Data Harmonisation and System Interoperability – Phase 3

Concepts

• business services
• newcastle upon tyne
• impact data
• different and disparate data sources
• a single data source
• system
• interoperability
• harmonisation
• incoming innovations
• innovations

Location

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Description

Innovation pipeline data, plus outcome and impact data, is currently collected using different tools, stored differently, and has various definitions across partner organisations. This means that understanding the pipeline is complicated and needs to be improved. The Innovation, Research, Life Sciences and Transformation Strategy (IRLSS) group has ambitions to improve its horizon scanning and demand signalling (HS & DS) capability and to align different and disparate data sources better to enable data-driven decision-making. We are aiming to align these different datasets with a view to creating an innovation repository. The repository would combine data from the Health Innovation organisations (HI's), the NHS Innovation Service and other sources (including awards, such as the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA)) to provide intelligence about innovations moving along the innovation pathway and their impact. For obvious reasons, we are not necessarily looking to create a single data source from the current disparate sources. Still, we need to align our datasets pragmatically to give a more coherent view of the market in a particular area, accessed more easily. The resulting data views will be used to support HS & DS, to identify technologies that do not offer additional benefits, and recognise where there are barriers to development and where there are issues with progress along the pipeline which could influence policy. This information will also support the NHS in understanding, prioritising, and preparing for incoming innovations.

Total Quantity or Scope

Innovation in digital technologies, greater use of data and technology-enabled transformation are ways to support the NHS in addressing the pressures it is currently facing. Many innovative solutions are coming onto the market all the time, all in different states of market readiness. In recent years, through the creation of the Accelerated Access Collaborative, the AI funding awards and other initiatives, including most recently the intention to re-licence the AHSNs (now called Health Innovation networks), the NHS has developed the infrastructure needed to enable the NHS to adopt innovation more widely. However, this is a complex landscape, and we currently need a means of tracking innovations as they move along the innovation pathway, from demand signalling and horizon scanning to ideation and development, approval, adoption and spread. This means the NHS has an incomplete view of the innovations available to support a particular need and is frequently unsighted on the timescales within which innovations are likely to come to market.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

Indicators

• Award on basis of price.