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The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) is a catalyst for change and a conduit for NHS reform. We harness Research & Innovation (R&I) to support the essential recovery and digitally enabled transformation of health and social care services.

We help companies get their digital health & care innovations to market.

We have 10+ years’ experience working with stakeholders in the NHS, academia, the Scottish Government, third sector, funders and industry to support cross-sectoral collaboration and digital health and care innovation.

We understand the complexity of health and social care customer needs and opaque procurement systems.

We are an integral part of Scotland’s HealthTech innovation ecosystem and chair the Digital and Data subgroup of the Life Sciences Industry Leadership Group.

Design innovation

Design Innovation is at the core of DHI and runs right through its innovation process, enabling direct engagement with quadruple helix organisations and individuals to define requirements, align different perspectives, and provide a stable foundation for scalable, adoption ready health and social care solutions.

Experience design led innovation

Tiered support

We offer different levels of support depending on the stage of your innovation journey. We use a 3-strand innovation model to assess and progress readiness levels.

Technical readiness

Business Model Readiness

Service Model Readiness

Key contact

Dr Abigail Lyons

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Senior Business Innovation Manager

The primary contact for industry collaboration, specialising in digital health innovation and women's cardiovascular health, supporting companies in bringing health technologies to market.

DHI 10 Year Strategy

DHI facilitates collaboration between commercial, academic, and healthcare sectors to expedite research and innovation adoption, leveraging its robust delivery history to support the goals outlined in its 10-year strategy.

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DHI 10 Years of digital health and care innovation

DHU Executive Digest

Digital tools for the self-management of chronic diseases: Mode of action and conditions of market success.

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Daring to consider “The art of the possible"

A Holyrood Magazine interview with our CEO, Professor George Crooks OBE.

The Rural Centre of Excellence (RCE)

The RCE for digital health and care in Moray is a £5 million initiative funded by the UK Government and delivered by the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre through the Moray Growth Deal.

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Innovation clusters

We facilitate an innovation cluster approach to support collaboration between academic, business and civic sectors including citizens, health, social care and housing partners.

Explore our clusters

#DigiInventors Challenge

Inspiring and empowering young people to identify and develop entrepreneurial and digital skills while raising awareness of career opportunities in the digital health and care sector.

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Spotlighting impactful innovation

Innovation clusters

DHI facilitates a growing portfolio of Scottish innovation clusters to share learning, skills, experience and collaborate on new ideas to solve key health and social care challenges

Explore our innovation clusters

What we do

DHI plays a pivotal role in creating and supporting collaborations that co-design person-centred digital health and social care solutions across service, technical, and business innovation.

Discover how we do it

We can help you

gain a better understanding of health and social care needs
navigate policy and funding landscapes
identify and connect with the right support for your innovation’s stage of development
co-develop products and services that fully address customer needs and keep the person at the centre

Join our network

Become part of an exclusive community, that wants to collaborate and transform great ideas into real digital health and social care solutions.

Share your interests and expertise, to receive tailored emails to participate in activities that align with your preferences.

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Our team

DHI comprises a team of multi-cultural and multi-lingual individuals, with extensive skills, experience, and a shared commitment to transform great ideas into real digital health and social care solutions.

Meet the team

Funding

Finding and engaging with relevant funding organisations can be challenging. DHI has partnered with The Data Lab to provide access to their funding finder – a search tool that leverages data and AI to navigate the UK funding system.

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News

Keep up to date with the latest digital health and social care news from across the sector.

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Who we are

DHI is a key enabler and catalyst for change, occupying a unique and visible position at the heart of the innovation ecosystem for digital health and social care, in Scotland.

Get to know us

Expert insights

Dive into the latest expert insights and elevate your understanding of the digital health and social care sector.

Gain expert insights

Innovation clusters

DHI facilitates a growing portfolio of Scottish innovation clusters to share learning, skills, experience and collaborate on new ideas to solve key health and social care challenges

Explore our innovation clusters

Design innovation

Experience design led innovation

Events

DHI is keen to support knowledge exchange and the sharing of best practice. Explore the latest digital health and social care events taking place from across the sector.

Explore events

Skills

DHI collaborates with key stakeholders, at strategic and operational level, to generate a future skills pipeline into the digital health and social care sector.

Elevate your skills

Resources

DHI undertakes research, facilitates international knowledge exchange, and publishes academic outputs, grey literature, white papers and a variety of other digital resources focused on digital health and social care.

Browse our resources

Health and care

In the complex landscape of health and social care, numerous terms are frequently employed to describe the integration of technology in health and social care services. DHI prefers a more inclusive and simplified approach to our terminology.

Our definition

DHI exchange

DHI’s space for you to innovate! Our DHI exchange is one of Scotland’s key national assets to support health and social care service transformation.

Access our health data exchange

Other related pages

Resources

DHI has a range of resources that companies at all stages of their innovation journey can access:

Monthly newsletter when you join our network [LINK to latest copy of newsletter]

Resource Library – Case Studies, Blogs, Market Reports and Industry Insights [LINK to new Industry Resource page]

Digital Mental Health Innovation Cluster membership [LINK to DMHIC page]

Healthy Ageing Innovation Cluster membership [LINK to HAIC page]

Webinars and Events [LINK to Events page if this is a thing OR to any page where upcoming events are listed]
We offer tailored support to companies that are closer to market and/or are more aligned with our strategic priorities.

DHI Advisor Surgery [LINK to relevant case study on Industry Resources page – will need to identify and/or write one]

Consortium Development [LINK to relevant case study on Industry Resources page – will need to identify and/or write one]

Problem definition workshops [LINK to WCVHD Blog]

Design innovation workshops [LINK to Design Innovation page]

Access to our Design Simulation Environment [LINK to DHI Exchange page]

Access to Sandbox environments [LINK to DHI Exchange page]

Consultation and Support from our technical team [Maybe LINK to Appropriate Staff Page?]