Co-design for Digital Health

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.

This event is intended for health and social care professionals, academics and people working in industry.

Co-design for Digital Health is delivered by the Health Tech Hub, UWE Bristol and Health Innovation West of England.

Schedule

9.00 – Coffee and registration
9.25 – Opening  with Professor Richard Luxton, UWE – Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, and Professor Matt Freeman, Director of Future Space
9.35 – Welcome from UWE and Health Innovation West of England with Steve West, Chair, Health Innovation West of England
Vice-Chancellor, University of the West of England
9.50 – Opportunities for digital health in secondary care with Sanjoy Shah, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
10.10 – Innovation case study: Clera Healthcare – Founders Dr Alice Appleton and Dr Jonathon Abeles
10:25 – Q&As
10:35 – Break – tea and coffee
11:00 – Opportunities for digital health in community care  with Scott Deacon, Head of Innovation, Sirona
11:20 – Innovation case study: BABCON Director Nikki Cotterill, Professor of Nursing in Continence Care, UWE
11:35 – Q&As
11:45 –  Opportunities for digital health in primary care  with Rhys Lewis, Head of Digital, One Care and Jake Lee, GP
12:05 – Innovation case study: Cognitant – Daisy Allington, Chief Operating Officer
12:20 – Q&As
12.30 – Lunch
13:30 – 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 – Wrap up with Richard Luxton
16:05 – End

This event is part of the Festival of Digital Health, a dynamic week of events, showcasing how digital technologies are transforming the way we think about, deliver, and experience health and care. View the full programme of events.