What We Do
We transform great ideas into real solutions. Our vision is “innovation in digital health and care will help the people of Scotland live longer, healthier lives and provide sustainable and inclusive growth for our economies.”
Our focus
We play a pivotal role in supporting collaboration to co-design person-centred digital health and care solutions across service, technical and business innovation.
We are shifting the balance of care from a traditional treatment focused model to one that focuses on prevention, detection, post event care and self-management.
Our priorities
Our portfolio aims to address the key challenges identified by the Scottish Government in health and care, with a current focus on:
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular
- Covid-19 (including service remobilisation)
- Chronic respiratory
- Citizen empowerment
- Demand & capacity management
- Diabetes
- Digital skills & workforce development
- Healthy Ageing
- Mental Health
Our Innovation Process Model
Our unique innovation process model focuses on five key stages and enables us to provide a range of specialist services. Our partners can pick and choose the services that will add the most value and have the greatest impact on their projects.
Engage & Scope
- Cutting-edge market research
- Global trends analysis
- Current and future state mapping
Initiate & Develop
- Co-design research activity
- Academic grant awards
- Specialist project management
Evaluate & Iterate
- Interactive prototyping
- Technical development and testing
- Simulation environment (DSE)
Embed & Adopt
- Digital products & service innovation
- Digital skills and workforce development
- Industry collaboration opportunities
Learn & Share
- Targeted knowledge exchange
- Hosted study visits
- Specialised event management
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Our capabilities
We offer a unique and valuable range of capabilities, with core knowledge and expertise built upon a foundation of experience in the health and care context.
We operate an effective partnership model, bringing together health and care practitioners, industry and academia to collaborate to solve key demand-led challenges.
