14/07/2015 UCL Ins/tute of Digital Health Tweet: Welcome to the Launch! @uclidh #digitalhealth Ann Blandford Digital health covers many things •  Interac/ve medical devices •  Health apps •  Clinical technologies and health records •  System simula/ons •  Data analy/cs •  Imaging •  …and more 1 14/07/2015 Digital technologies are transforming healthcare •
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New ways of gathering health data Advances in data analysis Remote comms Wearable interac/ve devices Etc. Data and interac/ons at the centre… 2 14/07/2015 Projects, centres, everywhere… IDH vision •  The UCL Ins/tute of Digital Health brings together world-­‐class researchers to deliver transforma/onal interdisciplinary research across the health sciences, human sciences and data sciences. •  IDH is a network of researchers, projects and research centres united by a shared interest in the poten/al of digital technologies to improve health and wellbeing. •  IDH researchers work with other professionals and the broader popula/on, to advance research that is technologically leading and socially relevant. 3 14/07/2015 Working together for mutual benefit •  Becoming an interna/onal “centre of gravity” for DH research and transla/on into prac/ce. •  Informing and shaping na/onal ini/a/ves. •  Learning from each other’s exper/se. •  Networking for new collabora/ons, and primed to respond to new ini/a/ves. •  Sharing resources –  e.g. “IDH recommends” seminars. Learning together •  Digital research methodologies –  New challenges –  New opportuni/es •  Wri/ng proposals for different funders •  Wri/ng papers for different journals, etc. •  New ways of engaging –  With each other and with the users of our research 4 14/07/2015 Gaining impact together •  By working together, we can each do what we do best, but make it more visible and more impac_ul •  Through public events •  Through social media •  Through bringing the best teams together to tackle difficult problems in digital health •  To shape the na/onal and interna/onal discourse around digital technologies and their role in health research and prac/ce Means and ends •  Developing capability –
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Undergraduate programmes? MSc training provision across UCL PhD support across UCL (inc. CDTs) ECR development Becoming more interdisciplinary Linking to industry and other partners •  Developing infrastructure –  Support for ethics, working with pa/ents, etc. –  Technical / computa/onal infrastructure –  Crea/ng pathways that facilitate evidence-­‐based research •  Developing communica/ons –  Email digital.health@ucl.ac.uk –  Twifer @uclidh – do let us know if you have anything to report (grant successes, blog posts published, etc. etc.) –  Feedback on embryonic website: what have we missed? How can it be befer? 5 14/07/2015 Looking forward to the next few months •  Joint conference with the Centre for Behaviour Change on “Harnessing Digital Technology for Behaviour Change: Health and Wellbeing” •  Fes/val of Digital Health 2016 •  Joint mee/ngs with DH groups around UCL •  What else would you like to do with IDH? The rest of today •  4 invited talks that illustrate exci/ng parts* of the ‘space’ of DH •  Tea / /me to network •  Minute madness, helping to ‘shape’ the space •  Panel event: what (else) should we be doing together? •  Drinks / networking … going forward •  Enjoy! * but not the whole space 6 14/07/2015 Discussion •  Iden/fy one thing that the IDH should do to support your research. •  What interdisciplinary research challenge would you like to develop? •  What else should we know? Thank you •  To Deans and Vice Provosts for ini/a/ng and suppor/ng this ac/vity •  To all the speakers for bringing substance to this mee/ng •  To the SVs and Nicola for making it all happen •  To all of you for being part of it •  Most of all, to Jacky Pallas for masterminding the organisa/on 7