Opening Doors to the NHS

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Opening Doors to the NHS

• Opportunities for Companies to build Working
  Relationships with NHS Organisations
• December 2nd 2009
• Professor Alan Barrell
• Chairman Health Enterprise East Ltd

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Chairman of Health Enterprise East, also wearing
other hats
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Does our Eye on the World see much change?....
Our context.
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More Healthcare Reduced Budgets
Dilemma Population and Ageing
Innovation is Essential
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Crisis ?.......or Opportunity?

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Creativity and Innovation beat Despair any day!
Call to action for Entrepreneurs
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How about some IMAGINATION ?
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Einstein on IMAGINATION.

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
  Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the
  world
• Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955

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Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

• You look at things and ask - why?

but I dream of things that never were and ask -
why not?
George Bernard Shaw
A matter of MINDSET
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Innovators and Entrepreneurs have often been
great improvisers and overcame big obstacles
From old washing machines and car parts to.
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Willem Kolffs first Drum Kidney Machine - 1942
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Innovation is a journey not a destination.
From drum to coil.and it goes on..
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Health Enterprise East

• An NHS Innovation Hub part of the national NHS
  Innovations Network
• A not for profit company
• limited by guarantee

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A TOP TEAM Ready and Willing to help YOU
realise Opportunities
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Health Enterprise East
We provide advice, support and resources to turn
the ideas of NHS staff into new products and
services
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Health Enterprise East

• Helps NHS staff to identify and evaluate
  innovative new ideas
• Provides funding for filing of patents, designs
  rights other registerable IP
• Development funding available to progress new
  ideas
• Negotiates commercial deals on behalf of staff
  and their Trusts

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Annual Innovation Competition

• Open to all NHS staff in the Region
• 5 categories-
• Medical Technology
• Software, IT and Computers
• Infection control
• Prevention wellbeing
• Publication training aids
• Celebratory Awards Dinner
• 20k prize money
• Sponsored by companies

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Medtech Services Helping Company Access and
Getting Innovative Systems Evaluated Opening
Doors

• Help companies access NHS expertise
• Source of revenue for NHS staff
• Expose NHS staff to the latest technological
  innovations
• Industry Experts and IT and Software Executives
  in Team

Dr Juan Roman, HEE Medtech Services Manager
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Working together to PUT Innovative Products and
Services to work Some Issues for us all

• Balancing Process and Safety with Innovation
• Finding and Exploiting Innovation Barriers
• Adoption and Diffusion
• The Top Down Bottom Up Dilemmas
• The Minefield of Regulatory Standards and
  Harmonisation in the EC.
• Leadership and Creating an Innovative Mindset
• Care Everywhere Home, Community, Hospital,
  Work and need for connectivity

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Improving Health in the East of England

• SBRI East is an East of England pilot in the
  health sector to help bring forward new
  technologies for health
• Supporting the achievement of regional health
  priorities
• Increasing the possibility of their adoption in
  the National Health Service (NHS)

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Improving Health in the East of England

• Management of Long Term Conditions Category
• Applications funded for Phase 1 feasibility
  studies include
• Hand held asthma detection device that enables
  earlier diagnosis
• Enhancement of existing remote monitoring
  telehealth system with better
• Decision Support
• - Telephone response / connections in monitoring
  anti-coagulant therapy
• Real time healthcare monitoring and feedback
  system (wearable sensor)
• Hand held 3D wound imaging device
• Mobile Computer Patient Hospital linking
  Project

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A Case Example of Innovation in Practice One
local Innovative SME
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In Pursuit of Excellence !

• Excellence can be achieved, if weCare more
  than others think is wise,Risk more than others
  think is safe,Dream more than others think is
  practical,Expect more than others think is
  possible.
• Deborah Johnson-Ross
• Opening Doors today to work towards Excellence
  in Healthcare provision

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