NHS England Medical Director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh along with US Digital Health expert Professor Robert Wachter will today (9 November 2016) reveal eight health innovations set to join the NHS Innovation Accelerator at an event taking place in London to launch year two of the programme.
Last year, the programme selected 17 innovations and supported their roll out across over 380 NHS organisations, benefiting millions of NHS patients.
Each of the innovations are evidence-based and cost-saving and focus on providing solutions to key challenges facing the NHS, including better prevention of ill health, improved management of long term conditions and early intervention into diseases.
One of the eight innovations selected to join the programme was the OBH Outcomes Platform. OBH have developed a population health analytics platform that measures ‘true’ health outcomes that matter to people and populations, in near real time. OBH supports commissioners, providers, and health and care systems to organise care around these priorities, measuring the resulting health outcomes. The key focus for OBH is to shift measurement and reimbursement away from solely treating illness. OBH Outcomes Platform allows providers to be rewarded for the number of complications, like heart attacks, strokes, amputations that haven’t happened in their populations, rather than just paying to treat the ones that do happen. This creates a reliable ‘pay-for-prevention’ currencies, in addition to payments for outcomes like improved quality of life, and supporting people to manage their own conditions.
The announcement has been welcomed by NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens, he said:
“Necessity is the mother of invention, and health care worldwide is now fizzing with smart innovation. In the NHS, we’re now taking practical action to develop and fast track these new techniques into mainstream patient care.”
The NHS Innovation Accelerator is led by NHS England, delivered in partnership with the country’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks (hosted by UCLPartners) who facilitate and support health innovators with getting their innovation rolled out across the NHS.
The accelerator aims to meet the commitment set out the Five Year Forward View to create the conditions and cultural change necessary for proven innovations to be adopted faster and more systematically through the NHS.
Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s National Medical Director, said:
“With rising demand and escalating costs, innovation is not an option but a necessity if we are to build a sustainable NHS. The innovations selected for this programme have the potential to deliver better value for the taxpayer whilst making patient interactions with the NHS safer and more personal.”
Speaking at the launch event via video link, Professor Robert Wachter, said:
“The work you are doing is extraordinarily important. I think it’s the only way that the NHS will be able to achieve the goals of the Five Year Forward View and even beyond that to develop a health care system for the people of England and the UK that delivers the best, highest quality, safest, most satisfying, accessible care for the lowest possible cost.”
Dr Liz Mear, Chair of the AHSN Network, said:
“The AHSN Network has huge expertise through its connections across the NHS, academia and industry to deliver innovation at scale across the country. We are delighted to work in partnership with the NHS Innovation Accelerator and look forward to supporting the new Fellows over the coming months as they work to scale their innovations for system and patient benefit.”
Dr Mahiben Maruthappu, NHS England’s Innovation Adviser, said:
“Innovation is key to a viable NHS. Following a record-breaking year that benefited millions of patients, the NHS Accelerator is now backing 8 ground-breaking innovations, with technologies that can slash mortality rates and save the NHS millions.”
Notes:
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) supports some of the best national and international healthcare innovators with evidence-based innovations to help improve health outcomes and give patients access to the latest products, services and technology at lower cost.
The NIA is an NHS England initiative hosted by UCLPartners in partnership with the country’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs). For more information, visit www.ahsnnetwork.com
For more information about the NHS Innovation Accelerator visit www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/nia
Information on each of the innovations and their creators is available at www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/nia/case-studies
Nasrin Hafezparast
Co-Founder and CTO Dr Nasrin Hafezparast is co-founder and CTO at OBH. She is dual trained in both Computer Science and Medicine, both at University College London. As a fully qualified medical doctor, she has experience working as a doctor in A&E, General Practice and Hospital Medicine in London. Nasrin has an entrepreneurial background and skill set. She is a Teaching Fellow and co-leads the healthcare pathway in the MSc Technology Entrepreneurship at UCL, and is an Advisory Board member of Reform, the independent think-tank. She was selected by Management Today as one of ’35 women under 35′, and selected as one of ‘Twenty women in data & tech’ by The Female Lead and Women in Tech. She spoke at TEDxTehran on ‘Breaking through the disease barrier’. In addition, her interest in technology led her to co-found a website design and development agency in 2004 where she explored the online tech space and continues to manage a successful online B2B venture today. Nasrin brings an invaluable combination of technology and healthcare experience to OBH’s technical and process work on outcomes measurement. She has an extensive understanding and background in clinical and health datasets, and patient-reported data. Harvard Business School Value-Based Healthcare Delivery alumnus.
