Ewan Davis presenting HANDI Health to EHI Live, November 7th, 2012.

1. Hello HANDI
Software apps to support health and care - Supporting the app paradigm -That's HANDI
www.handihealth.org
EHI Live 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. We are here

7. The HANDI Vision
Apps
EPR PHR EMR
EHR Meds PHR
Repository
Terminology Pathways Service
CDS Service Drug KB
Server KB Directory
Services/Repositories
Security
PDS/Record Discovery EWS ESB/Spine
Broker
Infrastructural Services

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

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

10. 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
– Leeds University
– Intellect (the UK trade association)
– Plymouth University
– OpenEHR
– OpenClinical
– Digihealth
– DigitalDocs

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

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

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

14. 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

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

16. Other Presentations
• HANDI SW Cluster Launch Workshop
• That’s handy! Health research inspiring
software innovation – Sunderland
• OpenGPSoC – Town Hall meeting -
London
• Details on HANDI Event Diary
• http://www.handihealth.org/events

17. 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