The document provides an overview of opportunities and challenges in the healthcare apps market. It outlines a vision where digital tools support all aspects of health, care, and wellbeing, and data is used to enhance knowledge and improve services. Harnessing digital technology through apps can address challenges like an aging population. However, challenges include identifying needs, designing functional and desirable apps, establishing business models, ensuring interoperability, and quality assurance. The organization, HANDIHealth, aims to help by facilitating networking, cooperation, and innovation to create a digital health ecosystem.

1. An overview of the market, opportunities
and challenges
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Introduction to Healthcare Apps – 11th February 2014
Ewan Davis – Director HANDIHealth Community Interest Company

2. The Vision
• That, in the future, every citizen should have access to a set of
digital tools and services that support every aspect of their health,
care and wellbeing, and that of those they care for. In addition, these
tools will allow for the collection, and analysis of data to enhance our
knowledge of health and wellbeing and help us plan, deliver and
evaluate continuously improving services.
• By harnessing the power of digital technology in the uniquely fertile
environment provided by the NHS not only will we be able to
address the challenges of an aging population and the increasing
demand for affordable care but we will also ensure the better health
of future generations and create economic opportunities for the UK.

3. What makes and App and App?
• Narrow scope – Do one thing well
• Connected
• 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
• Allows niche solutions and “fail fast”

4. Where are we Now?

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

6. Two Visions
The Heavenly Vision

7. Two Visions
The Heavenly VisionThe Hellish Vision

8. Rising from Hell
• Help people find safe and appropriate
apps
• Support the development of sustainable
business models
• Ensure apps can interoperate and be
orchestrated to work together
• Build apps that are cross platform and
form factor agile
• Agree some basic design principles

9. How?
Create a Ecosystem
Technical Cultural
Business
Community

10. Digital Health Ecosystem
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
User interface components (Apps)
Web Services – SMART Wrapper – ITK - API Business Services
Ecosystem Services - Data Persistence, Knowledge, App Stores Other Services
PDS, EHR, EPR, Decision Support, Identity Management, Consent Management
Choose & Book, EPS, Security Broker – Some/all could be duplicated
Link to
Other ESBs
Link to
Other ESBs

11. The Challenges
• Identify a need
– What need or want does you app address
– Who else is addressing this need?
• Design
– Making my App Functional and Desirable
• Business Models
– How to I fund my App and make it sustainable
– How do I sell my App
• Getting apps to work together
– Interoperable
– Orchestrated
– Platform and form factor agile
– Consistent UI
• Quality Assurance
– Regulatory requirements
– Demonstrating my App is safe and appropriate

12. How can HANDI Help?
• Facilitating networking, learning,
cooperation, competition and innovation

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

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

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

16. www.handihealth.org
info@handihealth.org
@handihealth
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