Pitch-In digital health webinar 4: onboarding and implementation

Onboarding and implementation: how to acquire and retain users of digital health technologies.
A session which addresses one of the challenges in digital health development which it is easy to neglect or underestimate: how to ensure that people use - and continue to use - your digital health tool. The fourth and final webinar in our series on digital health innovation (broadcast live on Wed 17th Feb, 2021, 10:00-11:30am GMT).
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Chair for webinar sessions: Victoria Betton, Chief Innovation Officer, Mindwave
Victoria is Chief Innovation Officer at Mindwave, where she helps grow and develop the company's impact, working with the NHS, academia and the third sector to innovate with digital. She is a member of Tech UK’s Health and Care Council, HIMSS UK Advisory Board and Leeds City Region Digital Board. She is a trustee of refugee and asylum seeker charity Solace and a volunteer at Hackney Quest. She was previously founder and managing director of digital health consultancy mHabitat and collaboration space Co-Space North. She is a qualified social worker and coach with over twenty years’ experience in local government, third sector and the NHS. She has a PhD and is a published author.
Panelists
Aaron Sefi, Chief Research Officer, Kooth
Aaron Sefi is Chief Research Officer at Kooth, leading UK provider of digital mental health services for young people. He completed his masters in Counselling at the University of Manchester, and is currently studying for a doctorate in Clinical Research at the University of Exeter. He specialises in the use of nomothetic and idiographic outcome measures for digital use, and is published extensively in this area. Aaron is driven by aligning user needs and wants with an evidence base to ensure meaningful and valuable research and data is shared, understood and implemented.
Manjul Rathee, CEO BFB Labs
Manjul Rathee is a health tech expert and service designer, CEO of youth mental health tech company BFB Labs and co-founder of sight loss public health initiative Eye Heroes. She has helped develop award winning digital products and services, worked internationally for mission-driven organisations and has extensive experience in design and delivery of services for young people and better health.
Dr.Nihara Krause, CEO, stem4
Dr Nihara Krause is an award-winning Consultant Clinical Psychologist, visiting lecturer, speaker, and founder and CEO of stem4, a teenage mental health charity. Nihara has developed a wellbeing programme and a digital mental health literacy programme for secondary schools and colleges, and has written numerous resources and booklets on mental health including coping with the pandemic. She is the clinical creator of 4 evidence-based mental health apps for children and young people for stem4: Calm Harm, Clear Fear, Combined Minds and Move Mood, all developed co-collaboratively. Three of the apps also have accompanying resources to help during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nihara has been the mentor for mental health for the Youth Health Parliament, and contributed to the House of Lords enquiry into ‘Children and the Internet,’ the Children’s Society's ‘Safety Net’ report on children and cyberbullying, and the ‘Empathy Project’ for Facebook, and is part of the BPS expert group on advising on policy. Nihara contributes regularly to TV, radio and the media.
Dr. Stephen Potter, Researcher, The University of Sheffield
Stephen Potter is a researcher at the Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare (CATCH) within the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield. He has a background in computer science, artificial intelligence and engineering design, and while much of his career has been spent within academia, in that time he has gravitated towards working within multidisciplinary teams on applied research projects to address real-world problems. His current role covers various aspects of the use of digital technologies for health and social care provision from early-stage requirements and design through to evaluation and beyond.
Supported by Pitch-In: Promoting the Internet of Things via Collaboration between HEIs and Industry, sponsored by Research England’s Connecting Capability Fund.