Events

Please note this takes place in the North Cloisters of UCL.

Our unique package of web software and services enables quality shared care, closer to home, for patients with long term cardiovascular diseases, which cost the UK £9b/year.  Only through better management and earlier diagnosis will costs be reduced and patient outcomes improved, as illustrated by our highly successful pilot in London. In a short period of time and with limited resources, Helicon has developed products that are already being used by 5 CCGs in south-east England – covering a population of 1.6m people.  

Optimised health outcomes through the application of evidence-based adherence-enhancing interventions and enabled through the adoption of digital health behaviours to personalise medicine from a pharmacological and psychological perspective.

HeLP-Diabetes is an innovative online self-management tool made for adults with type 2 diabetes. The tool looks to provide information, behaviour change support, online cognitive behaviour therapy, peer support and self-monitoring tools to improve outcomes in a highly prevalent chronic condition with significant morbidity and mortality. It has been enthusiastically embraced by a number of primary care organisations and is being used by people across Camden, Islington and Southwark.

Traditionally, research impact is created through commercialization and technology transfer. We piloted an alternative model: the “research-service” framework, created by City ehealth Research Centre (CeRC) I lead in the period 2002-2012, is a win-win model. Computer science research benefits by solving real world problems providing realistic case studies and evaluation testbeds as well as access to domain experts and users for validation, evaluation and experiments. Healthcare services are significantly enhanced by the application of cutting edge research results for benefit of users. This model also creates a unique long term partnerships between the university and healthcare agencies opening new funding streams.

In this talk, the highlights of global impact achieved through research translated to the National Resource for Infection Control (disseminating latest evidence to infection control professionals globally), the edugames4all.org project (teaching children basics of hygiene and antibiotics resistance with translations to EU languages), and FEMwiki (providing Web 2.0 collaborative training resource for field epidemiologists in Europe) will be presented.

Mapping for Change use participatory mapping and citizen science approach to work with wide range of communities. We have worked with communities to map and provide evidence of local sources of pollution that influence their life, record topics that they would like to see changing and the impact of environmental volunteering activities.

Prof David Price chairs an open panel to discuss the various challenges and opportunities within the area of Digital Health.

The drinks reception will be taking place in the North Cloisters of UCL.