The Digital Innovation Hub Programme aims to enable a UK-wide life sciences ecosystem that provides responsible and safe access to health data, technology and science, research and innovation services to ask and answer important health and care questions. It builds on many recent healthcare technological advances, including in digital health and genomics, and on broader developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
The Programme integrates with and reinforces Health Data Research UK’s investment in health data science and talent development, to stimulate the use of health data to make lives longer and healthier. It encompasses three essential functions:
1. UK Health Data Research Alliance – an Alliance of data suppliers committed to making an unprecedented breadth and depth of data available for research and innovation purposes.
2. Health Data Research Hubs – making data available, curating data, and providing expert research services. The Hubs will be centres of expertise to get from data to insight and the location to collaborate and co-create.
3. Health Data Research Innovation Gateway – providing discovery, accessibility, security and interoperability to surface data, support linkage, and enable health data science safely and efficiently.