The 1st HCI and Digital Health Forum: Technologies and Business Opportunities between China and UK: Workshop at British HCI 2016

Inspired by Fusion, the theme of British HCI 2016, the workshop would integrate research, business and health investment together. Digital health is the convergence of the digital and genomic revolutions with health, healthcare, living, and society. Digital health is empowering people to better track, manage, and improve their own and their family’s health, to live better, more productive lives, and to improve society. It’s also helping to reduce inefficiencies in healthcare delivery, improve access, reduce costs, increase quality, and make medicine more personalized and precise. Venture investment in digital health in 2014 reached $4.1 billion, a 125% increase year-over-year. Remarkably, aggregate investing in digital health has surpassed that in traditional healthcare and medical devices for the same period of time. The current proposal is also an echo for the newly founded Digital Health Institute in Bournemouth University.