Three healthcare schemes to share £100,000 pot of funding
Three Manchester business and organisations involved in ground-breaking healthcare schemes will share almost £100,000 of funding.
Health Innovation Manchester has awarded the funding to three businesses to help them accelerate their digital healthcare solutions.
The projects granted a share of the funding include; IT technology to support patients at high risk of complex wounds; an app to increase exercise and prevent falls amongst older people and a digital platform to reduce the rate of obesity in children.
Ben Bridgewater, Chief Executive of Health Innovation Manchester, said: “In order to transform health and social care to meet the demands of citizens it is vital that innovative digital products are brought to market quickly and efficiently.
“The projects given funding are perfect examples of the digital innovations being produced and developed on our doorstep in Greater Manchester to meet the needs of local people and patients.”
Funding was awarded to The University of Manchester to investigate the health benefits of an exercise and health literacy app for older people.
The “Keep-On-Keep-Up” app is aimed at people living in sheltered housing who have a range of long term health conditions, such as diabetes and arthritis, that increase their risk of functional decline, falls and hospital visits.
The funding will also help to set up a Community Interest Company, between the University of Manchester, Reason Digital and New Charter Housing Trust, to enable the technology to be ready for market.
Funding has also been awarded to Manchester-based software consultancy MDSAS so their IT platforms (ERIC – Electronic Referral Integrated Care System and SiD App – Secure Image Data) can be used to transform the treatment of patients with complex wounds, such as those experienced by people with diabetes.
The project will be delivered by a highly experienced team, with MDSAS adapting IT platforms for use in wound management.
Manchester-based iQ Digital Health has also received funding to help combat child obesity through the development of an innovative digital platform with Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
The award will allow the continued development of NHS Children’s Health and Monitoring Platform (CHAMP), to reduce obesity in children and young people through data feedback.
Statistics from the 2016/2017 National Child Measurement Programme found that more than a third of children in Greater Manchester were classed as overweight or obese by the time they left primary school.
