industry, and we can use this position to support our innovators to maximise nationwide adoption and spread of their products.”
