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🚀#InnovationNews We're delighted to announce the Bedhead Tidy device, a product invented by a nurse and hospital engineer from East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust to keep patients' beds tidy, has been so successful it's now available to buy online. The Bedhead Tidy was developed by nurse Emma Thomson and former biomedical engineer Steve Connew after they were concerned with the messy storage of tubing and cables hung by patients’ beds causing contamination issues and avoidable additional costs. Funding support through the Innovation team at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) where they worked, meant it was developed, tested and trialled and is now available for other health and care providers to buy. Emma Thomson, who is now head of resuscitation services at ESNEFT, said: “When you’re working in healthcare it means you have to adapt all the time to the needs of the patient. The Bedhead Tidy seemed such an obvious idea, but it’s great we had the support to develop it and now we can fit it to all beds across the Trust to help staff and therefore patients to make time matter.” “It’s a simple device and helps us do our job. It’s also cost saving as prevents wastage from items that are no longer able to be used and have to be thrown away. Every penny counts.” Through the Innovation team, the duo also had support from Health Tech Enterprise. We were able to provide advice around intellectual property rights and to lead the negotiations for the licensing agreement to help bring the device to market. Available through specialist critical care supplier Walters Medical Ltd this simple but cost-effective device improves patient safety. Read more about the device and its development here: https://bit.ly/3TnZGMZ. #nhsinnovation #criticalcare #patientsafety

This is Tim. Tim is a clinical academic, and has both clinical 👨⚕️and research scientist👨🔬 responsibilities as part of his role. 📈 Tim has used the insights from this position to invent a brand new, groundbreaking medical technology 📱, one that has the potential to improve the lives of a significant amount of patients. 😣 And now Tim has missed out on a considerable investment 📉 Unfortunately Tim has been focusing so hard on making technology improvements he has neglected to consider how protecting the invention will help fund its ongoing development and eventual release onto the market. 💡 But you can avoid making a mistake like Tim by registering for Health Tech Enterprise's next webinar on Developing your Medtech IP and Commercialisation Strategies which starts at 12pm on October 3rd. This webinar will help you understand IP strategy development and the critical steps required to translate an idea into a viable product or service. We also have the pleasure of welcoming guest speaker Christopher Dunleavy of Venner Shipley, who will joining the webinar to share his considerable experience in the world of medical technology intellectual property rights as an aid to commercialisation. 🖋 Please register for this event using the link in the comment below. #intellectualproperty #IP #IPR #medtechinnovation #innovation Ilka Clune FCIM

🔦 Today for our 20th Anniversary celebration interviews, we turn the spotlight onto Maternal Newborn Health Innovations, PBC, and their innovation for assisted vaginal birth, the OdonAssist™. 🔍 MNHI is a mission-driven Public Benefit Corporation focused on enabling a gentle and safe way for obstetricians to assist the birth of newborns during circumstances of prolonged, complicated labour. 📖 The OdonAssist™ inflatable obstetric device offers a gentler and safer method for assisted vaginal birth procedures as an alternative to forceps and vacuum extraction, which can cause adverse effects on patients, both the mother and newborn. 📈 Health Tech Enterprise have worked with MNHI to help them with health economic evaluation that demonstrates the potential for the impact of the odonassist in the maternity space. You can read more about this and OdonAssist™ by following the link in the comments below 👇 #healtheconomics #saferbirths #innovation #femtech Charlie Fuller

🔦 This week as part of our 20th Anniversary celebration interviews, we are featuring Yuval Yashiv, CEO for Thermology Health (a spinout from the National Physical Laboratory). 🔍 Thermology health are transforming diagnostic healthcare through the use of thermal imaging and have developed technology that can deliver medically relevant levels of temperature measurement (±0.2°C), for the first time. 📖 The primary goal of the technology created by Thermology Health is to reduce diabetes related foot amputations by detecting ulceration earlier so that effective treatments can be given. Between 15%-25% of diabetics will develop an ulcer in their lifetime resulting in thousands of amputations per year. You can read more about Thermology Health's technology and their work with Health Tech Enterprise on the link in the comments below 👇

20 years of Health Tech Enterprise In November 2024, Health Tech Enterprise (HTE) is celebrating its 20th anniversary. We look back at our progress since formation and what's coming next for the organisation and our partners.

🔦 As part of our ongoing 20th Anniversary celebration interviews, this week we are focusing on Stuart Thomson, VP for Business Development for Medovate Limited & JEB Technologies Ltd. 🔍 Medovate is a company dedicated to the development and commercialisation of innovative medical technologies from within the NHS to provide a route to market for clinician-inspired medical device innovations. JEB Technologies is a developer and manufacturer of medical devices. 📖 You can read more about the development of ground-breaking technology SAFIRA®, invented by four Anaesthetists at the The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust and developed in collaboration with Medovate, on the link in the comments below. SAFIRA’s primary purpose is to transform regional anaesthesia procedures into a one-person procedure, putting control directly in the hands of the anaesthetist.

🔦 This week, for our ongoing 20th Anniversary celebration interviews, we put the spotlight on Dr John Scott Frazer, a doctor from North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust. 🔍 Focused predominantly on anaesthetics and intensive care. Scott worked with Health Tech Enterprise (HTE) to develop his concept for the PediJect device, a dose adjustable prefilled medication syringe for use in children’s emergencies. 📖 You can read more about Scott's progress in developing his innovation, and how he hopes to reduce the harm experienced by 2% of children in paediatric intensive care, using the link in the comments below.

❓ Are you on top of your Intellectual Property Strategy? Intellectual Property rights include patents, trademarks, design rights and copyright but how do you know which is suitable for supporting your innovation development? 💪 A robust intellectual property strategy is an important consideration for any business or organisation that is involved in developing innovations and wants to protect their valuable assets. 🤝 Health Tech Enterprise have worked collaboratively with ip21 Ltd to create some "IP Fact Sheets" which provide detailed information on the different types of Intellectual Property rights, the scope of protection afforded by these rights in addition to explaining the process involved for acquiring them. Links to the factsheets are in the comment below: #IntellectualProperty #IP #IPstrategy #innovation Cristina Penine, PhD, Rachel Daniel

📣 We just published a brand new page on our website!📣 🎉 In celebration of our 20th year of helping innovators deliver new healthtech products and services to market we have created a 20 year Anniversary page 🎉 👀 You can see the webpage here: https://lnkd.in/ednxHUK7 Take a look at our timeline of events, displaying some notable occasions in our company's history 📅 , and check out some of the interviews with a selection of the people we have helped over the years. 👢 To kick things off, this week we are focusing on Open Medical and our interview with Chief Innovation Officer Piyush Mahapatra https://lnkd.in/eEnmcrSC In the interview Piyush tells us about Open Medical's award-winning teledermatology platform, Pathpoint eDerma, and what it has taken to scale their solution into wider adoption. #Healthtech #Innovation #20thanniversary #NHS #makingadifference

⏱ Earlier and more accurate detection of diseases has to be a great thing right? At Health Tech Enterprise we speak to a lot of organisations who are focused on creating new and novel diagnostics for the early detection of diseases. We have also seen a huge rise in the number of companies utilizing the power of #AI to identify diseases from scan images and datasets. ⚖ However the #cost vs #benefits calculations for new diagnostic technologies can often be more complex than you would immediately consider. Especially in publicly funded #healthcare systems with limited resources. 💻 In this #whitepaper from Health Tech Enterprise originally produced as part of the MedTech Navigator programme we take a look at some of the #healtheconomic considerations in creating new #cancer #diagnostics 🔎 You can read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/ekejeFzP 👓 If you would like to find out more about the Medtech Navigator you can do so on this link: https://lnkd.in/eFHQA4pt #health #NHS #Healtheconomics #valuepropsition