Innovations in Health and Social care - Challenges and Opportunities

Dear health and healthcare Innovators,

Time for another of our Quarterly Meet and Networking event -

This time we discuss around the contentious topic of 'Adopting Innovation in health and social care'. Healthcare and social care are complex systems hence there cannot be a formulaic method of innovation and adopting inovation in such a complex setting. This throws up myriad of challenges but also plentiful of opportunities provided we are ready for 'out of the box' thinking and less dependent on mechanistic and coercive approaches.

We are privileged to have Andrew Fowlie from the Health and Care Innovations, Scottish Government who shall provide the keynote for discussions and demos to follow.

Speaker

Andrew Fowlie, Health and Care Innovations, Scottish Government

Talk title: “challenges and opportunities of adopting new innovations into health and social care.”

Andrew is an executive in the Scottish Health and Social Care Service.
He works for the Scottish Government's Health and Social Care Innovation Team with a focus on bringing new health and social care innovations into the National Health Service and Social Care. Andrew helps to leverage exponential change in mobile computing, digital manufacturing, robotics, artificial intelligence, networks & sensors and systems biology, while supporting convergence of activity in these areas through proactive collaboration between industry, academia and the NHS. He is engaging with international experts to resolve known local challenges and find future solutions through creative collaborations.

Andrew has a strong association with Life Sciences and economic development in Scotland aligning closely with European and Global interests, and a national role in bringing exponentially changing health innovations into the Scottish market.

He has worked in senior positions in Social Work Management, the Third Sector, Education and extensively in Health Care Executive management in the NHS. Andrew has set up several new organisations and led the development of new care models to meet changing health and social care need.

Demos

• Steven Wexelstein, COO Planys Cloud shall demo 'Click Go - Innovation in Self Directed Support' - an award winning online care system that revolutionises the way care provision is delivered

Steven is a proven senior technologist with 18 years experience, working in both technical and operational roles within a variety of sectors including gaming, banking, telecoms and internet of things. Steven is currently COO and Founding Director at Planys Cloud and Director of Click Go Ltd. Planys Cloud are an employee-owned digital product and services company based in Dunfermline who have produced award-winning products such as Real Rider - the only NHS approved crash detection system for motorcyclists and Click Go. Click Go is a Google award-winning digital product for the implementation of Self Directed Support, having been developed in a unique and innovative partnership between Planys Cloud and Carr Gomm, a large Edinburgh based Care Service Provider.

• Susanne Mitschke, CEO & Founder, MindMate Ltd shall demo “MindMate - world's fastest-growing Alzheimer's platform.”

Susanne did her Bachelor degree in Business and Economics at the renowned Vienna University of Economics and Business. During her studies and her gap year she worked in different positions part- but also full-time and had the chance to experience different industries and positions. Amongst others, Susanne worked as a consultant for PwC, but also gained start-up experience, in two totally different young, but high-growth companies.

During her MSc. in International Management & Leadership at Glasgow University, Susanne started with three Co-Founders MindMate in March 2015. MindMate offers a platform to assist people with dementia, their carers and family-members to better manage the condition. The team won several awards in the past (in Scotland, the UK, but also internationally) and participated from September 2015 to December 2015 in the leading tech-accelerator ignite100. MindMate launched in November 2015 and recorded end of February more than 15,000 ACTIVE USERS. Apart from private users, MindMate is also being used in the NHS Trusts Glasgow & Sheffield, plus in several care homes in the UK and USA.

Space is limited to maximum of 60 so please hurry up!

Location of Bioquarter Nine: https://goo.gl/maps/6GD4Lmr36aP2

Programme -

6.00 pm - Arrival

6.00 to 6.30 pm - Sign-up and drinks

6.30 to 6.45 pm - Welcome and Health 2.0 Updates

6.50 to 7pm - Keynote by Andrew Fowlie

7.05 to 7.20pm - Demos

7.20 to 7.40pm - Q&A, Discussions

7.40 owards - Food and Networking

Yours in Health,
The Health 2.0 Edinburgh Team

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