The Centre for Health Technology and the eHealth ecosystem
Developing products and services rooted in real-world need
Across our portfolio of diverse projects, our multi-disciplinary team has supported service providers, start-ups, and small businesses, as well as a number of non-profit organisations. We have helped shape and run co-design workshops, pilot technologies, secure grant funding, and provide training on a range of topics from regulation and compliance to NHS commissioning.
The Centre for Health Technology is committed to supporting innovators develop products and services rooted in real-world need, solving problems raised by developers, practitioners, and patients, among others.
Through our work with industry on projects such as Generating Older Active Lives Digitally (GOALD) , EPIC and Intergenerational Codesign of Novel technologies In Coastal communities (ICONIC) , we have worked with a broad range of innovators, including robotics such as Akara’s Violet, apps that support management of long-term health conditions, such as Neap and Hunrosa, as well as innovators who seek to address health inequalities, such as Kensa Health.
We pride ourselves on collaboration and work with a number of industry experts, organisations and intergenerational participant groups to co-design health technologies and provide effective solutions.
Without EPIC we would have struggled to get that balance of pushing our company forwards, whilst having access to the research side and the knowledge that EPIC has provided us with.
Kensa Health founder and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Rose Abbott.
Innovators
Working with start-ups and SMEs supporting the development of digital health
Actorbank t/a Avatar Jo
Remote training provider for NHS and private health sector. Programmes focus on developing communication skills, confidence and rapport through simulated patient/client roleplay scenarios with trained actors.
Blink Software Ltd
A digital NHS health check that can be completed remotely to increase uptake and reduce the burden on GPs. Results are reported in a user-friendly manner, with signposting for support, whilst updating the GP medical record ahead of clinical review.
Healthwave Hub Ltd
Technology-enabled digital transformation specialist, with a mission to increase inclusion. Their work includes development of online training for change adopters and managers within health care environments to promote engagement of workforce.
Help at Hand Platform
Subscription-based social prescribing platform curating health and wellbeing resources, monitoring and reporting patient progress, and empowering self-referral. The platform builds links between patients and local services.
Huru
Digital platform that allows families that live apart to communicate. Using Internet of Things devices, including apps, smart speakers, and wearables to support independent living, improve family communication, and reduce social isolation.
Seefood Ltd
Digital platform enabling healthcare providers to deliver culturally and linguistically sensitive cognitive assessments for ethnic minority groups in the UK. Alongside migrating paper based systems to effective digital versions.
Sentai AI Ltd
Subscription-based AI voice technology that links with Amazon Alexa to help people care for loved ones living independently. Provides customised reminders about food and medication, sends alerts if a pattern is broken, and offers companionship.
Statica Research Ltd (PEP Health)
Machine-learning platform providing healthcare organisations, regulators, and insurers with real-time insights into patient experience by automatically collecting online feedback and populating it into a user-friendly dashboard.
Tango3 Ltd
Software solutions provider in the digital healthcare sector. Recent projects include vaccination and patient appointment booking software, and a real-time online defibrillator monitoring system to provide status alerts and track usage.
Thriving Ai Ltd
Integrated care app providing a support system for older adults living independently, enabling them to communicate with family, caregivers, and healthcare professionals in one place. The app also enables practitioners to monitor wellbeing.
3 Deep Media Ltd
Media company working to create a virtual tour of Cornwall from 360° 4k footage, to enable care home residents and those with limited mobility to explore these locations with the use of the ROVR virtual reality treadmill.
TouchByte Ltd
Biometric software that enables face-authentication to provide safe, secure, and convenient access to restricted areas. EPIC has supported implementation in a sheltered living facility for young men with learning disabilities.
Vitacam
Software-based medical device that measures and reports a patient’s vital signs in order to detect early deterioration. The device measures a patient’s respiratory rate and pulse by processing a video from the Vitacam app.
Yetitablet Ltd
A giant Android tablet with toughened screen and motorised steel frame. Designed to be used with YetiCare software to increase physical activity and mental stimulation for people with physical, developmental, or visual impairments.
Our proud collaborators and delivery partners across industry
The team have been great; really professional, and they really helped frame what we needed to get out of it and helped make things happen. They conducted a lot of research for us, which was amazing.
Joy founder, Patrick Harding