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NICE Evidence Standards Framework for digital health and care technologies

NICE Evidence Standards Framework for digital health and care technologies

Digital health technologies offer the potential for user and system benefits, but many have low levels of evidence to support their effectiveness.  NICE has worked with partners in the UK to develop evidence standards that ensure digital technologies used in the UK health and care system are clinically effective and offer economic value.

The aim of the standards is to make it easier for innovators and commissioners to understand what good levels of evidence for digital health and care technologies look like. Digital healthcare technologies must also meet the needs of the health and care system, patients, carers, and users. You can read more about the evidence standards here.

Speakers: 

  • Dr Grace Jennings (Senior Scientific Adviser at NICE)

    Grace joined NICE Scientific Advice as a Technical Adviser in April 2014, after working as a Technical Analyst in NICE Technology Appraisals. She is the head of the educational programme in Scientific Advice including the LSE-NICE joint Executive Master’s degree course and has been a key developer of the award-winning META (Medtech Early Technical Assessment) tool and leads on the training programme. Grace graduated in Biomedical Sciences (King’s College, London and Berkeley, University of California) before undertaking post-graduate studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She obtained an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases, before completing a PhD entitled ‘A policy analysis of biological warfare defence and emerging infectious diseases in an international context'. She lectures and coordinates outbreak scenario exercises each year as a Visiting Fellow at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

  • Harriet Unsworth (Senior Technical Analyst - IAPT assessment briefings at NICE)
    Harriet Unsworth is a senior technical analyst at NICE. She is the technical lead for NICE’s evaluations of digitally enabled psychological therapies for use in IAPT services. She also co-authored NICE’s evidence standards framework for digital health and care technologies. Before this, Harriet was part of NICE’s medical technologies evaluation programme, where she helped to build the medtech innovation briefing programme. Her professional interests lie in the challenges and opportunities of evaluating digital healthcare technologies. Harriet has a PhD in molecular biology and worked in cancer research before joining NICE.