
Events
Our team in collaboration with the GM Digital Research Unit (also CAMHS.Digital) regularly hosts events where we discuss research and news about all aspects of digital health.
Digital Health Reading and Research Group (DHRRG)
Our team lead Pauline Whelan runs a weekly reading and research group, for 30 minutes 9:15 to 9:45am most Tuesdays. We discuss papers relevant to digital health, and also invite guest speakers from the field.
All are invited and welcome! Please sign up to our mailing list.
Find news of upcoming meetings at #DHRRG on Twitter
We want to make the DHRRG as inclusive and accessible as possible. If you have additional needs, please let us know and we’ll do what we can to make this group accessible for you.
Upcoming meetings
28th March 2023
Guest: Dr Alan Davies to discuss his work on developing a Digital Healthcare technologies competency framework, to underpin learning needs assessments and curricula design to enable practitioners to work effectively with these technologies in the future. This was a collaboration with Health Education England and other colleagues in the Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Sciences at the University of Manchester.
Previous meetings
2023
14th March 2023
Guest: Imogen Levy to discuss her Work as Head of Product at NHS England
7th March 2023
Guest: Dr Junaid Hussain, Practicing Primary Care Clinician, Digital Health Advisor/Ranting Specialist and Director of Man Confidence, to discuss digital health
14th February 2023
Member discuss Episode 25 of the National Health Executive podcast
17th January 2023
Guest: Lex van Velsen to discuss “The Limitations of User-and Human-Centered Design in an eHealth Context and How to Move Beyond Them”
Previous years
2022
13th December 2022
Members will share a favourite article, blog, podcast, video, Tweet, project you’ve worked on, conference you enjoyed, or something else related to digital health from 2022 and speak about this briefly
29th November 2022
Guest: Holly Bear to discuss “Determination of Markers of Successful Implementation of Mental Health Apps for Young People: Systematic Review”
15th November 2022 (12:00pm-12:30pm)
Guest: Kristin P. Bennett to discuss “Quantifying representativeness in randomized clinical trials using machine learning fairness metrics”
25th October 2022
Guest: Manjul Rathee, Co-founder & CEO, BFB Labs, to discuss “Lumi Nova”
18th October 2022
Guest: Janak Gunatilleke to discuss his book “Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Unlocking its Potential”
11th October 2022
Guest: Rochelle Gold, Head of User Research, NHS Digital, to discuss “Usability is a clinical safety issue: User research at NHS Digital”
4th October 2022 (4:30pm)
Guest: Trina Histon to discuss “Real-world implementation of digital mental health- lessons learned”
27th September 2022
Guest: Dr Allison Crawford and Dr Amanda Gambin, University of Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), to discuss “Health Equity Impact Assessment tool for Digital Health”
- Crawford A, Serhal E. Digital Health Equity and COVID-19: The Innovation Curve Cannot Reinforce the Social Gradient of Health. J Med Internet Res. 2020 Jun 2;22(6):e19361
- Kaihlanen AM, Virtanen L, Buchert U, Safarov N, Valkonen P, Hietapakka L, Hörhammer I, Kujala S, Kouvonen A, Heponiemi T. Towards digital health equity – a qualitative study of the challenges experienced by vulnerable groups in using digital health services in the COVID-19 era. BMC Health Serv Res. 2022 Feb 12;22(1):188
6th September 2022
Guest: Janine Aitken, “Digital Citizen Panel”
21st June 2022
Guest: David Drummond, “Challenges of digital medicine for children”
14th June 2022
Guest: David Wong, “An Apple a Day Keeps the AI Away”
26th April 2022
Guest: Kate Loveys, “A digital human for delivering a remote loneliness and stress intervention to younger and older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: Feasibility and acceptability data”
12th April 2022
Guest: Daryl Kayes, NHS Digital, to discuss “An Overview of the Cyber Security Operations Centre”
5th April 2022
Guest: Toby Lewis, The Kings Fund, to discuss “Integrated care systems in the UK, population health approaches to addressing health inequalities and the role of health data in this process”
29th March 2022
Guest: Victoria Betton to discuss her book “Towards a Digital Ecology: NHS Digital Adoption through the COVID-19 Looking Glass“
15th March 2022
Guest: Miranda Mourby to discuss “Data Integration for Personalised Medicine: Data Protection & Control”
8th March 2022
Guest: Emily Griffiths to discuss “Findability of UK e-cohorts”
1st March 2022
Guest: Simon Foster to discuss “The experiences, needs and barriers of people with impairments related to usability and accessibility of digital health solutions, levels of involvement in the design process and strategies for participatory and universal design: a scoping review”
22nd February 2022
Guest: Steven Antrobus. “AFFIRMO: Building a digital intervention across 6 countries”
15th February 2022
Guest: Eleanora Harwich, NHSX, “The role of the NHS AI Lab in adoption of AI in health and care in the UK”
1st February 2022
Guest: Richard Dodd “Co-design eADAPT workshop”
11th January 2022
Guest: Matt Machin “Principles for Developing Innovative HIV Digital Health Interventions“
2021
14th December 2021
Guest: Olga Perski, “Technology-mediated just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) to reduce harmful substance use: a systematic review“
7th December 2021
Guest: Elizabeth Kirkham, “Prioritising people with mental illness in mental health data science”
30th November 2021
University of Toronto, eHealth Innovation Team
16th November 2021
Guest: Mike Dorsch, “Effects of a Novel Contextual Just-In-Time Mobile App Intervention (LowSalt4Life) on Sodium Intake in Adults With Hypertension: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial”
9th November 2021
Dose-Response Research in Digital Health Interventions: Concepts, Considerations, and Challenges
26th October 2021
Guest: Felipa Schmidt, “A Literature Review on Online Child Sexual Abuse: Prevalence, Psychological Implications, and Treatment”
19th October 2021
Guest: Matt Machin, “How hard can it be to add a button? Managing customer expectations in research software projects”
12th October 2021
Guest: Lesley Soden, “Apps on Prescription”
5th October 2021
Guest: Claire Little, “And Now For Today’s Pain Forecast”
21st September 2021
Guest: Ruth Norris, who will lead an interactive Team Science session
7th September 2021
Guest: Richard Dodd, Developing User Interfaces
24th August 2021
Guest: Phil Booth, “GPDPR?”
17th August 2021
Guest: Ruth Norris, There is no I in Team
27th July 2021
Guest: Emily Griffiths to discuss “Ethical arguments around data-only health research in the NHS in England”
20th July 2021
Guest: Brett Hatfield, QueerTech
13th July 2021
Guest: Lucy Porte, Reviewing and recommending apps with ORCHA
29th June 2021
Guest: Videha Sharma to discuss “The challenge of complex multi-centre clinical pathways – a case study from kidney transplantation”
22nd June 2021
“The challenges and opportunities of mental health data sharing in the UK”
8th June 2021
Guest: Ian McNicoll: Interoperability and OpenEHR’
25th May 2021
Guest: Elizabeth Cotton to discuss “Uber Therapy and Digital Occupational Health”
18th May 2021
Guided Paper Discussion with Charlotte Stockton-Powdrell: Remote care for mental health: qualitative study with service users, carers and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic
11th May 2021
Guided Paper Discussion with Richard Dodd: “IDEAS (Integrate, Design, Assess, and Share): A Framework and Toolkit of Strategies for the Development of More Effective Digital Interventions to Change Health Behavior”
27th April 2021
Guest Speaker: Ruth Watkinson & Stephanie Gillibrand
“Research with a commercial partner: Working with Evergreens Life’s GP Services and Wellbeing App”
20th April 2021
Guest Speaker: Stephanie Gillibrand
“Public and Community Involvement and Engagement for the Greater Manchester Population Research Resource (GMPRR) project”
13th April 2021
Guest Speaker: John Sainsbury, Innovation Lead at Greater Manchester Mental Health
Membership of AKRIVIA: Service user consultation on the use of patient data in Mental Health for research, service improvement and audit purposes
23rd March 2021
Guest Speaker: Charlie Stockton-Powdrell
A new digital health collaboration between the University of Manchester and the University of Toronto – “CANUK Collaboration: An innovation pipeline to advance digital health and therapeutics”
16th March 2021
Guest Speaker: Jess Booth
Creating a digital app for patient and public involvement, and using virtual workshops in the development process
9th March 2021
HDR UK On Synthetic Data: First hour of recorded conference
2nd March 2021
- Guest Speaker: Becky Inkster “Early Warning Signs of a Mental Health Tsunami: A Coordinated Response to Gather Initial Data Insights From Multiple Digital Services Providers“
- Digital Support During COVID-19
- Summer 2021 Conference
23rd February 2021
Guest Speaker: Pritesh Mistry
“Putting Trust, Transparency and Fair Value at the Centre of Digital Health and Care“
2nd February 2021
- Adolescent mental health in the digital age: facts, fears, and future directions
- Internet and Computer-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Adolescents and Young Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, J Med Internet Res 2020;22(9):e17831
26th January 2021
Guest Speaker: Lamiece Hassan
#Datasaveslives: mixed methods analysis of a social media campaign to promote the benefits of using health data for research purposes
19th January 2021
Guest Speaker: Franziska Günther
“Digital Therapy to Support Recovery from Substance Abuse: Analysing User Data”.
2020
8th December 2020
Members will share 1 Digital Health related piece that they have enjoyed (be it an article, book, podcast, video, poster) and speak about this briefly
1st December 2020
Guest Speaker: Terika McCall to discuss:
- Acceptability of Telemedicine to Help African American Women Manage Anxiety and Depression
- The Acceptability of Text Messaging to Help African American Women Manage Anxiety and Depression: Cross-Sectional Survey Study
- User-centered recommendations for the development of a mobile application to support management of anxiety and depression in African American women
24th November 2020
- Podcast ‘Are the kids alright’
- The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics by Amy Orben (Article or YouTube Presentation)
17th November 2020
Keynote from “Mad Covid” at the Royal College of Psychiatrists: ‘Meaningful online psychiatric care in an era of Covid-19’
10th November 2020
Guest Speaker: Norina Gasteiger
Co-designing robots with and for older adults
3rd November 2020
Guest Speaker: Aislinn Bergin to discuss “Preventive digital mental health interventions for children and young people: a review of the design and reporting of research“
27th October 2020
- Podcast on Digital Mental Health
- Engaging Children and Young People in Digital Mental Health Interventions: Systematic Review of Modes of Delivery, Facilitators, and Barriers
20th October 2020
Guest Speaker: Lydia Pearson on GMMH Digital Mental Health Review
13th October 2020
- An uncomfortable truth: digital isn’t perfect, but neither is face-to-face, The King’s Fund
- Mental health services and COVID-19: preparing for the rising tide, NHS Confederation
- London NHS bodies team up to plan £2m digital mental-health platform for young people, Public Technology
6th October 2020
Guest Speaker: Samantha Connolly to discuss “Leveraging Implementation Science to Understand Factors Influencing Sustained Use of Mental Health Apps: a Narrative Review“
29th September 2020
- A pilot study using ecological momentary assessment via smartphone application to identify adolescent problematic internet use
- Technology Evaluation and Assessment Criteria for Health Apps (TEACH-Apps): Pilot Study
22nd September 2020
- Too Much of a Good Thing: Investigating the Association between Actual Smartphone Use and Individual Well-Being
- Missed opportunities for impact in patient and carer involvement: a mixed methods case study of research priority setting
15th September 2020
- Screens, Teens, and Psychological Well-Being: Evidence From Three Time-Use-Diary Studies.
- Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction
8th September 2020
- Contextualising the link between adolescents’ use of digital technology and their mental health: a multi‐country study of time spent online and life satisfaction
- A pilot study using ecological momentary assessment via smartphone application to identify adolescent problematic internet use
11th August 2020
Guest Speaker: Henny Swan on Software Accessibility
28th July 2020
- Young adults’ perceptions of using wearables, social media and other technologies to detect worsening mental health: A qualitative study
- “Beyond Mobile Apps: a Survey of Technologies for Mental Well-being“
21st July 2020
- The Person Based Approach to Intervention Development
- Usability Testing Blog
- Inclusive Design Principles
14th July 2020
7th July 2020
- Reflections, impact and recommendations of a co-produced qualitative study with young people who have experience of mental health difficulties
- GRIPP2 reporting checklists: tools to improve reporting of patient and public involvement in research
30th June 2020
- Podcast on Digital Health Unplugged: How NHS trusts can encourage innovation
- A Framework for Analyzing and Measuring Usage and Engagement Data (AMUsED) in Digital Interventions
23rd June 2020
- “Sorry I Didn’t Hear You.” The Ethics of Voice Computing and AI in High Risk Mental Health Populations
- ‘AI gone mental’: engagement and ethics in datadriven technology for mental health
16th June 2020
- Parenting Science Gang: radical co-creation of research projects led by parents of young children
- The dark side of coproduction: do the costs outweigh the benefits for health research?
- Lost in the shadows: reflections on the dark side of co-production
9th June 2020
Guest Speaker: Sarah Knowles to discuss “PPI and Remote Co-Design“
2nd June 2020
- A Framework for Applying Natural Language Processing in Digital Health Interventions
- What next for digital tech in public health?
26th May 2020
- Natural Language Processing of Clinical Notes on Chronic Diseases
- Artificial Intelligence Meets Mental Health Therapy
19th May 2020
- Clinical review of user engagement with mental health smartphone apps
- Generation and evaluation of artificial mental health records for Natural Language Processing
12th May 2020
- COVID19 Society Impact
- CogStack – experiences of deploying integrated information retrieval and extraction services in a large National Health Service Foundation Trust hospital
5th May 2020
- Pheme Research Project Intro Video
- Coronavirus: Here’s how you can stop bad information from going viral
- Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media
28th April 2020
- Natural language processing for structuring clinical text data on depression using UK-CRIS
- How AI will liberate doctors from keyboards and basements – Video
21st April 2020
- Blockchain in health care: hype, trust, and digital health
- Digital navigators to implement smartphone and digital tools in care
7th April 2020
- Digital Mental Health and COVID-19: Using Technology Today to Accelerate the Curve on Access and Quality Tomorrow
- VR for Pain Relief
- Virtual reality in the assessment, understanding, and treatment of mental health disorders
31st March 2020
- Blockchain in healthcare and health sciences–a scoping review
- Understanding How Virtual Reality Can Support Mindfulness Practice: Mixed Methods Study
24th March 2020
- Digital Mental Health Interventions for Depression, Anxiety, and Enhancement of Psychological Well-Being Among College Students
- The Doctor-Patient Relationship with Abraham Verghese
17th March 2020
- SemEHR: A general-purpose semantic search system to surface semantic data from clinical notes for tailored care, trial recruitment, and clinical research
- In response to Ballantyne and Schaefer’s ‘Consent and the ethical duty to participate in health data research’
10th March 2020
- Newsnight video about Babylon Health
- David Oliver: Lessons from the Babylon Health saga
- Digital Health and the State of Interoperable Electronic Health Records
3rd March 2020
- Learning Health Systems
- Conceptualising and creating a global learning health system
- Coproduction of healthcare service
25th February 2020
- Digital innovation evaluation: user perceptions of innovation readiness, digital confidence, innovation adoption, user experience and behaviour change
- Spreading and scaling up innovation and improvement
18th February 2020
- Beyond Adoption: A New Framework for Theorizing and Evaluating Nonadoption, Abandonment, and Challenges to the Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability of Health and Care Technologies.
- Digital health interventions and inequalities: the case for a new paradigm
10th February 2020
Seminar: Professor Darrell Mann “Why 98% of digital health solutions fail and how to make sure ours is in the 2%”
Get in touch
Contact us to find out more, ask any questions and get involved!
- Email: pauline.whelan@manchester.ac.uk
- Join in the conversation on twitter #dhrrg