The East Midlands Digital Health Accelerator is now open to applications for its 2019 cohort. The scheme will support companies to spread their digital health technologies and innovations, with a tailored package of support available to the successful applicants.

Applications to the scheme are invited from all East Midlands digital health innovators, ranging from fully-fledged businesses to those with ideas and concepts for digital health innovations that they would like a platform to develop.

Successful candidates can benefit from specialist training, one-to-one support and opportunities to showcase their products with NHS decision-makers and influencers.

Applications are now open and close Thursday 6 June 2019. The process will be competitive, with only a small number of spaces available on the Accelerator. You can find out more about the application process and apply by visiting the East Midlands Health Digital Accelerator webpage.

The Digital Health Accelerator is run by the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN), the innovation arm of the NHS in the East Midlands. One of a network of 15 AHSNs around the country, the EMAHSN helps to develop collaboration across all sectors involved in healthcare - the NHS, social care and public health, universities, third sector and industry - to identify, test and spread ways to drive NHS transformation.

East Midlands AHSN Commercial Director Tim Robinson, said: “Our key purpose as an organisation is to support the spread of health innovations at pace and scale. We are uniquely placed between the NHS and industry, and this Digital Health Accelerator will make the most of that relationship to help companies navigate the healthcare system and maximise on their innovations. We look forward to welcoming the successful companies to the scheme later this year.”

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About the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN)

EMAHSN is one of 15 Academic Health Science Networks in England – together they operate as the innovation arm of the NHS. EMAHSN brings together NHS organisations, universities, industry and social care to transform the health of the region’s 4.6m residents and stimulate wealth.

The organisation is developing and spreading more than 20 innovation projects focusing on major health challenges including cancer, diabetes, mental health, atrial fibrillation and liver disease. To see how these projects map against the priorities of the NHS Long Term plan, download our document here.

In 2018, NHS England relicensed the 15 AHSNs for a further five years from 1 April as the key innovation arm of the NHS.