The mPower page on the Digital Health and Care Directorate website has been updated.Â
The successful mPower project (2017-2022) has come to a close. NHS National Services Scotland led this collaborative project which was funded through the European Union’s INTERREG VA Programme with match funding from the Northern Ireland Executive, the Irish Government and the Scottish Government.Â
Scotland will be participating in two knowledge exchange twinning projects funded by the ​European Commission as part of the WE4AHA project.
The objective of the twinning programme is to transfer innovation to facilitate deployment of large-scale digitally-enabled innovative solutions for health and care delivery to our ageing population.
A key principle of telemonitoring in response to COVID-19, is that it has to be simple enough that it maximises the proportion of people who can use it, and can be deployed with minimal training given the risks of prolonging face-to-face contact.
People with COVID-19 are at risk of relatively sudden deterioration in the first two weeks of the illness. Morag Hearty, National Strategic Lead, Home and Mobile Health Monitoring, Scottish Government, working with clinical partners, have developed a telemonitoring system for following up people with COVID-19 at risk of deterioration.
The TEC Programme was pleased to be one of the partners supporting and promoting the North Atlantic Corona Challenge, organised by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and NORA, over the final weekend of May 2020.Â
Scotland is one of eight European regions involved in a new Interreg Europe funded project called ACSELL (Accelerating SME innovative capacities with a Living Lab approach). ACSELL is co-ordinated by the University of Tübingen, Germany, and involves the partner regions of Flanders (Belgium), Timis (Romania), Northern Denmark, Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Scotland.