Medtech firm selected to join national scale up programme
Digital health and remote patient monitoring firm Inhealthcare has been selected to be part of a national firm’s scale up programme.
Pfizer announced that the Harrogate-based company was one of three firms to be selected as part of the Pfizer Healthcare Hub: London.
The winners will have access to Pfizer’s network of partners, and can now begin to scope how they will use their respective grants over the next 12 months. Inhealthcare enables the NHS to deliver more care outside of hospitals to reduce pressures on overstretched NHS services. It works with numerous healthcare organisations across the UK.
Bryn Sage, chief executive of Inhealthcare, said: ““We are very excited to be building our presence in the capital with Pfizer and we look forward to getting started with the programme. We are developing great momentum with a number of big new contract wins and strategic partnerships with both public and private sector health and social care organisations.
“We’re passionate about keeping people out of hospital; scaling our technology will help us to transform the health and care service and allow more people to be cared for on-the-go.”
Inhealthcare has developed a digital toolkit to help clinical teams build their own digital health services for any area of care at scale, speed and low cost. It has worked with clinicians to build a library of more than 50 services to support long-term conditions including heart disease, lung disease, hypertension, diabetes, undernutrition and smoking cessation.
Recent projects that Inhealthace has been involved with include Digital Care Home, a pilot scheme in Sheffield looking at a new model of collaborative working between health and care services in one of seven test beds; Health Call – a collaboration of six trusts in the North East of England and Inhealthcare; in Hull, the roll out of a remote monitoring service for COPD and heart failure patients across Hull.
The chosen start-ups were selected by a panel of Pfizer UK leaders and invited judges, including Vice President of the University of Swansea, Prof. Marc Clement and Chief Clinical Information Officer at Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Dr Luke Gompels.
Pfizer UK employs around 2,500 people in four locations working across our commercial business, research and development (R&D) and manufacturing, packaging and distribution.
Dr Hamish Graham, Pfizer Healthcare Hub: London Manager, said: “The broad array of innovative technology presented to us by the different start-ups at the pitch day was a real privilege to see. The three winners really stood out due to their ability to show the impact of the technology on the healthcare service and the lives of patients. We are looking forward to collaborating on some exciting projects in the next 12 months to help bring the benefits of their technology to more patients in the UK.”
