Digital Health and Medical Imaging
Digital transformation of health remains a priority for UK policy and strategy, such as the NHS long term plan, the Topol review and priorities around recovery to support the health and social care system after the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital applications provide new and sustainable ways of building capacity and capability in public health and social care systems, improving the lives of people with long-term conditions and bringing applied research to underserved communities with major health needs and provides opportunities for different ways of working, inclusivity and reducing health inequalities. Our work in this area involves includes transdisciplinary collaborations across the health and social care professions, information science and digital and social media to improve access to health and social care information to enable and support people to manage their own health, working with teaching colleagues to provide innovative programmes of digital education to improve the digital skills of the healthcare workforce and the optimisation of medical imaging technologies to improve the technical and physical aspects of imaging as well as patient care and staff experience.
Funding in this area has been received from NIHR, Health Education England, Salford Clinical Commissioning Group, NHS X and Kidney Care UK.
To see PGRs that fall under this theme, please click here.
Leads
