Digital Health Hub

The King’s Health Partners Digital Health Academy offers resources to equip digital innovators to develop and deploy digital health solutions.

We offer asynchronous and hybrid modules, resources and workshops, ranging from core data science to co-creation and entrepreneurship, where learners can create their own bespoke training experience in digital health.

For training currently available, please visit the Digital Health Training website.

Co-design – the process of creating and developing a product or service in ongoing collaboration with all those involved in its use – can be a highly effective way to improve digital health and care, as well as business outcomes. The Hub offers four free resources to support co-design for digital health: 

• An online course, Co-design for Digital Health (6 X 20 minute recorded sessions with follow-up questions. The course can be completed in your own time). 
• An online Co-design Methods Library (‘how to’ information on co-design methods and tools to complement the course).  
• One-to-one advice sessions (30-minute online sessions which offer a space to explore any co-design-related aspects of your digital health project with our design researchers. This can include (but is not limited to) planning, selecting, and facilitating co-design methods in your project; ways to engage and work with end users; and signposting to relevant co-design resources).  
• Taster co-design methods workshops (2-hour sessions – some in person, and some online – which introduce individual design methods, and offer case studies, practical tips, and activities to support their use). 

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Our Translational Support Service, in collaboration with the London AI Centre, offers an HRA-approved ethical and technical framework to expedite data access, crucial for rapid digital health advancements.

The Hub will support the enhancement of AI model development and training, ensuring robust solutions suitable for varied healthcare applications. It streamlines clinical validation and deployment processes, reducing time from idea to actionable data while improving data quality.

Two platforms are central to these processes:

The Federated Learning and Interoperability Platform (FLIP):

• standardises data across NHS trusts;
• facilitates AI training without centralising sensitive information, thus ensuring privacy.

The AI Deployment Engine (AIDE):

• integrates AI models with healthcare records for deployment in clinical settings;
• aligns with clinical workflows to promote technology adoption.

The Hub connects the digital health community to the London AI Centre’s resources. It covers the full digital health algorithm development lifecycle, guaranteeing solutions are practical, scalable, and ready to be used by clinicians.

All companies joining our Hub will benefit from our extensive entrepreneurship support. Our unique acceleration programme offers companies access to training and support from Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs and Health Technology Assessment experts.

The programmes will be delivered in the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE), on the St Thomas’ Hospital campus. LIHE has been designed to facilitate the translation of medical devices to market collocating academics, clinicians, startups, experts, and industry partners, to naturally foster collaboration.

• King’s College London (lead)
• South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
• King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

NHS Trusts

• University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust;
• East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust;
• Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

Industry

• Proximie;
• AINOSTICS Limited;
• Arjuna Technologies
• British Telecommunications PLC;
• CMR Surgical;
• Elaitra Ltd;
• iPrescribe Exercise Digital Ltd (EXi);
• FITFILE;
• GSK;
• Hypervision Surgical Ltd;
• IBM
• Innersight Labs Ltd;
• Mayden;
• Medtronic;
• Sosei Heptares;
• Siemens Healthineers;
• Owkin;
• UCB Biopharma UK;
• deepc;
• AstraZeneca;
• Nvidia.

Other organisations

• The British Association of Social Work (BASW);
• NIHR Cross-ARC Applied Health Informatics Network;
• MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences;
• Monash Partners;
• Patient Coalition for AI, Data and Digital Tech in Health;
• Science and Engineering Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA);
• Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London.

In line with our emphasis on co-designing digital health technologies, the work of the Hub itself is shaped and guided by our Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement group (PPIE). The group feeds into all four pillars of the Hub, from contributing to the design of online training modules, to developing and co-facilitating workshops, to advising on our forthcoming accelerator programme. They are ‘experts by experience’ and bring this knowledge, along with their wealth of experience from PPIE work on other projects, to the KHP Digital Health Hub.  

If you are interested in being part of this group, please contact Annie Howitt (PPIE Officer) for more information: annie.howitt@kcl.ac.uk.