Disruptive Healthcare Innovation Initiative Professor Daniel Steenstra Mr Simon Potter Overview Personal Introduction Royal Academy of Engineering’s first Visiting Professor in Medical Innovation • • • • Medicine Design & Innovation Management in Automotive sector (Jaguar) Consultancy in Innovation Management (Unilever, Alstom) HealthTech at WMG / University of Warwick (170 projects; 800 jobs and £50m in sales for SMEs) • Developing and commercialising healthcare product and services (Innovations Factory based at Heartlands Hospital) Outline • • • • • • Healthcare challenges Need for innovation Why disruptive innovation The £1000 scanner Cranfield Disruptive Healthcare Innovation initiative Visionair o Deliverables o Ongoing project opportunities Healthcare challenges 1. Rapidly increasing need for healthcare 2. Demand to provide better quality of care 3. No extra funding Demand and Expenditure in the NHS 120 100 80 elective hospital admission (millions) 60 A&E attendencies (millions) NHS Net Expenditure (£Billions) 40 20 0 The King's Fund House of Commons - Health Committee Need for healthcare and funding Need Funding (£) Position? time Need for healthcare and funding Need Funding (£) Position? time Increasing efficiency and productivity does not suffice Need for innovation • Innovation is critical to economic change • Responses to change in business environment: o ‘adaptive response’ – Incremental Innovation o ‘creative response’ – Radical Innovation Joseph Schumpeter ‘The Theory of Economic Development’ Disruptive Innovation - Theory Performance e.g. Sony IBM Apple Virgin Time Clayton Christensen – The Innovator’s Dilemma Disruptive Innovation - Enablers 1. Simplifying technology 2. Business model innovation 3. Disruptive value network Disruptive Innovation - Why • Focussed on the US healthcare system • Lacks practical methods, tools and techniques However disruptive innovation is most appropriate: • affordable products and services • shift diagnostics, therapy and care out of expensive hospitals back into the community. £1000 Scanner - History • Diagnostics in primary care • Inspired by $100 laptop • Based on Open Source (OS) and PSS models £1,000 primary care medical scanner Scanning technologies • • • • • X – Ray / CT UV Ultrasound NMR / MRI PET / Gamma ray Dedicated MRI - Positioning Dedicated MRI - Pathways Dedicated MRI - Layout Dedicated MRI - Infrastructure • Integrating product and service design Service design RELATED MEDICAL RESEARCH III PATIENT JOURNEY IN IMAGES Availability contract Vs Pay-per-scan Ultrasound image processing Key Challenges • Market pull instead of technology push o Involving patients and other stakeholders • Viable business model that provides return on investment for companies investing in manufacture o Identify sources of funding for product development • Perceived threat to established OEMs o Assess infringement of their IP rights o Get end-customer buy-in and support o PR campaign • Regulatory approval o Technical files o Accredited supply chain Disruptive Healthcare Innovation initiative - Vision Disruptive Healthcare Innovation Initiative supports sustainable healthcare by leading the development and implementation of practical methods and demonstrators of disruptive healthcare innovations. Disruptive Healthcare Innovation initiative - Elements Disruptive Healthcare Innovation initiative - Demonstrator Integrated system OK Ultrasound scanner ? Further investigation Aneurysm Intervention Product / Service System ? OK Ultrasound scanner ? Further investigation ? ? ? ? Aneurysm ? Product / Service System ? Intervention Thank you
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