Pioneering ’Learning Lab’ launched to improve effectiveness and uptake of digital technologies in the NHS

A major research facility aimed at creating more robust digital and innovative healthcare programmes for people living with life-threatening and chronic illnesses has been launched by the Institute of Digital Healthcare at the University of Warwick. This new resource is aimed at understanding and evaluating effectiveness of digital programmes in the health service, as well as trialling novel digital healthcare technologies . Founded through a unique partnership between WMG, the Institute of Digital Healthcare (IDH) and Bosch Healthcare, the IDH Learning Lab will design new technologies and evaluate existing ones to improve the lives of thousands of people in the UK. IDH will work with Bosch Healthcare, Warwick Medical School and other partners on selected healthcare activities. Initially, this will pioneer two large telehealth studies that could benefit up to 3,000 patients. The first will examine a large number of patients with cancer and will look to assess how telehealth improves quality of life, behaviour, cost effectiveness and mortality rates. The second project will set out to understand how telehealth can monitor and help more than 1,500 patients with vascular diseases as part of a wider study into chronic diseases.