Cancer Innovation Challenge

Open Innovation to help Scotland become a world leading carer for people with cancerLaunched by the CMO on 24 March 2017, the Cancer Innovation Challenge is a £1M project funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) to encourage Innovation Centres in Scotland to work in partnership to help Scotland become a world leading carer for people with cancer. The project brings together three Innovation Centres, led by The Data Lab in collaboration with the Digital Health and Care Institute (DHI) and Stratified Medicine Scotland (SMS). Project delivery partners also include the Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme (IHDP), NHS National Services Scotland (NSS), University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling. The Challenge has two major work streams: • An open innovation funding call to develop new tools for patient reported outcomes and experiences• An open innovation funding call to identify innovative cancer data science solutionsThe Challenge also includes a programme of activities surrounding each work stream involving industry, the public and a variety of stakeholders in the wider health sector.
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