Developing, testing, evaluating and ultimately implementing innovative technology into our workstreams will play a crucial role in helping health and social care meet current and future challenges. Our Innovation Hub team work in the pre-procurement space, collaborating with industry and academia to support these activities whilst ensuring synergy with our organisational, regional and national priorities.
Our priority is to work with industry and academia to develop and evaluate innovative technology that helps address our major health and social care delivery challenges. Increasingly, we are focusing on close to the market solutions that reflect Scottish and UK Government strategic priorities, namely neurodegenerative disease, cancer, vaccines, mental health, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, aging, and frailty. These are the topic areas that will attract most funding via organisations such as UK Research and Innovation, and Innovate UK. We support companies with innovation products that are at early stages of development through to close-to-market solutions, and ultimately evaluate real-life utility (eg, do products increase our capacity, ability to deliver timely care, risk stratify and prioritise large populations, or increase accessibility?) rather whether they work as intended or not. Inevitably, we work closely with frontline clinical teams, managers, eHealth and information governance colleagues.
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