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Our Bioeconomy Future
Digital health + care
A GoBio Bioeconomy Opportunity Report
Report Aims:
1. Define the digital health + care opportunity
2. Outline challenges and trends relating to digital health + care
3. Map researchers and businesses associated with this opportunity in Norfolk and Suffolk
4. List available sources of funding and other support
WWW.GOBIO.UK
WWW.INNOVATIONNEWANGLIA.COM
WWW.HETHELINNOVATION.COM
About Innovation New Anglia
Innovation New Anglia is an innovation-led business support programme operating throughout Norfolk & Suffolk.
Through a range of tools such as online support, a collaborative learning platform, innovation grants & emerging
sector networks, the program aims to help entrepreneurs & researchers’ start-up businesses, and for SMEs to
harness their innovation potential.
For more information on the project please visit: www.innovationnewanglia.com
About ERDF
The Innovation New Anglia programme is part financed by the England European Regional Development Fund,
as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Department for
Communities and Local Government is the Managing Authority for ERDF. Established by the European Union, ERDF
funds help local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support innovation,
business, create jobs and local community regeneration.
Cover image: Yahoo Accessibility Lab on flickr.com. Licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 2.0.
About Innovation New Anglia ........................................................................................................ 1
About ERDF ....................................................................................................................................... 1
About the Authors ............................................................................................................................ 2
What is Digital Health + Care? ....................................................................................................... 1
Challenges, opportunities and trends ........................................................................................... 2
Global ........................................................................................................................................................ 2
National ..................................................................................................................................................... 3
Digital Health + Care in Norfolk and Suffolk ................................................................................. 6
Research Institutions ................................................................................................................................. 6
Public Funding ........................................................................................................................................ 12
Appendix 1. Digital Health + Care researchers in the East of England .................................. 15
Appendix 2. Digital Health + Care businesses in the East of England ..................................... 16
Further reading ............................................................................................................................... 18
Sector Intelligence 1
What is Digital Health and Care?
TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED THE WAY WE LIVE, WORK AND INTERACT, AND NOW ROBOTICS,
CONNECTED DEVICES AND SOFTWARE INNOVATION TOGETHER PROMISE TO HAVE A
TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT ON HEALTH AND CARE.
As the challenge set by an ageing population with complex conditions continues to grow,
new opportunities for digital innovation in health and care will emerge in the following areas:
Assistive technologies
Assistive technologies include mobility and task support at home, in the
workplace and in public. With more than two billion people worldwide
requiring assistive technologies by 2050, successful new products and
services in this market will have global potential.
Sensors + diagnostics
Sensors can now be integrated into almost every health and care
environment: wearable sensors can be built into garments and bedding,
while implantable or ingestible sensors can be used to monitor long-term
conditions like diabetes, epilepsy and cardiovascular disease.
Smart drug delivery
Alongside sensor applications, implantable and ingestible technologies
will be used to deliver drugs over a longer period than current one-dose
solutions – avoiding the need for complex medicines management and
reducing the risk of incorrect dosing.
Telecare + digital therapies
Internet-connected devices are already enabling patients and those
requiring care to connect remotely with their doctors, carers and
families. The ubiquity of mobile technologies today is also making
digital platforms for self-management of conditions a reality.
Online communities
Along with the social network giants, specific peer-to-peer support
networks are enabling patients and care receivers to communicate
with others and even carry out grassroots research.
Health records + big data
New technology platforms like blockchain and machine learning are
promising to improve the security and predictive potential of health
and care data.
Sector Intelligence 2
Challenges, opportunities and trends
Increasing interest and investment in digital health and care products and services is being
driven by a number of large-scale trends, challenges and opportunities:
Global
Age-related disease
By 2030, the number of people aged 60 and above is projected
to be 1.4 billion, nearly 17% of the world’s total population. Non-
communicable diseases are the leading cause of deaths globally
with older people disproportionately affected1. As an increasing
number of those older people will also have access to digital
technologies, digital health and care solutions will become more
and more appealing as a means to reduce costs and improve
quality of care.
Big data tools + infrastructure
The digitisation of health and social care processes and records around the world represents a
unique opportunity to use the growing big data toolkit to improve outcomes for patients: a
relatively local example of the benefit of big data analytics can be seen in NHS Scotland, which
adopted electronic health records in 2011 and has subsequently used cutting edge big data
analysis techniques to tackle diabetes management, in collaboration with the University of
Edinburgh2.
An underlying challenge relating to the adoption and diffusion of these big data analytics
relates to interoperability, which new infrastructural technologies could promise to address.
Global attention is currently focused on blockchain and related distributed ledger technologies,
but it remains unclear how this type of technology will address some of the main interoperability
hurdles, such as the intrinsic complexity of healthcare data and ongoing requirements for
verification of user identity3.
1 World Health Organisation (2017) LINK last accessed 04 February 2018 2 University of Edinburgh (2017) Tackling diabetes with big data. LINK accessed 04 February 2018. 3 Constellation Research (2016) Blockchain, Healthcare and Bleeding Edge R&D. LINK accessed 04