Last week we were delighted to welcome seven companies onto our new West of England Commercialisation Academy, designed to support health and care innovators whose products and services offer potential for wider adoption and scale.
Run in partnership with Triple Chasm, the eight-week programme will help each of the companies to develop their strategic commercialisation plans. The programme is based on the Triple Chasm Model®, which provides a holistic data-driven framework built on research into around 3,000 products taken to market.
The seven successful companies selected for our first Commercialisation Academy are:
- The Sound Doctor – bite-sized films and structured education courses to help people manage long-term conditions
- Feedback Medical (Bleepa) – a clinical collaboration platform designed to connect multiple NHS systems across care settings
- Cognitant (Healthinote) – a platform connecting people with accessible health resources and self-management tools and facilitating shared decision-making
- Avid – a range of engaging digital care programmes that comprise health coaching, content and data insights to drive proactive action for health risk reduction
- Expert Self Care – creator of information and signposting apps for health and wellbeing service providers
- RateMyShift – a real-time staff experience app that collects sentiment and feedback to facilitate timely dialogue between individuals and their line managers
- Acumentice (Sigma View) – automated patient pathway management, integrating data from multiple clinical systems to track patients accurately and in real-time.
Learn more about some of the participating companies and their innovations in this short video.
We asked some of the innovators why there were keen to join the Commercialisation Academy and how they found the kick-off session. This is what they told us:
Daisy Allington of Cognitant: “I’m delighted to be part of this programme to really learn from peers and from the educators around how to scale our innovation across the NHS. We’re building evidence all the time but it’s really important that we understand all of the internal and external factors to help us to really achieve that widespread adoption.”
Knut Schroeder of Expert Self Care: “There are a lot of challenges we face within the company to make sure our products address the needs of the NHS and the users, so I’m really keen to learn more from the experts here teaching us, and also from the other participants who are sharing their fantastic projects and who also share very similar challenges. I’m looking forward to sharing ideas and talking things through.”
Laura Tan of Avid: “I really enjoyed taking part in the programme today. It’s been so helpful for us to work out our commercial model and how we can make prevention part of the agenda and build it into the system. We got really useful insights and I’m looking forward to the rest of the programme.”
Richard Dulcamara of Feedback Medical: “We decided to join the Commercialisation Academy because we’ve currently got a number of sites producing strong evidence for the use of Bleepa and what we want to do now is to take that evidence and commercialise it into a strong proposition that really aligns with current NHS agendas.”
Rosie Runciman of The Sound Doctor: “We’re very excited to be on this training programme because it’s a really good opportunity to meet other organisations like us with products we’re passionate about, but we are struggling with certain elements to get to that next level. It’s a great opportunity to work with like-minded people and hopefully come up with some really good solutions.”
Alex Leach, Deputy Director of Programmes at Health Innovation West of England commented:
“We’ve been extremely impressed by the calibre of companies that applied to join our first Commercialisation Academy and are excited by the huge potential their innovations might offer the health and care system, and most of all benefit patients and citizens. We are keen to support impactful products and services to gain traction across the NHS, which can be extremely challenging and we’re confident this programme based on the successful Triple Chasm Model will help us achieve that goal.”
Sam Dods, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder, Triple Chasm added:
“We’re really pleased to be working with the Health Innovation West of England team – supporting a number of later-stage health and care innovators to navigate the most challenging stage of the commercialisation journey from successful prototyping and early customer traction to development of a scalable business model. This has been an excellent first day and we can already see participants having lightbulb moments and they taking on board so much so quickly in terms of food for thought for their product’s next steps. I believe this is going to be a fascinating and productive couple of months for all of us!”
Find out more about the West of England Commercialisation Academy here and visit our Innovation Exchange to access more resources and support for health and care innovators.
Posted on October 17, 2024
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