Overview

Digital health has the potential to improve people's health and well-being and to enhance efficiency across health and social care. But for innovation to be successful, the right partnership is essential, with people and communities at the heart of the process.

This event provides a platform to gain insights into the key challenges across health and care for which digital technology may provide the solution. We’ll also explore approaches to co-creation with an interactive design thinking workshop in the afternoon, responding in real time to some of the opportunities and insights described in the morning.

Schedule

9.00 Coffee and registration

• Professor Richard Luxton, UWE – Director of the Health Tech Hub, and Professor Matt Freeman, Director of Future Space

• Steve West, Vice-Chancellor of UWE and Chair of Health Innovation West of England

• Opportunities for digital health in secondary care: Dr Sanjoy Shah, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

• Innovation case study: Clera Healthcare – Founders Dr Alice Appleton and Dr Jonathon Abeles

• Opportunities for digital health in community care: Scott Deacon, Head of Innovation, Sirona Care & health

• Innovation case study: BABCON Director Nikki Cotterill, Professor of Nursing in Continence Care, UWE

• Opportunities for digital health in primary care (Rhys Lewis, Head of Digital, One Care)

• Innovation case study: TBC

12.30 Lunch

• ·Design thinking workshop with Health Innovation West of England

• During the morning we’ll crowdsource a framing question or challenge around how we use digital health technologies. Then in this interactive afternoon workshop we’ll tackle it collectively.

• Led by experienced facilitators from Health Innovation West of England’s Academy, we’ll be introduced to codesign techniques from the Creative Problem-Solving Toolkit to generate ideas. We’ll also explore how to decide which ideas to progress as tests of change and how to refine and prototype these.

16.00 Closing comments (Professor Richard Luxton)

Tea/Coffee/refreshments provided