Member Groups

Digital Health

Overview

Building on unique opportunities in the NHS, academic institutions and third sector, the Digital Health Group works with national organisations to ensure the UK maximises opportunities for citizen health and economic wealth by investment in data-driven healthcare and creates a strong infrastructure and commercial environment to support development of the best HealthTech solutions.

Leadership
  • Chair - Dr Roberto Liddi, NuraLogix Corporation
  • Vice Chair - Anne Dreyer, Roche Diagnostics & Michael Shenouda, Open Medical
Achievements
  • Published White Paper on Digital Health Regulations to take an industry leadership position.
  • Established a Task and Finish group under the Accelerated Access Collaborative to address specific Digital Health market access issues.
  • Supported MPs to establish and provide ongoing secretariat support for an All Party Parliamentary group on Digital Health.
  • Provided industry input into a wide range of policy initiatives including:
    NICE Digital Assessment programme and Multi Agency Advice Service, NHSX, Digital Technology Assessment Criteria, Scottish Life Science Group, Health Data Research Uk Innovation Portal and the Office for Life Sciences Health Data Policy.
Priorities 

     1. Market Access

  • Highlight issues within the financial system that hinder adoption of digital health technologies and make formal recommendations, for changes and additions to assessment and reimbursement mechanisms.
    ABHI Paper: Health Digital Reimbursement

     2. Data

  • Ensure industry recommendations are incorporated in data strategies, policies and processes, focusing on streamlined IG process and the implementation of SDE programme.
    ABHI Paper: Health Data Access & Use

     3. Regulation

  • Work with relevant organisations and wider regulatory activities to get industry recommendations on regulation across product and data built into legislation and working processes. 
    ABHI Paper: Digital Health Regulation

     4. AI  

  • Work with health system, academia and third parties to establish processes, standards and guidelines to support development and deployment of AI technologies.

     5. Cyber Security

  • Share global best practice and develop ‘safe harbour’ forum to discuss threats and vulnerabilities.

Adoption

Leverage ‘Policy to Practice’ report to recommended changes required for the UK health and care system to rapidly and systematically adopt new technologies and the benefits to be gained for both NHS and UK economy.

Useful Resources

Click here to view the latest updates, minutes and future meeting dates for the group. 

#MonthlyBytes - ABHI's Monthly Newsletter  

Updates

Get Involved

To join the ABHI Digital Health group, contact andrew.davies@abhi.org.uk 

“Since the groups inception two years ago I have been proud to work with members to develop an active programme of work and engagement with external stakeholders. Focusing on three key areas of regulation, reimbursement and data access strategy, we have enabled members to interact with a wide range of external speakers and stakeholders, as well as share experiences between group members. We have clearly laid out positions on key topics which are disseminated through the broader platforms available via the ABHI interactions with government ministers, senior officials and NHS leaders. Digital HealthTech is one of the fastest growing sectors in the medical device world, working at the intersection between regulation, software technology, ethics and information governance, and it is imperative for the industry that all of those angles are covered adequately.”
Dr Roberto Liddi, Vice President, Sword Health & Chair, ABHI Digital Health

Contact

Andrew Davies
Executive Director, Digital Health