Great ideas only make a difference for our health when they are put into practice.

At Health Innovation East we help the best innovations in health and care reach the people, places and problems where they bring most benefit.

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Our year in review - our 2024/25 Impact Review

Our latest impact review is now live. Find out how we have helped great ideas reach the people, places and problems where they will bring most benefit throughout 2024/25

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Giving preterm infants the best start in life

Find out how we are helping to give babies who are born prematurely the best chance of survival and quality of life

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Improving cancer detection with AI

Read how C the Signs is driving faster, earlier, and more accurate cancer detection

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We are the innovation arm of the NHS in the East of England.

Our team of clinicians, clinical scientists, commercial and NHS experts works with pioneering start-ups, universities, global corporates and the NHS to ensure that the best innovations in health and care reach the people and places where they deliver the most benefit. We also have a growing team of specialist programme managers, experts in real world evidence and data scientists who can support you in the specialist work increasingly needed to deliver today’s world of technology-enabled patient care.

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CONNECT

We bring together the right people to create the conditions for innovation. We share diverse perspectives and build lasting partnerships.

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ACCELERATE

We advance ideas within complex health systems and make change happen at pace using evidence.

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DELIVER

We introduce the best innovations in health and care, working alongside clinicians and staff, to deliver benefits to patients.

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At Health Innovation East we deliver meaningful change across health and care by supporting individual projects and large complex programmes from initial concept through to implementation.

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We work in partnership with public and private organisations across the innovation landscape to deliver our common goal of improving patient care.

Impact stories

Impact stories

TidalSense’s stellar 2024 sees regulatory approval, ICS adoption and significant funding.

Accelerating COPD detection

Cambridge-based respiratory diagnostic technology company, TidalSense, have developed N-Diagnose – a point of care diagnostic medical device – that can be used to diagnose patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Over the last 12-months the TidalSense team made significant progress towards widespread adoption in the NHS, including N-Tidal Diagnose receiving regulatory approval – CE-marked class 2a, under EU Medical Device regulations.

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Delivering better mental wellbeing globally

Exploring the future of mental health: Tend VR – mindfulness based cognitive therapy

Tend VR provides a novel way to deliver Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), a NICE recommended therapy for depression. Via a virtual reality headset, the innovation delivers clinically reliable improvements at a time and a place of a service user’s choosing, without the need for a one-to-one therapist or group facilitator.

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Improving how children and young people take medication for epilepsy

The MAPE project

Health Innovation East led a five-stage project to determine barriers and enables to improve medication adherence for children and young people with epilepsy.

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Seeking to understand how incidents happen to encourage effective learning and improvement and ultimately safer care for patients.

Improving patient safety following serious incidents

Health Innovation East’s Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) has successfully supported NHS organisations with a new system-based approach to implement learning and improvement.

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Strolll is bringing seamless immersive therapy into the homes of patients with neurological conditions.

Improving access to high-impact neurorehabilitation

Strolll’s Reality DTx® solution facilitates safe, engaging rehab at home, using augmented reality (AR) glasses. The AR glasses have see-through lenses which ensures the real world remains visible and the content blends seamlessly to the physical space, enabling clinicians to deliver high-impact immersive therapy.

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