The Centre for Health Technology and the eHealth ecosystem
Developing products and services rooted in real-world need
Across our portfolio of diverse projects, our multi-disciplinary team has supported service providers, start-ups, and small businesses, as well as a number of non-profit organisations. We have helped shape and run co-design workshops, pilot technologies, secure grant funding, and provide training on a range of topics from regulation and compliance to NHS commissioning.
The Centre for Health Technology is committed to supporting innovators develop products and services rooted in real-world need, solving problems raised by developers, practitioners, and patients, among others.
Through our work with industry on projects such as
GOALD
,
EPIC
and
ICONIC
, we have worked with a broad range of innovators, including robotics such as Akara’s Violet, apps that support management of long-term health conditions, such as Neap and Hunrosa, as well as innovators who seek to address health inequalities, such as Kensa Health.
We pride ourselves on collaboration and work with a number of industry experts, organisations and intergenerational participant groups to co-design health technologies and provide effective solutions.
Without EPIC we would have struggled to get that balance of pushing our company forwards, whilst having access to the research side and the knowledge that EPIC has provided us with.
Kensa Health founder and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Rose Abbott.
Plymouth Community Homes Digital Living Lab
The Plymouth Community Homes Digital Living Lab is an innovative, real-world environment where researchers, companies, the health and care sector and end-users collaborate to co-create, test and refine new digital health technologies across the whole of the innovation pathway. Unlike traditional research and development settings, this living lab takes place in an actual, everyday context – in homes or public spaces – and it therefore allows for the observation and evaluation of how people naturally interact with new digital health technologies (DHT) in their daily lives. CHT’s core aims within this project are to address the range of complex barriers that have led to a mismatch between technological innovation and implementation within healthcare and to demonstrate the value proposition of Digital Health Technologies.
Collaborators
Working with start-ups and SMEs supporting the development of digital health
Actorbank t/a Avatar Jo
Remote training provider for NHS and private health sector. Programmes focus on developing communication skills, confidence and rapport through simulated patient/client roleplay scenarios with trained actors.
Akara - robots in healthcare
Healthcare AI company that develops technology to improve cleanliness, decrease infection rates, and reduce room downtime in hospitals. Flagship products include two autonomous disinfection robots; one for surfaces and one that cleans air.
Apollo Health Innovations
Provides innovation support through real world evaluation, evidence generation and patient engagement to healthcare innovators, academia and the NHS.
Beluga Pods
Wellness platform aimed at reducing loneliness, with a pod-like system to help users align with similar peers . In-built moderation and monitoring functions offer suicide prevention and safeguarding features. Discover more.
Blink Software Ltd
A digital NHS health check that can be completed remotely to increase uptake and reduce the burden on GPs. Results are reported in a user-friendly manner, with signposting for support, whilst updating the GP medical record ahead of clinical review.
Cisco
Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) programme works with government leaders across the globe to build sustainable, secure, and inclusive communities powered by ethical and innovative technology solutions.
Deloitte
Deloitte is shaping the future of UK healthcare; providing professional services to more than 250 NHS organisations, playing a vital role in the rapid build of a UK testing system during the pandemic, among many other notable healthcare achievements.
Echo Point (Glass Twin Ltd)
Echo Point is a new well-being programme which uses sounds to influence breathing to foster sustained resilience and reduce agitation with mindful actions in daily life.
Elements of Pattern
Mindfulness app intended to provide a creative, relaxing activity in a variety of healthcare situations, including engaging older persons, people with dementia, and those with learning difficulties or learning disabilities.
ExR
ExR produce and distribute immersive, virtual reality education training content through a proprietary cloud-based platform, available on any device, anywhere, allowing users to watch, experience and be assessed in multiple ways of their own choice.
Good With – personal finance support and education
Mobile app supporting young people on personal finance. The app uses conversational AI, gamification, and peer-to-peer support to create a compelling user experience and flags those in need of in-person mental health intervention.
Health and Care Innovations (HCI)
HCI is an award winning digital healthcare company who transform pathways of care across multiple conditions and treatment pathways by educating and empowering citizens and digitising care in order to deliver care closer to home and reduce waiting lists.
Health Innovation South West
Health Innovation South West exists to help optimise the way our health and care systems in the South West find, adopt and spread innovation to transform lives, improve population health, and drive economic growth.
Healthwave Hub Ltd
Technology-enabled digital transformation specialist, with a mission to increase inclusion. Their work includes development of online training for change adopters and managers within health care environments to promote engagement of workforce.
Help at Hand Platform
Subscription-based social prescribing platform curating health and wellbeing resources, monitoring and reporting patient progress, and empowering self-referral. The platform builds links between patients and local services.
Hunrosa - Sleep Wise app
NHS-commissioned and private sleep consultancy, offering individual sleep therapy for all ages, as well as training courses for businesses, charities, schools and colleges, and the NHS.
Huru
Digital platform that allows families that live apart to communicate. Using Internet of Things devices, including apps, smart speakers, and wearables to support independent living, improve family communication, and reduce social isolation.
Kensa Health - putting women's health first
Women's Health digital platform, providing up-to-date health content written by medical professionals, web courses for women and businesses on topics such as endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and early-stage pregnancy.
Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic
The Unit and CHT are engaged in exciting projects using AI to assist and augment care interactions, such as AI-generated person-centred clinical summaries.
My HealthPad - stress-reducing health and wellbeing app
Health and wellbeing app enabling users to better support their mental and physical wellbeing and prevent the onset of stress-related illness.
Neap - mindful diabetes management app
Diabetes management app that offers people psychologist-approved stress management techniques, such as reflective journaling and meditation. A peer-to-peer support community enables users to connect with others living with diabetes. Discover more.
ORCHA
The Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA) provides core infrastructure to overcome digital health barriers to adoption and introduce digital health safely, by providing quality assurance procedures for innovation.
Patient Experience Library
Online evidence base for patient experience and involvement. Features tools to help NHS staff, patient representatives, and researchers keep up to speed with the latest patient experience literature, with over 60,000 studies and reports.
Prometheus Health Technologies
Health data platform that incentivises patients to share private health information with organisations in need of real-world data. Provides patients with rewards and health insights, and enables organisations to speed up R&D.
Pungo Ltd (The Joy App)
Social prescribing platform that can integrate with 90% of GP systems in England to streamline the process of connecting people to non-medical services. Identifies patients that may benefit, and helps staff connect them to services.
Purple
Digital environment accessibility experts. Purple supports companies to comply with UK and worldwide disability standards and addressing organisational corporate objectives, as well as improving accessibility for all.
Seefood Ltd
Digital platform enabling healthcare providers to deliver culturally and linguistically sensitive cognitive assessments for ethnic minority groups in the UK. Alongside migrating paper based systems to effective digital versions.
Sentai AI Ltd
Subscription-based AI voice technology that links with Amazon Alexa to help people care for loved ones living independently. Provides customised reminders about food and medication, sends alerts if a pattern is broken, and offers companionship.
SimSage (UK) Ltd
AI-based platform that optimises intelligent search functionality to decrease the amount of time spent looking for specific information on organisational websites.
Spectrum Tailored Technologies Ltd
Technology supporting children with autism to help them gain autonomy and independence.
Statica Research Ltd (PEP Health)
Machine-learning platform providing healthcare organisations, regulators, and insurers with real-time insights into patient experience by automatically collecting online feedback and populating it into a user-friendly dashboard.
Stephens Scown
South West based certified B Corporation law firm. Deliver practical, expert advice to help businesses make informed decisions and achieve objectives. Specialise in Intellectual Property, Information Technology and the digital space.
Tango3 Ltd
Software solutions provider in the digital healthcare sector. Recent projects include vaccination and patient appointment booking software, and a real-time online defibrillator monitoring system to provide status alerts and track usage.
Thriving Ai Ltd
Integrated care app providing a support system for older adults living independently, enabling them to communicate with family, caregivers, and healthcare professionals in one place. The app also enables practitioners to monitor wellbeing.
3 Deep Media Ltd
Media company working to create a virtual tour of Cornwall from 360° 4k footage, to enable care home residents and those with limited mobility to explore these locations with the use of the ROVR virtual reality treadmill.
TouchByte Ltd
Biometric software that enables face-authentication to provide safe, secure, and convenient access to restricted areas. EPIC has supported implementation in a sheltered living facility for young men with learning disabilities.
The Virtual Hippo Ltd
Virtual reality software intended to decrease stress and anxiety through the use of hypnotherapy techniques.
Vitacam
Software-based medical device that measures and reports a patient’s vital signs in order to detect early deterioration. The device measures a patient’s respiratory rate and pulse by processing a video from the Vitacam app.
Yetitablet Ltd
A giant Android tablet with toughened screen and motorised steel frame. Designed to be used with YetiCare software to increase physical activity and mental stimulation for people with physical, developmental, or visual impairments.
Our collaborations with implementers and academics
Devon Communities Together
Devon VCSE Assembly Digital Inclusion Group
Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS)
A university-wide interdisciplinary institute at the University of Kent, coordinating research, education, innovation, impact and engagement activities in cyber security.
University of Brighton Digital Health Living Lab
This Lab is an open innovation ecosystem where government, academia, industry, and civil society (quadruple helix) collaborate to ideate, co-produce and evaluate digital health solutions.
The team have been great; really professional, and they really helped frame what we needed to get out of it and helped make things happen. They conducted a lot of research for us, which was amazing.
Joy founder, Patrick Harding