Connected Health Cities, a £4million programme to link and use public sector data to improve people’s lives in the North West Coast has been launched today.
The Connected Health Cities Programme is one of four such initiatives in the North of England and is the first civic partnership that exploits public sector data to drive reform for better health and care, according to Innovation Agency.
The programme will provide actionable information to NHS commissioners, NHS social care providers, public health professionals, researchers levering funding and feeding national investments and region-wide health science that citizens trust.
Bringing together data and linking key data-sets across health and social care will allow the better delivery of care and improved patient outcomes as well as effective use of resources, according to Innovation Agency.
Through Connected Health Cities, the information and knowledge held by the NHS, social care and other local authority services can be planned and delivered more effectively, the agency said.
At the launch today key speakers included Jo Kinght, joint theme lead for Health at Lancaster University, Keith Bodger, consultant gastroenterologist and senior lecturer in medicine at Aintree Hospital Trust and Tony Marson, professor of neurology at the University of Liverpool.
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