A Digital Health Hub Welcome Medical science and innovation is at the heart of modern least for joining the design and supply of technology with civilisation, and is the cornerstone of modern healthcare. the demands of transforming healthcare and delivering We find ourselves in an era of scientific convergence, better outcomes for patients and the clinicians who care Contents where different disciplines are coming together to shape for them, but also to underpin the system effectiveness the way that care is provided with increasing focus on and sustainability necessary to produce those improved The digital health opportunity 4 personalised and true precision medicine. The digital and outcomes. “omic” revolutions which are advancing hand in hand have the potential to transform both public health, and the way The UK government is leading the way in this field with Why you need to be in the 6 we deliver healthcare and more effective disease digital health a strategic priority for the NHS. The “golden golden triangle treatment modalities in an holistic sense to individual triangle” encompassed by Cambridge, London, and patients. Oxford provides a unique life sciences and technology ecosystem which promotes the growth and adoption of An ideal place to conduct clinical trials 8 Digital technologies are empowering people across the digital health technologies. breadth of society to track and manage their own health Snapshot of the ecosystem whilst also enabling the healthcare industry to efficiently Together we invite our colleagues from across the globe for digital health 10 manage, access and analyse all the available data. to collaborate with industry and academia within the region to help drive forward future health innovations and The National Health Service: Discoveries however are not made in isolation. They are translate those into the delivery of the patient outcomes a unique partnership opportunity 13 inevitably the product of collaborations, partnerships and we all aspire to. wider team-work, often crossing international borders. Such collaborations and partnerships are essential, not An easy place to do business 14 Innovation in the golden triangle 17 Keith McNeil, Chief Clinical Information Officer, NHS England Support networks in the golden triangle 22 The digital health opportunity How Cambridge, London and Oxford are leading the way Digital health is transforming the future of healthcare. It is dramatically Furthermore, digital health enjoys significant political support at both changing and improving the way in which individual citizens can track, national and city level. The UK government is determined to lead the way Cambridge manage and improve their health. It is enabling the healthcare industry to in this field and is committed to creating an attractive investment environ- access patient data and open up new, faster, smarter pathways to ment for it. The Mayor of London has also identified health as a key personalised medicines. It is also an enormous market opportunity. In economic driver for the city and the NHS has made digitisation a 2014, the global market for digital health was worth £23 billion. This is strategic priority in order to reduce healthcare costs and improve patient expected to nearly double to £43bn by 2018. The UK is at the heart of outcomes. the global digital healthcare revolution. Its domestic market - worth approximately £2bn today1 - makes it one of the most important. Already, many of the world’s most exciting advances in digital healthcare are happening in the golden triangle. Patient data is being combined with The golden triangle of Cambridge, London, Oxford and the greater south consumer apps, leading to personalised treatments as well as more effec- east region of England lies at a point of unique convergence, with all the tive health spending. New paradigms in patient data collection are ingredients to be the world’s capital of digital healthcare. It is a world-re- emerging. Revolutions in data analysis are taking place. nowned life sciences cluster, comprising of multiple award-winning research institutions, thousands of talented scientists, deep experience in The golden triangle is the land of digital healthcare opportunity - for London clinical trials, and a thriving global business and life sciences community. clinicians, researchers, entrepreneurs, managers, academics and inves- Similarly, London is the digital capital of Europe, ranked by the European tors. Whether you want to recruit new talent, move your research forward, Digital City index as the best city in Europe for digital entrepreneurs. It is raise finance for a new product, or prepare for an IPO, the region provides a hotbed of digital talent, with 195,900 digital technology employees the stage on which you can transform the future of healthcare. based in the city2. Teamed with entrepreneurial dynamism, an open regulatory environment, political support, and a national single-payer healthcare system in the UK 1 Digital Health in the UK: An industry study for the Office of Life Sciences- Monitor Deloitte, Sept15 2 Oxford Economics, 2015 National Health Service (NHS), the region is an ideal location for digital healthcare to flourish. Oxford 4 5 Why you need to be in the golden triangle A flourishing Nearly $900m of venture capital was UK ranks top in digital public services, invested into life sciences companies digital adoption, digital business and entrepreneurial ecosystem in Cambrige, London and Oxford in finance in Europe9. A rich research ecosystem 20155. The geographic points of the golden UK has the best depth of capital markets triangle are Cambridge, London and Approximately 400 commercially In 2015, London-based tech companies for entrepreneurs in Europe10. Oxford. The three key strengths of the 5 out of 8 of the UK’s Academic the UCL Institute of Digital Health, and successful spin-outs from university/ raised a record $2.28 billion, a 69% region are its research, digital, and Health Science Centres (AHSCs). the Academic Health Sciences Network industry partnerships in Cambridge, increase on 2014’s $1.3 billion in funding, UK digital adoption is the best out of 34 entrepreneurial ecosystems. (AHSN). London and Oxford. which itself was double the 2013 countries11. 8 of the UK’s top 10 universities for figures6. Within this triangle lies the digital and research excellence3 – University of 4 of the world’s top 10 universities – More than £1.56bn ($2.07bn) raised in DigitalHealth.London speeds up digital financial capital of Europe, leading Oxford, University of Cambridge, Imperial University of Oxford, University of life sciences IPOs and follow-on offerings $4.4 billion invested in London’s tech health adoption by bringing together universities and one of the world’s most College London, University College Cambridge, Imperial College London, on the London Stock Exchange in 2015. businesses by American VCs over the clinicians, healthcare providers, research powerful clusters of life sciences London, King’s College London, London University College London4. past five years - more money than institutes, entrepreneurs and industry to expertise. It is an outstanding ecosystem School of Economics (LSE), Institute of The UK has the largest pipeline of new anywhere else in Europe7. give companies a clearer route to market. - providing life science excellence, Cancer Research, and London School of New, world-class facilities are opened pharmaceutical product candidates in It also offers an accelerator programme technological know-how, financial Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. each year: the Francis Crick Institute Europe, with over 460 in 2013. designed to support engagement within ingenuity and legal certainty. is the new centre of inter-disciplinary 5-7 CB Insights the NHS and healthcare sector. Leading medical research organisations translational medical research; the It is an ecosystem that is packed close based within the golden triangle include Alan Turing Institute is the new The Oxford AHSN region is well-positioned together. This dense cluster provides the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research national centre for data science; A dynamic digital ecosystem to drive improvements in healthcare through multiple opportunities for the talented to Council and Cancer Research UK. UCL East is a major cross-disciplinary development of new technologies, finding interact. Innovators in different disciplines centre for entrepreneurship and better ways of applying existing technolo- and sometimes outside of the life London generates more research papers innovation; Imperial West houses London is the best city in Europe for gies and contributing to policy. sciences and digital sectors altogether, than any city in the world, after Boston. a huge new biomedical engineering digital entrepreneurs, Cambridge and are collaborating to apply their knowledge facility, home to the 100KGenome Oxford are ranked 11th and 13th The Eastern AHSN provides a doorway to create entirely new businesses in Key national networks that bring together Project and the Farr Institute. respectively8. into the NHS for businesses, with digital healthcare. The result: fresh researchers, health commissioners and navigation support, facilitated access to thinking and original ideas that are providers, patient groups, local authorities expertise and funding, and support for tackling some of the most difficult and businesses include the Cell and 3 as judged by REF 2014 individuals and collaborations. 4 QS World University Rankings problems in healthcare.