Digital Health Seminar Series

Currently in the UK, approximately 75% of inpatient beds in mental health wards are allocated to psychosis, a severe mental health diagnosis which accounts for 30% of the NHS mental health spend. But what if we could reduce this spend and free up hospital beds? A NICE-approved digital intervention known as Careloop, which acts within an early window to prevent escalation, rather than reacting to c...

The NHS manages one of the largest health datasets globally, processing records for over 55 million people in England alone. In an increasingly digital world, how do we process and analyse all this data efficiently and safely? In this episode, Rush Miah, Associate Director of Analytics Data and AI in Bradford Teaching Hospitals takes us behind the scenes of one of the NHS's most important but leas...

Does creating a research app to study health actually improve participant engagement? Can apps extend research beyond local areas to increasing inclusivity? And are apps able to personalise content and support wider applications in health and education? And what are the privacy and data risks? In this episode, Soo Hun, Innovation and Digital Ecosystem Lead at Digital Health and Care Northern Irela...

What does it mean to create a community of practice in digital health? After working in a lab for years in isolation, Ralph MacKinnon felt that he needed to, in his words, "find his tribe". After joining the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital as paediatrics major trauma service lead, he's created his own tribe through Out-There HealthTech, a digital platform that supports communities of practice...

Why do brilliant ideas fail? There's one important question noone asks.... In this episode, Dr Nayan Kalnad, a clinician by training, discusses why great innovations often fail to scale in healthcare. Kalnad has over 14 years’ experience working in digital healthcare and pharmaceutical research and development. Kalnad co-founded Avegen Health in 2015, a digital health company that designs and deli...

Last year, Garth Williams won "Best Creative Innovation" at MediaCity Immersive Technologies Innovation Hub for his dramatic reconstruction of a year spent as a psychiatric inpatient across four hospitalisations. Based on Garth’s true story beginning at age 17, the reconstruction titled, The Ward Round, includes a video game, live show, “In The Round” (training for frontline staff), and “Full Circ...

PhD student Océane Pittet's shares her research into developing and evaluating an AI-driven interactive (chatbot) patient decision aid to improve symptom management in endometriosis. Pittet's unique research offered people with endometriosis disposable cameras to capture their experience. Having struggled with endometriosis herself, Pittet hopes the work will help others struggling with chronic co...

Part two of a special two-part seminar series exploring how accessibility and trauma-informed principles can improve the design, evaluation, and implementation of digital health technologies and research practices. Claire Dellar is the Lead Product Manager & Accessibility and Inclusive Design Strategist at NHS England, and founded Wheelchair Tango Foxtrot Consulting, where she campaigns for in...

Part one of a special two-part seminar series exploring how accessibility and trauma-informed principles can improve the design, evaluation, and implementation of digital health technologies and research practices. Claire Dellar is the Lead Product Manager & Accessibility and Inclusive Design Strategist at NHS England, and founded Wheelchair Tango Foxtrot Consulting, where she campaigns for in...

In this episode, Joseph Firth discusses the Remote Exercise and Lifestyle (REAL) Intervention for people with psychosis. Featured in numerous journals and science articles, the web library provides free access to a large library of pre-recorded workout videos available to do anywhere. Firth is currently leading the multi-million pound UKRI-funded project, which aims to implement a digital lifestyl...

What do implementing remote patient monitoring into the NHS and the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge have in common? In this episode, Professor of Health Informatics Sabine van der Veer takes us on a deep dive into REMORA, or, the Remote Monitoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis ( REMORA ) programme. The £2.1m research study funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) a...

Rob Foster is one of the founders of Caremixer, a Salford-based health tech start up. Previously a GP, Rob left the NHS in 2024, setting up Carebell with two clinicians. Carebell is a real-time digital communication platform providing universal accessibility that connects professionals, teams and patients across the health and care network to reduce the impact of fragmented care. At the time of th...

Dr Mahima Kalla is a Digital Health Research Fellow at the Digital Health Validitron at the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health the University of Melbourne. Kalla's work explores embedding equity considerations across the entire digital health innovation pipeline, from problem identification to implementation into routine clinical practice. In this seminar, Kalla discusses 'the Gold standa...

Lovisa Hellsten and Kyriaki Kosidou share their fascinating work on digital sexual and reproductive healthcare use among Swedish youth, which looks at patterns and predictors based on register-based data. Their talk offers rich insights into how young people in Stockholm engage with digital SRH services, what shapes access and equity, and how digital visits are being integrated within youth clinic...

Pritesh Mistry spoke to Marta Chmielowska about digital exclusion in health and social care. Pritesh is part of the The King's Fund's policy team. His work focuses on how digital tools and technologies can improve health and care across the system he is particularly passionate about using evidence-based digital technology as an enabler to improve quality, inequalities and outcomes. Click here to r...

After both of Louise Thompson's parents became ill with dementia, her journey led to the creation of MyFolks — an app designed to help families support their elderly loved ones with ease and dignity. In this episode, Louise talks to Marta Chmielowska about her inspiring app, which bridges the gap between health and social care and acts as a support system that aims to combat social isolation by us...

In this week's seminar, Dr Linda Mizun presents her transformative Disease-Reversing Neighbourhood Model, powered by the Hero of Health App. The goal: to build 10,000 Healing Neighbourhoods to tackle loneliness, chronic diseases, and health inequality, making them accessible to all. Simple. Scalable. Life-changing. Click here to register for upcoming Digital Health Research Seminars. Follow GM.Dig...