Medical devices and new technology for all patients

Supporting healthcare innovation through measurement

The ageing and growing population is often living with an increased chronic disease burden. We are working to bring medical devices and technologies to market faster, while still meeting stringent regulation and patient safety requirements. We work within the new accelerated access pathways for earlier adoption of technology in the NHS and consumer markets.

As patients are being empowered to manage their own health, including a drive towards digital health, there is a need to support them with new medical devices and technologies. Our work seeks to support the challenges which enable this, by:

• improving the quantitative understanding of biological systems and processes
• understanding the complexity of medical devices and technologies, and how that impacts their manufacture, performance and safety assessment inside and outside clinical settings
• facilitating remote and/or self-monitoring of health conditions
• supporting the development of new imaging modalities and technologies
• enabling the implementation of Industry 4.0 to support the digitisation of device manufacture (integrated systems, sensors, additive tech, smart devices)
• supporting the convergence of omics technologies, informatics and digital (sensors, wearables) technologies
• accelerating innovation in precision medicine, diagnostics, telemedicine and assisted living technology