King's Health Partners Digital Health Hub

数字健康技术可以对患者的治疗、管理和护理结果产生积极的影响。改善数字服务以及数据的共享和使用也将节省时间和资源，以便工作人员能够更好地专注于提供医疗和社会护理。这类技术的例子包括通过智能手机收集的数据。例如，大流行期间使用的Zoe CoVID症状研究App是由伦敦国王学院联合开发的，目前拥有400多万用户。其他数字技术包括可穿戴设备，它可以帮助监测心率、活动和睡眠，并远程评估和帮助管理各种情况。例如，由King‘s领导的GB 23M创新药物倡议雷达-CNS已率先将其用于抑郁症、多发性硬化症和癫痫。我们的目标是促进新数字技术的发展，并减少这些技术造福患者护理所需的时间。国王的健康伙伴(KHP)数字健康中心将通过帮助研究人员、卫生和社会护理人员、患者和行业更好地合作来做到这一点。我们还希望通过提供支持，在全国范围内增加此类技术的可用性，使新企业能够迅速发展，从而对患者的生活产生更直接的影响。数字健康技术具有巨大的潜力，但其广泛使用受到以下限制：-缺乏关于临床医生、学者、工程师、质量保证专家、健康经济学家、患者和最终用户如何在不同群体之间的特定培训和知识缺口期间最好地合作的例子：-学术和行业技术人员可能难以理解NHS系统，并且无法与他们试图开发的技术的最终用户，如医疗保健提供者、患者和护理人员接触。他们可能不知道或不理解在这些技术可以用于临床实践之前需要遵循的复杂的调控途径。-临床专家可能缺乏适当的技术技能，如数据分析、编码和编程语言，以帮助他们开发他们认为对患者有帮助的数字应用程序。KHP数字健康中心将帮助克服在全国范围内快速开发和使用数字技术的障碍。它将是一个可访问的“生态系统”，由来自不同部门的专家共同努力，以提高对数字技术的理解和使用，并解决政府在医疗和社会保健方面的长期目标。我们将与我们的合作伙伴一起，将数字健康研究社区与伦敦的大量投资机会以及我们多样化和世界领先的医疗研究环境联系起来。我们汇集了来自KHP各地的丰富专业知识，包括伦敦国王学院及其合作伙伴NHS Trusts、患者和行业合作者，以提供支持和培训，并为加快英国各地的数字健康创造机会。KHP包括七家心理健康和身体保健医院和许多社区网站，每年约有480万名患者接触，年营业额超过37亿GB。KHP数字健康中心将提供：-经过验证的专业知识、基础设施和共同创建和商业化的经验-三方临床、学术和行业合作伙伴-技术开发人员可以协作的物理位置，以及-良好的培训记录，将提供给我们医疗和社会保健部门的所有合作伙伴。随着正确的支持和网络的到位，数字医疗技术将有能力改变整个英国的患者护理和体验。知识和专业知识都在那里，我们可以共同确保在前进的每一步都能共享、转化和建立这些知识和专长。

Digital Health technologies can make a positive difference to the outcomes of patient treatment, management and care. Improving digital services and the sharing and use of data will also save time and resources so that staff can better focus on delivering medical and social care. Examples of such technologies include data collected through smartphones. For example, the ZOE COVID Symptom Study App used during the pandemic was jointly developed by King's College London, and now has more than four million users. Other digital technologies include wearable devices which can help monitor heart rate, activity and sleep and remotely assess and help manage a wide range of conditions. For example, the £23M Innovative Medicines Initiative RADAR-CNS led by King's has pioneered their use in depression, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy.Our aim is to enable the development of new digital technologies and reduce the time it takes for these to benefit patient care. The King's Health Partner (KHP) Digital Health Hub will do this by helping researchers, health and social care staff, patients and industry to work together better. We also hope to increase the availability of such technologies nationally by offering support to enable new businesses to grow rapidly, thereby making a more immediate difference to patients' lives.Digital health technologies have lots of potential but their widespread use is limited by:- A lack of examples of how clinicians, academics, engineers, quality assurance experts, health economists, patients and end users can best work together during development - Specific gaps in training and knowledge amongst the different groups, for example:- Academic and industry technologists may have trouble understanding NHS systems and fail to engage with the end users of the technologies they are trying to develop, such as health care providers, patients and carers. They may not know about or understand the complex regulatory pathway which needs to be followed before such technologies can be used in clinical practice. - Clinical specialists may lack the appropriate technical skills such as data analyses, coding and programming languages to help them develop digital applications they think will be helpful to their patients.The KHP Digital Health Hub will help to overcome the barriers to the rapid development and use of digital technologies nationally. It will be an accessible "ecosystem" comprising specialists from different sectors working together to improve understanding and use of digital technologies and addressing the government's long-term goals for health and social care. With our partners, we will connect the digital health research community to the substantial opportunities for investment in London and our diverse and world leading healthcare research environment. We have brought together a wealth of expertise from across KHP, including King's College London and partner NHS Trusts, patients and industry collaborators, to provide support and training, and create opportunities for the acceleration of digital health across the UK. KHP includes seven mental health and physical healthcare hospitals and many community sites with ~4.8 million patient contacts each year and a combined annual turnover of more than £3.7 billion.The KHP Digital Health Hub will provide: - proven expertise, infrastructure and experience of co-creation and commercialisation - a three-way clinical, academic and industry partnership - a physical location where technology developers can work collaboratively, and - an excellent track record in training which will be offered to all our partners across the health and social care sectors.With the right support and networks in place, digital health technologies have the power to transform patient care and experiences across the UK. The knowledge and expertise is all there, and together we can make sure it is shared, translated and built upon, at every step of the way.