{"id":88448,"date":"2018-01-29T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a3509c25b67ce6481891d84283fd0be7"},"modified":"2018-01-29T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T10:30:08","slug":"news-story-improving-health-through-digital-innovations-apply-for-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=88448","title":{"rendered":"News story: Improving health through digital innovations: apply for funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK has up to \u00a38 million to invest in new technologies through the digital health technology catalyst.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"addressing-priority-areas-for-health-services\">Addressing priority areas for health services<\/h2>\n<p>The catalyst was set up under the government\u2019s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund to address challenges around the development of digital health innovations. Digital technology is seen as a significant opportunity to improve outcomes for patients and at a lower cost.<\/p>\n<p>Projects could be in a number of priority areas for health services. This includes cancer diagnosis and treatment, mental health services, diabetes reduction, emergency care provision, management of primary care workload and enabling patient choice.<\/p>\n<p>They could also include health services to maintain or improve care while reducing costs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-joint-research-and-innovation\">Find out more about the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"a-range-of-technologies-could-attract-funding\">A range of technologies could attract funding<\/h2>\n<p>We expect to fund projects across a range of technologies including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>virtual and augmented reality<\/li>\n<li>artificial intelligence and machine learning<\/li>\n<li>use of sensors, internet of things, and networks<\/li>\n<li>informatics, data analytics and process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They could help:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>clinical decision-making<\/li>\n<li>patients with their treatments<\/li>\n<li>improve disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and long-term care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-health-and-life-sciences\">Find out more about how Innovate UK supports business innovation in health and life sciences.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 15 February 2018, and the deadline is at midday on 18 April 2018<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by an SME working with at least one partner<\/li>\n<li>we expect projects to range in size between \u00a3300,000 and \u00a31 million and to last up to 30 months<\/li>\n<li>businesses could attract up to 70% of their project costs<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event takes place on 20 February 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/110\/overview\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses can apply for a share of up to \u00a38 million to improve healthcare or reduce costs for health services, under the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}