Benefits, Facilitators, and Recommendations for Digital Health Academic-Industry Collaboration: A Mini Review

Benefits, Facilitators, and Recommendations for Digital Health Academic-Industry Collaboration: A Mini Review
Frontiers in Digital Health, 15 April 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.616278

• A literature review examining benefits and facilitators of academic-industry collaboration with recommendations specific to digital health.

How to make good group decisions: Simple tips to help organisations become more collectively intelligent

How to make good group decisions: Simple tips to help organisations become more collectively intelligent
NESTA 9 April 2021

• This report brings together simple, accessible tips to help organisations become more collectively intelligent and make better group decisions. From idea generation to evaluation, it describes how each stage of the decision making process can be optimised to make the most of the skills in the team and beyond.

National Centre for Creative Health

National Centre for Creative Health

• The National Centre for Creative Health  (NCCH) will advance good practice and research, inform policy and promote collaboration, helping foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and social care and wider systems.
• It was formed in response to the Creative Health report, the result of a two-year inquiry led by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing. 
• NCCH priorities are: health inequalities; advancing good practice and research; informing policy; and promoting collaboration. NCCH are working with to create place-based ‘Hubs’, develop partnership and collaboration ‘Hives’ and co-produce creative learning in ‘Huddles’. 
• Evaluation of activities will be based on the NCCH Theory of Change.

Centre for Improving Data Collaboration

Centre for Improving Data Collaboration
NHSX November 2020

• The Centre for Improving Data Collaboration is a new business unit within NHSX which has been created to support the health and social care sector to enter into data-sharing partnerships that benefit the NHS, patients and the public. Main areas of focus
• Realising the value of health data assets
• Providing support and enhancing capability
• Catalysing thought leadership
• Working with key stakeholders
• See blog Matthew Gould (Chief Executive, NHSX)

The effects of interoperable information technology networks on patient safety: a realist synthesis.

The effects of interoperable information technology networks on patient safety: a realist synthesis.
Health Serv Deliv Res 2020;8(40)

• Literature searches for three problems that the networks might help to solve: (1) co-ordinating services for older people living at home, (2) ensuring that older people who are prescribed medicines by more than one organisation take the right ones and (3) preventing children who are considered as being at risk coming to harm. 
• There was good evidence in all three searches that there are problems with the co-ordination of services. Similarly, there was evidence in all three searches that professionals find networks difficult to use. But very little evidence about the effects of interoperable networks on patient safety.

Providers Deliver: Resilient And Resourceful Through COVID-19

Providers Deliver: Resilient And Resourceful Through COVID-19
NHS Providers October 2020

• Eight examples of ideas put into action by providers to combat the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Themes include staff empowerment, innovation, and development of new partners.

Skills for collaborative change: a map and user guide

Skills for collaborative change: a map and user guide
Q Health 29 September 2020

• A practical tool setting out the skills and attitudes needed for collaborative and creative problem-solving. he map and user guide is designed to support individuals and teams to have meaningful conversations about what it takes to do collaboration well and how to use those skills in practice.

Competencies to promote collaboration between primary and secondary care doctors: an integrative review.

Competencies to promote collaboration between primary and secondary care doctors: an integrative review.
BMC Fam Pract 21, 179 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01234-6

• A literature review identified six themes regarding collaborative competencies between primary and secondary care doctors: ‘patient-centred care: a common concern’, ‘roles and responsibilities’, ‘mutual knowledge and understanding’, ‘collaborative attitude and respect’, ‘communication’ and ‘leadership’.. The results show that doctors play an important role, not only in the way they collaborate in individual patient care, but also in how they help shaping organisational preconditions for collaboration.

Technology Innovation Transforming Child Health (TITCH) network

TITCH network

• The Technology Innovation Transforming Child Health (TITCH) network was created in 2014 to bring together industry, healthcare, and industry to work collaboratively to support growth of child health technology by offering scalable opportunities to industry.
• The TITCH network focuses on identifying and validating unmet needs and ideas for innovation in child health. The four main stages in their innovation pathway are identify, submit, validate and outcome.

CRUK Open Lab Initiative

CRUK Open Lab Initiative
CRUK

• The CRUK Open Lab Initiative is a digital tool which connects research groups with shared interests to generate new collaborations and spark discussions. The pilot phase, which launched in April 2020, successfully paired over 50 research groups.
• The tool is now available to researchers across the UK, enabling virtual meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. 

Understanding and investing in healthcare innovation and collaboration.

Understanding and investing in healthcare innovation and collaboration.

Journal of health organization and management 34(4), 2020, p.469-487.

• Based on interviews with 15 clinical, academic and executive leads at a large metropolitan tertiary care hospital with an academic health services portfolio this research looks at the partnership between clinicians and academics who work together to provide high-quality care alongside research and innovation. It identifies challenges and productive conditions for innovation and collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams.

SWITCH - South West Interdisciplinary Technology Consortium for Health and care

SWITCH - South West Interdisciplinary Technology Consortium for Health and care
https://www.switchecosystem.uk/ (Launched July 2019?)

• "SWITCH ecosystem is an interdisciplinary cross-sector consortium, including NHS partners, industry partners, health and social care organisations and patient groups, set-up to enable greater connection and collaboration across the South West of England. The SWITCH ecosystem will seek to incubate, accelerate, embed and export innovative technology solutions in health and care, coalescing around internationally-recognised technologies and data standards."

Improving the scrutiny of integrated care systems and sustainability and transformation partnerships: A guide to good practice
NHS Confederation 6 February 2020

• This guidance aims to help scrutiny leads and communications and engagement directors within ICSs and STPs to understand how they might work more effectively together to produce a relationship that works in the best interests of local partnerships and communities.
• The paper covers:
• The experiences of scrutiny leads and their supporting officers in engaging with ICSs and STPs to date.
• The steps that ICSs and STPs could take to improve these relationships.
• The way that the role of health scrutiny might evolve to support the move to whole system partnership thinking.

Innovation Brokerage Enabling collaborations through emerging digital tech

Innovation Brokerage: Enabling collaborations through emerging digital tech
NESTA February 2020

• This report examines the phenomenon of ‘digital innovation brokerage’ that aims to connect ideas, people, organisations, and communities through digital technologies.
• The research identified four phases for innovation brokerage:
• In the Prepare phase, the broker helps innovators understand what they are looking for.
• In the Search phase, the broker helps innovators find what they are looking for.
• In the Align phase, the broker helps innovators establish trust and align their motives, culture, and working practices so they can collaborate effectively.
• In the Support phase, the broker supports the innovators to make the relationship a success in the long run.

Logic model framework for considering the inputs, processes and outcomes of a healthcare organisation–research partnership

Logic model framework for considering the inputs, processes and outcomes of a healthcare organisation–research partnership
BMJ Quality & Safety 11 December 2019. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2019-010059

• Using a logic model framework this article describes how a healthcare organisation–university-based research partnership was developed and used to design, develop and implement a practice-integrated decision support tool for patients with a physician recommendation for colorectal cancer screening.

Stratified Medicine Innovation Centre Scotland

Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre

• SMS-IC brings together industry innovators, clinicians and world-class researchers to collaborate on stratified medicine opportunities. 
• "We integrate world-class innovation services, NGS and biomedical R&D to accelerate translational research and the adoption of precision medicine in healthcare."

How can 5G support the transformation of health and social care services?

How can 5G support the transformation of health and social care services?
techUK, Liverpool 5G Testbed July 2019

• This joint report highlights how 5G can support the transformation of future healthcare applications and services. Building on the experiences of the Liverpool 5G testbed, the report highlights how 5G can benefit the sector; from transforming some ways patients interact with their own healthcare management, to enabling healthcare professionals to remotely monitor patients.
• The report contains six recommendations to Government on how to effectively harness 5G in health and social care:
• 1. Accelerate the deployment of 5G to the majority of the country, enabling UK consumers and businesses to take early advantage of the benefits.
• 2. Support the uptake of digital health tools to the general public by a) utilising government data and communication channels to promote the benefits of digital health tools and b) reviewing how the personal budgets programme could better support the uptake of personal digital technology.
• 3. Foster knowledge exchange between DCMS and the Department of Health and Social Care to embed knowledge, experience and expertise on the potential of 5G into the newly formed NHSX.
• 4. Ensure that the new NHS England app allows the public to access data beyond that held in primary care – and promote the ability to do so.
• 5. Provide health and social care professionals in the community with 5G technology, particularly in rural areas with limited health and social care provision, where consumer options for getting online are also limited.
• 6. Ensure the NHS can capitalise on developments in AI, Genomics, 5G, and Blockchain technology.
• Led by Sensor City, the project includes Blu Wireless Technology, AIMES, DefProc, CGA Simulation, Liverpool City Council, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust (RLBUHT), University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University and the eHealth Cluster.
• 5G Testhbed programme, 
• 5G Testbed Programme update (July 2019)
• Press: Digital Health

Instruments measuring interprofessional collaboration in healthcare – a scoping review

Instruments measuring interprofessional collaboration in healthcare – a scoping review
Journal of Interprofessional Care, 23 July 2019, DOI: 10.1080/13561820.2019.1637336

• A literature review identified 29 instruments measuring interprofessional collaboration.

Utilising social media to educate and inform about evidence-based healthcare

Utilising social media to educate and inform healthcare professionals, policy-makers and the broader community in evidence-based healthcare
BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 22 May 2019;24:87–89

• The ability to objectively determine the impact of social media on knowledge translation is challenging. However, there are ways to assess the quality of social media research, the quality of social media modalities such as blogs and podcasts and the potential impact of social media on dissemination of knowledge.
• Social media use... is associated with the development of communities of practice that promote the transfer of information at scale, crossing institutional and geographical boundaries not previously possible. These forums also allow shared conversations around critical appraisal of new evidence that is transparent and accessible to users.
• NOECO - a framework for reporting research in healthcare social media
• Network eg twitter
• Object eg hastags or post sentiment analysis
• Engine eg symplur or semantria
• Comparison eg regular distribution vs clustering in twitter
• Observation eg twitter users clustered around few noted or sentiment in a community changed after an event

Getting started with collaboration: A framework for joint action

Getting started with collaboration: A framework for joint action
Institute for Voluntary Action Research, April 2019

• Individuals and organisations can experience practical difficulties when trying to work collaboratively with voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations (VCSEs) – particularly when that work crosses sector, as well as organisational, boundaries. This framework is for individuals and organisations who are setting out on new collaborative ventures.