EPIC

A collaborative project seeking to help grow eHealth businesses and improve health, wellbeing and enhance the care quality by using eHealth technology
EPIC

What is EPIC?

eHealth Productivity and Innovation in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (EPIC) is a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary project, initially funded in 2017 by a grant of £2.7 million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the South West Academic Health Science Network (AHSN), and received a further £4m to extend the project until 2023.

Led by the University’s Centre for Health Technology, EPIC is fuelled by invaluable input from a large number of partners, organisations and individuals across the South West, including healthcare trusts, charities, social enterprises, patient groups, and students. 

Using this input, EPIC aims to facilitate a sustainable eHealth sector in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, by maximising innovation networks, sharing expertise and experience from the University and our partner organisations, and providing sector-specific hands-on business support. The project offered Cornish businesses the opportunity to apply to the £600,000 EPIC Challenge Fund, which has awarded 42 grants to support the development of new eHealth innovations. 

The development of a thriving eHealth sector will not only create new jobs, new products and support the local economy, but will strengthen the existing health and care network in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Enabling new technological innovations to be created and adopted, to improve the quality of life and boost well being for all. 

In particular, for this phase of our project, we welcome ideas that:

  • Address difficulties of providing care in remote locations, such as telepresence or internet of things
  • Consider how to make technology more accessible to all; including differences in IT literacy, sight challenges, age or hearing loss

  • Innovations which address loneliness and isolation, and the strengthening of support networks and community.
  • Integrate with existing systems, to either improve user experience, strengthen their use, or offer cost savings solutions to NHS trust.
  • Boost the tech sector in our region, including in robotics and devices.

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What do we mean by 'eHealth'?

eHealth is anything technological that can help with health and wellbeing, improve quality of life, help people to manage their long term conditions, and make life a little easier. eHealth is often called Health Tech too. 

Types of this technology include apps for mobile phones and tablets, programs such as Skype and FaceTime, or Virtual Reality simulations, but also encompasses sensors and wearable devices, humanoid robots such as Pepper, voice-controlled speakers, or even companion pets such as Paro the ‘comfort’ seal for people with dementia. 

Find out more about eHealth technology and its uses.

Centre for Health Technology

Bringing together digital health and health technology expertise from across the University to drive the development, evaluation and implementation of innovative technologies, products, services and approaches to transform health and social care.

Find out more about the Centre for Health Technology
 

Contact us

We love to hear from you – if you can’t find the information you need within our web pages please email us at epic@plymouth.ac.uk and one of the team will get back to you.