Presentation by Sumi Helal, Professor and Chair in Digital Health, Lancaster University: Digital Health at Lancaster University at ECO 17: Transforming care through digital health on Tuesday 4 December at Lancaster University, Lancaster

1. DIGITAL HEALTH AT LANCASTER
UNIVERSITY
SUMI HELAL, PHD, FIEEE
PROFESSOR & CHAIR IN DIGITAL HEALTH
ECO 17: TRANSFORMING CARE THROUGH DIGITAL HEALTH
4TH DECEMBER 2018

2. DIGITAL HEALTH FOOTPRINT
AT LU
Faculty of Health & Medicine (FHM), Faculty of Science &
Technology (FST), LU Management School (LUMS), and
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS)
Mental Health Ageing Research Palliative Care
Neurological
disorders
Pediatric Care
Sports Medicine
Active & Healthy
Living
E-Coaching &
Empowerment
Health Data
Research
Health IoT Personal Health Health Disparities
Health Economic Lifestyle diseases Social Inclusion

3. DIGITAL HEALTH FOOTPRINT
AT LU
In addition to ALL LU Faculties:
• Funded Research Projects – UK, EU, International
• Centers
• For instance, Centre for Mental Health Research
(SPECTRUM), Centre for Ageing Research (C4AR),
Centre for Health Informatics, Computing and Statistics
(CHICAS), others.
• Institutes
• For instance, Data Science Institute (DSI), Institute for
Social Futures (ISF), Materials Science Institute (MSI),
others.
• Health Engagement & Innovation Team (HEIT) & Health
Innovation Campus (HIC)

4. HEALTH INNOVATION
CAMPUS (HIC)

5. THE DIGITAL HEALTH GROUP AT LU
DIGITAL HEALTH FORUM
HEALTH INNOVATION DIGITAL
A cross-university engagement platform to bring
together LU’s expertise in the broad field of digital
health to advance interdisciplinary innovations and
to enable transformative activities in the healthcare
sector.

7. PHD IN DIGITAL HEALTH
PhD in
Digital Health
SCC students
Proposal Stage
PhD in
Digital Health
LUMS students
Proposal Stage
PhD in
Digital Health
GP Fellows
In Development

8. MASTERS IN DIGITAL HEALTH
MS in
Digital Health
FHM students
Proposal Stage
MS in
Digital Health
SCC students
Proposal Stage
MS in
Digital Health
LUMS students
Proposal Stage

10. DIGITAL HEALTH MAKER SPACE
ENABLING INNOVATION
CHALLENGE BASED LEARNING
Digital
Health
Maker
space
80 m2
• 900 sq ft Currently hosted at the InfoLab21 (under development)
• Informatic & Cybernetic Health Platforms as Makerspace raw material
• About 50K allocated for initial instrumentation and inventory. Additional
funding is being sought from local and regional organisations
• Consultant is being hired to bring experiences of similar maker spaces
• New modules: (1) UG projects, (2) UG/PG Challenge Based Learning
• Initial staffing: 1.0FTE Maker Space Technical Manager
Informatic Health
Platforms
Cybernetic Health
Platforms

11. LU
SMART HOUSE
December
2018
Smart-ready design blueprint
Budget Estimate to the fund-raising team
SHOC Committee formed, holding
meetings as needed
April 2019 Fund raising complete
SHOC and Enterprise team finalize Revenue
Project definition and parameters
June 2019 Renovation Complete
Furniture, Interior Design, Amenities, living
tests.
August
2019
Digital Health infrastructure deployed and
basic technology inventoried.
HIC
Opening or
November
2019
Grand Opening event or sub-event
Online system ready for testing
Initial Pilots start
March 2020 For revenue calendar begins
Quarterly SHOC meetings
SHOC Annual Report to the DVC and HIC
Director.
Smart House Operationalization
Plan currently under review.

12. CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR
EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT OF
DIGITAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
The GO-TO Centre with expertise for rapid evaluation and
assessment of digital health technology (including standards
compliance)
Serves internally and externally
Currently seeking funding for feasibility study of commercial
sustainability
Plans for a large bid utilizing UK and/or EU funding.

14. Public
Health
Mental
Health
Ageing
Socio-
economic
Models of
Care
Patient
Engage't
Devices &
Systems
Wearables
& Health
IoT
Informatics
HCI /
Affectives
AI &
Analytics
User
Empower't
LARGE INTERDISCIPLINARY
UK & EU BIDS
EPSRC, UKRC, GCRF, NHS, NIHR, MRC, Trusts, EU, Industry, others.
Test Beds Big Data
Large
Pilots
….
….
Impactful & Transformative

15. The 1st LU Digital
Health Technology
/Research Showcase
February 2018
22 LU participants
(demo, poster, or both)
2018
HI DIGITAL
EVENTS
The 2nd LU Digital
Health Technology
/Research Showcase
& Pitch Event
This afternoon:Digital
Health Exchange

17. CHANGING LIFESTYLE

18. ADJUSTING THE CARE
DELIVERY SYSTEM

19. WHYNDYKE GARDEN VILLAGE
AN EXAMPLE OF A TRANSFORMATIVE ACTIVITY
One of 10 NHS Healthy New Town projects, WGV is a
green-grass planned community focusing on active and
healthy living, active and healthy ageing, and as a
testbed for understanding and enabling new models of
care delivery, certainly those engaging the people
themselves in their own care and wellbeing.
1400 homes, health facility, primary school and a
community hub
WGV Partnership Board
• Driving implementations through several thematic teams
Section 106 approved June 2018

20. WGV - Overview

22. • Local Authorities, NHS, other partners
• Funded by Sports England (up to £10M)
• Lancaster University as Academic Partner
• Evaluation design
• Pilot intervention
Getting More People Active in
Pennine, Lancashire

23. THANK YOU