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What are the barriers to innovation in the healthcare sector?

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  • Session
  • Thursday, 31 May 2018
  • 10:31 - 10:31
  • Duration: 3 mins
  • Publication date: 16 Jul 2018
  • Location: Mountbatten, IET London: Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Creative and Smart Healthcare of the Future

About the session

Bringing a new medical product to market can be a challenging process for some innovators, who may face numerous obstacles when seeking to get their technology adopted.

Long lead times, the changing needs of users and strict regulation are just some examples of the barriers they can expect to face, which they need to be aware of before setting out on their journey. 

The IET spoke to several of the speakers at the recent Creative and Smart Healthcare of the Future event - co-organised by the University of Bradford, University of Lampung and IET Healthcare - about this topic.

In this video, these experts from UK academic institutions offer their thoughts on why some struggle to get their innovation into the healthcare system.

Keywords:
  • data
  • diabetes
  • healthcare
  • innovation
  • medical software
  • technology

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Speakers

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    Dr Sean Clarkson

    University of Leeds

  • CM

    Dr Clare Martin

    Oxford Brookes University

  • SE

    Dr Shirin Enshaeifar

    University of Surrey

    Dr. Shirin Enshaeifar is a Research Fellow in healthcare informatics and the deputy technical lead of the Technology Integrated Health Management (TIHM) project in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Surrey. She completed her PhD degree in biomedical signal processing and her MSc studies in medical imaging at the University of Surrey, in 2016 and 2013, respectively. Shirin’s research expertise include biomedical signal processing, machine learning and data analysis with application in technology-enabled health/care services and the Internet of Things (IoT).
  • Professor Tom Jefferies

    Professor Tom Jefferies

    Manchester School of Architecture, Head of Manchester School of Architecture, UK

    Professor Tom Jefferies is a fully qualified architect, prizewinning urban designer and Head of Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) msa.ac.uk. MSA is a large, diverse School students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. Currently ranked in the global top 10 by subject it operates within both Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester. Tom’s work connects academic and professional activity to develop new relationships between architecture, culture, space, landscape, heritage, sustainability, technology and health. He is interested in scale and the possibilities of trans-disciplinary collaboration that respects the importance of disciplinary identity. Tom’s research explores themes around understanding the limits of the contemporary city, for example, how do citizens use and define space? What are the forms, functions and possibilities of the physical, spatial and digital infrastructures and architectures that support urban activity? What is a SMART city and how does this support healthy communities? Tom co-leads the Infrastructure Space research atelier at MSA. Our projects map the functionality, productivity and capacity of infrastructures to understand how these interact with the demands of society. Critical representation of the interaction of use, need, material and immaterial (digital and organisational) infrastructures, helps reveal latent and potential cultural and societal opportunities for communities and the spatial forms needed to support them.
  • Professor Tom Jefferies

    Professor Tom Jefferies

    Manchester School of Architecture, Head of Manchester School of Architecture, UK

    Professor Tom Jefferies is a fully qualified architect, prizewinning urban designer and Head of Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) msa.ac.uk. MSA is a large, diverse School students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. Currently ranked in the global top 10 by subject it operates within both Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester. Tom’s work connects academic and professional activity to develop new relationships between architecture, culture, space, landscape, heritage, sustainability, technology and health. He is interested in scale and the possibilities of trans-disciplinary collaboration that respects the importance of disciplinary identity. Tom’s research explores themes around understanding the limits of the contemporary city, for example, how do citizens use and define space? What are the forms, functions and possibilities of the physical, spatial and digital infrastructures and architectures that support urban activity? What is a SMART city and how does this support healthy communities? Tom co-leads the Infrastructure Space research atelier at MSA. Our projects map the functionality, productivity and capacity of infrastructures to understand how these interact with the demands of society. Critical representation of the interaction of use, need, material and immaterial (digital and organisational) infrastructures, helps reveal latent and potential cultural and societal opportunities for communities and the spatial forms needed to support them.
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