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The Academic and Clinical Central Office for Research and Development
ACCORD
A partnership between the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian. ACCORD provides streamlined access to professional advice, expert regulatory support, and world class clinical research infrastructure.
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Research and Development
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The Bayes Centre
The Bayes Centre is the University’s innovation hub for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The Bayes Centre offers a collaborative, multidisciplinary proving ground where they develop innovative technological solutions for the benefit of society.
Working in partnership with Scottish Enterprise, the Bayes Centre is part of the Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) Programme within the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal. It collaborates closely with other DDI hubs, the Edinburgh Futures Institute, the Usher Institute, the National Robotarium, and Easter Bush.
Business Model Canvas
BMC
The BMC provides a visual and structured approach to designing, analysing, and communicating business models.
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Project Management
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Chief Scientist Office
CSO
Part of the Scottish Government Health Directorates and invests in NHS related research and innovation support.
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Scottish Government
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Data-Driven Innovation Hub/Programme
DDI
The Usher Institute is one of five Data-Driven Innovation Hubs as part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal.
Within the Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) Programme at the University of Edinburgh, the Usher Institute will develop innovative and financially sustainable models of health and social care that improve lives, through the application of data science.
The Data Lab
The Data Lab is an innovation centre focused on helping Scottish industry to capitalise on a growing market opportunity in data science. Funded by Scottish Funding Centre to enable industry, public sector and university researchers to innovate and develop new data science capabilities in a collaborative environment. Its core mission is to generate significant economic, social and scientific value from data. Bases in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Innovation Centre
The Data Loch
A secure storage repository of curated health and social care datasets for the Edinburgh and South East Scotland region. Designed to help find solutions to current health and social care challenges. Accessible to innovators who work outside of the health and social care setting.
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Digital Health and Care Institute
DHI
One of seven Innovation Centres funded by the Scottish Government and Scottish Funding Council, which supports transformational collaboration between universities and businesses. DHI is uniquely placed to create opportunities to connect academics with designers, healthcare providers, SMEs, charities and other key stakeholders.
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Innovation Centre
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Edinburgh BioQuarter
Edinburgh BioQuarter is a leading global destination for healthcare delivery, groundbreaking medical research and life sciences innovation with ambitions to create Scotland’s £1 billion Health Innovation District.
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Innovation Centre
Edinburgh Innovations
Edinburgh Innovations help commercial organisations to build innovative ideas using the right technologies, expertise and facilities at the University of Edinburgh.
Enabling Research in Care Homes
ENRICH
The network brings together care home staff, residents and researchers to facilitate the design and delivery of research, to improve the quality of life, treatments and care for all residents.
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Health Informatics Centre
HIC
Through governance agreements with NHS Tayside and NHS Fife, HIC hosts a range of linkable routinely collected administrative health datasets which can be used to identify and describe study cohorts to answer research questions.
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Data access
Health Innovation Assessment Portal
HIAP
The Health Innovation Assessment Portal encourages prospective providers of new and/or innovative products and solutions to put them forward. This will allow NHS Scotland to assess how the solution might support NHS Scotland’s strategic aims, and what the associated costs and benefits would be.
Health Innovation South East Scotland
HISES
Innovation Test Bed set up by the Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office which forms part of a national network created to deliver the Government’s vision to utilise the innovation process.
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Innovate UK
IUK
Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation, a non-departmental public body funded by a grant-in-aid from the UK government. IUK drive productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas, including those from the UK’s world-class research base. SBRI competitions can be published and advertised via this route.
Interface
A central hub connecting organisations from a wide variety of national and international industries to all of Scotland’s universities, research institutes and colleges.
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Lothian Research Safe Haven
LRSH
The Lothian Research Safe Haven provides support for researchers seeking to access data held within electronic health records of patients within NHS Lothian while protecting patient privacy and confidentiality. Extracts of data are securely linked together and anonymised within a secure IT environment before being made available through restricted access to named approved researchers for specific approved projects.
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Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
MHRA
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably safe.
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Medical Regulation
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Nesta
Nesta in Scotland works by partnering with other organisations and public sector bodies, funding projects in exploratory programmes and commissioning research to help understand the potential of data and technology to power social innovation.
NHS Golden Jubilee National Hospital
GJNH
The family of facilities which includes the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Research Institute and Conference Hotel. It focuses on learning with links to academia and industry and creates a crucible for innovation and networking. The GJNH acts as the financial governance body and contracting authority for SBRI challenges.
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Finance
NHS National Services Scotland
NSS
NHS National Services Scotland is a Non-Departmental Public Body which provides advice and services to the rest of NHS Scotland. Accountable to the Scottish Government, NSS works at the heart of the health service, providing national strategic support services and expert advice to NHS Scotland. NSS Procurement colleagues provide advice and support for the pre-commercial procurement process for SBRI challenges.
NHS Research Scotland
NRS
NHS Research Scotland is a partnership involving Scottish NHS Boards and the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government. The overarching aim of NRS is to ensure that NHS Scotland provides the best environment to support clinical research. This is achieved through the application of best practice and processes that can support efficient working, as well as providing the solid infrastructure that is needed to support all research undertaken in the NHS for patient benefit.
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NHS Scotland COPD Support Service
The NHS Scotland COPD Support Service helps patients to manage their COPD. Individuals with COPD are being offered remote monitoring of their symptoms through a digital service that can be accessed via a smartphone, tablet or computer. It’s available to anyone diagnosed with COPD in Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the pilot test had been introduced in the NHS Lothian.
NHSX
NHSX is a joint unit of NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care, supporting local NHS and care organisations to digitise their services, connect the health and social care systems through technology and transform the way patients’ care is delivered at home, in the community and in hospital.
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Open Innovation Challenge Market
The marketplace for organisations looking for innovative solutions to business and operational challenges, as well as a platform to find new customers and new business opportunities.
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Innovation Centre
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Persona
A persona in project management is a fictional representation of a typical user or stakeholder for a product or service being developed. It is a detailed profile that includes characteristics, behaviours, goals, and motivations of a specific user group.
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Project Management
Private Project Zone
PPZ
A secure and restricted ‘workspace’ for innovators to access and then work with the datasets that DataLoch hold. Innovators customise their workspace with their preferred software stack.
Project Initiation Document
PID
Defines the project scope, management and overall accomplishments criteria that the team can look at during the project. It contains the basic information of the project such as context, scope, team and collaboration.
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Project Management
Public Contracts Scotland
PCS
Free resource for contractors interested in supplying to the public sector. SBRI competitions can be published and advertised via this route.
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Procurement
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Research Ethics Committee
REC
Committee established to provide participants, researchers, funders, sponsors, employers, care organisations and professionals with an independent opinion on the extent to which proposals for a study comply with recognised ethical standards.
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Regulatory Approvals
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SBRI Challenge Phase 1
First phase of SBRI challenge that lasts 3 months and it’s mainly focused on research of a future project.
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SBRI Challenge Phase 2
9 months period of a challenge when the prototype of solution is being developed and evaluated. The primary objective is to make further technical improvements on products, processes or services that are not substantially set.
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SBRI Challenge Phase 3
Phase 3 may be required in some SBRI projects, it’s designed to allow an extended field trial/research study to robustly evaluate technology. Phase 3 is only open to organisations that have completed Phase 2 successfully and is a closed tender process.
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Scotland 5G Centre
The Scotland 5G Centre is the national centre for accelerating the deployment and adoption of 5G and realising its economic and societal potential for Scotland. It enables businesses to reap the benefits of this new technology, bringing together entrepreneurs with a network of small businesses, larger corporates and government bodies.
Scotland’s AI Strategy
The Scottish Government initiative to develop the AI strategy supported by The Data Lab, Scotland’s Innovation Centre for Data Science and AI.
ScotlandIS
ScotlandIS is the membership and cluster management organisation for Scotland’s digital technologies industry.
Scottish Health Innovation Ltd.
SHIL
SHIL encourages ideas and innovations from healthcare professionals then uses well-established processes and extensive experience to assess, protect, develop and commercialise – working collaboratively each step of the way.
Small Business Research Initiative
SBRI
The SBRI process brings together the public and private sector to solve significant healthcare challenges for which there is no current or up to date market solution. A common pre-commercial procurement process used by NHS Scotland.
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Steering Group
SG
A governance group; it provides support and advice to the companies, monitors the progress that is being made with each company during challenge phases and ensures that companies have complied with their milestone actions before the associated payment to them can be made.
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Technology Enabled Care
TEC
TEC Programme is a Scotland-wide programme overseen by the Scottish Government, designed to significantly increase citizen choice and control in health, well-being and care services.
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Scottish Government
Terms of Reference
ToR
A document defining aim and structure of a project, responsibilities of members of committee and other people who have agreed to work together to accomplish a shared goal.
Test Beds
NHS and Social Care Delivery settings in Scotland with real-world explorations, trials and testing of innovation (new combinations of products and processes), with the aim of solving real problems and commercialising services and products.
TrakCare
Electronic patient record used in health care in Scotland.
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The Usher Institute
The Usher Institute sits within the Edinburgh Medical School. It has 4 core research centres, hosts the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit, and is a delivery hub within the Data-Driven Innovation Programme of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal.
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Value Proposition Canvas
VPC
It is a concise statement that describes the unique benefits and value a project offers to its target audience or stakeholders.
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Project Management
vCreate
vCreate is a secure online application used to send photos and video clips of patients and staff to family members. Media content can be captured and approved prior to sending to families.