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DISCOVER UK Mid Term Conference: Digital Care Surgery – Innovating for Change

Date

17 Oct 2014

Event Location

United Kingdom

Event Description

Focus for the Day

This event will connect digital innovators with care professionals, public sector, universities and research institutions to look at new approaches to delivering and enhancing care provision 

  • Support greater collaboration from stakeholders across the healthcare and digital sectors to stimulate new ideas, thinking and business opportunities to transform care
  • Stretch the boundaries of user led digital innovation in the care sector market
  • Explore how technology can improve the care and wellbeing of individuals and the new business models needed to make it work
  • Provide knowledge sharing and networking to highlight the challenges and opportunities in the care sector

 Who should attend?

Care professionals, Local Authority and NHS Commissioners, social care associations, policy makers, third sector, academia, digital and creative innovators and entrepreneurs and businesses.

About

This digital care surgery is bringing together talented digital innovators, healthcare professionals, third sector and academia to stretch the boundaries of digital innovation in care. A knowledge sharing and networking opportunity, it will give you the chance to hear some fascinating insights on the disruptive nature of digital technologies and use of data to transform care and hear from practitioners at the forefront of what this looks like in practice. There will also be smaller working group sessions to look at some early innovations and business ideas, which will make the most of the audience’s specialised and user knowledge to help adapt, validate, challenge and refine these ideas through a Dragons Den style approach and in doing open eyes to new ways of doing things.

Join us for this unique event - where we do just that!

Context for the day
Technology is rapidly changing the world around us and our expectations; however it is still early days in realising the potential that digital has to transform care. To date attention has focused largely on telehealth and telecare and the use of devices such as personal alarms and health-monitoring equipment to raise alerts and monitor vital signs such as blood pressure and blood glucose levels. Less attention has been given to the use of technology and how online services can be made more purposeful to those with care responsibilities and for those that manage care at a professional level.

We believe that by enabling greater collaboration across different disciplines and sectors and inspriring people to do things differently, we will create a step change in ow we turn knoweldge into ideas and data into societal, technological and healthcare solutions - real customer oriented approaches to innovation to improve the future of care.

 

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