Presentation by David Hughes, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Innovation Agency: Digital health in the north at the International Business Festival 2018, 26 June, Exhibition Centre Liverpool

1. Presentation 1

2. DIGITAL HEALTH in the NORTH
Dr David Hughes, Director of Strategic Partnerships
26 June 2018

3. Challenges
• Spread and adoption at scale
• Innovative environment & economic growth
• Use of data & interoperability
• Sustainability and transformation
• Information overload

4. Northern
Powerhouse
AHSNs, NHSA & CHC
Local Assets Investment
The
Opportunity

5. National Initiatives National Challenges Local Asset Base
LHCRE Sites
Digital Innovation Hubs
Life Sciences Industrial Strategy
Data Services Platform
HDR UK Sites
Landscape
Access
Data
Consent
Interoperability
Funding
8 GDEs
NHSA & CHC
Progress on national challenges
2 Digital Enterprise Zones
3 Test Beds

6. Digital Health in the North
DHN will address national challenges by supporting local
solutions. It will signpost, navigate and spread best practice of
innovation for the NHS, industry & SMEs. As well as making
the north and attractive place to do business

7. SME
Accelerator
Asset
Showcase
Data
Evaluation &
partnerships
DIGITAL
HEALTH
in the
NORTH
Partnerships

8. SME Accelerator
Aims and objectives
• to spread best products across the north
• introducing real, viable innovations and support the spread of delivery
at scale across a 15m population
• create an attractive environment for businesses to come to the north
• demonstrate a successful collaboration which could be replicated
nationally
• generate economic growth and address inequality across the north
• identify a cosistent framework for SMEs accessing the north.

9. Asset Mapping
Aims and objectives
• Ensure all northern assets are clearly accessible from a central point
• Clear communication of how the assets can benefit a range of
stakeholders (e.g. SMEs, media, care providers) and promoted to the
NHS and industry
• Deliver a functional ‘mapping’ solution which can be searchable via
geography or asset type

10. Data Evaluation & Partnerships
Aims and objectives
• Partnerships that build on existing northern strengths in data and
evaluation
• Build an innovative environment for industry and SMEs
• Create data assets
• Address national challenges
• Build real world evidence and evaluation base

11. Progress to date
• Alignment to existing focus of AHSNs, NHSA & CHC
• Executive engagement with NHS England, NHS Digital, OLS
• Ongoing discussions and feedback from stakeholders
• Staged process to deliver several discrete projects