Chosen by an expert panel of clinical, patient and commercial assessors, Dr Adrian Brown, CEO of Itecho Health will join a select group of less than 100 NIA Fellows across the country, whose innovations offer solutions to key issues for the health service in England.
“This appointment is a huge honour and I’m so grateful to the Itecho team and wider Nexus community for their vital support to achieve this. I’m looking forward to working with the NIA as they help businesses who are making a big difference to issues such as waiting lists and health inequalities in the NHS, to scale up and grow,” said Adrian Brown.
“Our digital platform, Ascelus, was co-designed with patients specifically to address those issues and improve patient care management for people with long-term conditions including cancer. We are working closely with patients, clinicians, carers and support groups to ensure the process is as accessible and inclusive as possible.”
Itecho’s platform enables patients who need regular monitoring to input and track their own symptoms, allowing doctors to access their blood and pathology results online, review them and send on to their patients with any messages and advice.
Itecho Health are exploring a future collaboration projects to use data to enable clinicians to triage patients more effectively and improve patient care.
Dr Martin Stow, Nexus Director and Chair, said: “We’re incredibly proud that members of the Nexus community have been selected as Fellows of such a prestigious national accelerator programme and wish Adrian all the very best as they continue to grow their businesses and tackle vital issues for the NHS and patient care.”
The NHS Innovation Accelerator Programme has supported the scaling of 85 healthcare innovations to date, across England, creating over a thousand jobs and 60 NIA-supported innovations have gone on to be successfully marketed internationally.
