What we do
The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) transforms great ideas into real digital health solutions and supports digitising social care.
Research and Innovation (R&I) in digital health and social care creates sustainable services and develops future skills, helping Scotland’s people live longer and healthier lives and enabling the economy to flourish to meet global needs.
The 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.
We are actively shifting the balance of care from the traditional treatment-focused model to one that prioritises prevention, early detection, post-event care, and self-management/ independent living for our citizens.
Our portfolio
Our portfolio addresses key current challenges (as identified by the Scottish Government) in health and social care including:
Healthy ageing
Drug related harms
Digital mental health
Chronic diseases
Brain health
Social care
Rural communities
Resource use optimisation
Integrated care
Hospital at home
How we do it
Innovation process model
The DHI Innovation Process Model encapsulates everything we do to support Research & Innovation (R&I).
It focuses on 5 key stages with a learn and share element that runs through all stages:
The model is underpinned by a range of core capabilities and expert knowledge built upon a foundation of experience in the health and social care context.
DHI combines world-class digital health and social care expertise, design innovation, research and knowledge exchange.
We utilise the quadruple helix model to empower and connect people/ citizens and organisations to collaborate on projects that transform ideas into real practical solutions.
Our team is skilled in facilitating complex projects and building strong partnerships to drive digital innovation in health and social care.
Partnership model
Our effective partnership model brings together health and social care practitioners, industry, and academia to collaborate and solve key demand-led challenges.
The model illustrates how we blend creative, technical, and practical processes with our specialist core capabilities to innovate for impact and deliver the following key cross-sectoral outcomes for Scotland:
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A Skilled Talent Pipeline
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Accelerated innovation & adoption
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Increased company growth & inward investment
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Enhanced digital and data infrastructure
