The Open NetworkMichael Wilkinson, PhD 13 May 2010

The life sciences industry, comprising pharmaceuticals, medical biotechnology and medical technology, is one industry where we are world-class, and have the potential to go further. A strong life sciences industry can drive growth and high-value job creation as well as playing a vital role in meeting future healthcare challenges.

www.nic.nhs.uk

BIS (2009): Life Sciences Blueprint

What We DoFunction Outcome Process

Innovation DevelopmentDeveloped technology innovations delivering economic & patient value.

Working nationally & internationally to identify needs & collaboratively develop innovative technological solutions using EU-approved pre-commercial procurement methodologies.

Cross Government Innovation Collaboration

NHS benefits from innovation programmes in OGD's that have an applicability & relevance to healthcare.

Working in partnership to develop & align innovations and systems by sharing knowledge and resources across traditional boundaries.

Improved procurement & project management of innovation and SME engagement across Government.

Working in partnership with OGD's to roll out NIC's online innovation systems across the public sector.

Innovation Management Systems

SMEs & others follow a structured innovation development process to engage with the NHS.

Provision of online decision making tools to support innovation business case development.

Improved decision-making by clients leading to new innovations addressing genuine needs.

Innovation Knowledge Exploitation

Applications developed to aid the interpretation and analysis of multiple innovation data sources.

Working in partnership with organisations both nationally and internationally.

NIC Innovation Development Model

OnlineStatement of Clinical

Need

Validation of Need

OnlineCompetition

Tool

Online Innovation ShowcaseInformation

Diffusion

OnlineScorecard

Deeper Due Diligence

Wouldn’t it be great if? workshops

OnlineProject ZoneOpen Innovation

& Project Mgt

EXPERT GROUPSHealthcare KTNClinical LeadsRoyal CollegesKey TrustsTSBNERACD&BCharities

OnlineSOCN

Publish Need

Reactive Approach: An ‘always open’ door for innovators to share their ideas with the NHS and receive guidance and other support.Proactive Approach: An ‘always open’ door for frontline NHS staff and patients to articulate perceived needs, and for innovators to compete and win contracts to create solutions.

REACTIVE

PROACTIVE

NIC Programmes

Needs• In conjunction with The Technology Strategy Board and Knowledge Transfer Networks, NIC

has developed a Statement of Clinical Needs online tool which provides a forum for clinicians to express what they need.

Benefits:• The information helps industry understand the clinical needs of the NHS, and what

innovations they can either mobilise or develop to meet these needs.• Creates an alignment with clinical demand and focussed industry supply.• Stakeholders benefit from knowing what frontline clinicians are saying needs to be

addressed. Next Steps:• Partnership programme with NHS Networks. NHS Networks has rich, varied and vibrant

networks that could be a valuable source of identifying genuine and real time frontline needs and subsequently provide a forum for the NHS community to share knowledge and ideas to meet these needs and prepare channels for diffusion.

• Facilitating a joint needs and innovation development programme with all AHSCs.

NIC Programmes

Solutions• NIC has developed a portfolio of pre-commercial procurement tools to speed the

development of innovative solutions. The Scorecard is essentially the ‘first interview’ with an innovator from an IP, need, benefits perspective and explores what assistance the innovator needs to deliver the idea. The Competition Tool is an easy-to-use resource to commission the development of solutions.

Benefits:• Open, fair and transparent processes that speed development of innovations.

Next Steps:• Continue to support NHS Supply Chain, Technology Strategy Board.• Continue to work with The Department for Business to roll out tools across Government.

NIC Programmes

Recent Network Developments• Facilitating and supporting a joint initiative with all the AHSCS to collaborate and develop

solutions to areas of unmet clinical need.• Working with sector specific bodies such as NHS Blood & Transplant and Ambulance service

to develop innovations to fulfil unmet needs.• Working with SME’s & Charities to develop innovations to meet articulated unmet needs in

paediatric care.

Does this model work?

Potential £160m p/a saving

Potential £30m p/a saving

£4000 per HCAI avoided

NIC Programmes

Innovation Knowledge Exploitation• The Innovation Showcase forms part of NIC’s Linked Data Initiative and is an online tool that

showcases innovations and provides a brief of what the innovation is, a video clip of what it does, details of where you can buy it and, most importantly, evidence in terms of cost savings and patient benefits.

Benefits:• Linked Data, expressed via compelling visualisations, has the potential to improve decision-

making for commissioners, clinicians, scientists and industry. • The Showcase maps, on a Google Map, where the innovation is being used. The intention of this

is to stimulate uptake by profiling leadership and nudging slow adopters to realise the economic and patient benefits of adopting innovation.

Next Steps:• Collaboration is under way with NHS Networks, NHS Information Centre, NHS Choices, NHS

Scientists, DH Horizon Scanning.

Screen Shots: Showcase

Linked Data

• Open Health Innovation Ontology (OHIO)– Formal representation of a domain (i.e. health technology innovation)– Models concepts and relationships– Shared conceptualisation– Used to reason within domain– Enabled by Web3 resources: e.g. RDFa, OWL

• Semantically-enhanced Applications – Potential to save time, money – Infers meaning : ‘connecting-the-data’ to derive meaning – Web 2 (social networking features) combined with Web 3 (semantic) has great potential to advance

performance in innovation development

Architecture Overview

ApplicationsStandard Search

Google Map

Future-Casting

Freebase Parallax

Economic BenefitsFinancial Year 2009/10

Value to UK PLC:• The NIC supports SME’s to develop innovative solutions to patient and staff needs. With the

support of the NIC, a number of innovations have been able to attract significant funding. NIC’s support has also contributed to the value of UK Plc by helping to attract funding to the value of £290m.

Potential Value to NHS:• The NIC has supported the development of innovations that would improve the quality of the

patient experience and generate potentially significant cost savings to the NHS.

Innovation

Actual Funding Source

VNUS Closure 287,581,699 CovidianNon-invasive Glucose Meter 1,000,000 NESTA & VC'sVirtual Veins Clinical Skills Trainer 1,900,000 Bayer

290,481,699

Innovation

Potential Annual Savings

StickSafe 160,000,000 Non-invasive glucose meter 30,000,000 Virtual Veins Clinical skills Trainer 19,000,000 VNUS Closure 17,000,000 The Waste-Watcher Toolkit 10,000,000 TwistDX Rapid Portable MRSA Test TBC

236,000,000

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