HANDI talk about our work supporting apps developers at HIE2013, March 13th.

1. We are HANDI
Software apps to support health and care - Supporting the app paradigm –
Creating a community of interest - That's HANDI
www.handihealth.org
Healthcare Innovation Expo – London 13 March 2013
Rob Dyke – Director HANDIHealth Community Interest Company

2. HANDI Health CIC
● We are
● Not - For - Profit
● Community Interest Company
● Here to support:
● Developers
● Health and care professionals
● Patients, service users and carers

3. Why HANDI?
● Because we believe apps and the app
paradigm can transform health and care

4. What’s an App?
● Not just about mobile
● A “connected thing”
● Makes heavy use of pre-existing components
and services
● Built using a well defined development and
deployment framework
● Order of magnitude(s) faster and cheaper to
develop and deploy
● Allows niche solutions and “fail fast”

5. The HANDI Vision
● Giving everyone the tools they need to
manage health, care and well-being

6. We are here

7. Health and Care IT Ecosystem
User interface components (Apps)
Web Services – SMART Wrapper – ITK - API Business Services
Link to Link to
Other Other
ESBs ESBs
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Ecosystem Services - Data Persistence, Knowledge, Other Services
PDS, EHR, EPR, Decision Support, Identity Management, Consent Management
Choose & Book, EPS, Security Broker – Some/all could be duplicated

8. The Challenges
● Getting apps to work together
● Ecosystem
● Interoperable
● Orchestrated
● Platform and form factor agility
● Business Models
● Quality Assurance

9. HANDI is agnostic
● About
● Platforms
● Business models
● Standards
● Tools, services and approaches
Show the community the possibilities...
...let individuals decide

10. What will HANDI do?
● Improving the ROI (social or commercial)
for app developers

11. What will HANDI do?
● Facilitating networking, learning,
cooperation, competition and innovation

12. What Will HANDI do?
● Lobby for an environment (technical,
cultural and commercial) in which apps
can flourish interoperate and be
orchestrated

13. How will we do it?
● Web platform
● Local clusters
● Current
● NE - Newcastle
● London
● Midlands – Birmingham
● West Yorks – Leeds
● SW – Plymouth
● Planned
● NW
● Scotland
● Northern Ireland
● Wales
Just do it !

14. Networking and Partnerships
● Building links with all of the community:
● Carers patients and public
● Health and Care Professionals
● App Developers
● Academia
● Industry
● Government
● NHS
● Investors

15. What can we help with?
● Finding partners
● App development and design – Platforms,
tool, approaches
● Interoperability and standards
● Information governance
● Legal issues
● APIs
● Test environments and experimentation
● Business models and funding
● App promotion and deployment

16. Proving our value
HANDI have
worked
extensively with
@NHSCB on
developing the
Review &
Acceptance
process for the
NHS Apps Store

17. Proving our value
HANDI have been
supported by
Totally Health;
holding hackdays
and workshops on
health technology
topics.

18. Proving our value

19. Join Us
● Come and help us
● Join a local cluster
● Follow us @handihealth
● Watch #handihealth
● Come and talk after

20. www.handihealth.org
info@handihealth.org
@handihealth
Handi Health Community Interest Company - limited by guarantee registered in England number 07999302
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