Health Innovation Networks have a vital role in helping the NHS meet the challenges of 21st century health and care. We find solutions to health and care challenges – individually and collectively we use our unique connections with the NHS, universities, industry, patients and the third sector. We identify and support the development of proven innovations and work together to spread these at pace and scale.
The Health Innovation Networks project pipeline identifies, assesses, prioritises and supports innovations with potential to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes, from development of early concept ideas through to deployment at scale of proven technologies. These can come from individual clinical innovators, through small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to national and international corporations.
The pipeline has three phases – Discover, Develop and Deploy. See the case studies below for examples at each of these stages.
Discover: Creating value propositions for innovations at an early stage of their development
- Evaluation of clinical decision support tool for use at onset of labour
- Assessing innovation which could improve cannulation in newborn babies
Develop: Proving the value propositions of innovations for which there is a confirmed need
- NEW! Evaluation of AI tool to identify patients at high risk of dementia
- NEW! Our panels help match innovations with local health needs
- NEW! Polycystic ovary syndrome test has potential to improve patient experience and reduce NHS carbon footprint
- UPDATED! AI assistant improves patient experience and eases NHS pressure
- NEW! Digital health oncology platform supports better outcomes for prostate cancer patients
- NEW! Evaluation of digital therapeutic for depression
- NEW! Evaluation finds remote epilepsy diagnostic device could improve patient experience and save NHS money
- Investigating device supporting reduction of treatment-resistant hypertension
- Evaluating AI image analysis technology supporting dementia diagnosis
- Evaluating AI technology to diagnose and monitor patients with rare chronic liver disease
- Partnership with NCIMI improves patient outcomes and generates economic growth
- Evaluating AI-augmented decision support tool to assist referrals into secondary mental healthcare
- Artificial intelligence platform predicts cardiovascular risk for suspected coronary artery disease
- Evaluation assesses home monitoring device which uses AI to predict and prevent asthma attacks in children
- Evaluating AI-enhanced technology to identify patients at risk of developing diabetes
- Collaboration develops environmentally-friendly product addressing urinary incontinence
- Oxford AHSN and Perspectum Diagnostics enabled by Office for Life Sciences and Innovate UK funding to collect supporting evidence on the impact of LiverMultiScan in the NHS
Deploy: Delivering the value proposition benefits of proven innovations, spreading them at scale in the NHS
- Personalised approach improves patient experience before surgery and supports elective recovery
- South East AHSNs collaborate to support adoption of home testing to identify diabetic patients at risk of chronic kidney disease
- Harnessing technology for quicker stroke care
- Better diagnosis of pre-eclampsia to improve patient safety and reduce burden on the maternity system