Life Sciences Hub Joins NWID To Create Digital Health Network
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Life Sciences Hub Wales has teamed up with the NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) to establish a digital health and care ecosystem to bring improved care through digital services and technology.
Computer Weekly reports that the network, called the Digital Health Ecosystem Wales (DHEW), will run for two years until March 2020 when it will be reviewed.
The mission of this life sciences ecosystem is to help engage stakeholders through information sharing to encourage cross-sector collaboration. It hopes to assist tech suppliers in their aim to get access to the health and care markets to enable innovation in Wales.
NWIS will provide the technical platform for the project, creating an application programming interface library, which anybody implementing an application in the NHS can use to make integration simpler.
“Access to the NHS Wales architecture is being delivered in incremental phases and will be delivered via an internet-based interface to enable software developers across the globe to be able to connect their systems,” the NWIS was quoted by the publication as saying.
This follows news that speakers at the Future of Healthcare Investor Forum indicate there is no reason to expect any barriers to investment in UK life sciences as Brexit looms.
The Daily Telegraph reported that MedCity chairman Dr Eliot Forster is one leader who is optimistic about life sciences, stating that solid investment in recent years has allowed the industry to thrive and to develop large partnerships, securing its growth trajectory.
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