IPO Fast Forward 2013: Medical Apps Event @ Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. Opening presentation from Ewan Davis, Handihealth.org (Reproduced with permission)

1. Use of digital tools in Healthcare: separating
hype from the challenges
www.handihealth.org
NHS Innovations South East - Accelerated Commercialisation of Non-Patent
Intellectual Property Associated with Healthcare Apps -Tuesday 18 March
2014
Ewan Davis – Director HANDIHealth Community Interest Company

2. The Vision
• That, in the future, every citizen should have access to a set of
digital tools and services that support every aspect of their
health, care and wellbeing, and that of those they care for. In
addition, these tools will allow for the collection, and analysis of data
to enhance our knowledge of health and wellbeing and help us
plan, deliver and evaluate continuously improving safe
compassionate care.
• By harnessing the power of digital technology in the uniquely fertile
environment provided by the NHS not only will we be able to
address the challenges of an aging population and the increasing
demand for affordable care but we will also ensure the better health
of future generations and create economic opportunities for the UK.

3. What makes and App and App?
• Narrow scope – Do one thing well
• Connected
• Makes heavy use of pre-existing components
and services
• Built using a well defined development and
deployment framework
• Order of magnitude(s) faster and cheaper to
develop and deploy
• Allows niche solutions and “fail fast”

4. Where are we Now?

5. The HANDI Vision
• Giving everyone the tools they need to
manage heath, care and well-being to
deliver safe compassionate care.

6. Two Visions
The Heavenly Vision
•Functional and desirable
•Safe and appropriate
•Interoperable and orchestrated
•Platform and form factor agile
•Consistent responsive user interfaces

7. Two Visions
The Heavenly Vision
The Hellish Vision
•Functional and desirable
•Dangerous and inappropriate
•Siloed and isolated
•Platform and form factor locked
•Inconsistent user interface

8. Rising from Hell
• Help people find safe and appropriate
apps
• Ensure apps can interoperate and be
orchestrated to work together
• Build apps that are cross platform and
form factor agile
• Agree some basic design principles
• Support the development of sustainable
business models

9. How?
Create a Ecosystem
Technical Cultural
Business
Community

10. Digital Health Ecosystem SoA Platform
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
User interface components (Apps)
Web Services – SMART Wrapper – ITK – OpenEHR – FIHR
Ecosystem Services - Data Persistence, Knowledge, App Stores Other Services
PDS, EHR, EPR, Decision Support, Identity Management, Consent Management
eBooking, EPS, Security Broker – Some/all could be duplicated
Link to
Other Federated ESBs
Link to
Other Federated ESBs

11. The Challenges
• Identify a need
– What need or want does you app address
– Who else is addressing this need?
• Design
– Making my App Functional and Desirable
– Agile user centred design
• Business Models
– How to I fund my App and make it sustainable
– Licensing and IPR
– How do I distribute my App
• Getting apps to work together
– Interoperable
– Orchestrated
– Platform and form factor agile
– Consistent UI
• Quality Assurance
– Regulatory requirements
– Demonstrating my App is safe and appropriate

12. How can HANDI Help?
• Facilitating
networking, learning, cooperation, competi
tion and innovation

13. What Will HANDI do?
• Lobby for an ecosystem in which apps can
flourish interoperate and be orchestrated

14. HANDI is agnostic
• About
– Platforms
– Business models
– Standards
– Tools, services and approaches
• Show the community the possibilities and
let individuals decide

15. Join Us
• Come and help us
• Join a local cluster
• Follow us @handihealth
• Watch #handihealth
• Come and talk after

16. www.handihealth.org
info@handihealth.org
@handihealth
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