The West Midlands Health and Wellbeing Innovation Network create collaborations between innovators and the healthcare industry to solve problems at speed.

Our latest programme partnered with UHUK (formerly Urgent Health UK) to form the UHUK Innovation Programme. It saw us bring together stakeholders from across the industry to truly disrupt the status quo through our unique approach to forming collaborations based on tangible value exchange.

The innovators participating in the programme excelled through their attitude towards collaborative product development and open innovation.

Meet some of the participants and what they had to say about the programme:

Tasha: So at Islacare, we take a remote-first approach to healthcare. We capture patient data; that patient data can be photos, videos, sound recordings, forms. We store that data within the patient’s record on Isla, and we have unlimited Cloud storage that can then be immediately shared with other clinicians to review in real time. We’re partnered with 33 NHS Trusts, across multiple specialties, in both an acute and community setting, and I suppose one of the real benefits of Isla is that we’re web-based, and so we can be accessed on any device.

Lana: We see that the solution that will come out of this, given the work that we’re doing around delving deep into the entire process map and addressing all the potential users, we can see that it will have an impact across the board and across everyone that works in that space, hopefully. We hope that it can have an impact on the entire system to promote more kind of innovation initiatives such as this, that promote co-developing solutions with suppliers and the clinical systems.

Islacare:

See health differently. Meet Isla Care – a comprehensive solution supporting remote medicine and managing patient data securely, for all specialties to provide clinicians with an at-a-glance view of a patient’s condition and progress using photos, videos, sound recordings and structured forms.

Their aim?

Isla are helping UHUK members solve the challenge of providing patients with symptom specific worsening advice. Their solution is applicable across several areas and they are already collaborating with multiple innovators on the programme to provide a comprehensive solution.

Listen to Product Manager Tasha Watmore and Technical Programme Manager Lana Abou Rafeh speak on the benefits of Islacare across the board.

Tasha: So at Islacare, we take a remote-first approach to healthcare. We capture patient data; that patient data can be photos, videos, sound recordings, forms. We store that data within the patient’s record on Isla, and we have unlimited Cloud storage that can then be immediately shared with other clinicians to review in real time. We’re partnered with 33 NHS Trusts, across multiple specialties, in both an acute and community setting, and I suppose one of the real benefits of Isla is that we’re web-based, and so we can be accessed on any device.

Lana: We see that the solution that will come out of this, given the work that we’re doing around delving deep into the entire process map and addressing all the potential users, we can see that it will have an impact across the board and across everyone that works in that space, hopefully. We hope that it can have an impact on the entire system to promote more kind of innovation initiatives such as this, that promote co-developing solutions with suppliers and the clinical systems.

Medwise AI:

Medwise AI – an AI-powered, fully customisable search platform that enables healthcare professionals to quickly find actionable answers at the point of care. Medwise AI can be used in any clinical environment to improve productivity and increase the adoption of clinical best practice.

Their aim?

To help clinicians quickly find accurate information at the point of care and work with other programme partners to deliver this information to patients.

Listen to Co-founder Dr. Keith Tsui explain his backstory – solving the challenge of information overload for clinicians using artificial intelligence.

Speaker: Medwise AI is an AI-powered search engine designed specifically for clinicians. So, when I was a medical doctor, I used to Google search a lot in the middle of a night shift, or in the GP clinic, and I thought there must be something better, but there isn’t. So I started Medwise AI to solve this challenge of information overload that clinicians have, and also with the lack of time – a lot of good tools to find information at the point of care.

Medwise AI, as an organisation, we’ve worked with primary care clinicians and secondary care hospital trusts, but we haven’t worked in Urgent Health yet, and this program is amazing because we get direct access and conversations with urgent healthcare providers – so that we can understand what are the needs and challenges, so we can customise our search platform for those needs and challenges. We always love to talk to customers and users to understand what are their problems and jobs to be done and then start from there.

ummanu Health:

ummanu Health – are an intelligent automation platform for healthcare providers who want to improve their efficiencies in delivering remote consultations.

Their aim?

To increase clinician productivity and free up more time to care by; enabling 111 call handling triage and analytics and delivering patient information.

Listen to their General Manager, Russell Blackmore give an interesting insight into the great work they do.

Ummanu Health are a technology company, originally from Israel, born out of supporting a large Israeli health provider, in providing a technology platform for automating the waiting list and the fetching of patients in an Urgent Care environment.

Ideally, you find people with a problem, you listen to them, you understand their need, and you work with them to develop a solution specifically for that – because they’re already engaged, they’ve got a vested interest in the outcome, and then you’ve got an opportunity to influence meaningful change.

It’s very easy to come along with a new piece of software, or a new idea and try and impose it on a set of clinical users, or another environment and there’s resistance, because they’re already busy, they have the systems in front of them, they’re used to using, and so change becomes a challenge and you become a problem, instead of a solution.

So, if you have an engaged community, like the one that we have here with UHUK, you’re in a position where they are ready to receive an innovation from you, and they actually want to see it work, and that’s the best environment I can think of.

inicio Health:

Meet inicio Health – a clinically lead, patient centred company, designed to bring access to digital health capabilities and expertise across health systems.

Their aim?

Explore how their Flight deck product can enable retrospective analysis and efficient note taking, sentiment analysis and data handling during telemedicine consultations.

Listen to their Founder and CEO, James Davis speak about collaboration and who they’re building these solutions for.

We’re a clinically LED, patient-centered company designed to bring access to digital health capabilities and expertise across health systems. We specialize in electronic health record integration and optimization, specifically that focuses within the Cerner Oracle Health Millennium EHR.

We also build custom M pages that sit within the EHR that enable an optimized view of the data that sits within the record. As well as that, we build a number of digital products and we’re excited to be here as part of the program to develop one of our flagship products, which is called Flight Tech.

We find ourselves in a position of opportunity to take our skill sets digitally, operationally, and clinically to develop tools that will help smooth that pathway to accelerate access to care.

As organizations, sometimes we can get our heads down and we can forget to look up and collaborate with others and see where you can stand on the shoulders of giants and learn from each other and share and collaborate to enhance our overall value proposition.

But also ultimately, we really want patients and clinicians to benefit from the program, that’s who we’re ultimately here to serve, and ultimately that we want to build these solutions for.

Islacare:

See health differently. Meet Islacare – a comprehensive solution supporting remote medicine and managing patient data securely, for all specialties to provide clinicians with an at-a-glance view of a patient’s condition and progress using photos, videos, sound recordings and structured forms.

Their aim?

Isla are helping UHUK members solve the challenge of providing patients with symptom specific worsening advice. Their solution is applicable across several areas and they are already collaborating with multiple innovators on the programme to provide a comprehensive solution.

Listen to Product Manager Tasha Watmore and Technical Programme Manager Lana Abou Rafeh speak on the benefits of Islacare across the board.

Speaker: Medwise AI is an AI-powered search engine designed specifically for clinicians. So, when I was a medical doctor, I used to Google search a lot in the middle of a night shift, or in the GP clinic, and I thought there must be something better, but there isn’t. So I started Medwise AI to solve this challenge of information overload that clinicians have, and also with the lack of time – a lot of good tools to find information at the point of care.

Medwise AI, as an organisation, we’ve worked with primary care clinicians and secondary care hospital trusts, but we haven’t worked in Urgent Health yet, and this program is amazing because we get direct access and conversations with urgent healthcare providers – so that we can understand what are the needs and challenges, so we can customise our search platform for those needs and challenges. We always love to talk to customers and users to understand what are their problems and jobs to be done and then start from there.

Medwise AI:

Medwise AI – an AI-powered, fully customisable search platform that enables healthcare professionals to quickly find actionable answers at the point of care. Medwise AI can be used in any clinical environment to improve productivity and increase the adoption of clinical best practice.

Their aim?

To help clinicians quickly find accurate information at the point of care and work with other programme partners to deliver this information to patients.

Listen to Co-founder Dr. Keith Tsui explain his backstory – solving the challenge of information overload for clinicians using artificial intelligence.

Ummanu Health are a technology company, originally from Israel, born out of supporting a large Israeli health provider, in providing a technology platform for automating the waiting list and the fetching of patients in an Urgent Care environment.

Ideally, you find people with a problem, you listen to them, you understand their need, and you work with them to develop a solution specifically for that – because they’re already engaged, they’ve got a vested interest in the outcome, and then you’ve got an opportunity to influence meaningful change.

It’s very easy to come along with a new piece of software, or a new idea and try and impose it on a set of clinical users, or another environment and there’s resistance, because they’re already busy, they have the systems in front of them, they’re used to using, and so change becomes a challenge and you become a problem, instead of a solution.

So, if you have an engaged community, like the one that we have here with UHUK, you’re in a position where they are ready to receive an innovation from you, and they actually want to see it work, and that’s the best environment I can think of.

ummanu Health:

ummanu Health – are an intelligent automation platform for healthcare providers who want to improve their efficiencies in delivering remote consultations.

Their aim?

To increase clinician productivity and free up more time to care by; enabling 111 call handling triage and analytics and delivering patient information.

Listen to their General Manager, Russell Blackmore give an interesting insight into the great work they do.

We’re a clinically LED, patient-centered company designed to bring access to digital health capabilities and expertise across health systems. We specialize in electronic health record integration and optimization, specifically that focuses within the Cerner Oracle Health Millennium EHR.

We also build custom M pages that sit within the EHR that enable an optimized view of the data that sits within the record. As well as that, we build a number of digital products and we’re excited to be here as part of the program to develop one of our flagship products, which is called Flight Tech.

We find ourselves in a position of opportunity to take our skill sets digitally, operationally, and clinically to develop tools that will help smooth that pathway to accelerate access to care.

As organizations, sometimes we can get our heads down and we can forget to look up and collaborate with others and see where you can stand on the shoulders of giants and learn from each other and share and collaborate to enhance our overall value proposition.

But also ultimately, we really want patients and clinicians to benefit from the program, that’s who we’re ultimately here to serve, and ultimately that we want to build these solutions for.

inicio Health:

Meet inicio Health – a clinically lead, patient centred company, designed to bring access to digital health capabilities and expertise across health systems.

Their aim?

Explore how their Flight deck product can enable retrospective analysis and efficient note taking, sentiment analysis and data handling during telemedicine consultations.

Listen to their Founder and CEO, James Davis speak about collaboration and who they’re building these solutions for.

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