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Connected Health Care

Connected Health Care: Satellite Enabled Mental Health, Diabetes and Clinical Education. This is a Celtic collaboration, with Cornwall and Scotland optimising satellite technology to transform the rural health landscape.

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    Project details

    Project LeadAnna Mankee-Williams
    Start Date May 2020
    End Date December 2021
    Programme AlignmentDesign for Health and Wellbeing

    The project will deliver a secure satellite connected infrastructure between primary and secondary care and service users in rural communities. Through this 4e – health applications to the clinical areas of mental health, diabetes and clinical education enabling delivery through primary care and community settings - will be developed. The project will implement a "Test and Learn" approach and evaluate the potential clinical and commercial value of a secure satellite connected infrastructure in improving quality, accessibility and efficiency within the health sector.

    Cornwall and Scotland (and other rural parts of the world) have dark spots across the areas with no connection, or NHS services with only minimal/overloaded bandwidth. This lack of connectivity has an impact on the pace, adaptation to, and adoption of technology and the digital transformation in health care.

    Despite both significant previous investment and planned investment in terrestrial network capability and accessibility, areas affected by sparsely populated and rural areas continue, and will continue, to have connectivity challenges in the near and medium term, contributing to an increasing digital divide in rural marginalised communities.

    This project asks if satellite connectivity is possible, feasible, usable and adequate for the delivery of mental health care, diabetes care and clinical education in remote communities.

    Project team

    Anna Mankee-Williams staff image

    Anna Mankee-Williams - Project lead


    Anna is a Senior Research Fellow for Innovation and Technology in Health and Care. She has 22 years' experience in the health sector (RGN, RM, RHV,) Specialist Community Practitioner/Practice Educator, Public Health children's lead and 11 years' experience in Local Government. Anna has been with Falmouth University and the South West Centre of Excellence Satellite Applications Catapult for since 2016. Her research focuses on Design Thinking approaches that address challenges presented within the health and care eco-system.

    Partners

    The Connected Health Care project has partnered with:

    • NHS England
    • NHS Scotland
    • NHS Highland
    • Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
    • Goonhilly Earth Station
    • Kernow Health
    • Satelite Applications Catapult 
    • Falmouth University
    • University of Aberdeen
    • University of the Highlands and Islands

    Funders

    This projects has been supported by grant funding from the following funding bodies:

    European Space Agency

    The European Space Agency (ESA) supports the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.

    UK Space Agency

    The UK Space Agency are responsible for all strategic decisions on the UK civil space programme and provide a clear, single voice for UK space ambitions.

    Outcomes & outputs

    The Connected Health Care Project is innovative in bringing together satellite communications, intelligent routing and delay tolerant networking within the infrastructure and applying it to the health care sector. Bringing together experts in both health and space technology creates a unique partnership to improve infrastructure and network security for a specific sector. Whilst the individual technologies have been proven, they have not previously been integrated for use in the health care sector. The simplicity of the user interface will encourage uptake and use without the users needing to know or understand the technology enabling it.

    The forecast impact of the Connected Health Care Project is to better connect primary and secondary care and service users in rural communities by optimising satellite technology and network security.

    Impact & recognition

    The pilot-demonstration service activities will be based on the following undertakings:

    • Six months of validation in Cornwall (three GP practices)
    • Six months of validation in Scotland (three GP practices)
    • Validation accompanied and followed by impact and economic viability assessment.

    The space asset(s) used in the pilot-demonstration include:

    • Telesat satellite bandwidth,
    • GES ground infrastructure
    • iDirect user terminals for connectivity

    The success criteria / goals to be achieved during the pilot-demonstration to gain customer commitment are:

    • Connectivity and level the field: provide connectivity to at least three health care hubs with limited or no connectivity
    • Security: Network service solution in line with NHS standards/requirements (e.g., accredited via Cyber Essentials)
    • Resilience: Achieve more than 99% availability
    • Uptake: Achieve commitment from at least three pilot users for continuing usage

    The research and evaluation for the system and service performance during the pilot-demonstration include:

    • Assess improvement of connectivity and intelligent routing
    • Assess integration with e-health applications 
    • Assess impact on customers and users
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