Information Governance
Defining new guidance for data sharing and challenge the statutory sector to improve interoperability and data sharing between consumer and statutory sectors for continuity of care and assisted living purposes.
Medical Apps
Developing a freely-available road map from app coding through to patient use, to inform developers, GPs, and patients on key issues. Promoting the DHACA case for NICE’s remit to be enlarged to include medical software.
Self Care
Developing a strategy to ensure maximum adoption of self-care services by those people who could benefit from self-care, encouraging new innovations at scale within a local economy and connected to national initiatives.
Healthcare Education
Exploring ways to support the training of healthcare professionals to use innovative digital technologies in their workflows and professional relationships with patients.
Reference Architecture
Developing a common technical framework for interoperable digital health and care ecosystems, for stakeholders to develop systems, components and APIs that interconnect according to business requirements with minimal technical barriers.
Economics and Business Modelling
Providing emerging digital health and care service entrants with an understanding of the landscape & market architecture to large-scale, sustainable consumer businesses, and the required business opportunities & partnerships.
Benefits and Values
Measure and demonstrate the effectiveness and benefits a digital health and care system, to justify investments. Measuring more than just cost-avoidance, and do justice to the scope, power and value of digital health and care systems.
Recent Posts
News, announcements, and opinion from DHACA
Late July 2021 newsletter: DHACA Day rides again, new sensors, IQVIA, ORCHA, GPDPR, £140m for AI and much, much more
Apologies for the delay in sending this out - being very short of cash, DHACA's attention has been diverted towards bidding for an interesting piece of work that would also benefit our members directly, as well. [...]
Mid July newsletter – ORCHA webinar, DHACA member survey, good reading, earn £60 having your say, UKCA headaches and much, much more
The main purpose of this newsletter is to remind you about our free webinar tomorrow (14th July) on ORCHA, app assessment and the future. However there's been so much interesting stuff come in the last [...]
Early July 2021 newsletter – Have your say on DHACA’s future, ORCHA webinar, AI, “back to normal”, funding, UN digital health jobs, and much, much more
Member engagement Survey As the most perceptive of you will have noticed from the odd comment from me, DHACA is going through a refresh, with a new logo and new website. As part of that [...]
End June 2021 newsletter – app assessment webinar, chips, wearables, Rory C-J, funding offers and much, much, more
Events and recordings Orcha, app assessment and the future 14th July Our next free webinar will be on Wednesday 14th July at 10am when Liz Ashall-Payne, CEO and Lloyd Humphreys, Managing Director, present on recent [...]
Early June newsletter – UK regulation, important funding news, soaring wearables, good and bad reports, expensive lessons and much, much more
I do hope you can join us next Wednesday for what will probably be our only webinar in June on the incredibly important issue of how UK regulation is developing following our departure from the [...]
Late May newsletter – Regulation news, lots of European funding opportunities, chips, drones, data privacy, vaccination super-swipes and much, much, more
Apologies for a larger-than-usual newsletter this week - ! hope you'll agree though that there's lots of important stuff in here. You need to understand medical device regulation basics! As I have said in many [...]