Digital health & wellbeing: access specialist expertise
Expertise from LSBU’s Schools of Engineering and Applied Sciences
On the engineering/computer science side, expertise includes:
- Mobile Health Applications in mental health, wellbeing, healthy ageing, and illness prevention.
- Wearable healthcare technology.
- ‘Making hardware work with software’ – system integration.
- Requirements elicitation.
- Technical review.
- Testing (user testing, security testing, accessibility testing, etc.)
- System design.
- Training (depending on the needs of the client.)
- Electronics, sensors, and microcontrollers.
- Measurements and data analysis.
On the Applied Science side, expertise includes:
- Improving access for less advantaged groups.
- ‘Safer neighbourhoods’.
- Legislation and compliance, covering a wide range of topics (improving access for individuals eg to health, social support etc.)
- Ethics checklists and road maps to focus on support around suggested areas; experience type surveys, literature reviews, process reviews, secondary data analysis, and business best practices.
- Looking at small focus groups, with the view of not potentially going into small trials.
- Underdeveloped and underfunded areas such as mental health support with a focus on human resources and OHS, standard practices for businesses to include/factor.
- Virtual Reality.
Additionally, this programme works with five partner organisations to deliver one-to-one support across:
- Medical device regulations.
- Business models in digital health.
- Efficacy and safety of health technology products.
- Intellectual property.
- Preparing to raise funds.
- Understanding how to access the NHS.
