The East Region Health and Social Care Innovation Test Bed

Please join us at this informative and informal event to hear about the exciting innovation programme being developed for the East Region of Scotland, the success of which is fully dependent on the engagement of staff from across health and social care, working in collaboration with stakeholder partners, including academia and industry.

There will also be the opportunity for you at the seminar to engage in sharing with others your views on how to make the East Region a leading test bed site for innovation in Scotland, the UK and globally.  

Programme    
12.30 Welcome Professor Tim Walsh, NHS Lothian Director of R&D and Innovation
12.35 The East Region Strategic Plan for Innovation Professor Tim Walsh
12.45 Data Driven Innovation and the creation of a “Data Loch” Professor Nicholas L Mills, Chair of Cardiology and Consultant Cardiologist
13.00 Supporting Start Up companies to co-create solutions with health and social care Jamie Coleman, co-founder and chair of Codebase, Edinburgh
13.15 The challenges and opportunities in working with the NHS Craig Turpie, Director, Storm ID, Edinburgh
13.30 Panel Question and Answer session with the audience  
14.00 Close