Health Innovation Manchester
Health Innovation Manchester is an academic health science centre established in October 2017 to drive innovation in healthcare in Greater Manchester.
The Chief Executive is Dr Ben Bridgewater and it is based on the main Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust site.
It has established the Dementia Industry Group, a collaboration with six global pharmaceutical companies.
In November 2018 it announced a £300,000 fund for innovations in the healthcare system in Greater Manchester. It supplied the Women’s Care, Help and Inspire Project in Oldham with AliveCor Kardia mobile electrocardiogram devices, used for the detection of Atrial Fibrillation and trained the members to use them so they could perform tests within the South Asian community in Oldham, where it was thought there were many undiagnosed patients.
It announced a partnership with the Association of British HealthTech Industries, to be known as the Greater Manchester Health Technologies Group in November 2018.
