Hosted by LEAP, a Digital Health Hub for the South West and Wales
LEAP’s events will focus on four key themes that make up their upcoming research funding call. Objectives include:
- Provide background information about the call and application process
- Introduce the Hub’s research themes with overviews from key problem owners
- Collaboratively develop new project ideas through activities and discussion
- Facilitate connections between professionals from academia, industry and healthcare who share expertise or interest in the themes
- Announce the application process for the Hub’s Fellowship schemes
Digital technologies have huge potential to help prevent or reduce the time people need to spend in hospital. This supports wellbeing and is a priority for health services. This can be achieved through health and social care services that support people in their own homes and communities (such as virtual wards). Digital health (and care) opportunities include:
- Technology for remotely monitoring patients (or people accessing care and support).
- Technology that enables high-quality remote patient consultations.
- Technology to ensure a safe, warm, dry home environment where patients can be safe and in good health.
- Technology to support a necessarily more mobile health and social care workforce.