Disrupt, Innovate, Support.

Who we are

Just four months ago Louise Wilson, Rob Dyke, Ewan Davis and myself formed HANDI. We recognised the need and opportunity for a collaborate organisation to support health and care app developers. Here is our story.

HANDI is a not-for-profit community interest company created by diverse group of people to promote our shared vision. Supporting developers of health and care apps to disrupt, innovate and cooperate to transform health and care.

HANDI wants to enable the creation of apps to transform wellbeing and the delivery of health and care.

We will do this by:

Facilitating learning, networking and partnerships between those at the frontline of health and care who understand the requirements with those with the skills, tools and resources to deliver innovation solutions. Encouraging the creation of the technical and cultural environment in which apps can thrive, interoperate and be orchestrated to work together for the benefit of patients, carers, service users and the health and care professionals that provide their care.

We believe that apps can help us transform the way we promote wellbeing and deliver health and care in ways that traditional IT as so far substantially failed to do. This is because apps are much quicker and easier to develop and deploy than traditional software applications and because the app paradigm and the development approach that goes with it is one in which it is much easier to engage front line health and care staff, patients, services user and carers which help ensure apps solve real problems and work for the people who they are intended to help. We believe that by supporting the emerging app community and promoting their needs and interest we can increase the speed with which the promise of apps can be realised.

Our Brand

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Disrupt, Innovate, Support.

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Louise Wilson

PO Box 5309, Leamington Spa, CV31 9GT 08456 170101 www.handihealth.org: info@handihealth.org

Disrupt, Innovate, Support.

With Compliments

Handi Health Community Interest Company - limited by guarantee registered in England number 07999302 Registered Ofce: The Oakley, Kidderminster Rd, Droitwich, Worcestershire. WR9 9AY

Our Workshops

Newcastle
The first HANDI workshop hosted by Newcastle University Business School attracted a capacity crowd of 80+ delegates including patients and service users, clinicians and other health are care professionals and software developers. There was a real buzz in the room helped along by a live twitter feed projected during the meeting with tweets from the audience and those following on twitter from around the world. The event spawned a core of people who are now taking the North East HANDI Cluster forward and generated articles in the press and on various health and care blogs.

Online

www.handihealth.org
Our website has allowed us to register interest and promote our launch events. It also allowed us to disseminate outputs from our work shop and initiate discussion of themes of importance to app developers. We have used text, pictures and video to help communicate effectively. We continue to build a much richer web platform that will help us to support our community more effectively. This will include: Discussion forums A knowledge base with documents, video and podcasts Training material A database to help match people with resources and partners Facilities to support our local clusters and manage the administration

www.handihealth.org

Twitter @handihealth

Our Future

Plans
HANDIs future plans include expanding our network of local clusters to give us good coverage of the UK. We have well advanced plans for West Yorkshire and Central Scotland and hope to extend further to include South Wales, the NW, SW and East Anglia. We plan to develop our activities in local clusters in ways that reflect what members of each cluster want but this is likely to include: Meetings and training courses Networking and speed dating events Hackathons

We are about helping app developers produce the right app as quickly and efficiently as possible and deploying it with all those who might benefit from it. We want to do these by exploiting the power of collaborative working facilitated using the power of social networking, crowd sourcing and internet technology, but also recognising the importance of face-to-face contact and human relationships between all of those in our community.