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South East Health
TechnologiesAlliance (SEHTA)
Technology and Innovation in
Care Homes:
The SEHTA Review
Dr Melissa Maczka, Research Analyst

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• What is SEHTA?
• Care homes and domiciliary care:
The Perfect Storm
• Care home needs
• Technology solutions
• Case Studies
• How you can become involved
Outline of presentation

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SEHTA - who are we?
• Free-to-join membership network bringing
together Academia, Business, Care/Clinicians
• Owned by 1,300 members from a range of health,
care, life science and technology backgrounds.
Special focus on digital technologies applied to
acute, long-term and self-care settings
• Wholly-owned commercial subsidiary, SEHTA
Enterprises, is non-aligned and not-for-profit
• Strategic Partnership with Kent Surrey Sussex
Academic Health Science Network (KSS AHSN)
• 10-years’ experience in Technology Enabled Care
Services (TECS).

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The ABC
Product / service
MARKET
Profits Patients
Papers

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• rr
Rising costs Rising demand Reduced funding
The Perfect Storm

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Care Home Needs
Technology
Category
Residential Nursing Mean
Facilities Operation 3.1 2.8 2.9
Staffing 3.8 3.7 3.8
Clinical and Care 3.2 3.7 3.5
Wellness and
Leisure
4.2 4.0 4.1
External Relations 4.0 3.9 4.0
Table 1: Average value scores for each of the 5 technology
categories (1 - 5 scoring)

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Technology Category Specific need/technology
Facilities Operation
1 Responding to falls, e.g. alarms, comms
2 Automated admin tasks, e.g. invoicing
3 Staff location tracking
Staffing
1 Immediate access to staff experience,
qualifications and competencies
2 Rota management
3 Automatic alerts to key staff dates
Clinical and Care
1 Handover documents
2 Fall detection
3 Symptoms management
4 Medication reminders
Technology
Category
Specific
need/technology
Wellness and
Leisure
1 Hydration
2 Nutrition
3 Preventing falls
4 Social networking, e-
tools for community
engagement
External
Relations
1 Risk assessments
2 Health and safety
records
3 Marketing of wellbeing
and leisure opportunities

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Case Study 1: wearability study
• Smart patch for physiological monitoring
• One-week trial on residents with dementia at
Kettlewell Nursing Home, Graham Care Group
• Conclusions:
– Product acceptance by most residents
– High level of interest from families, e.g. quality of sleep,
best time to visit, falls detector
– Useful clinical insights, e.g. monitor medication side
effects, early detection of infection, predict time to death
• Example of private consultancy project

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Case Study 2: solving care
provider need
• Paper-based recording in domiciliary care visitor book
is inefficient and exposes managers to litigation risks.
• One-week trial comparing paper-based recording with
free voice-to-text recording and bespoke medical
voice-to-text recording.
• Example of project directly funded by the NHS (KSS
AHSN’s “Older People’s Programme”)

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Case Study 3: business case
• Camera-based vital signs measurement software
• Created cost-benefit calculators specific to a number
of health and care markets, including care home and
domiciliary care markets, to compare:
– For the customer: Financial costs and benefits for purchasing and
adopting technology, e.g. raising occupancy rates and fees because
of higher CQC rating, higher occupancy rate (improved reputation),
slower costly resident and staff turnover, reduced insurance bill, etc.
– For the technology provider: Financial costs of production versus
potential revenue (market size and penetration rate)
• Example of private consultancy project

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Case Study 4: UK grant funds
• Innovate UK (NHS funded) SBRI competition winner
• 4-month trial of discrete sound-based activity
monitoring technology in a number of health and care
settings, including domiciliary care
• Example of publicly funded project
– Innovate UK: SBRI, SMART, Biomedical Catalyst, Health and
Life Sciences competition
– Charities, e.g. Dunhill Medical, Wellcome Trust

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Case Study 5: EU grant funds
• “Care through Innovation” EU project under
consideration by Coast to Capital LEP.
• If successful, would mean ~£370k available at 50%
match-funding rate to support innovations in the care
setting, lead by a care provider SME or a technology
SME (preferably in partnership with the other and
possibly with an academic institution too).
• Award announcement due in October
• Example of a public-private funded project

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Over to you…
• Become a member of SEHTA – it’s free! www.sehta.co.uk/membership
• Care providers:
– Complete our complimentary needs analysis – get your copy today!
• Technology companies:
– Tell us about your company in your new members’ courtesy call and we will
add your products and services to our databases.
– Register for a complimentary Innovation Surgery to strengthen your value
proposition and business plan
http://www.sehta.co.uk/2016/06/27/london-innovation-
surgeries-sept16/
• For more information:
Melissa.Maczka@sehta.co.uk 07881 927063