Rural Centre of Excellence Showcased at ITEC 2025
- Mar 28
- 2 min read
During the ITEC 2025 conference on March 17th and 18th, 2025, the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre’s Rural Centre of Excellence (RCE) was given a fantastic opportunity to highlight the great work of the programme and outline how they are transforming digital health and care in the Moray region of Scotland.
ITEC 2025 is an annual conference hosted in Birmingham, UK, which brings together thought leaders, innovators, and experts to unlock insights and build knowledge to improve outcomes in the Technology Enabled Care sector.
Speaking of the event, Marie Simpson, RCE Programme Manager, said, “It was heartening to see the passion and hear about the progress being made towards a nationally shared vision to transform health and care services through TEC. Thank you to all the exhibitors, there were some really interesting and innovative solutions and a clear desire from all to keep iterating their solutions. I made some great new connections and caught up with existing ones through the networking opportunities this conference creates.”
Marie’s presentation particularly focused on the Community Connections platform for the Care in Place Living Lab and the progress made in the Smart Housing Smart Communities Living Lab.
Marie commented, “It was fantastic to be able to update on the significant progress being made by [the RCE] at one of yesterday’s knowledge and networking sessions. The feedback received was amazing and testimony to the hard work of the team to drive health and care transformation at a whole system level, tackling key issues such as citizen difficulty finding the right service at the right time, siloed working across organisations leading to the need for frequent repetition of information, and a proposed pathway and tools to move services from reactive to proactive and preventative TEC”.
As part of her presentation, Marie also premiered a new video created to highlight the support Community Connections offers to stakeholders in the Care in Place Living Lab. Watch it below.
Learn more about the Rural Centre of Excellence and the Living Labs.
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