Pitch-In digital health webinar 3: evidence and evaluation

Evidence and evaluation: how to design digital health tools with evaluation in mind and gather evidence of impact.
One of the most important aspects of digital health development: how to ensure that evidence-gathering and evaluation become integral parts of the process rather than mere afterthoughts or even forgotten entirely. The third in a series of four webinars on digital health innovation (broadcast live on Wed 10th 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
Abigail Millings, Senior Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University
Abigail completed her PhD and ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship on relationships science, examining how personality predicts well-being. She then worked on a Randomised Controlled Trial of CBT and began examining how relationships and therapeutic interventions interact, before moving into the digital sphere at an online CBT company, designing and evaluating digital interventions. Abigail joined the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Psychology in 2013, and developed a programme of research on relationships, mental health, and technologies for well-being. In 2020, Abigail joined the Centre for Behavioural Science and Applied Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University as a Senior Research Fellow, to lead research that applies relationship science and behaviour change to health and well-being, often via digital means. www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-pe...
Jen Martin, Senior Programme Manager, NIHR MindTech Cooperative
Dr Jen Martin has worked in the healthcare technology field for more than 20 years and is currently Senior Programme Manager of the NIHR MindTech MedTech Co-operative. Prior to this, Jen was Senior Research Fellow in Human Factors at the University of Nottingham. Jen’s work is focussed on the development, evaluation and adoption of mental health technologies such as Virtual Reality, games and digital interventions. She is an investigator on a number of clinical trials of digital health technologies, including the NIHR-funded gameChange project which is using VR to transform the lives of people with psychosis and is leading the implementation workstream within this. www.mindtech.org.uk/about-us/...
Mark Salmon, Programme Director at NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Mark Salmon is Programme Director for Information Resources at NICE and joined the organisation in 2001. He is part of the NICE team that developed the NICE’s Evidence Standards Framework for Digital Health Technologies published on the NICE website in March 2019 and that developed a series of pilot NICE Health App Briefings published in November 2017 and more recently chaired the Steering Group for NICE’s pilot guidance evaluation programme for digital health technologies, chairing the Steering Group for this project.
Steven Ariss, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Sheffield
Dr Steven Ariss is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield, based in the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies and Mental Health research groups and the Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Health (CATCH). He has a background in Sociology and is an evaluator and applied health researcher with interests in the use of mixed-methods for Real-World Evaluation. He specialises in organisational change; working closely with stakeholders to co-design, implement, evaluate and scale-up health services innovations, including digital health technologies. He also teaches the application of complexity science and theory-based evaluation methodologies (including Realist and Developmental Evaluation).
Supported by Pitch-In: Promoting the Internet of Things via Collaboration between HEIs and Industry, sponsored by Research England’s Connecting Capability Fund.