Digital health
With access to longitudinal data of 9.7m patients in the London alone, and the world’s first digitally integrated healthcare system, London is a prime location for digital health development and integration with the NHS.
$17.3bn
company value in digital health in London
Ranked in the
top 5
digital cities globally
Home to
531
digital health companies
>70%
of older patients in the UK want to use digital health services
Success stories:
iLoF
iLoF develops an artificial intelligence-based drug discovery and development platform for personalised medicines, designed to target complex diseases including Alzheimer’s, COVID-19 and ovarian cancer. This London-based start-up has raised almost £8m in funding, was named start-up of the year by Daily DealFlow, and featured in Google for Startups Showcase in 2020.
Success stories:
The Virtual 3D Hearth Project
The virtual 3D heart project is a collaboration between Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London to project patients’ medical images from 3D echocardiography, CT or MRI to a virtual reality environment allowing clinicians to visualise complex heart structures from all angles prior to surgery.
Success stories:
Thymia apollo
Thymia apollo, named one of the top 21 mental health companies worldwide, offers an AI solution for screening for depression symptoms in order to diagnose or monitor patients (also remotely). Patients can be assessed objectively and reliably using gamified activities on their smartphone. The solution is meant to be a decision support tool and offer objective and reliable insights into depression symptoms and not to replace the clinicians.
Programmes & initiatives
- Digitalhealth.london offers a number of programmes, including their 12-month accelerator, to help digital health companies and entrepreneurs scale-up and succeed. Learn more
- The Francis Crick Institute’s KQ Labs accelerator programme supports start-ups using data to improve human health. Learn more
- For other relevant support programmes and funding see Support.
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AI & data science
Cell & gene therapy
Diagnostics & biomarkers
Genomics
Cardiovascular & respiratory
Immunology & infectious disease
Mental health & neurodegeneration
