Health Innovation South East Scotland
Better health and care starts with people and ideas. Health Innovation South East Scotland (HISES) brings together patients, communities, NHS staff and innovators to safely test and evaluate new innovative approaches that can improve lives and strengthen communities across Scotland.
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Helping you on your innovation journey
We specialise in helping innovators with the development, testing and evaluation of new high impact medical technologies through rigorous real-world validation.
We offer life science companies the opportunity to evidence the potential impact of their technology through access to expertise, governance, and technical capabilities such as trusted research environments, supporting economic growth by co-developing within NHS Scotland.
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Research
New ideas, basic research and feasibility studies
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Evaluation - Where HISES comes in.
Real-world testing within the NHS
Identify and triage ideas
We help you work out whether an idea has real clinical value and a genuine route into the NHS.
Test in real clinical settings
We provide NHS-embedded test-bed infrastructure for pre-commercial innovation.
Navigate the NHS
Information governance, ethics, data, contracts and IP, we help you through all of it.
Creating evidence and proving value
Once funding is secured, HISES support innovative solutions to be tried out in a real-world environment to ensure they are fit for purpose – clinically, financially, and operationally.
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Deployment
Ongoing monitoring once deployed at scale.
Which audience best describes you?
Whatever your role, there’s a clear path to getting your idea tested and evaluated.
Innovators & Start-ups
You have a prototype developed that you want to test in the NHS for clinical validation and efficacy in practice.
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Innovators & Start-ups
Academics
You want to translate your research into innovative products and services which could directly benefit patients.
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Academics
Clinicians & NHS staff
You've identified a clinical challenge and have an idea that could enhance patient care and experience.
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Clinicians & NHS staff
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