Digital Health Hub

The King’s Health Partners Digital Health Academy offers resources to equip digital innovators to develop and deploy digital health solutions.

We offer asynchronous and hybrid modules, resources and workshops, ranging from core data science to co-creation and entrepreneurship, where learners can create their own bespoke training experience in digital health.

For training currently available, please visit the Digital Health Training website.

Co-design – the process of creating and developing a product or service in ongoing collaboration with all those involved in its use – can be a highly effective way to improve digital health and care, as well as business outcomes. The Hub offers four free resources to support co-design for digital health: 

• An online course, Co-design for Digital Health (6 X 20 minute recorded sessions with follow-up questions. The course can be completed in your own time). 
• An online Co-design Methods Library (‘how to’ information on co-design methods and tools to complement the course).  
• One-to-one advice sessions (30-minute online sessions which offer a space to explore any co-design-related aspects of your digital health project with our design researchers. This can include (but is not limited to) planning, selecting, and facilitating co-design methods in your project; ways to engage and work with end users; and signposting to relevant co-design resources).  
• Taster co-design methods workshops (2-hour sessions – some in person, and some online – which introduce individual design methods, and offer case studies, practical tips, and activities to support their use). 

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In collaboration with the AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare, the Translation Hub provides a safe, ethical, and efficient way to access and use health data for research. Our Hub offers HRA-approved frameworks that speed up data access and helps ideas into real digital health solutions faster.

What We Do

We make it easier for researchers, innovators, companies and clinicians to:

• Develop & train robust AI models across diverse healthcare settings;
• Validate & deploy solutions quickly, reducing time from concept to real-world use;
• Improve data quality & interoperability to unlock better results.

Our Platforms

We deliver through three core platforms:

The Anonymised Database
Provides access to de-identified data from NHS Trust electronic health records within a secure, trusted research environment.

The Federated Learning & Interoperability Platform (FLIP)
Standardises data across NHS Trusts and enables AI model training without centralising sensitive information — keeping patient data private.

The AI Deployment Engine (AIDE)
Connects AI models with healthcare records and aligns with clinical workflows, making it easier to validate and deploy your solutions.

All three platforms are overseen by the Data Access Committee (DAC), ensuring responsible use of data. 

Support & Guidance

We also provide hands-on support to help you make the most of these resources:

• Direct advice sessions: Contact us to book a one-to-one discussion about your project.
• Drop-in sessions: Every second Tuesday of the month get expert advice on data access, model development, and deployment, book a slot here.
• Training & support materials:  We are developing a range of training and support materials on: AI ethics and information governance, step-by-step guides for using our platforms, quality management system (QMS) processes, and guidance on software as a medical device (SaMD). Keep an eye on this page for their launch.

Ready to get started? 

Get in touch with us to learn more
 

All companies joining our Hub will benefit from our extensive entrepreneurship support. Our unique acceleration programme offers companies access to training and support from Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs and Health Technology Assessment experts.

The programmes will be delivered in the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE), on the St Thomas’ Hospital campus. LIHE has been designed to facilitate the translation of medical devices to market collocating academics, clinicians, startups, experts, and industry partners, to naturally foster collaboration.

• King’s College London (lead)
• South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
• King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

NHS Trusts

• University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust;
• East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust;
• Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

Industry

• Proximie;
• AINOSTICS Limited;
• Arjuna Technologies
• British Telecommunications PLC;
• CMR Surgical;
• Elaitra Ltd;
• iPrescribe Exercise Digital Ltd (EXi);
• FITFILE;
• GSK;
• Hypervision Surgical Ltd;
• IBM
• Innersight Labs Ltd;
• Mayden;
• Medtronic;
• Sosei Heptares;
• Siemens Healthineers;
• Owkin;
• UCB Biopharma UK;
• deepc;
• AstraZeneca;
• Nvidia.

Other organisations

• The British Association of Social Work (BASW);
• NIHR Cross-ARC Applied Health Informatics Network;
• MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences;
• Monash Partners;
• Patient Coalition for AI, Data and Digital Tech in Health;
• Science and Engineering Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA);
• Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London.

In line with our emphasis on co-designing digital health technologies, the work of the Hub itself is shaped and guided by our Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement group (PPIE). The group feeds into all four pillars of the Hub, from contributing to the design of online training modules, to developing and co-facilitating workshops, to advising on our forthcoming accelerator programme. They are ‘experts by experience’ and bring this knowledge, along with their wealth of experience from PPIE work on other projects, to the KHP Digital Health Hub.  

If you are interested in being part of this group, please contact Annie Howitt (PPIE Officer) for more information: annie.howitt@kcl.ac.uk.