Our purpose is to turn great ideas into positive health impact

We believe that health is improved by great ideas, but great ideas only make an impact when they are put into practice. Our health is too important to leave to chance.

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Our year in review and what's next for Health Innovation East

Our latest impact review is now live. Find out how we have turned great ideas into positive impact throughout 2022/23 and discover what’s in store for 2023/24.

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Wearable tech device easing the symptoms of Parkinson’s

CUE1, a non-invasive, wearable device is helping to ‘bring back the smiles of people with Parkinson’s’.

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Bridging the Gap event - 25 March 2004, Cambridge

Unveiling, advancing and implementing cancer innovation – collaborate with experts from health and care, cancer research, SME’s, researchers, regulators and the third sector

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Health Innovation East is the new name for Eastern AHSN (from 1 October, 2023)

By providing services to meet the needs of all partners in the health and care sector Health Innovation East will continue turning great ideas into positive health impact.

Find out how we can help you

At Health Innovation East we help innovators navigate complex systems, generate value propositions and convene key stakeholders to realise the value of innovations quicker.

Understand how to navigate regulations and enable your innovation to deliver an impact

ARE YOU AN INNOVATOR?

Submit your ideas
Build connections with innovators to help develop solutions that meet patients' needs

DO YOU WORK FOR A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER?

Get involved and make a difference
Commercialise ideas, forge partnerships and connect with entrepreneurial schemes

ARE YOU AN ACADEMIC OR DO YOU WORK IN RESEARCH?

Get involved and make a difference
Help innovators develop solutions to meet your needs

ARE YOU A PATIENT OR A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC?

Tell us your ideas

Are you looking to partner with us?

We work in partnership with public and private organisations across the innovation landscape to deliver our common goal of improving patient care.

What does Health Innovation East do?

Health Innovation East turns great ideas into positive impact by bringing together all partners in the health sector to develop and deliver innovative care. We were established by the NHS and the Office for Life Sciences to work with academia, citizens, health services and industry to realise the value of innovations quicker. Our focus is in the East of England, but we are part of a national network that enables us to deliver at scale.

We convene

CONVENE

Citizens, academia, health services and industry will achieve more working together than they will in isolation.

We develop

DEVELOP

Health is improved by great ideas, but great ideas only make an impact when they are put into practice.

WE DELIVER

DELIVER

We deliver the national Health Innovation Network programmes and support the largest health and life sciences cluster in Europe, mobilising leaders and the community to embrace the future.

Our focus areas

We spend roughly half of our time on the adoption and spread of the national programmes delivered by the Health Innovation Network.

We spend the other half on areas of health consistent with the priorities set out in the NHS Long Term Plan and in the Eastern region and the areas where our region is best placed to make major advances. Following consultation across our region, we have defined four priority areas of greatest health need.

Mental health

Cancer

Rare diseases and personalised medicine

Living and ageing well

Priority enablers of change

The solutions to the key issues facing our health and care system will rely on three enabling areas:

The NHS workforce

Public and patient involvement

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Impact stories

Impact stories

Lumi Nova, a therapeutic digital intervention, is helping children to tackle their anxiety from home.

Lumi Nova

Created as an immersive mobile game, Lumi Nova uses two of the of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – psychoeducation and exposure therapy – to help children aged seven-12 years old facing difficulties with anxiety.

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Improving cold chain with BioPCM®- platform based Apollo™ Smart Panels

Apollo™ Smart Panels

Health Innovation East worked alongside Phase Change Solutions to evaluate the effectiveness of Apollo™ Smart Panels to help reduce cold chain breaches in primary care refrigeration.

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Preventing avoidable strokes with remote detection of atrial fibrillation.

Detecting atrial fibrillation remotely

Health Innovation East brokered a pilot of a new remote Atrial Fibrillation (AF) detection pathway in partnership with West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WSH).

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Innovation Ambassadors, co-funded by Health Innovation East, have championed innovation at Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust.

Building a culture of innovation

We co-funded the roles of two innovation ambassadors at CCS to foster and encourage innovation within the Trust.

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CUE1, a non-invasive, wearable device is helping to ‘bring back the smiles of people with Parkinson’s’.

Wearable tech device easing the symptoms of Parkinson’s

CUE1 has huge potential to improve the quality of life for people with Parkinson’s and Health Innovation East has been supporting Charco since April 2020, helping to support CUE1’s route-to-market journey.

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Neutrocheck®, at-home finger-prick blood test, will help identify patients at risk of a potentially fatal side-effect of chemotherapy.

Identifying a potentially life-threatening complication at home for cancer patients

Neutrocheck® is being developed by Cambridge MedTech start-up 52 North Health to enable people with symptoms to test for neutropenic sepsis at home.

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Upgrading the pager across West Suffolk Hospital

Improving operational efficiency with Medic Bleep

Medic Bleep is an app that allows hospital and community staff to communicate in real time, sharing vital information and updates about patients accurately and safely.

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