HANDI Health CIC is a non-profit organization that aims to support app developers, health/care professionals, and patients by providing resources and facilitating collaboration. It plans to establish local clusters to improve return on investment for app developers, help with app development/design, address interoperability/standards, and create partnerships. HANDI will be platform and approach agnostic, and help with issues like information governance, APIs, testing environments, and business models to enable apps to better manage health, care, and well-being.

1. Hello HANDI
Software apps to support health and care - Supporting the app paradigm -That's HANDI
www.handihealth.org
West Yorkshire Cluster Launch Workshop Leeds 10
Sept 2012
Ewan Davis – Director HANDIHealth Community Interest
Company

2. HANDI Health CIC
• A new not-for-profit Community Enterprise
Company
• There 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

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

6. The HANDI Vision
Apps
EPR Meds PHR EMR
EHR Repositor PHR
y
Terminolog
CDS Pathways Service
y Drug KB
Service KB Directory
Server
Services/Repositori
es
PDS/Record Security
EWS ESB/Spine
Discovery Broker
Infrastructural Services

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

8. What will HANDI do?
• Facilitating networking, learning,
cooperation, competition and innovation

9. Networking and Partnerships
• Building links with Government, industry, health
and care providers, academia, patients and carers
• Already working with
– UCL and UCL Partners
– Warwick University Institute of Digital Healthcare
– Newcastle University Business School
– Intellect (the UK trade association)
– OpenEHR
– OpenClinical

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

11. How will we do it?
• Web platform
• Local clusters
– W Yorks – Leeds
– NE - Newcastle
– London
– Midlands - Warwick
– Scotland?
– Wales?
– Northern Ireland?
• Just do it

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

13. 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

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

15. Other Presentations
• BCS Scotland Conference Glasgow 20-21
September
• HANDI NE Cluster “Building the App Jigsaw”
Newcastle 25 Sept
• BCS Primary Care Group AGM and Conference
Stratford-Upon-Avon 27-28 Sept
• Details on HANDI Event Diary
• http://www.handihealth.org/events

16. www.handihealth.org
info@handihealth.org
@handihealth
Handi Health Community Interest Company - limited by guarantee registered in England number 07999302
Registered Office: The Oakley, Kidderminster Rd, Droitwich, Worcestershire. WR9 9AY
Correspondence address: PO Box 5309 Leamington Spa, CV31 9GT