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Cross-sector, cross-disciplinary, open to all

Interaction and cooperation are at the heart of everything we do

We believe the best things in digital health happen through collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas and expertise, which is why we're resolutely committed to engaging people across disciplines and sectors. We've worked hard to build something that helps to grow the DHOx community and facilitate interaction between people from different fields and institutions and backgrounds, and strive to make things free and open wherever possible. This is primarily achieved through our core activities:

Seminars

DHOx has had a consisently high-quality monthly evening seminars series, with over 40 speakers since 2014, covering topics such as Primary Care, Serious Games, Wearable Technology, Design and UX, Signal Processing, Global Health, and Seed and VC Funding.

Hack Weekends

There have now been four DHOx Hack Weekends, with over 200 people attending and nearly 30 projects started. Some projects have gone on to bigger things, some have led to working relationships, but everyone has learned a lot, and importantly had fun whilst addressing new problems in creative ways.

Workshops and Masterclasses

2016 saw DHOx hold its first workshops, with a day-long workshop on Design Thinking and User Centred Design, followed by a How-to-hack workshop in preparation for the Summer 2016 Hack Weekend. An 8-session workshop is coming up in the autumn of 2016, with topics such as 'Dealing with Data', 'Business Model Canvas for digital health', and 'Research Kit, Health Kit and Care Kit'.

Conference

We're in the planning stages for our conference in 2017. Watch this space!

Some of our Previous Speakers and Talks

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Upcoming Events

Join us at one of our upcoming Digital Health Oxford events

Featured Recent Talks

Tim Allan and Mat Johnson from NHS.UK gave the keynote at the "UX and Co-design in Healthcare " in Oct 2016, talking about their work in digitally connecting patients to health services.

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You can find videos of all our recorded sessions on our Vimeo page

Shane Tickell, CEO of IMS MAXIMS talked at the Sept 2016 event on "Open Source and Open Standards", about the benefits of open source software and their own open source solution, and successful case studies where it is being used in NHS trusts.

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Emilie Glazer and James Godwin from Ctrl Group, spoke at the event on "Co-design and UX in Healthcare" in October 2016 about the Dementia Citizens project they have worked on with the Department of Health and Nesta, building a citizen science platform.

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Latest Blog Posts

  • Disruptive Healthcare Technologies

    Posted in Guest blog, General on Mar 10, 2017

    In this interview for the Horizon2020 website ahead of the Disruptive Technologies 2016 conference in London last year, Dave Fletcher, MD of White October and long time DHOx supporter discusses digital innovations in the healthcare space and how disruptive technologies stand to progress in this arena.

  • Newsletter - 1 March 2017

    Posted in Newsletter, General on Mar 01, 2017

    Newsletter containing details of the next DHOx workshop (on User Story Mapping), plus recent blog posts, and other Oxford or relevant external events.

Who We Are

Digital Health Oxford is powered by an amazing group of volunteers who help to make the community run smoothly. Reflecting the digital health ecosystem at large, they comprise clinicians, software engineers, academic researchers, entrepreneurs and policy/decision makers. A huge thank you must go out to these people who make DHOx so successful.

Core Team
Richie Harrington

DHOx founder, Postdoctoral Researcher in population health informatics at University of Oxford

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Richie is a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Oxford, working in population health, big data and nutrition. He has a background in genetics, bioinformatics and medical informatics.

Chris Paton

Group Leader in Global Health Informatics at University of Oxford, medical doctor, founder of New Media Medicine

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Alexander Finlayson

Digital Health and Innovation Expert, Academic GP Doctor at University of Oxford

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Susan Graham

Biomedical Engineer and Entrepreneur, VP Engineering at Biocarbon Engineering

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Steering Group & Advisors
Chris Hinds

Senior Research Fellow and software team leader in Dept of Psychiatry at University of Oxford

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Gareth Nixon

Founder and Director at Global Initiative, digital agency. Digital startup and strategy expert. Co-founder of WHOAMI and DrDo.

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Denise Best

Associate Director, Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School (OUCAGS). Expert in training, careers and funding.

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John Powell

Professor of Public Health, NHS Consultant, expert on digital health. TV medical advisor. Editor of DIGITAL HEALTH journal.

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Dave Fletcher

Founder & MD of White October, digital agency. Co-founder of White October Events, running major tech conferences. Founding Chair of Digital Oxford.

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Nick de Pennington

Neurosurgeon, Medical Director of Oxford Biodesign, Co-founder of TheHill, Clinical Lead of Oxford Acute Referral System (OARS). Digital health and implementation expert.

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Fred Hersch

Chief Medical Officer at Telenor Health, Visiting Fellow at Skoll Centre for Entrepreneurship

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Sir Muir Gray

Director at Better Value Healthcare, Professor at Dept of Primary Care, University of Oxford, Chief Knowledge Officer, Dept of Health.

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From our community

Quality - high level good people, really sparky!
Great event! Informative and gripping.
Best thing to happen in Oxford since ... Radiohead
One of the best meetups, not to be missed!
As always, a really excellent event with fun and valuable outcomes. We're forming a group from our hack and progressing it, updating on here in due time.
Very enjoyable - great mix and calibre of participants, with good networking
Great atmosphere for networking and space to try out new ideas in a safe environment. Great cross fertilisation potential. Please do more!
Lots of nice people, and a chance for me to meet scientists, consultants, mentors, doctors, which helps us as developers to understood what digital health can do to make a better world.

DHOx is generously funded by our amazing sponsors and wouldn't be possible without them

Thank you!

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Global Initiative
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