PhD

Cornwall Assessment

eHealth Overview of Cornwall

• Cornwall Health profile
• Population, life expectancy, causes of death
• Care Sector Business and Skills Analysis
• Technology infrastructure
• Current eHealth sector

Goal = Identify the minimum requirements for the care robotics market

Challenges - Care Robotics

Needs assessment

• Acceptability
• Main challenges for robots

Goal = Perceptions of stakeholders towards care robotics and working to generate a receptive market.

• Understand where and how robots can be used cost effectively

Barriers and Enablers

• SMEs and Startups to develop technology in Cornwall and to work in the healthcare sector
• Interviews
• Survey

Goal = An assessment of the current potential to develop or deliver robotics

Barriers and Enablers

Change Perception

• Outcome of my work
• It's possible to develop technology.
• By setting examples
• SMEs diversification
• Startups

Goal = SMEs believe it's possible to develop technology in Cornwall

Change Perception - Base Line

• Measure change
• Survey for Barriers and Enablers
• How difficult (1) or easy (5) is it to develop devices in Cornwall?
• How unlikely (1) or likely (5) would you diversify your business activities by developing devices?

Goal = Measure impact of the project

Eco-system = Tech Cluster

• Support and Sustain - Developement of Ehealth robotics
• Creating the right actors for the market
• Startups
• Network
• SMEs
• health and social care professionals
• Support new ventures
• Setting up a distribution channel

Goal = Build a stronger eco-system that will continue beyond the end of the project.

Tech Cluster = Market actors

Startups - EPIC Start

• 30/10/2017

• Three functions – examples / suppliers / sustain

Startups - EPIC Start

• 29 meetings
• Outcomes
• 2 prototypes
• 5 proposals
• 1 registered business

SMEs technology diversification

• Not only supply but also support environment

Objective

Create a care robotics sector in Cornwall

Objective

An Action Plan for the development and deployment of a care robotics sector that will sustainably support healthcare.

• Identify the potential enablers and barriers for sustainable use of these technologies.
• The work will involve live deployment of robots in the health sector as well as interaction with a range of stakeholders including systems developers, care receivers and care providers.

Objective

An Action Plan for the development and deployment of a care robotics sector that will sustainably support healthcare.

• Deliver a range of recommendations and non-functional requirements, both generic and sector-specific, that will facilitate future systems design, development and deployment.

Objective

Technology Strategy

Data collection

• Workshops
• Interviews
• Surveys

Technology strategy

• Action Plan for achieving a goal, set in the context of a rapidly changing technology environment.

Tech Cluster

• A geographic concentration of interconnected businesses, suppliers, and associated institutions in a particular field.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)