07.03.16
Life sciences minister to launch digital health projects in Manchester
New digital health projects in Manchester will be launched today by George Freeman MP, the minister for life sciences.
Freeman will open the University of Manchester’s Vaughan House, home to the Health eResearch Centre of the national Farr Institute for Health Informatics Research, creating a North of England hub for some of the world’s best digital and health research.
He will try out new technologies for measuring health via smartphones and wearable devices and see how Manchester citizens have taken part in the #datasaveslives campaign to share the benefits of health data analytic innovations.
Freeman will also visit Manchester Science Partnerships’ Citylabs facility to launch the Academic Health Science Network’s DataWell project.
The DataWell project will allow data across different care providers to be linked together and managed in a fully integrated way and enable analytics that will guide the development of local health and social care services to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
Freeman will also see how Manchester Science Partnerships is developing a new concentration of businesses at the junction of NHS and University campuses within the city’s Innovation District.