Member Groups

Digital Health

Overview

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 - Dr Roberto Liddi, NuraLogix Corporation
  • Vice Chair - Anne Dreyer, Roche Diagnostics & Michael Shenouda, Open Medical
Achievements
  • Published White Paper on Digital Health Regulations to take an industry leadership position.
  • Established a Task and Finish group under the Accelerated Access Collaborative to address specific Digital Health market access issues.
  • Supported MPs to establish and provide ongoing secretariat support for an All Party Parliamentary group on Digital Health.
  • Provided industry input into a wide range of policy initiatives including:
    NICE Digital Assessment programme and Multi Agency Advice Service, NHSX, Digital Technology Assessment Criteria, Scottish Life Science Group, Health Data Research Uk Innovation Portal and the Office for Life Sciences Health Data Policy.
Priorities 

Market Access

  • Reduce cost to serve through streamlined, internationally aligned processes.
  • Assessment and reimbursement process for Apps.
  • Re-engineer funding flows to support digitisation of the system and uptake of digital tools.

Regulation

  • Deliver SaMD roadmap with an international reliance route that enables access for EU and US approved SaMD products.
  • Systematic rollout of AI Airlock to support GenAI and LLM development and advance regulatory science.

Data

  • A coherent and integrated approach to data access across Trusts, SDEs and other national assets

Artificial Intelligence

  • Create a national approach to developing data resources for development of advanced AI tools
    Blueprint for deployment of AI as BaU in radiology and pathology.

Cyber Security

  • Establish a cross-sector group including industry, NHS and MHRA to optimise cybersecurity policy and processes.
Useful Resources

Click here to view the latest updates, minutes and future meeting dates for the group. 

#MonthlyBytes - ABHI's Monthly Newsletter  

Papers

Updates

Get Involved

To join the ABHI Digital Health group, contact andrew.davies@abhi.org.uk 

“Since the groups inception two years ago I have been proud to work with members to develop an active programme of work and engagement with external stakeholders. Focusing on three key areas of regulation, reimbursement and data access strategy, we have enabled members to interact with a wide range of external speakers and stakeholders, as well as share experiences between group members. We have clearly laid out positions on key topics which are disseminated through the broader platforms available via the ABHI interactions with government ministers, senior officials and NHS leaders. Digital HealthTech is one of the fastest growing sectors in the medical device world, working at the intersection between regulation, software technology, ethics and information governance, and it is imperative for the industry that all of those angles are covered adequately.”
Dr Roberto Liddi, Vice President, Sword Health & Chair, ABHI Digital Health

Contact

Andrew Davies
Executive Director, Digital Health