Highlands & Islands Mental Health Ecosystem
The Scottish Rural Health Partnership (SRHP) and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) have jointly accepted an invitation from the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance) to establish a new Ecosystem in the Highlands & Islands.
We’re really excited by this fantastic opportunity to create a new permanent mutually beneficial partnership for the Highlands & Islands which will focus on rural mental health and active healthy ageing with the dual aim of improving the delivery of rural health and social care services, and providing economic benefits.
The Ecosystem brings together a community of multi-sector stakeholders interested in developing and delivering a joint agenda around optimising peoples’ mental and physical wellbeing within a remote and rural setting. We’ll seek to collaborate, identify and address some of the key gaps/challenges, and ensure that we are ‘bid ready’ for opportunities as they arise.
An important benefit of working together in an ECHAlliance Ecosystem is the multiplier effect and collaborating in a large international network of ecosystems.
Digital Health Innovation in the Highlands and Islands: COVID need and opportunities
On Wednesday 28th October 2020 we were support by ECHAlliance to offer a Popup ecosystem webinar on Digital Health Innovation in the Highlands and Islands: COVID need and opportunities
- Introduction and Welcome – Dr Mark Grindle, Chair, Highlands Ecosystem
- Connecting the dots across out Global Ecosystem Network - Andy Bleaden, Director Ecosystems and Membership ECHAlliance
- Digital Innovation for social and mental wellbeing: the not so new normal in remote communities of Western Isles - Martin Malcolm, Head of Public Health Intelligence, NHS western Isles
- Connecting beneficiaries to services and measuring impacts in the new normal - Jennifer Neff, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Elemental Software
- Innovating and adapting service during Covid 19 - Adrian McCabe, SHSCT MPower Implementation Lead, Southern Trust
- IT4Anxiety NW Europe Digital Health Project – current and future SME partner opportunities - Martin Malcolm, Head of Public Health Intelligence, NHS western Isles
The webinar was recorded and is available to view here.
Ecosystem Meeting
Wednesday 28 October 2020 - PopupEcosystem Webinar
Monday 13 May 2019 - Inverness College, Inverness
Monday 25 February 2019 - #hellodigital, An Lochran, Inverness
Monday 26 November 2018 - Launch Event.
To join the conversation
The Ecosystem is now on LinkedIn and we’ve created a private Group; Connect with us through Highlands & Islands Ecosystem for Rural Mental Health & Active Healthy Ageing LinkedIn Group.
The Group provides members the ability to opt into a social platform where they can communicate with each other.
You must first connect with Scottish Rural Health partnership;and then using the search for groups feature at the top of your Linkedin homepage for Highlands and Islands Ecosystem.
Once you're a group member, you can explore the latest conversations on the conversations page, start or participate actively in conversations and comment on workshop outputs.
Highlands & Islands Ecosystem for rural mental health & active healthy ageing LinkedIn page