Partner with Us To Bring Your Innovation to Life
We work with businesses to support the development of medical devices, diagnostics and digital technologies, accelerating the regulatory approvals process and smoothing the adoption pathway into the NHS and other healthcare institutions.
We can partner with you to help bring your innovations to life. Our focus is always on putting patients first, and we collaborate with businesses to develop better health technologies that ultimately benefit patients and the broader healthcare sector. If you’re looking for unparalleled access to cutting-edge health technology research, expert clinical and academic support, and a faster route through regulatory approvals, get in touch.
Get in touch to talk about how we can collaborate by emailing us here.
What sets us apart?
Our ability to seamlessly connect innovative medical technology businesses with real-world healthcare environments and clinical expertise to accelerate the development, validation and market adoption of healthcare technologies.
Our Areas of Expertise
Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE)
By adopting a patient-centred approach, we place patients at the heart of HealthTech Design and Development. We run active patient recruitment projects at our purpose-built research facility in collaboration with NIHR Patient Recruitment Centres. These measures ensure the safety, well-being and needs of our patients whilst enabling testing, research and data gathering.
Clinical staff
We have access to some of the best clinicians in their fields with specialist interests across all areas of medical research, as well as expert academics, commercial management and patient partners.
Human factors engineering
We apply testing and data gathering on physical and psychological characteristics of patients and clinical staff to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems, making them safe, comfortable, and effective for clinical use.
Our approach
Technology evolves rapidly. We put systems in place to quickly and safely evaluate technologies, ensuring that the best innovations which provide maximum value for NHS patients, progress through the developmental and regulatory processes in a seamless way. Our HRC consists of expert academics, clinicians, commercial management and patient partners.
We use our combined expertise to support the journey through regulation, reducing the time to target, collect and present evidence. We work with local, national and international companies and help HealthTech developers collaborate with regulators. We aim to achieve this by building on our current successes and capacity, including the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Exeter Biomedical Research Centre. Our core themes of expertise are:
- rehabilitation and frailty
- diagnostics and biomarkers
- data-led research and digital innovation
- sustainable innovation
- commercialisation and capacity
We use these themes to develop HealthTech. We also have the expertise to support industry and other HealthTech developers to tackle regulatory requirements. Our focus is on research and technologies that address key local challenges to patients.
What can we offer?
- Healthcare technical solutions. We co-develop and evaluate data algorithms, AI, Apps and sensor technology (on person and in environments) for use in clinical and community settings.
- Infrastructure & facilities. We have systems and partnerships in place to quickly evaluate new technologies including; the NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre, the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula (PenARC), the Clinical Research Network South West Peninsula, the NIHR Exeter Clinical Research Facility, the VSimulators, University of Exeter multi-disciplinary research facility, and the Mireille Gillings Neuroimaging Centre.
- Collaboration and partnership. We work with local, national and international companies as well as regulatory bodies, NHS health and care organisations, charities and development partners.
- Navigating the regulatory landscape. We use our combined expertise to support the journey through regulation, reducing the time to target, collect and present evidence. This ensures that new developments progress through the developmental and regulatory processes in a seamless and streamlined way, reducing time to market.
Get in touch to bring your innovation to life
If you are looking for access to the best health technology research infrastructure, clinical and academic expertise and a fast track route through the regulatory approvals process, then get in touch by emailing us here.
