DHI exchange
Innovate with us!
The DHI exchange is an environment to help drive knowledge exchange around digital health and social care innovation. Recognised as one of Scotland’s key assets, it supports the transformation of health and social care services while promoting Scotland globally.
It comprises a demonstration and simulation environment where our team facilitates the integration of new digital technologies into health and social care services, offering a person-centred data-sharing infrastructure to innovators. This creates commercial opportunities and helps to enhance healthcare services both locally and internationally.
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Make the person the point of integration, so they only have to tell their story once!
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Our experience
The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) has collaborated in 130+ digital innovation projects, developing 50+ digital products or live services, and producing more than 350 design and market research reports.
Our experience shows the need to move from individual apps to reusable platforms that support resilience and flexibility. The DHI Exchange now focuses on offering generic platforms for various suppliers and services, such as person-centred data-sharing infrastructure (Health Data Exchanges, Personal Data Stores, Citizen Wallets) and decision support infrastructure (rules engines, content libraries).
The infrastructure we procure, develop and support is co-designed with Scottish citizens and meets the common requirements across different groups and services.
“We must transform the narrative surrounding digital health and care innovation, shifting it from an expenditure consideration to an invaluable investment in our future wellbeing.”
Professor George Crooks OBE
Chief Executive Officer
Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre
Demonstration environment
We host meetings, co-design activities, and live demonstrations to showcase the art of the possible for select audiences around key health and social care challenges.
Register your interest, and we’ll notify you when our next block of sessions are available!
Simulation environment
Simulation refers to funded projects where we collaborate with developers to integrate their products and services within these new types of generic architecture.
Using well-recognised standards, we offer a suite of APIs, along with documentation and support, to facilitate integration with our infrastructure.
Initially, access is provided through sandbox environments, using simulated data to demonstrate integrated digital service delivery.
Successfully demonstrating your product or service in this ecosystem opens up potential collaboration opportunities.
Prospective partners may wish to do this because:
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You have a commercially available product and want to demonstrate how you can support integration, to generate a case study or evidence of collaborative working
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You are looking to work with Scottish health and care organisations who are using our infrastructure live and want to de-risk your product by demonstrating integration
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You have a funding bid or proposal, and need to show a route to integration, a route to market, or need our help to support research, innovation or development activity
Demonstration & simulation
