This Connected Health Ecosystem event was held virtually on Monday 26th July and focused on several presentations given by a wide-variety of digital healthcare academics and experts from the Manchester area.
After an introduction provided by Ben Bridgewater from Health Innovation Manchester, Andy Bleaden of the ECH Alliance gave a short talk concerning the Alliance itself under the title: Connecting the dots across the rest of the 70 Ecosystems.
Andy Bleaden was followed by Jay Hamilton, Associate Director of Health & Implementation/Patient Safety Collaborative Lead, who provided the event with a talk surrounding the deployment of digital interventions in care homes in response to COVID-19.
Daniel Zamora, Commercial Programme Manager at Health Innovation Manchester, followed this with a presentation titled 'Support for companies in digital health and aging - R&I accelerator, SME voucher scheme and UKRI £12m healthy-ageing challenge'.
Dr Saima Ahmed of ARC then gave a talk under the title of 'Implementing a digital falls prevention and healthy ageing technology with older adults'.
This was followed by 'How the digital healthcare revolution leaves the most vulnerable behind' provided by Dr Omer Ali, Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Manchester.
Professor Chris Todd, Deputy Director of the Healthy Ageing Theme at NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester, concluded the sequence of presentations with a talk titled 'Falls prevention in a digital age: addressing the digital divide'.
After an hour and a half of engaging presentations, the event was drawn to a close with a 30-minute Q&A session amongst the speakers and attendees.
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