For Academics
Driving evidence generation as a foundation of digital transformation
DigitalHealth.London connects digital health companies and academics and research organisations to collaboratively generate digital health evidence.
How we can help
- Connect you with some of the most innovative digital health products and services being introduced to the NHS and social care
- Broker research collaborations between students or research organisations and digital health companies
- We share resources, news, events and case studies relevant to academics interested in the digital health sector
- Our Generator programme supporting collaboration for evidence generation in digital health
Discover innovative products, services and innovators
Find digital health companies/products, NHS innovators and transformation case studies relevant to you
Lister
Lister is a secure digital task management platform, aiming to reduce the clinical cognitive burden whilst supporting NHS staff to deliver outstanding hospital care.
Mahana Therapeutics
Mahana Therapeutics is a leading developer of effective prescription digital therapeutics that are designed to empower patients with chronic conditions to live fuller lives.
Tefogo (Compassly)
Compassly is an app that makes clinical competency assessments brilliantly simple and easily transferable – saving time for staff and helping keep patients safe.
Denise Watson-Tann
Denise is an Advanced Practice Physiotherapist in Paediatric Orthopaedics, she hopes to develop an app which will support and motivate children and their families to use braces successfully.
patientMpower
patientMpower provides digital care solutions across a range of pulmonary conditions, including Interstitial Lung Disease (inc pulmonary fibrosis), cystic fibrosis, lung transplant and COVID-19.
Featured case studies
Evidence Generation Case Study: White Swan
The DigitalHealth.London Generator supported White Swan to pivot their product development roadmap to ensure they are clinically robust, as well as develop a roadmap for, and implement parts of, their evidence generation pathway.
Birdie: The evidence generation journey – Part 2
Read part two of Birdie’s evidence generation journey, in which the focus has moved from demonstrating value to making sure the Birdie platform meets the needs of users.
Evidence Generation Case Study: Concentric Health
The Evidence Generator workshops led to brokering a discussion with Peter Lovell from the National Institute for Health Research RDS to support future work in a qualitative evaluation of Concentric’s platform.
CW+ and DigitalHealth.London: A partnership to bring digital innovation to the forefront of the NHS
CW+, the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, is one of DigitalHealth.London’s delivery partners. Both the charity and Trust are working at the forefront of the digital health space, piloting new technologies and supporting staff to embrace digital.
Evidence Generation Case Study: BIOS
The DigitalHealth.London Generator facilitated a partnership between Accelerator company BIOS and a research team at Queen Mary, University of London’s (QMUL) Human Performance Laboratory, a national facility of gait analysis. This enabled the partners to secure InnovateUK grant funding to support a validation study.
Our partners
DigitalHealth.London is delivered by two of London’s Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) – the Health Innovation Network and UCLPartners – and MedCity. The AHSNs were set up by NHS England in 2013 and were relicensed from April 2018 to operate as the key innovation arm of the NHS. DigitalHealth.London is hosted by the AHSN for South London, the Health Innovation Network, which is hosted by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust. The DigitalHealth.London Generator is supported by the additional partner, CW+, and is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Greater London Authority.
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Health Innovation Network
The Health Innovation Network is the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for south London, one of 15 AHSNs across England. As the only bodies that connect NHS and academic organisations, local authorities, the third sector and industry, we are uniquely placed to increase the spread and adoption of innovation across large populations, at pace and scale.
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UCLPartners
UCLPartners brings together world-leading academic and clinical research centres, NHS organisations, industry and others to harness research and innovation for better patient care and a healthier population.
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MedCity
MedCity is the cluster organisation for the world-leading health and life sciences sector in London and the Greater South East of England. Supported by the Mayor of London, the London Academic Health Science Centres, and research institutes and life sciences organisations across the region, MedCity acts as a front door to the sector.
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NHS
The AHSNs were set up by NHS England in 2013 and were relicensed from April 2018 to operate as the key innovation arm of the NHS. DigitalHealth.London is hosted by the AHSN for South London, the Health Innovation Network which is hosted by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust.
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CW+
CW+ is the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Supporters and partners enable the charity to: invest in the CW Innovation programme to identify and implement high-impact innovation initiatives and new digital solutions that address some of the real-time challenges that healthcare organisations face today; build and enhance clinical facilities to create an outstanding healing environment for patients and staff; and deliver a unique art and design programme to transform the experience and wellbeing of our patients.
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Greater London Authority
The DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme is part-funded by the European Regional Development fund, through the Greater London Authority.
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European Regional Development Fund
The DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme is part-funded by the European Regional Development fund.
