Health technology projects

Centre for Health Technology

Epic3 eHealth Productivity and Innovation in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (EPIC)
 EPIC focuses on strengthening the digital health ecosystem in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, by supporting development-led growth in enterprises, whilst closely working with health and care users, workers, and commissioners.

Digital radio Radio Me
 RadioMe is a £2.7 million project that will use artificial intelligence to adapt and personalise live radio, with the aim of transforming the lives of people living alone with dementia.

Robot Pepper entertaining residents at a care home Movecare: Multiple-actors Virtual Empathic Caregivers for the Elderly
 This Horizon 2020 funded project was co-ordinated in Milan with the University of Plymouth's Centre for Health Technology leading a €440,000 strand on social interaction, supporting independent living through the use of robotic companions.

Health Technology Community Pop-up in Stonehouse Centre for Health Technology Pop-up
 The pop-up was based in The Plot, Stonehouse, Plymouth and aimed to address local health inequalities and social deprivation using digital technology and eHealth solutions.

Countryside Healthy Ageing through Innovation in Rural Europe (HAIRE)
 HAIRE is a £4.5 million project that works across eight rural communities – two in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the UK (Feock in Cornwall and Rother in East Sussex) to improve health and care quality and help to create an economy of wellbeing.

COVID-19 Remote-by-Default Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic
 The ‘Remote by Default’ Covid-19 project, funded through the ESRC, is examining digital communications between patients and primary care practices.

Interior Of Busy Family Home With Blurred Figures, courtesy of Getty Images NoObesity App
 Evaluating and redesigning the NoObesity app system.

Phone call Autonomous Telemedicine
 Artificial intelligence, in the form of conversational agents, presents a possible opportunity to enable efficiencies in the delivery of care.

Elderly person in wheelchair exercising using a virtual reality (VR) headset Generating Older Active Lives Digitally (GOALD)
 The GOALD project uses intergenerational groups to examine how to design and deliver digital resources to provide and engage older people in structured activity programmes with the aim of improving their health and wellbeing.

The photo is zoomed into a woman's hands as they hold a mobile phone. You cannot see her face, only her cupped hands as she types on the phone. Real world testing of AI mental health app Wysa
 Examining the use of the digital health app Wysa on patients’ symptoms of anxiety and depression during the referral process for standard UK mental health services.

Genotype/phenotype illustration showing a DNA double helix Automated identification of cancer patients via deep phenotyping
 Using AI technologies including machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing to extract clinically meaningful information from patients’ notes and electronic health records.

Pregnant woman with phone Childbearing women with epilepsy engaging with digital health technology
 Investigating how digital technologies might be used to improve the wellbeing of expectant mothers who suffer from epilepsy seizures.

Pills and capsules in medical vial Enhancing the safe and effective use of medications
 Using AI technologies to enable the safe and effective use of medications for the best possible outcomes in patients.

Groups of multicoloured figures representing different social, income, ethnic or cultural groups Identifying determinants of health inequality
 Developing data-driven solutions to identify the interactions between factors that contribute to individual and population-level health outcomes.

Modern day pensioner. Middle aged woman in glasses hold smartphone focused on screen play game in mobile app chat text online.  New app designed to help manage Parkinson’s disease non-motor symptoms
 People with Parkinson’s and their carers, could soon be able to use their mobile phones to remotely monitor and manage their non-motor symptoms.

Senior couple looking at an iPad. Intergenerational Codesign of Novel technologies In Coastal communitites (ICONIC)
 Aiming to improve digital inclusion for both groups and help them to connect to their communities and digital activity.

Senior sitting alone in his living room and using mobile phone, credit: Rido, courtesy of Shutterstock The NHSx Digital Health Partnership Award
 Finding ways to provide more efficient, effective and scalable support for Parkinson's.

Scientist analyzes DNA gel used in genetics, forensics, drug discovery, biology and medicine. Credit: gopixa, courtesy of Shutterstock. Pencil hovering over small black lines on a piece of paper, Can AI bring a better prediction of responses to chemotherapy in breast cancer?
 This project will use artificial intelligence techniques with ctDNA and clinical data sets to build data-driven models which predict subclone evolution and therefore a patient’s response to chemotherapy.

Dark skinned family, little daughter sitting on mother lap using smart phones and playing mobile games, credit: chomplearn, courtesy of Shutterstock Can outcomes for children with asthma be improved by enhancing integrated care with technology?
 Testing the new digital pathway approach, alongside two home-based apps, which help children and their carers take better care of their asthma between doctor visits and to improve asthma care so that children can avoid needing emergency treatment.

Pictured from left: Joe Linogao (Akara’s representative), Charlotte Wakeham (Domestic Services Manager at RCHT) and Leonie Cooper (EPIC researcher). Akara
 The Centre for Health Technology has been working with the robotics company Akara since 2017.

BRIC Pain Lab An investigation into the therapeutic potential of virtual natural environments for chronic low back pain
 Exploring how different levels of fascination within a virtual natural environment impacts different pain and pain related outcomes in participants.

Teddy Bear Hospital ASKSNIFF
 Acutely Sick Kid Safety Netting Interventions for Families (ASK SNIFF): A collaborative co-design research programme.

Two people sitting down, out of focus, with one hand holding a mobile phone in focus.  LGBTQ+ young peoples’ experiences online, a survey
 Research exploring LGBTQ+ young peoples’ daily experiences online

Plus sign graphics above hand on blue background Beyond the Plus Sign
 Research aiming to challenge traditional identity development models and foster a more inclusive and empathetic community.

Girl using a VR headset The BRIDGING project
 A three-year project using extended reality training with autistic employees and employers to support entry and retainment within the workplace and reduce the autism employment gap.

Shot of happy senior women using virtual reality headsets together at a retirement home