Digital Health
The ABHI Digital Health group comprises companies across the digital health spectrum, from multinational medical device manufacturers to start-ups and digital health service providers. Group members provide a range of innovative solutions that span AI-driven diagnostics, remote monitoring, digital therapeutics, and health data platforms. They support care delivery, improve system efficiency, and enable more personalised, preventative care.
The group engages a broad range of stakeholders across health, industry, and policy. Key partners include Government departments, NHS bodies and regulators like MHRA and NICE. The group also works closely with policy, data leaders, HealthTech companies, startups, and academic networks. It plays an important convening role, linking and signposting industry with policymakers, advocacy groups, and the wider digital health ecosystem to shape regulation, access, and adoption.
The group plays a vital role in bringing together members with shared interests to collaborate on specific topics or challenges. It serves as a forum for industry dialogue, knowledge exchange, and consensus-building. The group helps shape policy positions, respond to consultations, and engage with regulators and healthcare systems. It also supports members in navigating market access, compliance, and innovation adoption.
Ultimately, the working group acts as a collective voice, inputting to digital health policy and shaping the environment for safe, effective, and sustainable use technology within the health system.
Remit
ABHI Digital is here to support the shift from analogue to digital in health and wellness across the UK. We will bring together innovators, businesses, health system and policymakers to make healthcare smarter, more accessible, and focused on better outcomes for everyone.
We believe in the power of data driven HealthTech to improve lives, whether that’s by boosting well-being, making care more efficient, or creating economic value. By working together to develop, adopt and scale evidence-based digital technologies, we will build a healthier, more connected society that benefits individuals, communities, and the economy.
Leadership
- Chair - Michael Shenouda, Open Medical
- Vice Chairs - Nina Goddard, Intuitive Surgical UK Ltd
Achievements
- Provided the catalyst for review of DTAC process and recommendations for greater standardisation, reduction in scope and international alignment.
- New market access routes for digital technologies confirmed within the NHS 10 Year Health Plan and Life Science Sector Plan.
- Working with other Trade Associations gained agreement to improve interaction with industry for the Data for R&D programme, which should feed into HDRS.
- Provide industry input into the formation of new regulation to incorporate SaMD into international reliance frameworks.
Priorities
Cybersecurity
- Establish a cross-sector group with industry, NHS and MHRA to align cybersecurity policy, guidance and processes.
- Drive deduplication of cyber assurance requirements – CE+, Risk Ledger, DSPT and DTAC.
- Support members on connected device and post-market cyber resilience expectations.
Apps and Wearables
- Launch strategy for patient-facing apps and wearables as part of routine care.
- Secure a clear assessment and reimbursement route for patient-facing tools, aligned to HealthStore and other existing processes.
- Resolve build v buy questions and interoperability with the NHS App and Single Patient Record.
Digital Adoption
- Streamline the national adoption pathway (NHAP), consolidating DTAC, DPIA and DSPT in the NHS Innovator Passport.
- Re-engineer funding flows and reimbursement to finance system digitisation and digital tools.
- Support real-world evaluation and spread of proven digital tools across the NHS.
AI Adoption
- Promote real-world evaluation and adoption of AI tools, focused on productivity and clinical impact in diagnostics.
- Build the evidence, workforce and assurance conditions for AI triage and scaled deployment.
Regulation of AI and SaMD
- Support delivery of a regulatory roadmap for SaMD/AIaMD, including an international reliance route for EU and US approved products.
- Support roll-out of the AI Airlock to enable GenAI and LLM development within a safe regulatory sandbox.
- Clarify consumer v professional (shadow use) LLMs, borderline products and AI classification.
Data Infrastructure and Interoperability
- Align HDRS with HealthTech needs, providing multi-omic, Trust-level granularity at a national scale.
- Advance interoperability standards, including the Single Patient Record and NHS App.
- Shape developments on data access policy, COPI reforms and patient-contributed data.
Useful Resources
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Papers
- ABHI Analysis of the 10 Year Health Plan & Life Sciences Sector Plan
- ABHI Response to the MHRA Call for Evidence: Regulation of AI in Healthcare
Get Involved
To join the ABHI Digital Health group, contact andrew.davies@abhi.org.uk
